OPEN AUDITIONS FOR THE PLAY:
PIPELINE by Dominique Morisseau
directed by Michelle Stephens
Saturday, September 14
drop in between 10AM – 12PM
No prior acting experience is necessary.
Come to the Shilling Lobby any time between 10am and Noon. You’ll fill out some forms and be given a text to look at. Actors audition privately for the director and production staff. The audition takes 5-10 minutes. No prior acting experience is necessary. Auditions are open to students, staff, faculty and members of the community. You do not have to be affiliated with the college to audition or work on a show. Pipeline contains adult language and situations.
Rehearsals begin September 23 and meet from 5:30pm – 8:00 pm Monday – Thursday. Not everyone will attend every rehearsal in the first three weeks.
Performances are:
- Friday, November 15 | 10AM & 7PM
- Saturday, November 16 | 7PM
- Sunday, November 17 | 3PM
Send any questions about auditions to theatre@richland.edu
Character Descriptions
NYA – Black woman, mid-late 30’s. Single mother. Public High School Teacher. Trying to raise her teenage son on her own with much difficulty. A good teacher inspiring her students in a stressed environment. A struggling parent doing her damndest. Strong but burning out. Smoker. Sometimes drinker. Holding together by a thread. (Actor will not have to smoke real cigarettes.)
OMARI – Black man, late teens. Smart and astute. Rage without release. Tender and honest at his core. Something profoundly sensitive amidst the anger. Wrestling with his identity between private school education and being from a so-called urban community. Nya’s son.
JASMINE – Black or Latina woman, late teens. Sensitive and tough. A sharp bite, a soft smile. Profoundly aware of herself and her environment. Attends upstate private school but from a so-called urban environment. In touch with the poetry of her own language.
XAVIER – Black man, mid-late 30’s. Single father – struggling to connect to his own son. Marketing exec. Wounded relationship with his ex-wife. Financially stable. Emotionally impoverished. Nya’s ex-husband. Omari’s father.
LAURIE – White woman, 50’s. Pistol of a woman. Teaches in Public High School and can hold her own against the tough students and the stressed environment. Doesn’t bite her tongue. A don’t-screw-with-me chick.
DUN – Black man, early-mid 30’s. Public High School security guard. Fit and optimistic. Charismatic with women. Genuine and thoughtful and trying to be a gentleman in a stressed environment. It’s not easy.
“Pipeline” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com