The 48 Hour Film Project

Hello all,

This is Jared Stepp, Milwaukee Producer of the 48 Hour Film Project. (milwaukee@48hourfilm.com)

Do you want to be a part of our seventh year in Milwaukee? Do you need some material for your resume reel?

Our filmmaking weekend is quickly approaching. Registered teams will start making their films at 7pm on June 14th. From there, they have 48 hours to complete a short film (7 minutes in length) and turn it in at our drop off location. Then these films are shown at the Oriental Theatre where they are judged by a panel of industry professional and by the audience. An awards ceremony follows a few days later where we crown the Best 48 Hour Film in Milwaukee.

More information can be found here:  http://48hourfilm.com/en/milwaukee/

I have noticed past entries that have not featured many of the talented writers, producers, directors, actors, and actresses here in Milwaukee. Several teams have expressed interest in collaborating with these disciplines but did not know how to initiate that conversation. That’s where I come in.

I am here to be an icebreaker. If you are interested in participating in this years project, please come to our events, create and enter a filmmaking team, or email me to be listed in our data base.

Key dates of our approaching project:

Monday June 3rd – Tonic Tavern “Drive-In” 7pm-11pm – Networking Mixer

Friday June 14th – Sugar Maple – 6pm-7pm – Kick Off Event

Sunday June 16th – Studio Lounge – 6pm-8pm – Drop Off Event

Thursday June 20th – Oriental Theatre – 7pm-11pm – Premiere Screening

Friday June 21st – Rumor Lounge – 6pm-8pm – Wrap Party

Tuesday June 25th – TBA – 7pm-9pm – “Best of Milwaukee”/Awards Ceremony

Feel free to also email me with any questions you may have. Thank you for your time and I hope to see you this year.  

-jared stepp

 

Teachers needed for Children’s Playhouse

If interested you should contact Nicole at 414-475-8121.

Fletcher

Hello Kari,

Troy and I just experienced an instructor loss for Children’s Playhouse this summer at 2 locations.  Do you know anyone who may be interested in teaching acting to children at Morse-Marshall, Mondays: 6pm, June 24-Aug 5 and Juneau Thursdays at 6:30pm, June 27-Aug 15?

We appreciate any help you can give usJ

Thanks,

Nicole

Auditions for Peter Pan

DSHA Community Theatre Works presents: Peter Pan

Fairies, Pirates, Lost boys, Crocodiles and Indians will FLY into the DSHA Hansen Theatre this summer as CTW brings the fairy tale classic, Peter Pan to its stage.

Adult auditions are Monday, June 17 from 6:30pm to 9pm. Arrive at 6:30pm OR 7:30pm.   Please pre-register by emailing stoddardm@dsha.k12.wi.us

Please prepare a 1 – 2 minute selection in the style of the show. Bring sheet music and an accompanist will be provided. You may also be asked to sing something from the show we will teach you and everyone will participate in a dance and acting audition.

The audition application for you to fill out and bring with you can be found at www.dsha.info/CTW

 

 

 

Casting for film adaptation of Richard II

Casting Notice

A short film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard II

Looking to cast the following roles:

Richard: Male, should be able to play 25-30.

Bolingbroke: Male, should be able to play 26-32.

York: Male, should be able to play 45-52.

Aumerle: Female, should be able to play 21-25.

Northumberland: Male, should be able to play 45-52.

Other roles include Bagot, Exon, Fitzwater, Harry Percy, Surrey, Carlisle, Queen and other various attendants/lords.

Filming to take place in August & September, in the Milwaukee area, and there will be camera rehearsals in June and July. Experience with Shakespeare texts is preferred, but not required. There will be some compensation for time and transportation.

AUDTIONS WILL BE HELD MAY 23^rd AND 24^th at the UW-M Campus, Mitchell Hall B65 from 9am-4:30pm

TO SIGN-UP FOR A SLOT AND RECEIVE A SIDE, PLEASE E-MAIL MARIA AT: MAPRETZL@UWM.EDU

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre seeks Audience Development Coordinator

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre

Audience Development Coordinator (Part Time)

Milwaukee Chamber Theatre (MCT) seeks a part time audience development coordinator to manage the company’s group sales and community outreach efforts.

Reporting to the managing director and marketing director, the audience development coordinator’s responsibilities include developing and executing a group sales plan; meeting MCT’s group sales goals in the areas of school, corporate and community groups; group research and prospecting; and creating group sales promotional material in print and online. This position will provide excellent customer service to group leaders, managing not only their ticket transactions but also providing assistance with other aspects of their theatre-going experience including travel, dining and other theatre-related programming.  He/she will be responsible for executing ticketing functions for group sales including issuing invoices, processing payments and greeting patrons.

