<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><a name="_Hlk5954194" style="font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><font color="#000000">Curtain Call Theatre (Latham, NY) will be holding auditions for</font></span></a></p><p align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">“NATIVE GARDENS”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">By Karen Zacareas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p align="center" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Directed by Patrick White<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Auditions:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></p><ul type="disc" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="BodyA" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127, 127, 127, 0.380392);">Monday – February 10, 2020 – 7:00 PM</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br><b>Location:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></p><ul type="disc" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="BodyA" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Curtain Call Theatre – <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127, 127, 127, 0.380392);">1 Jeanne Jugan Lane, Latham, NY 12110</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br><b>Rehearsals:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></p><ul type="disc" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="BodyA" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Begin </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">early December 2020</span><span lang="DE" style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="BodyA" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><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="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127, 127, 127, 0.380392);">Sunday – Wednesday</a> evenings (4-5 times per week)<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br><b>Performances:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></p><ul type="disc" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><li class="BodyA" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><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="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127, 127, 127, 0.380392);">January 21, 2021 – February 7, 2021</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="BodyA" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><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="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127, 127, 127, 0.380392);">Thursday at 7:30 PM</a>, Friday and <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="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127, 127, 127, 0.380392);">Saturday at 8:00 PM</a>, & <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="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127, 127, 127, 0.380392);">Sunday at 3:00 PM</a><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="BodyA" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">One Saturday matinee <a href="x-apple-data-detectors://9" dir="ltr" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="9" style="color: currentcolor; text-decoration-color: rgba(127, 127, 127, 0.380392);">at 3:00 PM on January 30, 2021</a><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br><b>Show Description:</b><br><br>A hilarious hot button comedy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">You can’t choose your neighbors. In this brilliant new comedy, cultures and gardens clash, turning well intentioned neighbors into feuding enemies. Pablo, a rising attorney, and doctoral candidate Tania, his very pregnant wife, have just purchased a home next to Frank and Virginia, a well-established D.C. couple with a prize-worthy English garden. But an impending barbeque for Pablo’s colleagues and a delicate disagreement over a long-standing fence line soon spirals into an all-out border dispute, exposing both couples’ notions of race, taste, class and privilege.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">"'Native Gardens' is a true breath of comic fresh air. It's a biting, perceptive, and ultimately hopeful sendup to our fraught relationships with those around us-even right next door. Beyond snappy oneliners and garden hose fights, the play challenges audiences to look beyond petty differences and rediscover our shared decency."-DC Theatre Scene<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br><b>Available Roles:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Tania Del Valle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">29 year old, Female, Latina<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From New Mexico, a pregnant doctoral candidate who is determined to fix up<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">her fixer-upper with a native garden. Bright, energetic, naturally optimistic, wants to co-exist with the neighbors but she is fiercely protective of her ideas and values.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pablo Del Valle<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">31 year old, Male, Latino<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Chilean, an ambitious and successful attorney trying to make partner by “fitting in” and hosting a BBQ for the entire firm in his unkempt backyard. Smart, argumentative, generally tolerant and willing to overlook a lot until he is pushed over the edge by the Butleys.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Virginia Butley<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">55-65 year old, Female, White<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From Buffalo, the bread-winner and only female executive working for a<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">large defense contractor in the DC area. Friendly, civil, smiles a lot, but her opinions are well engrained and she will fight ruthlessly to protect her turf. Prone to making offensive statements -- for the most part, unknowingly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Frank Butley<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">55-65 year old, Male, White<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">From New England, a gentle and sensitive soul who has devoted himself to<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">his pristine English garden in his retirement. Beta to his wife’s Alpha. Friendly in a steady WASPish way, wants to get along with the neighbors but cannot embrace a native garden next door. Becomes indignant easily. Finds his courage when the chips are down.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Supplemental Extras<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">21+, Male/Female, Latino/Latina<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">actors needed to play the surveyor, landscapers, building examiner, and other non-speaking roles.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="BodyA" style="font-size: 12pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br>For more information about the theatre and the rest of our season please visit our website at</span><a href="http://www.curtaincalltheatre.com/" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><span class="Hyperlink0" style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">www.curtaincalltheatre.com</span></span></a><span class="None"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">.<br><br>Thank you.</span></span></p><br><div dir="ltr"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">--</span><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Sincerely,</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Jeremy Anderson-Ward</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Associate Producer</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Curtain Call Theatre</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">P: (518) 788-5254</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">E: jrward5178@gmail.com</span></div></div></body></html>