<html><head></head><body><div class="ydp1e5113acyahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydpa3447062MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">Voice Theatre</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"> casting <i>SUMMER AND SMOKE </i></span></p><p class="ydpa3447062MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"> </span></i><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">by Tennessee Williams</span></p><p class="ydpa3447062MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Roboto Condensed; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">CONTRACT:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Equity: Special Appearance Contract, Non-Equity Stipend: $600. Accommodation and travel provided for actors who live more than 50 miles away.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p class="ydpa3447062MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">Auditions are by appointment only. Sides will be sent via email.</span></b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"></span><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Roboto Condensed; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Roboto Condensed; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">DATES:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">UPSTATE CASTING at Bethany Hall, 272 Wall St, Kingston, NY. </span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">On 4/2, 4/16, 4/23.</span><br></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Rehearsals:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> June 12- July 7, 2023</span><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Roboto Condensed; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="position: relative; z-index: 251664384;"><span style="width: 3px; min-height: 2px;"><img width="3" height="2" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true" class=""></span></span><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Tech: </span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">July 7 – July 12, 2023<br><b>Performances:</b> July 13 – July 30, 2023.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Thursday - Saturday @ 7:30pm with 3 Sunday matinees @ 2pm + one extra Sat. matinee @ 2pm on July 22<sup>nd</sup>. </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Rehearsal and performances</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> take place in Uptown Kingston, at Bethany Hall, 272 Wall St., Kingston, NY. Rehearsals will take place during the day.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Roboto Condensed; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Production will be set in the thirties.</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">AVAILABLE ROLES:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(31, 78, 121);">Dr. John Buchanan Sr. 50-60+:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> John’s father and the town doctor, has delivered hundreds of babies, very opinionated and stiff in thought and physicality. Rigid and lives for his rules. Doesn’t have much love to spare.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p class="ydpa3447062MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(31, 78, 121);">Mr. Winemiller 50-60+:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> Alma’s father. Went to Oxford University as an American exchange student in his youth and as a result has a slight English affection in his speech. He is now a Reverend. Very aware of what others think and say. Not much joy in his life. Sour.</span></p><p class="ydpa3447062MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p class="ydpa3447062MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(31, 78, 121);">Mrs. Winemiller 45-50+:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> Alma’s mother. Mr. Winemiller’s wife. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">She has skirted her responsibilities of later life by slipping into a state of perverse childishness. She is known as Mr. Winemiller's "Cross.” Selfish, childish, unempathetic, alarming behavior, an embarrassment to her husband and daughter. Inappropriate all the time. She loves ice cream and steal hats. Enjoys making fun of her sensitive daughter at all the wrong times.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(31, 78, 121);"> </span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(31, 78, 121);">Rosa Gonzales 25-40:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> Sexy, Spanish, earthly, flashy, desperate. Out to have a good time and prove her worthiness. An exhibitionist. Wants to get away from her father. She is in lust of John Buchanan. Spanish speaker is a plaus.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(31, 78, 121);">Papa Gonzales 50-60+:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> Rosa’s father. A big man, not well educated. Violent when drunk. Has a chip on his shoulder. Spanish speaker is a plus.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(31, 78, 121);">Nellie Ewell 18-25:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> An innocent, naïve, lonely girl who in the course of the play grows up and blossoms into a young woman. Could be said at times not so innocent. In love with Dr. John Buchanan. Bright, cheery and positive. Might have a cunning streak.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(31, 78, 121);">Mrs. Bassett 45+:</span></b><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">A know-it-all, pedantic, busy body. She is a widow and loves to be in control of everyone and everything.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(31, 78, 121);">Mr. Roger Doremus, Dusty, Archie Kramer 20-30:</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Roger</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> is a rather bland, boring, unappealing washed-out human being. Never puts a foot wrong. On the too quiet side. Adoring of his mother. </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Dusty</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> is fun loving and a happy sort of guy.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Archie Kramer</span></b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> is a traveling salesman on a job for the first time very green and inexperienced.