OUR WORDS ARE SEEDS - EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS
Syracuse Stage
CONTRACT
TYA
$750 weekly minimum (contract pending)
SEEKING
Equity actor for one-person play OUR WORDS ARE SEEDS (see breakdown).
INSTRUCTIONS
Present 1-minute of a contemporary monologue, poem, or tell a story. The link for audition submissions –
https://forms.gle/JMsUcyyzJQEMCJvF7
Deadline: Tue, Aug 30, 2022
PERSONNEL
Our Words Are Seeds
Written by Ty Defoe
Director: Joann Yarrow
BREAKDOWN
A multiverse play that travels through the past, the present, and the future to create a negotiation between traditional and contemporary worldview of Shenandoah Cornelius Winder, an Oneida Nation, non-binary, and self-proclaimed Indigi-nerd teenager. They are called to Onondaga Lake to seek our understanding, restitution and blood memory to clean up the historical and environmental damage we have made. Shenandoah fosters reciprocal relations with Sky Woman, Grams, and their great-great grandmother, Mary Cornelius Winder - the first Oneida woman to write a letter to the United States Government demanding Land back. Time is water and words are seeds. As Shenandoah connects to Water to find their voice, they inspire and create a call to action to the next generation to protect, defend, and acknowledge the Haudenosaunee Nation, their traditions and the land we all share.
PLAYER (18+) Native/Indigenous (Haudenosaunee). Portrays various roles ranging in age from ages 16 to 45. Roles include Shenandoah - a non-binary feminine leaning teen, Grams/Water - Oneida grandmother to Shenandoah, and Mary Cornelius Winder - Oneida Nation and great-great grandmother of Shenandoah. Sings, moves well, and has comic timing.
OTHER DATES
Workshop: October 19-22, 2022 at Syracuse Stage
1st rehearsal: 1/10/23
Opening: 2/1/23
Closing: 2/19/23 (w/option to extend to 2/26/23) - Tours Upstate, NY
OTHER
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit.
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