TWO TRAINS RUNNING

Cast List (in order of appearance)

Memphis		Jared Shamberger
Wolf		Nicholas Barnes (u/s Marquis Eure)
Risa		Deborah White (u/s Nicole Carter)
Holloway		Gabriel (Tsion) Bennett
Sterling		David Hooker (u/s Marquis Eure)
Hambone		Marquis Eure (u/s Tony Dennis)
West		Elton Pittman (u/s Tony Dennis)

Thanks so much to all who auditioned. Check here throughout the semester for audition and training opportunities on campus and throughout the area.

In Recognition to Black History Month Serenity Players, Inc. presents

Waiting To Be Invited

By S. M. Shephard-Massat
Directed by Cody Jones

FEATURING BSU's Professor Renee' Charlow!!

March 2, 2007 11:00 AM** & 7:30 PM
March 3, 2007 1:00 PM & 7:30 PM

THEARC Theatre
1901 Mississippi Ave., SE
Washington, DC

Ticket Information Contact: Doris A.M.Thomas 202-575-4248 or Gertrude Saleh 202-583-3128

Admission Price:
$10.00 senior citizens 60+/students under 18 years old
$15.00 general admission
$5.00 students from school-sponsored programs for the Friday, March 2, 11:00 am multi-generational matinee performance only

Reservations recommended from schools and group sponsored programs. Persons with permanent disabilities and their companion are offered half-price tickets. Two weeks notice required for the sign-interpreted matinee performance.

Tickets are also sold at the door on the day of the performance by cash, check or credit card.

On-line: www.serenityplayers.org. Go to the TicketLeap link.

“A poignant [funny] play… underscores the goodness of ordinary people at their best” ---Christian Science Monitor

“Considered strictly as theater, it would be well worth seeing in the context of Black History Month, this show is essential viewing.” ---KDHX Theatre Review

Waiting to be Invited

Drama/Comedy by S. M. Shephard-Massat

It is the summer of 1964 in Atlanta, GA. Four middle-aged black women, co-workers from a local doll factory, travel by city bus to a “whites only” eating establishment inside a downtown Atlanta department store. Their purpose is to “test” their newly acquired civil rights handed down by the Supreme Court ruling outlawing racial segregation in eating establishments. This funny, touching play received the Kennedy Center Roger L. Stevens Award for New Playwrights and the Adrienne Kennedy Award for Most Promising Young Dramatist.

WASHINGTON, DC
Non-Equity Open Call

WHAT: An open call audition for non-equity and EMC actors in the Washington, DC area.

WHEN: Saturday 3/10 and Sunday 3/11, 2007 from 9:45 a.m. to 8 p.m. Deadline to reserve an audition slot: 9 a.m. Monday, 3/5.

WHERE: Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, 641 D St NW, Washington, DC 20004.

WHO: Non-equity and EMC actors only.

Auditors include:
• Didactic Theatre Company
• Forum Theatre & Dance
• The Hatchery Festival 2007
• Journeymen Theatre
• Longacre Lea
• Rorschach Theatre
• Solas Nua
• Theatre Alliance
• DC-based freelance directors
• AND MORE!

What to prepare:
• A 90-second monologue OR a 3-minute scene with a partner.
• If you choose to present a scene, please let dcauditions@gmail.com know when you reserve your slot. We will consider this scene an audition for both you and for your scene partner and will double the time accordingly.
• Please make sure that your scene/monologue does not run longer than the requested times. We will stop you if you run over allotted time.
• You will have 5 minutes with the auditors if you prepare a 90-second monologue. You and your partner will have 10 minutes with the auditors if you prepare a 3-minute scene
• Each 5 or 10 minute slot will run as follows:
• Present monologue/scene.
• 30-second adjustment from one of the auditors.
• Re-present adjusted monologue/scene.

