Water Works Theatre Company Announces 2010 Auditions 4/16-20

Water Works Theatre company will be hosting auditions for its tenth anniversary production of Shakespeare In The Park in Royal Oak Friday April 16 and Tuesday April 20. Roles will be cast for Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona directed by Barton Bund and Lane Riosley's The Commedia Tales of King Arthur directed by Frannie Sheperd-Bates.

Auditions will be held at St. John's Episcopal Church, 26998 Woodward Ave, Royal Oak MI 48067 from 6:15pm - 10pm with callbacks to be determined at a later date in April. Actors wishing to audition should Email their audition time request to waterworksbackstage@earthlink.net or leave a voice message at (248) 399-3727. Actors must prepare a classical comedic monologue no longer than two minutes in length. Thirty seconds of additional time will be allotted for those who wish to play an instrument and/or sing. All roles will be paid and are available to Actor's Equity and non-Equity members.

The Two Gentlemen of Verona will cap Water Works Theatre Company's tenth annual production in Starr Jaycee Park and the theatre's 9th Shakespeare play. The milestone production will be directed by Barton Bund, the Founding Artistic Director of Ann Arbor's award-winning Blackbird Theatre. His previous directing credits include his original musicals The Glob and Patty Hearst, as well as Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, How the Other Half Loves, the Blackbird's all African-American Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Battery, and his adaptations of D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow and Women in Love. A graduate of Eastern Michigan University, Bart is also a nominee for the Williamstown Theatre Festival's L. Arnold Weissberger Award for excellence in playwriting, former staff writer for Mosaic Youth Theatre, and a Purple Rose Theatre Playmaker Playwright. He currently lives in Ann Arbor with his family and their menagerie. The Two Gentlemen of Verona will play in Royal Oak's Starr Jaycee Park (1101 West 13 Mile Road) July 22 - August 8. Tickets are $18 for any performance and are available now online at www.waterworkstheatre.com. A complete performance schedule follows this release.

In addition to its Shakespeare production, Water Works Theatre Company will present its second commedia show geared especially for children. Frannie Sheppard-Bates, founder of Detroit's Magenta Giraffe Theatre Company, will direct Lane Riosley's The Commedia Tales of King Arthur Tuesday and Wednesday evenings and Saturday and Sunday mornings on the Starr Jaycee Park stage July 27 - August 8. Tickets are $6 for any performance and are available now online at www.waterworkstheatre.com. A complete performance schedule follows this release.

Water Works Theatre Company, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit professional theatre company that provides professional caliber experience to the emerging professional theatre artist. The company is proud to be presenting its 10th annual Skakespeare in the Park in Royal Oak without the aid of local tax payer dollars. For more information log on to: www.waterworkstheatre.com.