AUDITION NOTICE

Seeking Pictures/Resumes

Transformation Theatre is currently seeking pictures/resumes for our next virtual reading.

All characters are not ethnically specified, however, we are seeking BIPOC actors for all roles (Union/Non-union)
NOTE: As this is a virtual reading actors' location is open to anywhere!

Please submit all pictures/resumes and any inquiries to:
transformationtheatreinc@gmail.com
Please use the subject: SAROS CASTING
Deadline for submissions: July 31, 2020

Transformation Theatre, Inc shall stand united in fighting to dismantle the systemic racism upon which our American lives are built. We shall use our platform to amplify voices that need to be heard and to recommit ourselves to the inclusion of all people in our organization. Our mission is to tell stories of those who are underrepresented. That mission is now stronger than ever. We remain ever more vigilant in our support of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and everyone who is disenfranchised. We stand with our black brothers and sisters, our LGBTQ+ family and allies and everyone who has a voice that needs to be heard above the noise. We believe in action, not just words. Our practice in our first year contained plays that featured BIPOC and many others who are often unheard. In our second year we shall be even more focused on our mission of inclusion and diversity. In our technologically advanced world, we shall extend our outreach worldwide to all who need to be heard.

Rehearsals shall be online over the weeks of September 1-12 TBD based on actor availability (No more than 4)

Stipend: $50.00

Virtual Reading of
DISRUPTIONS OF THE BODY SAROS
by Pharyne Stephney Gremore
Directed by Fatima Quander
Virtual Reading via Zoom Webinar September 12, 2020 at 2pm EDT

A high school senior, Jade, experiences a "crisis of science" when an eclipse doesn't occur as scheduled. Her persuasive science teacher tells her not to read into it, but as signs of death and ruin begin to appear around her, Jade fears for the safety of her twin brother, Kai, who almost lost his life during an eclipse eighteen years earlier. In a story told out of sequence, Kai tries to make sense of his place within a love triangle while Jade tries to make sense of her place within a collapsing universe.

ROLES: All roles are open, specifically seeking BIPOC actors

JADE, an 18-year-old senior in high school with a deep curiosity about the cosmos, the universe, and her place within it. Family is incredibly important to her, which has made her mother's death and father's absence even harder to cope with. She has a tendency to latch onto things -- people, places, and habits -- and hang on to them with all her might.

KAI, her twin brother. He is a heavy smoker. Some would call him moody, brooding, and a romantic, but he doesn't see himself that way. He has probably never traveled far from home even though he says he hates his hometown.

ELLE, 19-year-old freshman in college, and Kai's ex-girlfriend. She doesn't know who she wants to be in life, but knows she wants to be someone special. There's no one she hates more in the world than her mother, who abandoned her during puberty, even though they both share the same struggles with clinical depression. Elle has been put on various medications over the years with varying levels of success, and has a history of lying about taking her meds among other things. She has a put together look about her that contradicts the unsettledness in her heart.

LUCAS, a 19-year-old freshman in college, and Elle's current boyfriend. He loves photography, is a casual weed smoker, and comes from old money. Elle is his current muse, and while she is flattered by the attention, many other women have found his constant picture-taking creepy and invasive, though he's oblivious to their discomfort.

MR. JONES, a middle-aged high school science teacher, and Elle's father. His good looks have gone with his messy divorce, but he still has the charismatic charm that has helped him get what he wants in life. What scares him more than anything is watching his daughter turn into her mother.

Please submit all pictures/resumes and any inquiries to:
transformationtheatreinc@gmail.com
Please use the subject: SAROS CASTING
Deadline for submissions: July 31, 2020

Pharyne Stephney Gremore, Playwright

Pharyne Stephney Gremore is a proud Hoosier from Indianapolis, Indiana. In 2014, she earned a BA in Drama with a Minor in Writing from Franciscan University of Steubenville. Her playwriting debut, Theatre Games, was produced by Voice Found Repertory in 2017. Other writing credits include Built of Ivory, which was the Grand Prize Winner of Fleeing Artists Theatre's Plays of Tomorrow series. She currently resides in Bloomington, IN with her family.

Fatima Quander, Director

Fatima Quander (AEA/SAG-AFTRA) is excited to return to Transformation Theatre after performing in readings of "These Arms of Mine" and "Last Catastrophist." Other credits include: directing "The Burn" by Philip Dawkins at Howard Community College and performing with FRESHH Inc. Theatre Company, DC Hip Hop Theatre Festival, Rep Stage, Everyman Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage Education, Theater of the First Amendment, Folger Elizabethan Theatre, Imagination Stage, and Discovery Theater; she has also performed in house and on tour with The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Fatima is a Senior Adjunct Instructor at Howard Community College and works as a teaching artist with a number of programs throughout the DC area including Everyman Theatre, Poetry Out Loud, Folger Shakespeare Library's McKee Fellows and Secondary School Shakespeare Festival, Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Sitar Arts Center, Jr. Discovery at Georgetown University, and Young Playwrights' Theater. A native Washingtonian, she received her MFA from Actors Studio Drama School in NYC and her BA from Beloit College in Wisconsin.