The audience development coordinator will work with the MCT staff to connect plays with relevant communities and organizations in the metro Milwaukee area. This position will explore and develop collaborative partnerships with other organizations as a means of increasing ticket sales and visibility.  This individual may represent MCT by attending meetings of various membership organizations including Historic Third Ward Association, Visit Milwaukee, Art Milwaukee, etc.

Candidate should possess excellent interpersonal and writing skills, attention to detail, and proficiency in MS Office. Experience with databases, email marketing, In Design/Adobe Creative Suite and social media preferred. Working knowledge of box office operations and experience working with schools and universities a plus.

Position is quarter-time with flexible hours and a preferred start date of July 1, 2013.  Some evening and weekend hours required.

Send cover letter, resume, and three references to Marketing Director Cara McMullin, cara@milwaukeechambertheatre.com

Founded in 1975, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre produces high-quality, professional theatrical works of literary merit in intimate, audience-engaging settings, while principally employing and nurturing local theatre artists. MCT produces five plays each season at the BroadwayTheatreCenter in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward.  For more information, visit milwaukeechambertheatre.com

 

 

Musical Combat!

Musical Combat is coming your way, June 7^th and 8^th.  You already know that Bunny Gumbo fills the stage with a ton of talent, but did you know that talent can sing?  We’ve had plays with songs in the past, but this is the first Combat where half of the shows will be musicals.  Our superb cast of  Milwaukee talent will create 16 brand new shows in just 48 hours.

The Bunny Gumbo Theatre Company presents Musical Combat.

8 writers

8 directors

30 actors

16 plays is 48 hours

The Milwaukee Youth Arts Center (MYAC) 325 W. Walnut Street (on the corner of Walnut and MLK Drive)

Friday, June 7^th and Saturday, June 8th at 8:00 pm.

Tickets are $18 and available at the door only.  Weekend packages are available for only $30.

For more info, visit us at www.bunnygumbo.com  and http://bunnygumbo.wordpress.com

Bunny Gumbo; we do it because we can!

Auditioning for Musical Theatre-with Niffer Clarke and Jamie Johns

Hey gang, Niffer and Jamie are tip-top.  Get in if you can.

Fletcher

 

NEW CLASS!

Work on your audition material and explore:

• Acting the Song

• Material Selection

• Audition Etiquette

• 16 Bar Cuts

• What to Wear

• And much more!

 

When?

Sunday Evenings 6:00 – 8:30PM

June 9,16, 23, 30  2013

 

Where?

Off the Wall Theatre

127 E. Wells Street

Downtown Milwaukee

 

Sign up quickly!

Limited to 10 adult students! Only 2 spots left!!!

$200 for all 4 sessions with

musical veterans Niffer and Jamie!

 

Niffer Clarke is a Broadway Theatre performer and star of countless productions throughout the country and here in Milwaukee.  Both she and Jamie Johns have been wowing audiences for decades and have emerged as highly sought-after and successful musical coaches.

 

This is your chance to study with both of these incredible performers and learn some audition basics and insider tricks to help you land the part!

 

TO REGISTER OR FOR MORE INFO: TwiceAsAlive@gmail.com

 

Auditions for Or

AUDITIONS FOR “Or,” AT CARTE BLANCHE STUDIOS THEATRE

Carte Blanche Studios Theatre will hold open auditions for it’s upcoming play and 2012/2013 season finale “Or,” on Wednesday, May 8 at Carte Blanche Studios, 1024 S 5th Street in Milwaukee, From 7pm to 10pm.

“Or,” a comedic play by Liz Duffy Adams will begin rehearsals May 9th and run May 31st-June 9th.

Please prepare a short classical comedic monologue preferably or a comedic contemporary monologue, otherwise. If you do not have one prepared you will be asked to read from the script. Bring a copy of your headshot/resume, If you have one.

THE CHARACTERS:

APHRA BEHN – female, late 20′s/early 30′s

CHARLES II
WILLIAM SCOTT }played by one male actor, Late 20s-40s
LADY DAVENANT

JAILOR
NELL GWYNNE }played by one female actor, early-to-late-20s
MARIA

THE STORY:
OR, takes place (mostly) during one night in the life of Aphra Behn, poet, spy, and soon to be the first professional female playwright. Sprung from debtors’ prison after a disastrous overseas mission, Aphra is desperate to get out of the spy trade. She has a shot at a production at one of only two London companies, if she can only finish her play by morning despite interruptions from sudden new love, actress Nell Gwynne; complicated royal love, King Charles II; and very dodgy ex-love, double-agent William Scott—who may be in on a plot to murder the king in the morning. Can Aphra resist Nell’s charms, save Charles’ life, win William a pardon, and launch her career, all in one night? Against a background of a long drawn-out war and a counter-culture of free love, cross-dressing, and pastoral lyricism, the 1660s look a lot like the 1960s in this neo-Restoration comedy from the playwright The San Francisco Bay Guardian called “an artist of playful and highly literate imagination, radical instincts, and sardonic but generous humor.”

