Tuesday, August 30, 2011

The University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Office of Cultural Arts is conducting a casting call for actors interested in participating in a week of workshops to complete the script for the World Premiere Stage Adaptation of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. Auditions will be held from 7-9 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2011 at Kenan Auditorium on the campus of UNCW.

Selected participants will attend evening workshop rehearsals conducted by acclaimed New York director Christopher McElroen and playwright/adaptor Oren Jacoby. The cast will perform a public staged reading of the final script at UNCW on Saturday, Nov. 5.

Interested actors should have stage experience, be comfortable working in an ensemble cast and have a willingness to actively participate in a collaborative creative process. A resume and a well-rehearsed one-two minute monologue are required for the audition.

While in town, McElroen will also conduct a master class for actors entitled Audition Techniques for the Stage. The class will be held from 7-9 p.m., Monday, Sept. 19 at Kenan Auditorium. The class is free, but registration is required and space is limited.

Invisible Man is a milestone in American literature, a book that has continued to engage readers since its appearance in 1952. With the full support of The Fanny and Ralph Ellison Estate and Ellison’s Literary Executor John F. Callahan, Academy Award nominee Oren Jacoby and OBIE, Drama Desk and Lortel Award winner Christopher McElroen are adapting Ellison's blistering and impassioned novel of black life in 1940s America.

For more information and to register for the auditions, visit http://uncw.edu/arts/imaudition.html

For more information and registration for the master class, visit http://uncw.edu/arts/immasterclass.html

Media contact: Courtney Reilly, Office of Cultural Arts, 910.962.2082 or reillyce@uncw.edu