<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><blockquote type="cite"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Albany Civic Theater holds auditions for Dead Man’s Cell Phone</b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By Sarah Ruhl<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Directed by Katie Weinberg<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Albany Civic Theater</b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">235 Second Ave., Albany, NY</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Auditions </b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">Monday, September 11</a> & <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://3" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">Tuesday, September 12, 2017</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sign-In <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://4" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">7pm</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The audition will consist of cold readings from the script.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Performances </b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://5" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="5" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">November 3-19, 2017</a>, Fridays and Saturdays <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://6" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="6" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">at 7:30pm</a>, Sundays <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://7" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">at 3pm</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Rehearsals </b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Begin <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">September 18</a><sup><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">th</a></sup><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://8" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8" style="-webkit-text-decoration-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.258824);">.</a> Rehearsals will generally be Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays 7-10 and Sundays 4-7 (but that is all subject to change, depending on conflicts).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></font></p><p class="Default" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b>Synopsis</b><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="A5">An incessantly ringing cell phone in a quiet café. A stranger at the next table who has had enough. And a dead man – with a lot of loose ends. So begins <i>Dead Man's Cell Phone</i>, a wildly imaginative new comedy by MacArthur Genius Grant recipient and Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl, author of <i>The Clean House </i>and <i>Eurydice</i>. A work about how we memorialize the dead – and how that remembering changes us – it is the odyssey of a woman forced to confront her own assumptions about morality, redemption, and the need to connect in a technologically obsessed world.</span><span class="A5"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="A5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Characters<o:p></o:p></font></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span class="A5">A Woman, Jean – 25-40 years old</span><span class="A5"><o:p></o:p></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="A5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">A Dead Man, Gordon – 30-45 years old<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="A5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Gordon’s Mother, Mrs. Gottlieb – 60-70 years old<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="A5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Gordon’s Widow, Hermia – 30-45 years old<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="A5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Gordon’s Brother, Dwight – 25-40 years old<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="A5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">The Other Woman/The Stranger – 25-40 years old (will need some kind of accent)<o:p></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="A5" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Please contact the director with any questions, <a href="mailto:kathrynweinberg1404@gmail.com">kathrynweinberg1404@gmail.com</a>.</span></font></p></blockquote></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPad</div></body></html>