Casting for the Sensational Stage Play: A Summers Run
INFO ON THE PLAY:
Synopsis of A Summers Run
A gun has been shot! Garret Summers runs with all of his heart as the Freemasons in front of him hands him the baton. Running alongside him are his Fraternity brothers along with White sympathizers to African- American rights and behind them all is a fast gaining organization called the Ku Klux Klan! The struggle progresses as Garrett Summers works through his craft to once again provide America with the American Negro as a heroic figure in both sports and academia. Open this book, sit in the stands, and see a stage play about the hidden history of Americans both white and black bonding together running a race where either everyone wins or all is lost. A Summers Run- Come take the run with us.
NAS Media Group, Inc
CASTING CALL FOR:
A Summers Run: Stageplay
DATE: *TBA*
TIME: SUN 4pm-8pm MON 6pm-10pm
AUDITION LOCATION: TBA
PAY: Leads receive stipend. All cast receive 50% of ticket sales sold.
EQUITY/NON-EQUITY: Non- Equity
TYPE/ RESTRICTIONS: Seeking 4 Caucasian Males 2 Ages (20-30), 2 Ages (35-45), Seeking 4 African- American males age (20-50) *Two are Leads* and 4 Caucasian females 4 African American Females Ages (20-45)
TIME COMMITMENT: Auditions are *TBA* Rehearsals start in MAY and every weekend after. Rehearsals start weekdays in May. Performance dates are June 10,28,29,30 and July 30, 31st
MATERIAL TO PREPARE: Please bring headshot and resume. Monologue and one minute song welcome. Phone calls welcome.
CONTACT INFO: Michael Gardner- Director/ Playwright
REPLY TO EMAIL: michaelgardner@naspublishing.com
WEBSITE: www.naspublishing.com
LEAD CHARACTERS
Wat (29 yrs old)
Traditonal southern Christian blackman and elder of his friends. He is calm yet an eloquent and powerful speaker.
Kenny Armstrong (29 yrs old)
Supportive, go getter of the group. Confident blackman an inventive.
Summers (25 yrs old)
Young Brash Athlete with arrogance. Highly intelligent and explosive personality.
Mrs. Spaulding (55 yrs old)
Sweet elderly Caucasian woman wit a passion for chang in society domestically, civil, and nationally. An abolitionist.
Ms. Clara (27 yrs old)
Sassy southern black woman and future wife of Wat. She is a leader and fighter against all forms of injustice against her people.
SUPPORTING CHARACTERS
Larry Freemason AAA fraternity (Caucasian) -
Young impressionable male that follows the status quo yet secretly sympathizes with the down trodden.
William ‘Billy Bob’ AAA Frat Member (Caucasian)-
Strong, bulky, southern male with rancor for anything that is not his race.
Vivian
A young black woman in her twenties burdened with the load of integrating an all white University
James
A young black man in his twenties burdened with the load of integrating an all white University
Lucy Diggs-
Sweet southern black woman with aspirations of women empowerment.
Alphie - The Awestricken blackman that sees a change coming from his Masonic brothers as they grow apart from the way of his Black Greek Lettered fraternity an thei ways.
Big Cuz Armstrong -
Intelligent and persuasive leader and th next in line age to Wat.
Bro Love-
Black male possessing the want to bind his people.
Just- A humble and intelligent blackman. The Elder of the rest.
Joseph AAA Frat member (Caucasian) Brash athlete that does as he is told to get to the top.
Professor Al Truism (Caucasian)
Descendant of Quakers movement whom views all equal under God. A resouceful man.
Dean of Students Dwight Zupre Massey (Caucasian)
The leader of te Klan and planner of its new misson. Will do anything
to keep the status quo of the white American. Cunning man.
EXTRAS
3 + Eldermen of AKN
4 + Caucasian Athletes
3 + Visiting Female Black Students from Butters U.
1 + Sports Announcer (Caucasian)
20 Caucasian Extras as AAA Frat members and Klansmen