<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpb50fcc56yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:bookman old style, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px;"><div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" align="center" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">Produced by Voice Theatre</span></p><div style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"> </span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST</span></i></b></div><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, 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 Oscar Wilde</span></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><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-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: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Equity: Special Appearance Contract, Non-Equity Stipend: $1,200. Accommodation and travel provided for all 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="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">Auditions 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-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><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">KINGSTON, NY CASTING: Bethany Hall, 272 Wall St. Kingston - 3/2 & 3/9</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: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">NYC CASTING, Pearl Studios: 500 8th Ave, 3<sup>rd</sup> floor - 2/28 - 3/1</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: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </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: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">DAYTIME Rehearsals:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> June 10 - July 10, 2024</span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; 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: 251659264;"><span style="width: 3px; min-height: 3px;"><img width="3" height="3" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true"></span></span><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Performances:</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> July 11 – July 28, 2024.</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: 11pt; 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 27<sup>th</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: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Rehearsal and performances</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> take place in Uptown Kingston, at Bethany Hall, 272 Wall St., Kingston, NY. <b>Rehearsals will take place during the day.</b></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: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Production will be set in the sixties, in London and Hertfordshire, UK.</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: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; 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;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">Submit for appointment:</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: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Email picture/resumé to </span><a href="mailto:RRhodesDevey@voicetheatre.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">RRhodesDevey@voicetheatre.org</span></b></a><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);"> </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">Put in subject: “EARNEST AUDITIONS”</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-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: 11pt; 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: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">COMPANY ADMINISTRATOR: Rachel Rhodes-Devey</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: 11pt; 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: 11pt; 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: 11pt; 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: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">SET DESIGNER: 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: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">SOUND DESIGNER: 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: 11pt; 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: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(37, 37, 37);">ASM: 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;"><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;"><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(0, 176, 80);">AVAILABLE ROLES:</span></b><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(80, 21, 73);"></span></b></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);">Gwendolen Fairfax </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(41, 44, 46);">(25-30) English, upper class. Accent required. Gwendolen speaks with unassailable authority on matters of taste and morality. She is sophisticated, intellectual, cosmopolitan, and like her mother, can be pretentious. She has led a very privileged, sheltered life She hasn’t done a day’s work in her life, however she does have an open heart and she is given to flights of romance. Gwendolen thinks she is a model and arbiter of high fashion and society. We are looking for actors who can play the circumstances and are interested in physical expression as well as text. We are not interested in actors solely playing a style. This production is set in 1968 and those times in London have somewhat evaded the conservative Gwendolen. Gwendolen is Algernon’s cousin and Lady Bracknell’s daughter. Gwendolen is in love with Jack, whom she knows as Ernest. Gwendolen is fixated on the name Ernest and says she will not marry a man without that name.</span><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"></span></b></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"> </span></b></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);">Cecily Cardew </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(41, 44, 46);">(18-23) English, upper class. Accent required. Cecily is a very smart, very sheltered, and a champagne hippie living on a large country estate. She will be extremely wealthy when she comes of age. She can appear virtuous but can also be somewhat calculating. She has naïve ideas about romance coupled with a large imagination. She lives in a world of romance and flowers and hates her schoolbooks. Like Gwendolen, she is obsessed with the name Ernest. We are looking for actors who can play the circumstances and are interested in physical expression as well as text. We are not interested in actors solely playing a style. This production is set in 1968 and Cecily is a creature of her time with a few pre-Raphaelite influences thrown in.</span><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"></span></b></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(41, 44, 46);">Cecily has fallen in love with Jack’s brother, Ernest (Algernon in the city), and through her imagination, she has invented an elaborate romance and courtship between her and Earnest. Cecily is the granddaughter of the man who found and adopted Jack when Jack was a baby.