Email jimmydrag@yahoo.com if you have any questions, or to inquire about special appointments if you have a conflict with May 8th. . All actors will be paid $200 each for the run of the show.

Please pass this audition notice to anyone you think may be interested in auditioning.

Break a leg!

All the World’s a Stage Sonnet Slam

You’re Invited to…

Optimist Theatre’s “All the World’s a Stage Sonnet Slam” to Support Free Shakespeare in the Park

All the world’s a stage,

and all the men and women, merely players-

they have their exits and their entrances,

and one man in his time plays many parts,

his acts being seven ages.

As You Like It Act 2 scene 7, 139-143

Please join us and play your part upon the stage at Optimist Theatre’s “All the World’s a Stage Sonnet Slam”.  What’s a Sonnet Slam?  It’s a fun, optimistic party jam-packed with sonnets and laughter in a delicious setting.  Appetizers and pizza provided by Transfer Pizzeria, sonnets presented by As You Like It actors Todd Denning and Kristin Hammargren plus special guests including: “Fast” Fres Oquendo* the currently ranked #5 Heavyweight and former WBC, WBO & WBA Latino Heavyweight, and NABF, NABA & USBA Heavyweight boxing champion.

Got a Sonnet?  Give it!  There will be 3 sonnet sessions throughout the evening.  Sonnets do not have to be memorized and they don’t have to be by Shakespeare.  Proceeds support 2013’s free Shakespeare in the Park.

When: Monday, May 13, 2013 – from 8:00pm to 11:00pm

Where:

Transfer Pizzeria and Cafe

101 West Mitchell Street (in Bay View)

Milwaukee, WI 53204

Parking: Free parking along Mitchell Street

Cost: $35 per person.  $20 per ticket is tax deductible. Space is limited, so don’t wait.

100% of your ticket purchase goes to support free Shakespeare in the Park and $20 is tax deductible.  To purchase tickets, click the BUY NOW button at…

More Information:  Tom Reed treed@optimisttheatre.org or 414-524-9050

*Fres Oquendo appears courtesy of FOBA 

About Optimist Theatre:

Optimist Theatre is a 501(c)3 non-profit theatre company that produces free Shakespeare in the Park for the greater Milwaukee area.  Shakespeare in the Park is supported in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Arts Board.

 

Staged Reading of Come Back

COME BACK

A comedy about death by Neil Haven

TWO SHOWS ONLY

• Saturday May 4th at 8pm and Sunday May 5th at 2pm at the Arcade Theatre in the Underground Collaborative at the Grand Avenue Mall. (Lower level by TJ Maxx) http://ucmke.org

• The cast includes Jim Pickering, Deborah Clifton, Laura Gray, Karen Estrada, and Dan Katula.

• Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the door or reserved online.

http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/366633

• Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/151042665070523/

• One ticket gains admission to both shows. Audience members are encouraged to see both performances, as the genders of the characters will be different. Seeing only one performance will be perfectly enjoyable too.

• There will a talk back after each show with the playwright and cast to help with future revisions of the script. Be a part of the new play process!

 

Synopsis

Sky, a mild-mannered graphic designer prone to anxiety attacks, is compelled to trek across the country “with an elderly parrot and his friend in a bucket.” Sky’s closest friend, a bird rehabber named Erin, recently succumbed to cancer and left a surprise in her will: Sky is responsible for choosing what to do with her remains. Before she died, Erin planned a road trip which delivers Sky to all of the unconventional places and people that will do something kooky with one’s cremains. From infused bullets to a launch into low orbit, Sky must choose the most fitting final resting place for his lost companion. Upon satisfactory completion of the incredible journey, he will receive the bulk of her estate.

Erin thoroughly attended to every detail of the journey, but forgot to consider one factor: her mother. Val would much prefer that her daughter be interred in the extensive family cemetery plot. Unable to override Erin’s legally-protected last wishes, Val tracks down Sky and joins him on the trip, hoping to sway his opinion toward the traditional burial choice. Coupled oddly, they embark on a journey in Erin’s memory to explore grief, death, souls, and soul mates.

Double Casting – Gender Flexibility

All of the main characters in Come Back may be performed as either male or female. The gender pronouns used in the above synopsis are all flexible. Sky may be a woman; Val may be Aaron’s father or his/her mother. The staged reading will be double-cast so that audiences can see two versions of the play. Audience members are encouraged to attend both shows to experience the change. For example, the protagonist will be female for one show and male for the next.

The variance in gender results in curious changes in the audiences’ preconceptions about the character relationships. Certain lines and moments take on different meaning.