From: Borderlands Theater < milta@borderlandstheater.org >
Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 9:02 AM
Subject: 💥 PAID Workshop Opportunities 💥
Be part of new musical workshop, and The Eris Reading!
Borderlands Theater is casting a PAID, Two-week development workshop of a new musical.
Musical Development Workshop
July 16th-27th
Borderlands Theater is casting a PAID, Two-week development workshop of a new musical. Join us July 12 and July16th through the 27th as we focus on the songs from Anita: The Musical.
Anita by Milta Ortiz, with music by Quetzal Guerrero is a Latinx musical that centers female characters and pays homage to the intermingling of the Southwest borderlands with cumbia, bolero/jazz and pop/R&B fusions. Anita is about the power of joy to create a sense of home and belonging.
The two-week workshop culminates in a public concert sharing on July 27, 2024 directed by Chach Snook, with musical direction by Jon Heras.
While the musical is primarily in English, some basic knowledge of Spanish is helpful.
Roles to be cast:
(Roles not listed have already been cast)
Anita Fuentes: 12 yrs old, sassy and vibrant, le echa muchas ganas, immigrated from El Salvador with her parents.
Luz Dorada: Mid 30's, five generations Mexican American, going for gold but doesn't realize how golden her life could be.
Esme: 15 years old, Esme is short for Esmeralda, green with envy for everything she's been cheated out of.
Carmen: 13 years old, helpful and kind, a leader.
Lisa: 8 years old, hardly speaks, traumatized, and smart.
Nanita: 6 years old, adorable new arrival to the shelter.
Mari Vega: 20's, a badass chola Youtuber; for this reading multicast as pupusa waitress, office staff. (Performs a cumbia rap song.)
Manuel Fuentes: mid 30's, a helpful janitor, multicast as Papi, Anita's dad, John Panchez, photographer, pupusa customer and townsfolk.
How to join the workshop:
· Sign up to audition via the link below!
· We'll email you a time slot between 8-9pm on audition day Friday May 10th. Along with a link to demo, and sides corresponding to the character you'd like to audition for.
· Prepare 30 seconds of a song or learn 30 seconds of the demo and look over/practice the sides.
· We'll see you this Friday May 10th!
*If interested in more than one character, choose one demo and we'll consider you for all characters.
(We may add 4:30-5pm slots, and/or schedule another date as 5-8pm slots are filled. Please reach out even if the date/time doesn't work.)
PLEASE NOTE: THE CHILDREN IN THE MUSICAL WILL BE PLAYED BY HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE-AGED ACTORS. ALL ACTORS MUST BE AT LEAST 16 YEARS OF AGE.
The Eris Reading is Here!
May 12, 2024 | 6:30 PM
El Pueblo Neighborhood Center Courtyard
101 W. Irvington Rd
Featuring Sinsafos
Music by: Attrice
Open Mic Sign Up @ 5:30 PM
The Asteroid Reading Series is the fourth iteration of Tucson poet, Eva Sierra's, Reading Series, all-ages poetry open mic which began in 2020. The series aims to provide a safe space for people of all identities to share. 'Reading' in the title references astrology and tarot readings: inviting ancestors, spirit and divinity to empower those who step to the mic. THE ASTEROID READINGS, named after some of the asteroids regarded in astrology, began January 2024 in collaboration with Borderlands Theatre.
About the Artist:
E. Garcia Naranjo (they/them) is a writer, culture worker, & recording artist from Tucson, AZ. their work as a writer focuses on the historical implications of colonialism in working class communities across the southwest, & the restoration of marginalized peoples' stories that have been wiped away or coopted by western institutions.
to find more of garcia naranjo's work, visit twelvotwo.com/djq
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