</span></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);">Lady Bracknell</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(41, 44, 46);"> (45-65) English, upper class. Accent required. Lady Bracknell is a snobbish, controlling, domineering, know it all. She thinks she is the absolute authority on everything and everybody. Her pronouncements are a keen window into the sheltered life and ignorance of the British upper class. Lady Bracknell married well, and her primary goal in life is to see her daughter do the same. She is an authoritarian and absurdly quotable, but she does love her daughter, Gwendolen. We are looking for actors who can play the circumstances and are interested in physical expression as well as text. We are not interested in actors solely playing a style. This production is set in 1968 and those times in London have completely evaded Lady Bracknell who is still living in the 50’s proudly wearing her Channel suits. Bracknell is Algernon’s aunt.</span></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"> </span></b></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);">Miss Prism </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(41, 44, 46);">(50-68) English, middle class. Accent required. Cecily’s governess. Miss Prism is an endless source of pedantic bromides and clichés. She is a rigid, old-fashioned teacher but she also entertains romantic feelings for Dr. Chasuble, the local reverend. A bit of a puritan. She is easily shaken, easily tossed off her plinth, and really has no center.</span><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"></span></b></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"> </span></b></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);">Jack Worthing </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(41, 44, 46);">(25-35) English, upper class. Accent required. Jack Worthing is an intelligent, very well educated, wealthy and seemingly responsible and respectable young man who enjoys leading a double life. In Hertfordshire, where he has a large country estate, Jack is known as Jack. In London he is known as Ernest. He enjoys intellectual jousting and has a highly developed sense of romance. We are looking for actors who can play the circumstances and are interested in physical expression as well as text. We are not interested in actors solely playing a style. This production is set in 1968 and Jack is a creature of his time.</span><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"></span></b></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(41, 44, 46);"> </span></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(41, 44, 46);">As a baby, Jack was discovered in a handbag in the cloakroom of Victoria Station by a man who adopted him and subsequently made Jack guardian to his granddaughter, Cecily Cardew. Jack is in love with his friend Algernon’s cousin, Gwendolen Fairfax.</span></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);">Algernon Moncrieff </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(41, 44, 46);">(20-30) English, upper class. Accent required. Algernon is charming, witty, rebellious, and always up for a good time. He can be selfish, but his wit always wins the day. He too, is given to romance and flights of fancy. He is impulsive yet extremely smart. We are looking for actors who can play the circumstances and are interested in physical expression as well as text. We are not interested in actors solely playing a style. This production is set in 1968 and Algernon like his friend Ernest is a creature of his time.</span><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"></span></b></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 6pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(41, 44, 46);">He has invented a fictional friend, “Bunbury,” an invalid whose frequent sudden relapses allow Algernon to wriggle out of unpleasant or dull social obligations. He is the nephew of Lady Bracknell, cousin of Gwendolen Fairfax, and best friend of Jack Worthing, whom he has known for years as Ernest.</span></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 3pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);">Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D. </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(41, 44, 46);">(45-65) English, middle class. Accent required. A country rector in Hertfordshire, UK. Pedantic, out of touch with his flock. Not a very effective reverend. Not too experienced in matters between the sexes. Very educated, but not learned. He is a Doctor of Divinity.</span><b><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"></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: 11pt; 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, we encourage performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit.</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-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;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">Please go to: </span><a href="https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/earnest/summary/" style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: underline;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="">https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/earnest/summary/</a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"> for in depth summary.</span></p><div><br></div><div><b style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="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><br></div><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"></span></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, 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. Our home is now Bethany Hall in Kingston, NY.</span></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, 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="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;">Off-Broadway productions; “Retzach”, 59E59 Theatres, “Our Country’s Good”, CSV Cultural Center, “The Laramie Project” at the Barrow Group Theater. Featured on NPR’s “Weekend Edition” and the New York Times, London Times, Daily Telegraph, and The Washington Post, among many others.</span></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"> </span></p><p class="ydp8f396668MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-align: center;"><img title="Inline image" alt="Inline image" src="cid:d95c9c47-dfb1-42ed-8d55-1ced17f3a9db@yahoo.com" class="yahoo-inline-image" draggable="false" style="max-width: 800px; width: 100%;" data-id="<d95c9c47-dfb1-42ed-8d55-1ced17f3a9db@yahoo.com>"><br><img border="0" data-inlineimagemanipulating="true" style="width: 235px; max-width: 0px;" data-id="1707659069070"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: American Typewriter, serif;"></span></p></div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="ydpb50fcc56signature"><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>