<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="text-align:right;color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial">Equity and non-Equity auditions for </span><i style="text-align:right;color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial">Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight</i><span style="text-align:right;color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:Arial"> by Lauren Gunderson will be held on <b>Monday, June 24</b> from 3pm-5pm at the Lenox Community Center at 65 Walker Street in Lenox, MA.</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">WAM Theatre will present the Northeast Regional Premiere of <i>Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight</i> by Lauren Gunderson from November 7-24 at Barrington Stage Company’s St. Germain Stage at 36 Linden Street in Pittsfield. Rehearsals will begin October 15, 2013. This is a paid professional contract.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">More information about auditions below and at </span><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="font-family:Arial">www.WAMTheatre.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Date:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Monday, June 24 2013</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Location:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Lenox Community Center, 65 Walker Street, Lenox, MA, 01240</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Time:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">3:00pm-5:00pm*</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">*Callbacks are that same evening/location from 7pm-10pm. Some of those auditioning may be requested to stay.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">How to Book an Audition:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt">
<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Email photo and resume to Kelly Galvin, Assistant to the Artistic Director, at </span><a href="mailto:Kelly@wamtheatre.com" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="font-family:Arial">Kelly@wamtheatre.com</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial">.<span style="color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Audition Preparation:</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:Arial">Please prepare a monologue or short scene from the play for the audition. Script and side information will be emailed to those auditioning. Please bring picture/resume, stapled together to audition. A reader will be provided.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Character Descriptions:</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-family:Arial">Emilie du Châtelet – forty, dresses in no particular era, confident and curious</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-family:Arial">Voltaire (V)– fifty, dresses immaculately in 18th Century fashion, charming, boyish</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-family:Arial">Players:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-family:Arial">Soubrette - A young woman, mid twenties, plays Emilie and others: Mary-Louise – simple and stupid, Daughter – direct and strong</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-family:Arial">Gentleman- A handsome man, thirties, plays Jean-François and others: Jean-François – young and doting, sincere, The Marquis – serious but warm, very formal, Maupertuis – sexy and academic, Marain – snide and proud</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><span style="font-family:Arial">Madam – A slightly older woman, fifties, plays Mother and others: Mother – serious and wounded, Madam Graffigny – obnoxious and rich</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt">
<span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial">About the Play:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight</span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> had its world premiere in 2009 at South Coast Repertory Theatre. The play has been described as ‘fiercely inquisitive and joyfully sexy’ (The San Francisco Chronicle), ‘an evening of humor and heartbreak’ (BroadwayWorld) and as an ‘ambitious, highly theatrical romp that literally crackles with electricity’ (LA/OC Examiner).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Although today she is best known for her fifteen-year liaison with Voltaire, Emilie Du Chatelet (1706-1749) was m</span><span style="font-family:Arial">ore than a great man's mistress. She was one of the leading interpreters of modern physics in Europe, as well as a master of mathematics and linguistics, during the Age of Enlightenment. After marrying a marquis at the age of eighteen, she proceeded to fulfill the prescribed-and delightfully frivolous-role of a French noblewoman of her time. But she also challenged it, conducting a highly visible affair with a commoner, writing philosophical works, and translating Newton's "Principia" while pregnant by a younger lover. In this play Emilie must defend her life by tallying her achievements in Love and Philosophy—and searching for a formula that will convince the world of her worth.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Lauren Gunderson</span><span style="font-family:Arial"> is an award-winning playwright living in San Francisco. She studied at Emory University and NYU's Tisch School of Performing Arts where she was a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. Her work has been produced and developed at companies across the US including South Cost Rep</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">(<i>Emilie</i>, <i>Silent Sky</i>), The Kennedy Center (<i>The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful And Her Dog!</i>), Berkeley Rep, TheatreWorks, Crowded Fire, San Francisco Playhouse, Marin Theatre, The Magic, Actors Express, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Second Stage, Playwrights Foundation, Impact Theatre, The Lark, and The O'Neill. <i>Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight</i> is published with Samual French. The first two plays in her Shakespeare Cycle, <i>Exit, Pursued By A Bear and Toil and Trouble</i> are now published by Playscripts. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(3,35,49)">She is a Playwright in Residence at The Playwrights Foundation, and a proud Dramatists Guild member.</span><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Los Angeles Times calls Gunderson someone who ‘possesses an antic imagination that seeks to invent its own rules. As soon as we’re drawn in, she shakes and whisks us 10 or 15 paces ahead’.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Times"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6pt"><i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Emilie: La Marquise Du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight</span></i><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> will be directed by Kristen van Ginhoven, WAM Theatre’s Artistic Director. For WAM Theatre, Kristen’s </span><span style="font-family:Arial">directing credits include: <i>The Old Mezzo (</i>World Premiere)<i>, The Attic, The Pearls and Three Fine Girls </i>and Sarah Ruhl’s<i> Melancholy Play. </i> She </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">recently was a director for the 10x10 New Play Festival at Barrington Stage Company, where she also was assistant director for <i>Sleuth</i> and <i>Absurd Person Singular. </i></span><span style="font-family:Arial">Elsewhere as a director, Kristen has worked at the Stratford Festival of Canada, Capital Repertory Theatre, Majestic Theatre, Cohoes Music Hall, and Emerson College. Kristen is a participant of the 2013 Lincoln Center Director’s Lab.</span><i><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">About WAM Theatre:</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0.1pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">WAM Theatre is a theatre company based in the Berkshires of Massachusetts and the Capital Region of New York State. Inspired by the book ‘Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide’ by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, WAM Theatre was founded in 2009 by professional theatre artists Kristen van Ginhoven and Leigh Strimbeck. WAM’s philanthropic mission is two-fold; first, producing theatrical events for everyone, with a focus on women theatre artists and/or stories of women and girls; second, to donate a portion of the proceeds from those events to organizations that benefit women and girls. WAM has donated over $7000 to its beneficiaries by creating professional theatre for everyone that benefits women and girls. </span><span style="font-family:Arial"><u><span style="color:blue"><a href="http://www.wamtheatre.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">www.wamtheatre.com</a></span></u></span><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></p>
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