Dallas Theater Center
in collaboration with SMU Meadows and AT&T Performing Arts Center
Announces Audition Information for
Public Works Dallas’ The Odyssey
Written by Homer
Conceived by Lear deBessonet
Directed by Kevin Moriarty
Book, Music and Lyrics by Todd Almond
Dallas Theater Center (DTC), in collaboration with Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts and AT&T Performing Arts Center, welcomes the Dallas community to audition for the 2022 Public Works Dallas summer pageant, The Odyssey. Auditions for the musical adaptation are open to all children, senior citizens, first-time actors and singers, ages six and up. The Public Works Dallas summer pageant will take place July 8-10 at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, with rehearsals beginning on May 31.
Participants are asked to sign up to audition at one of our community partner locations:
https://www.dallastheatercenter.org/show/the-odyssey/
Auditions will take place the following days and times:
Monday, April 25
6 - 8 p.m. at
Bachman Lake Together
9507 Overlake Dr.
Dallas, TX
Tuesday, April 26
11 a.m. - 1 p.m. at
City of Dallas’ Janie C Turner Recreation Center
6424 Elam Rd.
Dallas, TX
Wednesday, April 27
10 a.m. - 12 p.m. at
Jubilee Park and Community Center
917 Bank St.
Dallas, TX
Thursday, April 28
10 a.m. - 12 p.m. at
Beckley Saner Recreation Center
114 W Hobson Ave.
Dallas, TX
6 - 8 p.m. at
The Cohen Clinic at Metrocare
16160 Midway Rd. Suite 218
Addison, TX
Those attending auditions are guaranteed a role in the production as long as they are able to attend rehearsals and are asked to prepare and perform one minute of material. This could include a monologue, short story, song, dance routine, or a joke. Those between the ages of six and twelve are required to have a guardian participate in the production.
Public Works Dallas is a groundbreaking community engagement and participatory theater project designed to deliberately blur the lines between professional artists and Dallas community members. Tickets to The Odyssey will be free to the public and available through DTC’s box office and at community partner sites at a later date.
The Odyssey will be directed by Enloe/Rose Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty and will feature a large cast, with only eight being professional actors and the majority of the cast from Public Works Dallas’ community partner organizations: Bachman Lake Together, City of Dallas’ Beckley Saner Recreation Center and Janie C Turner Recreation Center, Jubilee Park and Community Center and The Cohen Clinic at Metrocare. The Odyssey will also feature special cameo performances to be announced at a later date. The production will include opportunities for children, senior citizens, first-time actors and singers to join in.
Support for Public Works Dallas’ The Odyssey is generously provided by Executive Producing Partner Central Market, Lyda Hill Philanthropies, National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.
PUBLIC WORKS DALLAS:
Public Works Dallas is produced by Dallas Theater Center, in association with Ignite/Arts Dallas, Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts and AT&T Performing Arts Center. Public Works Dallas is a groundbreaking community engagement and participatory theater project designed to deliberately blur the line between professional artists and Dallas community members. Public Works Dallas is affiliated with Public Works, an ongoing initiative of The Public Theater that seeks to engage the people of New York by making them creators and not just spectators. Lear deBessonet, who created Public Works, was awarded the SMU Meadows Prize in 2015 to bring the program to Dallas. DTC, SMU Meadows and deBessonet began to develop Public Works Dallas during her Meadows Prize residency. A key initiative of Ignite/Arts Dallas, led by Clyde Valentín, the Meadows Prize is an award and residency given to pioneering artists and creative professionals that allows students to interact with artists at the top of their fields and integrates the Meadows School more deeply into the community. Public Works Dallas launched in 2017 to present The Tempest at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, directed by DTC Enloe/Rose Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty. Public Works is a national and international initiative currently affiliated with four theaters throughout the U.S. and Europe to create ambitious works of participatory theater in the Public Works model. The current theaters are Dallas Theater Center, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, and The National Theatre in London.
DALLAS THEATER CENTER:
One of the leading regional theaters in the country and the 2017 Regional Theatre Tony Award® Recipient, Dallas Theater Center (DTC) performs to an audience of more than 100,000 North Texas residents annually. Founded in 1959, DTC is now a resident company of the AT&T Performing Arts Center and presents its Mainstage season at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, designed by REX/OMA, Joshua Prince-Ramus and Rem Koolhaas and at its original home, the Kalita Humphreys Theater, the only freestanding theater designed and built by Frank Lloyd Wright. Dallas Theater Center is one of only two theaters in Texas that is a member of the League of Resident Theatres, the largest and most prestigious non-profit professional theater association in the country. Under the leadership of Enloe/Rose Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty and Managing Director Jeffrey Woodward, Dallas Theater Center produces a year-round subscription series of classics, musicals, and new plays and an annual production of A Christmas Carol; extensive education programs, including the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award-winning Project Discovery, a partnership with Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts; and many community collaborations. In 2017, in collaboration with Ignite/Arts Dallas at SMU Meadows School of the Arts and the AT&T Performing Arts Center, DTC launched Public Works Dallas, a groundbreaking community engagement and participatory theater project designed to deliberately blur the line between professional artists and community members, culminating in an annual production featuring more than 200 Dallas citizens performing a large scale theatrical production. Throughout its history, Dallas Theater Center has produced many new works, including The Texas Trilogy by Preston Jones in 1978; Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, adapted by Adrian Hall, in 1986; and recent premieres of Miller, Mississippi by Boo Killebrew; Stagger Lee by Will Power; Hood: The Robin Hood Musical Adventure by Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn; Bella: An American Tall Tale by Kirsten Childs; penny candy by Jonathan Norton; Clarkston by Samuel D. Hunter and Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical by Robert Horn, Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally. Dallas Theater Center gratefully acknowledges the support of our season sponsors: Texas Instruments and Texas Instruments Foundation, The Shubert Foundation, City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture, Lexus, TACA, and Texas Commission on the Arts.
Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: At Dallas Theater Center, all are welcome. We want to be the best place to work and see theater, and to be a positive and transformational force in Dallas and beyond. We stand-up for equity, diversity, and inclusion across our company and community. As a leading national theater, we recognize that building an equitable, diverse, and inclusive environment is central to our relevance and sustainability in the community we serve and love.
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