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*UPDATE* Video Auditions – Alex and Michael and Hannah

*Due to current health concerns, we’re changing audition requirements. We hope the show will go onstage in August, and are making contingency plans otherwise. So if you DO wish to audition, you still can, and Alex and Michael and Hannah is happening somehow!*

Take a Bite Productions invites Edmonton and area actors to audition for the world premiere production of Alex and Michael and Hannah at the Edmonton Fringe Festival, August 13-23, 2020. PAID, through fundraising, donations, and ticket sales.

*Please email a resume and headshot, and what role you’d like to audition for. to Heather Morrow, hmorrow@takeabite.ca .

  1. Please record your performance of a contemporary monologue no longer than 3 minutes.
  2. Sides will be emailed to you
  3. a video conferencing audition time scheduled, 4 – 5 pm on April 6, 2020.*

*SUBJECT TO CHANGE.* Please note there will be partial nudity and strong language in this production; intimacy coordinator Janine Waddell will be working on the show. The cast must be willing and able to participate in workshopping of the script during rehearsals, as well as fundraising and publicity events *currently* scheduled for May 7, August 6, and in July (TBA). 

Please see below for character descriptions.

We regret we can’t see Equity members.

Alex

  • age range 30s, bisexual. Male identifying. Nightclub manager, charming, good-looking, almost despairingly honest. Any race/ ethnicity/ body shape.

Hannah

  • age range late 30s to early 40s, heterosexual. Female identifying. Municipal-government financial analyst. What idiots would term ‘unattractive’. Low self-esteem but getting better. White/ Caucasian/ shorter or taller, and/or bigger than ‘average’.

Michael

– age range 20s to early 30s, homosexual. Male identifying. Model and server. Gratuitously handsome, cute, loud, irrepressible. Any race/ ethnicity/ slender, muscular.

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AUDITIONS – slots filling fast

**Dearest actors: We’re so happy people are interested in auditioning for Alex and Michael and Hannah. Please book your slot soon . **

Take a Bite Productions invites Edmonton and area actors to audition for the world premiere production of Alex and Michael and Hannah at the Edmonton Fringe Festival, August 13-23, 2020. *PAID, through fundraising, donations, and ticket sales.*

April 6, from 3-6 pm, and call backs April 9, 4-6 pm.

Studio C (room 194) at the Orange Hub, 10045 156 St NW, Edmonton.

Please email a resume and headshot *and what role you’d like to audition for* to Heather Morrow, hmorrow@takeabite.ca to book a time. Also, prepare one contemporary monologue no longer than 3 minutes. Sides will be provided too.

Please note there will be partial nudity and strong language in this production; intimacy coordinator Janine Waddell will be working on the show. The cast must be willing and able to participate in workshopping of the script during rehearsals, as well as fundraising and publicity events scheduled for May 7, August 6, and in July (TBA). 

Please see below for character descriptions.

We regret we can’t see Equity members.

Alex

  • age range 30s, bisexual. Male identifying. Nightclub manager, charming, good-looking, almost despairingly honest. Any race/ ethnicity/ body shape.

Hannah

  • age range late 30s to early 40s, heterosexual. Female identifying. Municipal-government financial analyst. What idiots would term ‘unattractive’. Low self-esteem but getting better. White/ Caucasian/ shorter or taller, and/or bigger than ‘average’.

Michael

– age range 20s to early 30s, homosexual. Male identifying. Model and server. Gratuitously handsome, cute, loud, irrepressible. Any race/ ethnicity/ slender, muscular.

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AUDITIONS for Alex and Michael and Hannah-UPDATE

Take a Bite Productions invites Edmonton and area actors to audition for the world premiere production of Alex and Michael and Hannah at the Edmonton Fringe Festival, August 13-23, 2020. *PAID, through fundraising, donations, and ticket sales.*

April 6, from 3-6 pm, and call backs April 9, 4-6 pm.

Studio C (room 194) at the Orange Hub, 10045 156 St NW, Edmonton.

Please email a resume and headshot *and what role you’d like to audition for* to Heather Morrow, hmorrow@takeabite.ca to book a time. Also, prepare one contemporary monologue no longer than 3 minutes. Sides will be provided too.

Please note there will be partial nudity and strong language in this production; intimacy coordinator Janine Waddell will be working on the show. The cast must be willing and able to participate in workshopping of the script during rehearsals, as well as fundraising and publicity events scheduled for May 7, August 6, and in July (TBA). 

Please see below for character descriptions.

We regret we can’t see Equity members.

Alex

  • age range 30s, bisexual. Male identifying. Nightclub manager, charming, good-looking, almost despairingly honest. Any race/ ethnicity/ body shape.

Hannah

  • age range late 30s to early 40s, heterosexual. Female identifying. Municipal-government financial analyst. What idiots would term ‘unattractive’. Low self-esteem but getting better. White/ Caucasian/ shorter or taller, and/or bigger than ‘average’.

