Casting Performers for "Where Dead Women Go To Dance" Play
Casting performers for "Where Dead Women Go To Dance" play. Please find the breakdown below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. About the project: When Kim uses one of her grandmother's old witchy recipes to bring her best friend Ellen back from the dead, the two are forced to grapple with their past and future. Their unique situation leads to both comedic and thoughtful musings on their lives and what happens when things don't go exactly as planned. Rate: $500 stipend. Additional info: Content warnings: discussions of suicide and internalized transphobia. Blood effects will be used on stage. Submission deadline: Friday, May 22nd. Callbacks in person at a location TBD: Saturday, June 13th. Actors will be notified by May 31st. Workshop of script with the playwright: July 11–12. Rehearsals begin: week of July 27th, weeknights and weekends. Load in: September 9–11 (flexible over weekend). Tech begins: September 12th. Opening: September 25th. Closing: October 17th. Strike: October 18th. Production and rehearsals at Montgomery College Arts Center. Non-union. All people encouraged to submit regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, body size, disability, or religious affiliation. Please prepare a 60–90 second contemporary monologue — comedy or drama. If interested, please apply.
2 roles
Trans woman. Grew up as the granddaughter of an old witchy woman and has begun dabbling with such witchiness herself in a “cottage core semi-sexy librarian” sort of way. Has settled into comfortability with herself and her life, but her struggles with her identity growing up have left their mark.
Cis woman*. Has grunge and punk tendencies, spends the play grappling with her life (and death) as well as her friendship with Kim.
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