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Confetti Fest, the longest-running short play festival in Albany, NY. Is
seeking 5 directors for its latest slate of original, locally-written
short plays. <br></div><div><br></div><div>The festival will run October
4th - 13th 2019, with a total of 7 performances. Casting and Auditions
will be in late August. Performances, auditions, and rehearsals will all
take place at the Albany Masonic Hall, 67 Corning Place, Albany, NY.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The synopses and character breakdowns for the plays are as follows:<br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.548;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.548;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Not A Superhero Story by Steve Maggio</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.548;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Synopsis: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a… boring office job. Filled with interns, a copy-machine and a mean boss, Louis wishes life were more like the superhero movies he watches. But when some sort of mysterious liquid crosses path with Louis, things are about to become slightly less ordinary. After all, this is not a superhero story.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.548;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Character Breakdown:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.548;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Louis – </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the main character of our story. Nerdy, kind-hearted guy who has been down on his luck his entire life and loves superheroes. Male. Age-range: 21-35.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.548;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Skippy – </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Louis’ best friend and side-character of our story. Dependable with always a wisecrack ready at the helm. Male or Female. Age-range: 21-35.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.548;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Female – </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Brand new intern in the office and more than just a pretty face of our story. Will she be more than just your run-of-the-mill love interest? Female. Age-range: 21-35.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.548;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elliot Wellington Junior the Third – </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The snide, stuck-up intern who everybody dislikes of our story. Is he villain material or just a snobby rich guy? Male. Age-range: 21-35.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.548;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Pearson – </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">a mean, money-loving manager and the main villain of our story. Smokes a cigar and has an evil plan to boot. Female. Age-range: 35-75.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Curtain by Steve Henel</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Synopsis:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Gobb crashes a private viewing prior to the burial of his late friend, Sarge. Sarge was a trans veteran who was given a dishonorable discharge because she transitioned after the deadline of the Trump ban on openly trans Americans serving in the military.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Character Breakdown:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Gobb: an American veteran of Afghanistan in his 20s or 30s. Chatty, vulgar, and haunted.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> The Doomed and the Daring by Laura Darling</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Synopsis: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Frank has locked himself in his attic, convinced he must write the greatest love poem to win back his ex-lover, Sarah. Concerned for his mental and physical well being, his best friend Alan breaks in to convince him to re-join reality. It is a play about loss and the journey to pick up the pieces of broken years.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Character Breakdown:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Frank: (male, any age) Recently single and not loving it.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Alan: (male, any age) Frank’s best friend.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sarah: (female, similar age to Frank) Frank’s soon to be ex.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Gallery by Xavier Rene</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Synopsis: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">When Valencia runs into another critic at her favorite artist's gallery she learns a lot more about art than she was expecting. Through a charming guise artist Carmen Guerra shows Valencia just how wrong (or right) she was about art and all the things it could be.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Character Breakdown:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Velencia Lopez- An art critic. Latina woman 27. She is young and wide eyed with a constant air of excitement around her. Dresses perfectly. She is talkative and obsessed with the up-and-coming artist Carmen Guerra.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Carmen Guerra- An artist. Latina woman 29. She is aloof and pessimistic talking with a constant air of irony in her voice. Dressed in hobo chic. Knows way too much about art.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Tight-Rope Walker by Julie Demers</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Synopsis:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> On his birthday, former circus performer Alexander Popovich, 62 years old, goes for his last walk on the line.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.44;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Characters: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Alexander Popovich, 62 years old. He is warm, experienced, wise. Good sense of self. Loves his family.</span></p>
<div><br></div><div>Any interested parties should contact Confetti Stage by Friday, June 21st using the email <a href="mailto:confettistageinc@gmail.com">confettistageinc@gmail.com</a> and the subject "Directors for Confetti Fest 15."</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,<br></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Confetti Stage, Inc<br></div><div><a href="http://www.confettistage.org" target="_blank">www.confettistage.org</a></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/ConfettiStageInc" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/ConfettiStageInc</a></div><div>Twitter: @StageConfetti<br></div><div><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#888888"><span style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please join us for</span> </font><font color="#000000">our upcoming production of<span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="4"><b><font size="2"> William Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing</font></b></font></span></span></font><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(255,153,0)"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,0,0)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)">"</span><span></span></span></span> </font></span></span></span><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">(</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">directed by Joseph Place</span>),<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">at <span style="color:rgb(255,0,255)"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>Ten Broeck Mansion</b></span></span> </span><span style="color:rgb(76,17,48)"></span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">on</font><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:bold"> </font></font><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">August 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 9th, and 10th at 7:30PM and August 4th and 11th at 2PM</span><span style="color:rgb(75,79,86);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">. Tickets on sale here: <a href="https://confettistage.org/buy-tickets/" target="_blank">https://confettistage.org/buy-tickets/</a></span></font><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(75,79,86);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br></span></div></div><div style="text-align:center"><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>