<div dir="ltr"><div>NY State Defenders Basic Trial Skills seeking actors to play:</div><div>Construction Workers, Detectives, Client Bobby Jones</div><div><br></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-f2642564-7fff-8581-aaa2-e47d238546dc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Actor Information About the Basic Trial Skills Program (BTSP)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline">The program takes place</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:700;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Saturday, June 7 through Friday, June 13, 2025</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);vertical-align:baseline">at Skidmore College in Saratoga, NY. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">More specific time/place and roles available, located below.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Basic Trial Skills Program is a week-long training for Public Defenders. It is a short but intense boot camp to prepare defenders, who are already practicing attorneys working in Public Defender offices, for trial practice.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> The BTSP is run by the New York State Defenders Association (NYSDA), the Backup Center for New York’s public defense bar. NYSDA has many projects but one mission: to advance criminal defense for poor clients. Advocating for poor clients is not simply a win-lose legal proposition. NYSDA believes in Client-centered Representation as part of its dedication to social justice.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> The Basic Trial Skills Program is designed to help attorneys with little or no trial experience become skilled in jury persuasion and to promote caring, humane representation. The program promotes long-term commitments to the representation of poor and marginalized people.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">The BTSP Actors</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Actors are integral to the program. In six role-play exercises, actors impersonate the client and other witnesses. During the exercises, the defenders-in-training will practice communication skills. The actors will improvise based on the facts of the case, a character profile and the teaching goals of the exercise. While the actors will be improvising within specified givens, the attorneys will practice as they have been instructed in the program. This design creates an interesting dynamic in which the actor is playing a role while the attorneys are functioning as themselves. Since its inception in 1989, the BTSP has earned national recognition for the realism of its actors in courtroom simulations. This realism allows the lawyers to practice their skills intensely, but without fear of their client going to jail.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Actors in the BTSP are paid a modest stipend for training and performance. They work as non-union independent contractors. Numerous Equity, SAG and AFTRA members have acted in the BTSP throughout the years.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> The parts available are listed below. We will be casting multiple actors to play these roles, because exercises occur in seven small groups simultaneously.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Roles</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">The Client Bobby Jones</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Bobby Jones, defendant</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, 26 years old, male.  We will consider actors between 20 and 35 depending on apparent age. We seek actors who are Black, Latino, Native American or White. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Bobby’s childhood was impoverished both materially and emotionally. He has difficulty managing his anger and his temper has caused him trouble with the law. Bobby has a history of domestic violence. He is accused of attempting to murder his live-in girlfriend. Actors playing Bobby must be able to understand and portray a man in trouble, with a troubled past, desperately clinging to his dignity.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Witnesses:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Male construction workers</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, age 25-40. Hard working, hard drinking. Powerful physique a plus. Must be able to realistically portray blue collar individuals without stereotyping.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Detective</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">:  age 35-50. Hard-nosed Crimes Against Persons investigator. Can be male or female, any race or ethnicity.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">The Audition Process</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Auditions will be scheduled at a time that works for both the actor and the casting director. The auditions are individual and usually take thirty to forty-five minutes. They are held at </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">40 Beaver Street, Albany</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">,</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> NY.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">  Live auditions via Zoom will be considered depending on timing and circumstance.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Audition Preparation</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">: The actor is given facts from the case to study. In the audition, the actor will then improvise with the casting director. During your audition, you will be asked to engage in several improvisatory role-playing scenarios during which you speak with either a prosecutor or defense attorney. Expect that you will be given some adjustments along the way.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Along with believable acting and the ability to improvise, knowing the facts of the case is essential for success. Also vital is the actor’s ability to understand exercise goals and fulfill them while improvising.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Acting in the BTSP is challenging but exciting work. Performers from a variety of backgrounds have succeeded: stage actors, camera actors, poets, performance artists and even people with no performance background.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">If cast, memorization of the case details is essential to the success of the work. For Bobbys, memorization of case details as well as his personal history is essential to the success of the Basic Trial Skills Program.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Being a Teacher</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> The actor’s ultimate purpose as a role-player is to teach. We are seeking people who want to create vivid experiences for our learners. NYSDA is teaching public defenders in order to further social justice. We seek actors who have a bit of the Client </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">and</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Defender in them.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Time and Place Info</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> The Basic Trial Skills Program will be held at Skidmore College in Saratoga. Please audition even if you don’t have ready transportation to Skidmore. The program will do its best to work to solve that problem if necessary.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> The dates/days of work at Skidmore are:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">For Detective Derek:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Saturday, June 7, 9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Training</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Thursday, June 12, 8 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Perform in Exercise w/Defenders</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> There will also be one 3.5 hours training session held in Albany. This will be scheduled in late April-early June at times that work for the actors and trainer.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Stipend TBA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">For the Construction Workers:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Saturday, June 7,  9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Training</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Thursday, June 12, 9:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Perform in Exercise w/Defenders </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt 7.5pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> There will also be one 3.5 to 4 hours training session held in Albany at the NY State Defenders Institute Offices Suite 500, 194 Washington Ave  This will be scheduled sometime between late April-early June at times that work for the actors and trainer.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Stipend TBA</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:6.5pt 0pt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