TURNING 15 ON THE ROAD TO FREEDOM
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NON-UNION. $500/week
SUBMIT ELECTRONICALLY
Submission Deadline: 08/17/2018
Casting Director: Pat McCorkle, Katja Zarolinski
Producer: Miranda Barry
Booking Management: Columbia Artists Theatrical
Consultant: Cheryl Dennis
Director: Cas Hyman
Adapted by: Ally Sheedy
Based on the book written by: Lynda Blackmon Lowery, as told to Elspeth Leacock, Susan Buckley
Audition Dates: 08/13/2018, 08/14/2018
Callback Date: 08/15/2018
Rehearsal Date(s): 09/04/2018
Location: NYC, Miami, Newark, Lancaster
Venue: NON-UNION TOUR// Columbia Artists Theatrical
Additional Project Info:
DATES BELOW:
Rehearsals in NYC:
September 4, 2018-September 17, 2018
Performers will be paid for 2 weeks of work
Miami Culture: October 5-October 6, 2018
Performers will be paid for 1 week. This will include brush-up rehearsals prior to travel. Travel, accommodations plus $50/day per diem will be provided in Miami (4 days).
NJPAC//Newark: January 16-January 18, 2019
Performers will be paid for 1 week. This will include brush-up rehearsals and load-in.
Van transportation from Manhattan to Newark will be provided plus $25/day per diem while in Newark (2 days).
Millersville University//Lancaster, PA: March 21, 2019.
Performers will be paid for 1 week. This will include brush-up rehearsals and load in. Travel, accommodations plus $50/day per diem will be provided (3 days)
***Please note, the actor who understudies the role of LYNDA will make $550/week. All other cast members will make $500/week.
STORYLINE:
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom tells the moving, true story of Lynda Blackmon, one of the youngest participants in the Selma to Montgomery march in 1965. Jailed nine times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. to win the right to vote for African-Americans. The performance lets audiences of all ages experience what it took to struggle nonviolently and how it felt to be part of changing American history.
SEEKING:
ENSEMBLE (Soprano): NON-UNION. Female. African-American. Early 20s-Early 30s. Actor/Singer. A young civil rights activist, from Selma – going to jail, being beaten on Bloody Sunday, and marching from Selma to Montgomery to win the right to vote for African-Americans in 1965. Performer should be comfortable singing Acapella in both 1960's style rock as well as gospel/spiritual. This performer may understudy the lead role of LYNDA.
ENSEMBLE (Alto): NON-UNION. Female. African-American. Early 20s-Early 30s. Actor/Singer. A young civil rights activist, from Selma – going to jail, being beaten on Bloody Sunday, and marching from Selma to Montgomery to win the right to vote for African-Americans in 1965. Performer should be comfortable singing Acapella in both 1960's style rock as well as gospel/spiritual. This performer may understudy the lead role of LYNDA.
ENSEMBLE (Tenor): NON-UNION. Male. African-American. Early 20s-Early 30s. Actor/Singer. A young civil rights activist, from Selma – going to jail, being beaten on Bloody Sunday, and marching from Selma to Montgomery to win the right to vote for African-Americans in 1965. Performer should be comfortable singing Acapella in both 1960's style rock as well as gospel/spiritual.
ENSEMBLE (Baritone/Bass): NON-UNION. Male. African-American. Early 20s-Early 30s. Actor/Singer A young civil rights activist, from Selma – going to jail, being beaten on Bloody Sunday, and marching from Selma to Montgomery to win the right to vote for African-Americans in 1965. Performer should be comfortable singing Acapella in both 1960's style rock as well as gospel/spiritual.
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