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Sent: Friday, December 30, 2022 3:14 PM
Subject: Open Auditions for 2023 Old Pueblo Playwrights New Play Festival! Jan. 16, 2023
CALLING ALL ACTORS!!!
OPP Invites Tucson Actors to Audition Jan. 16 for
Old Pueblo Playwrights' Spring New Play Festival
TUCSON, ARIZ.—Dec. 30, 2022—Old Pueblo Playwrights will hold open auditions Jan. 16, 2023, for its Spring 2023 New Play Festival.
"OPP has been bringing thought-provoking literary theatre to life in Tucson for 30-plus years," said John Vornholt, longtime president of the southern Arizona nonprofit. "This spring our 2023 Festival is back downtown at the Temple of Music and Art's Cabaret Theatre with five days of staged readings of 14 peer-reviewed plays.
"This great lineup of original member works—five (5) full-length pieces and nine (9) shorts— promises Tucson actors a plethora of great roles," noted OPP Board Secretary David Zinke. A veteran Tucson actor with playwriting on his résumé, Zinke is 2023 Festival Coordinator and Auditions Chair. Plays are performed just once, script in hand, with minimal blocking, props, set pieces, and lighting, followed by post-performance talkbacks.
"OPP is grateful to the Arizona Commission on the Arts for their continued support of OPP and the arts, and the Arizona Rose Theatre for hosting our last festival in the Tucson Mall," said Vornholt, a best-selling Tucson author, actor, playwright, director, producer, screenwriter, and journalist.
WHAT | Open Audition for 2023 OPP NEW PLAY FESTIVAL (NPF) |
WHEN/WHERE | Auditions will be held at 7 pm, Monday, Jan. 16, 2023, at St. Francis in the Foothills, 4625 E. River Road, Room 50, Tucson. There is plenty of free parking and the room is handicapped accessible. [NPF will be held at the Temple of Music and Art's Cabaret Theatre, 330 S. Scott Avenue, Tucson.] |
RSVP | Email David Zinke at dzinkmeister@yahoo.com to request an audition time slot. |
NPF SHOWTIMES | NPF LINE-UP |
Wed., Mar. 29
@ 7 PM | § A star-hopping celebrity chef, his foodie travelogue, and the woman determined to hunt him down, take us for a 42nd-century romp in Dave Sewell's The Galactic Gourmet. |
Thurs., Mar. 30
@ 7 PM | § Making end-of-life arrangements with Death—or is it Satan?—makes for 90 minutes of gripping drama in Mel Hector's Thin Grey Line. |
Fri., Mar. 31 @ 7 PM | § Three polarities show magic can occur when you leave the door open in Sherrye Cohn's Algorithms of Love, a 90-minute drama set in the Irish village of Dalrymple. |
Sat. April 1
@ 1 PM | § Debra Vassallo pairs a free spirit eager to go wine tasting and an introvert who'd rather watch paint dry in her 14-minute marital comedy, Ready, Set, Go. (Regina Ford directs.) § Two wacky IRS agents and a frustrated taxpayer make for 20 minutes of farce in Gavin Kayner's Take a Number. § A first family gathering is the scene of a newly engaged couple's first big argument in Liisa Rose's 10-minute Oyster Stuffing. § A grieving young widow forms an unlikely bond in Carl Damhesel and David Rochon's 30-minute surreal drama, Shower Monster. |
Sat. April 1
@ 7 PM | § Three love-smitten women, and a host of unsavory men, follow newly the elected Warren G. Harding to the White House in John Vornholt's The President's Women. |
Sun. April 2
@1 PM | § David Youngerman's SIRI series poses difficult questions in three shorts: o An elderly couple wonder about the afterlife in Where Is the Light at the End of the Tunnel? o A young man questions his athletic options in Why Don't Jews Play Football? o A diner learns the truth about his favorite restaurant in Why Is a Man Never Lonely When Eating a Bowl of Spaghetti? § A young man shares memories of his childhood during a road trip with his fiancé in David Youngerman's 15 min drama Music on my Radio. § Sam and Harriet have a problem with honesty in Phil Levere's 20-minute marital drama, Honestly Harriet. |
Sun. April 3
@6 PM | § A biracial history professor uncovers her grandfather's role in a 1930s lynching in Gavin Kayner's gripping full-length drama, Strange Fruit, |
FYI | A Tucson nonprofit, Old Pueblo Playwrights aims to inspire professional and aspiring writers of any age, race, religion, gender, ethnicity, or political persuasion to create new works for stage, film, radio, or TV. Join us Monday evenings at 7 as we read and critique original member works. Visit us at Facebook at Old Pueblo Playwrights or at oldpuebloplaywrights.org/. |
CONTACT | § OPP/Festival Coordinator/David Zinke: 520-247-2567 or dzinkmeister@yahoo.com § OPP/President/John Vornholt: 520-548-3484 or johnvorn@aol.com § OPP/CBS Communications/Carol Somer: 858-204-7424 or cbs@cbscomm.net |
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