Backdoor Playhouse
Audition Information
Upcoming Auditions at the TTU Backdoor Playhouse
The 32nd Annual Dorothy Printz Pennebaker Memorial Spring Production:
AIRNESS
By Chelsea Marcantel
Auditions: Thursday, February 14th from 7 to 10pm
The Story:
When Nina enters her first air guitar competition, she thinks winning will be easy.
But as she befriends a group of charismatic nerds all committed to becoming the next
champion, she discovers that there's more to this art form than playing pretend; it's
about finding yourself in your favorite songs, and performing with raw joy. Will Nina
be able to let go and set herself free onstage?
Following her mission to shred or be shredded, AIRNESS is an exuberant reminder that
everything we need to rock is already inside us. A comedy about competition, completion,
and finding the airness inside yourself.
Auditions will consist of cold-readings from the script.
Plus:
Interested performers are encouraged to prepare a 30-60 second air guitar performance. You should provide your own music on a flash drive.
For inspiration, look at available air guitar performances on YouTube.
For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rol8pSvJZ6w
Cold Steel Renegade US Air Guitar Championships 2021
Cold Steel Renegade's 2021 US Air Guitar Championships online competition video entry.
The song featured in the video is Bounty Hunter by Molly Hatchet!
www.youtube.com
Roles available for 7 actors:
2-3 women, 4-5 men.
Casting is open to all interested people. Minority performers are strongly encouraged
to audition.
Directed by Mark Harry Creter.
Produced by the TN Tech English Department
For further information, or to borrow a script, please contact
Mark Creter at (931) 372-3478 or mcreter@tntech.edu
(See Below) The rifftastic C Diddy rocks out to classical arrangements metal style. Get ready for the US Air Guitar 2007 tour with this amazing display of rockdom! You too can enter the US Air Guitar Tour and Championships or buy tickets to attend at www.UsAirGuitar.com !
THE WOLVES
By Sarah DeLappe
Auditions were held on- Tuesday NOV 16th from 7pm-10pm
Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.
Roles available for 10 women (16-21).
Casting is open to all interested people. Minority performers are encouraged
to audition.
Come to the Backdoor Playhouse (BDPH) on the lower floor of the Jere Whitson building on the Tennessee Tech Campus, NOV 16th (map below)
Directed by Joe Clark. Produced by the TN Tech English Department.
For further information, or to borrow a script, please contact
Mark Creter at (931) 372-3478 or mcreter@tntech.edu
From the Director Joe Clark:
“For those planning to or thinking about auditioning for The Wolves:
Auditions will consist of cold-readings from the script, so no memorization or preparation is required! The Playhouse is an affirming place and encourages all women to audition, even if you have no prior acting experience, as our company always enjoys seeing fresh faces on the BDPH stage.
If you have any questions or concerns about auditioning for The Wolves, please feel free to contact director Joseph Clark at jclark@tntech.edu , as he is more than happy to respond to all those interested! If you desire to read the show before auditioning – which is always encouraged – you may contact Artistic Director Mark Creter at mcreter@tntech.edu to borrow a script. All scripts borrowed should be returned by the audition date, November 16th.”
The Story:
Pulitzer Prize finalist The Wolves is the debut play of up-and-coming playwright Sarah
DeLappe. Featuring an all-female cast (comprised of nine adolescents and one briefly-seen
adult), The Wolves chronicles six Saturday mornings in the lives of a soccer team
somewhere in suburban America as they prepare for their games. The girls discuss everything
from genocide to menstrual cycles to drugs to boys to literature to each other, and
a group of girls whom at first seem indistinguishable as each is referred to by only
her number and all are clad in the same jersey only bearing her number quickly become
identifiable and different. In the course of six short weeks, the Wolves deal with
love, loss, and identity in ways that real teenagers do.
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