<div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(0, 0, 0); FONT-SIZE: 12px">To the List Moderators:<br />Please post the following.<br />Sincerely,<br />Mark Dalton<br />Communications Director<br />NYS Defenders BTSP<br /><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: rgb(0, 0, 0); FONT-SIZE: 12px"><div><br /><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The NYS Defenders Association seeks actors for its Basic Trial Skills Program June 6-12.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>This is a role-play based training for public defenders.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Required:</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">--Ability to retain a large set of circumstances.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">--Excellent role-play improvisational skills.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">--Commitment  to program’s educational goals. </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Casting:</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The Client:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">African-Americanand Latino actors especially sought.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Has a deep backstory full of psychological distress.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Bartender:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Ex-Marine, age 37.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Coarse, manipulative,imposing.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>A barkeep and bouncer.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Construction Workers, late 20’s mid 30’s:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Union ironworkers.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Hard workers, hard partiers.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Need actors adept at naturalistically playing blue-collar workers.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Detective,Male, age 35-55: </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Hard-nosed and self assured. Quick with a comeback and a one-liner. </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Paid work; Equity, SAG and AFRTRA members eligible as well as non-union actors.</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Submit head shot and resume to Mark Dalton at </span><a class="parsedEmail" href="mailto:markdaltondefenders@verizon.net" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">markdaltondefenders@verizon.net</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">, subject line:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>BTSP Actor Submission.</span></p> <br /></div><div> </div><div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 12px"> <br /><br /><br /></div><div style="font-size:12;font-family:arial;color:#000000;"><blockquote type="cite"><div><br /></div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><br /></div>