FESTIVAL UNBOUND - Touchstone Theatre Non Equity Auditions

The theatre is seeking singers, dancers, musicians, poets, acrobats, actors, children, adults, elderly, people with disabilities, all ethnic and racial backgrounds, all genders, anyone who cares about the community of the Lehigh Valley.” All levels of performance experience are welcome, from seasoned veterans of the stage to first-time performers.

These auditions are being held in preparation for Festival UnBound, a ten-day festival of arts and community dialogue, celebrating the past, present, and future of Bethlehem, PA, coming October 4-13, 2019. The festival will feature multiple opportunities and performances, from traditional stage plays to improvised street performances. The June 8 auditions are intended to cast:

• Opening and Closing Ceremonies (large-scale, large-ensemble, outdoor performances)
• Prometheus Redux (an original play with music, following the Prometheus character of Touchstone’s play Steelbound, twenty years later)
• Other pop-up performances and happenings throughout the ten days of the festival

Auditioners may sign up for one of three time slots: 10-11:00a (for kids ages 5-12 only), 11:30a-1:30p, or 2:00-4:00p. Auditioners are encouraged to wear comfortable clothing and to be ready to move to the best of their ability/comfort level. Anyone comfortable singing will be asked to sing. Those who are interested in auditioning for Prometheus Redux should prepare a one-minute, contemporary, dramatic monologue.

Interested parties should email
emma@touchstone.org for more information or to sign up for a time slot.

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About Festival UnBound

Touchstone Theatre (
www.touchstone.org), one of the country’s longest continuously producing ensemble theatres, will be producing a ten-day festival of original art and community conversation called Festival UnBound, October 4-13, 2019, in South Bethlehem and venues throughout the Lehigh Valley. This ten-day series of performances, installations, and happenings is created in collaboration with the people and artists of Bethlehem, visiting regional and international artists, and Bethlehem City government. Surrounding these events will be panel discussions, community meals, social media exchanges, and town meetings that will strive to find practical solutions for our city and the increased empathy and compassion that is necessary for us to advance collectively. Website (under construction) at
www.festivalunbound.com

Planned festival events include:

• Opening and Closing Ceremonies: Outdoor music, drama, pageantry, and civic pride brought together to bookend this extraordinary festival.
• Homecoming: Voices of the African American community. Food, poetry, music, celebration of accomplishments, and questions for the future.
• Youth Project: Youth from Bethlehem’s High Schools create an original, site-specific work about their dreams and concerns for the future.
• Poets, Troubadours, & Troublemakers: Three evenings of original music dedicated to the Festival mission of envisioning our future home. A collaboration with Godfrey Daniels and singer-songwriter Anne Hills.
• A Joyful Noise: The Bach Choir and community choirs celebrate our musical past and dreams for our diverse musical future.
• Pregones Theatre Residency: Innovative voices of New York’s preeminent Latino theatre collective come to the Lehigh Valley for a residency with Bethlehem’s Latino population, collecting stories and songs to help lead us forward.
• The Kitchen Chronicles: Touchstone Ensemble Member Mary Wright gives a delicious, one-of-a-kind take on the powers of food and wisdom shared in the kitchen.
• The Children’s Art Initiative: Bethlehem fourth graders create art inspired by questions of what kind of home do they wish to have here, and what might the future bring?
• Prometheus Redux: A sequel to Touchstone and Cornerstone’s Steel Festival classic. Where is Prometheus, twenty years after leaving the Steel, and what’s on his mind?
• Agile Rascals Residency: Visiting eco-heroes and heroines who travel between performances on bicycles, advancing our appreciation and understanding of the planet.
• HD: The premiere of a new play by Mock Turtle Marionette Theatre on the Lehigh Valley’s most famous and influential poet, Hilda Doolittle.