<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">(Please forward to all interested parties!)<br><br>Open call for auditions for Sean Griffin's "Cold Spring"<br>Thursday, June 3 from 9 AM to 9 PM<br><br>The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC)<br>Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<br>110 8th Street<br>Troy, NY, 12180<br><a href="http://www.empac.rpi.edu/">http://www.empac.rpi.edu/</a><br><br>EMPAC is holding open auditions on Thursday, June 3 from 9 AM to 9 PM for a new production by composer/director Sean Griffin entitled "Cold Spring", which will run at EMPAC on December 3 & 4, 2010.<br><br>We are looking for:<br><br>- senior character actors with experience<br>- young actors who can deal with movement<br><br>+ Unique talents (musical or other physical training) are welcome. All ages will be considered. Small groups of actors with shows under their belt are encouraged to audition.<div><br></div><div>+ Fees will be paid to actors for participation.</div><div><br></div><div>+ Rehearsals will be held throughout the month of November. Commitment will vary based on involvement. More information will be given in discussion with the Director.<br><br>Each audition will last 10-15 minutes. Please schedule your audition in advance by contacting Zhenelle Falk (EMPAC Artist Services Coordinator) at 518.276.4036 or <a href="mailto:falkz@rpi.edu">falkz@rpi.edu</a>. Walk-ins will be seen as the schedule allows.<br><br>Don't forget to bring your CV / resume and headshot with you to the audition.<br><br>EMPAC is located at the corner of 8th Street and College Avenue in Troy, NY (the southwest corner of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus). There is limited free parking available on College Avenue, and metered parking on 8th Street from 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM (both adjacent to EMPAC). You will first check-in at the EMPAC Box Office, which is located on the 7th Floor of EMPAC on the campus-side of the building.<br><br>For more information, please contact Zhenelle Falk at 518.276.4036 or <a href="mailto:falkz@rpi.edu">falkz@rpi.edu</a>.<br><br>About "Cold Spring":<br><br>Sean Griffin's new work "Cold Spring" is a multi-faceted performance event staged in the EMPAC Theater. Texts and performances assembled from a broad array of sources from the American Eugenics Archive, pop-culture, and local theater productions are staged into an anxious and unresolved historical reinterpretation.<br><br>This work ties together performative orthodoxies from performance artists and opera singers in Los Angeles, actors from Chicago, local theater productions, and music ensembles. Griffin weaves these often-conflicting performance styles into a complex, sometimes humorous, sometimes frightening operatic spectacle.<br><br>---<br><br>About Sean Griffin:<br><br>Composer and interdisciplinary artist Sean Griffin lives and works in Los Angeles. He has developed compositional and interdisciplinary methodologies positioned at the intersection of sound and performance, creating large and small-scale concert works, collaborative sound and video installations, and film scores. His works have been presented by Los Angeles' REDCAT, the Armand Hammer Museum, June in Buffalo, the Whitney Biennial of American Art 2004, Berlin's Volksbühne, Secession Vienna, London's Tate Modern, the Festival d’Avignon, the Taipei City Arts Festival, the Walker Art Center, and Centre Pompidou.<br><br>Griffin has received fellowships and awards from the MacDowell Colony, Meet the Composer Global Connections, American Composer's Forum, the UC Center for Humanities, and the J. Paul Getty Center for Research in the Arts. His research and writings have been published by Bomb Magazine, the Walker, REDCAT, Secession Vienna, Nutida Musik, Lentos Museum, Linz, and the Groves Dictionary of Music.<br><br>Griffin is a longtime collaborator with theater artist Catherine Sullivan and has developed new works with artists such as percussionist Aiyun Huang, performance artist Ron Athey, and installation artists Edgar Arceneaux, and Charles Gaines. His current work addresses rhythmic regimentation and conflicting behaviors in performances by instrumentalists, vocalists, and actors. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at San Diego.<br><br><a href="http://seangriffin.org/">http://seangriffin.org/</a><br><br>---<br><br>About EMPAC:<br><br>Founded by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, EMPAC offers artists, scholars, researchers, engineers, designers, and audiences opportunities for creative exploration that are available nowhere else under a single roof. 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