To reserve a slot
• Email dcauditions@gmail.com.
• Please make the subject of the email your first and last name.
• In the body of the email:
• Let us know your top two time slots on either 3/10 or 3/11. FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED.
• The time slots are as follows:
9:45-11:30 a.m.
11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
1:30 - 3 p.m.
3 - 5 p.m.
6 - 8 p.m.

You will be scheduled in an one-hour block within one of your requested time slots.

DEADLINE TO RESERVE YOUR AUDITION SLOT: 9 a.m. Monday 3/5.

On the day of the audition, arrive when requested; bring 15 copies of your headshot and resume, attached; and sign in with the front desk, in the front lobby at Woolly.

INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING TO HELP WITH THE EVENT?
Email dcauditions@gmail.com with the subject line VOLUNTEER and let us know when you would be available to help!

QUESTIONS? COMMENTS? WANT TO AUDIT?
Contact dcauditions@gmail.com

Join us this Friday and Saturday evenings on the campus of Bowie State University for our bi-annual BLACK RENAISSANCE BISTRO, featuring the vocal talents of Tahra Carson, Elliott Moffitt, Elton Pittman, Shawneka Ponder, Mary-Frances Roes, Kadejah Smith (Special Guest Appearance), Veda Whisnant, and Deborah White. Directed by Professor Elliott Moffitt with musical direction by Professor Gilbert Pryor.

AUGUST WILSON'S TWO TRAINS RUNNING
Auditions: February 19 & 21 @ 3:00 PM in Myers Auditorium

Casting: six African-American men and one woman, college-aged and up
cold readings from the script

Performances: April 18 - 21 @ 8:00 PM, 19, 20 @ 10:00 AM, and 21 @ 3:00 PM

directed by Professor Bob Bartlett (bbartlett@bowiestate.edu for more info)

Synopsis: Set in Memphis Lee's Restaurant in 1969 Pittsburgh where a turbulent world and changing community are viewed through the lives of a group of diner regulars. Like many other buildings in the community, the popular restaurant is scheduled to be torn down as part of the city's renovation project. Amidst it all, community residents struggle to cope, fight back when they can and keep their spirits high with humor, compassion, loud voices and big hearts.

Photo caption from left to right: BSU Theatre major David Hooker, AEA Member Kevin Jiggets, Professor Elliott Moffitt, Q. Terah Jackson, Lawrence K. Boyd, and BSU Theatre major David Hooker Jared Shamberger in a cutting of A SOLDIER'S PLAY by Charles Fuller. (directed by Bob Bartlett for The Studio Theatre's directing workshop, January 2007)

BSU THEATRE presents ten short plays 365 PLAYS/365 DAYS
by Susan-Lori Parks

February 5 - 11, 2007
in performances across campus
and in the unlikeliest of places

and see the ten plays performed together on
February 8 and 9, 2007 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm in the Myers Auditorium

The 1st Constant (Remember Who You Are)
The 2nd Constant (Action in Inaction)
The 3rd Constant (Inaction in Action)
(5th) Fail and Farewell
(6th) Worms
(7th) The Lake Shore Limited
(8th) Orange
(9th) The Original Motherfucker
(9th again) Sometimes God is a Soprano
(10th) Father Comes Home from the Wars (Part 2)
(11th) The River Through Elizabethtown, New Jersey

directed by Professors Bob Bartlett & Jennifer Dorsey, and theatre majors Jared Shamberger & Frances Burnett

BSU Theatre | School of Arts and Sciences | Department of Fine and Performing Arts

We're WEEK 13!!

Auditions: Susan-Lori Parks' 365 PLAYS/365 DAYS

BSU Theatre invites the campus community to be a part of this unique theatrical experience as we celebrate
African-American History Month

• no experience necessary
• speaking & non-speaking roles
• these short plays will be performed across campus during the week of Feb 5 –11

interest meeting and audition on January 30 and February 1 in the Myers Auditorium at 4:00 pm

email bbartlett@bowiestate.edu
for more information

Welcome back!