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">PERSONNEL:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Shauna Kanter<br>ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Paul Bloom</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">COMPANY MANAGERS: Suzannah Kellner, Christa Trinler</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">DIRECTOR: Shauna Kanter</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">SM: TBA</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">PRODUCTION MANAGER: TBA</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">ASM: Mia Barbuto</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">LIGHTING DESIGNER: Wheeler Moon</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">COSTUME DESIGNER: Charlie Barnett III</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">SET DESIGNER: Carin Jean White</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">ORIGINAL MUSIC: Ian Herchender</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">SOUND DESIGNER: Mia Barbuto</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><strong><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in;"> </span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Voice Theatre is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80); border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 0in;">SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:</span></strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);"></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Please submit your photo and CV to </span><a href="mailto:info@voicetheatre.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">info@voicetheatre.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> Tell us what role you are interested in and we will send SIDES and the time/date/location of your audition.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></p><p style="margin: 6pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">SYNOPSIS:</span></b></p><p style="margin: 6pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">Summer and Smoke</span></i><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> is set in Glorious Hill, Mississippi, and centers on Alma Winemiller, a highly strung, unmarried minister's daughter, and the spiritual/sexual romance that nearly blossoms between her and John Buchanan Jr., a wild, undisciplined young doctor who grew up next door. She, ineffably refined, identifies with the gothic cathedral, "reaching up to something beyond attainment"; her name, as Williams makes clear during the play, means "soul" in Spanish; whereas Buchanan, doctor and sensualist, defies her with the soulless anatomy chart.</span></p><p style="margin: 6pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">By the play's end, however, Buchanan and Alma have traded places philosophically. She has been transformed beyond modesty. She throws herself at him, saying "now I have changed my mind, or the girl who said 'no', — she doesn't exist anymore, she died last summer — suffocated in smoke from something on fire inside her." But he has changed, he is engaged to settle down with a respectable, younger girl, and as he tries to convince Alma that what they had between them was indeed a "spiritual bond", she realizes, in any event, that it is too late.</span></p><p style="margin: 6pt 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">In the final scene, Alma accosts a young traveling salesman at dusk in the town park, and as the curtain falls, she follows him to enjoy the "after-dark entertainment" at Moon Lake Casino, where she had resisted Buchanan's attempt to seduce her there the previous summer.</span></p><p class="ydpa3447062MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"> </span></b></p><p class="ydpa3447062MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">VOICE THEATRE BRIEF HISTORY:</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"></span></p><p class="ydpa3447062MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">Started in Paris in 1988 with initial funding from the French Government, Voice Theatre moved to New York City in 1989. Since then, we have produced more than 40 full-scale productions, from original plays such as "Birds on a Wire" (four stars at the Edinburgh Festival), to American classics, Off-Broadway shows, Spring Reading Series, 10-Minute Play Festivals, and many more activities in the United States, Germany, France, Britain and the Middle East. Since 2003, we have led free, in-school workshops in New York City and Upstate, NY. We also offer adult classes and summer youth workshops. In 2014 Voice Theatre renovated the historic Byrdcliffe Theater in Woodstock, NY.</span></p><p class="ydpa3447062MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydpa3447062MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">Voice Theatre’s first production in Paris was “Family Cycles”, a theatre piece for 30 actors. The following year, at La MAMA in New York City, Voice Theatre produced "Pushing Through" (University of Nebraska Press), a music theatre piece performed by Palestinian and Israeli women.</span></p><p class="ydpa3447062MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydpa3447062MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">Off-Broadway productions include; “Retzach” at 59E59 Theatres, “Our Country’s Good” at the CSV Cultural Center, and “The Laramie Project” at the Barrow Group Theater. Featured on NPR’s “Weekend Edition” Voice Theatre has received press from the New York Times, London Times, Daily Telegraph, and The Washington Post, among many others.</span><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"></span></p></div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydp1e5113acsignature"><div style="font-family:old times, serif;font-size:16px;"><font color="#4c76a2" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><font size="3" style="font-weight:bold;font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span">Shauna Kanter <br></font></font><div><font color="#4c76a2" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><font size="3" style="font-weight:bold;font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span">Artistic Director, </span></font></font></div><div><font color="#4c76a2" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><font size="3" style="font-weight:bold;font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span">Voice Theatre </span></font></font></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;font-weight:bold;font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="color:rgb(76, 118, 162);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span">(office) 845 679 0154 (cell) 917 494 6273</span><span style="color:rgb(76, 118, 162);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><br></span></span></span></span><div><b><a href="http://www.voicetheatre.org" style="font-size:medium;font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.voicetheatre.org</a></b></div><div><font color="#4c76a2" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><b style="font-size:medium;font-family:garamond, 'new york', times, serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/voicetheatre.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook.com/Voicetheatre.org</a></b></font></div><div><br></div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;font-style:italic;color:rgb(76, 118, 162);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:'American Typewriter';" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><b>Giving voice to </b></span></span></span><span style="font-size:medium;font-style:italic;color:rgb(76, 118, 162);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:'American Typewriter';" class="ydp39d154ebApple-style-span"><b>extraordinary theatre<br></b></span></span></span></div></div></div></div></body></html>