Michael

– age range 20s to early 30s, homosexual. Male identifying. Model and server. Gratuitously handsome, cute, loud, irrepressible. Any race/ ethnicity/ slender, muscular.

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AUDITIONS for Alex and Michael and Hannah

Take a Bite Productions invites Edmonton and area actors to audition for the world premiere production of Alex and Michael and Hannah at the Edmonton Fringe Festival, August 13-23, 2020.

April 6, from 3-6 pm, and call backs April 9, 4-6 pm.

Studio C (room 194) at the Orange Hub, 10045 156 St NW, Edmonton.

Please email a resume and headshot to Heather Morrow, hmorrow@takeabite.ca to book a time. Also, prepare one contemporary monologue no longer than 3 minutes. Sides will be provided too.

Please note there will be partial nudity and strong language in this production; intimacy coordinator Janine Waddell will be working on the show. The cast must be willing and able to participate in workshopping of the script during rehearsals, as well as fundraising and publicity events scheduled for May 7, August 6, and in July (TBA). 

Please see below for character descriptions.

*We regret we can’t see Equity members.*

Alex

  • age range 30s, bisexual. Male identifying. Nightclub manager, charming, good-looking, almost despairingly honest. Any race/ ethnicity/ body shape.

Hannah

  • age range late 30s to early 40s, heterosexual. Female identifying. Municipal-government financial analyst. What idiots would term ‘unattractive’. Low self-esteem but getting better. White/ Caucasian/ shorter or taller, and/or bigger than ‘average’.

Michael

– age range 20s to early 30s, homosexual. Male identifying. Model and server. Gratuitously handsome, cute, loud, irrepressible. Any race/ ethnicity/ slender, muscular.

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Still writing…

I can’t believe I haven’t talked at all about the readings at Peep Show this past Sunday. Simply amazing. The number of people who told me, after hearing the first ten minutes of Marathon/Sprint…”That is MY mother…oh my God!” Hee hee hee! The actors loved doing it, the audience loved hearing it, ALL of the plays read were terrific, a great day!

Skirts Afire as a whole did wonderfully. I look forward to being part of it next year too!

So; more writing to be done. I follow a group called New York Neo-Futurists on Twitter, and have participated almost every week in their Twitterplays for a while now. You get a prompt, and you write a play — it can only be tweet-length, and that has to include the hashtag so the world knows you’ve written it! We’re now on Twitterplay number 204 (#tp204). This week, probably by dumb luck — submitted first? — my tweet of a play appears on the NY Neo Tumblr first! All the tweet-plays are always fascinating. I really recommend keeping up on them.

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Great review from the Edmonton Journal!

Feast your eyes, then see the show.

http://www.edmontonjournal.com/life/Edmonton+Fringe+Review+Stories+Love+Hate/7111896/story.html

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Tickets now on sale!

Here is where to buy tickets for Stories of Love & Hate!

https://tickets.fringetheatre.ca/DateSelection.aspx?item=1264

Edmonton Fringe programs are now on sale too all over the city – pick one up and see everything there is to see.

Happy Fringing!

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Now THAT was a party!

So the Toga & Burlesque fundraiser raised the roof last night.  Thanks again to all our donors – Sobeys, the Black Sheep Pub, Sharon Skwarchuk, Kimberly Budd, Jessie McKitrick, and the Colonescu family, our own beautiful Nicole, Gino Akbari and photographer Steve Barr – for their donations allowing us to thank our partygoers.  And thank you to our audience for coming to support the show and having such a great time!  Thanks also to the Irish Sports & Social Society for hosting us (and provided beer!), and the wonderful Lucky L’amour and Delilah Manhandler of Capital City Burlesque for their performances.  Thanks especially to our own sound designer Darrell Portz, who won the 50/50 draw (no joke!), and then donated his winnings back to the show.  We adore Darrell.

So feast your eyes on the photos and remember, this is but a preview for the SHOW.  Details of the venue and times for Stories of Love & Hate at the Edmonton Fringe will be coming very shortly.

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Toga & Burlesque Party Details here. Prizes! Auction! Dancers! FUN!

So, fans of stories of love and hate, it’s only a week until the fabulous party to end them all, and here are some details of what you can expect.

With every ticket will come a chance for amazing Door Prizes — gift cards for free groceries and a fantastic Edmonton pub, lovely bath and beauty products — “smelly stuff” as our Cupid would say! — and a few fascinating handmade fascinators are all up for grabs.

For the Silent Auction we have pole dance lessons from Venus herself, the beautiful Nicole Grainger, plus a dance lesson from our ultra-cool colleague Gino Akbari, and a professional photo shoot.  Each will be available to the highest bidder.

And don’t forget the best 50 / 50 draw, ever.  What makes it so great?  Buy enough tickets, and you get a HUG.

And then, of course, there’s our LIVE SHOW.  Members of the magnificent Capital City Burlesque Troupe, songs by our own Nicole and Maria, and enticing previews of both Stories.  Tickets available at the door, $10.  Ten bucks!  And Doug can vouch for HOW GOOD the Guinness is.  So join the party at the Irish Club, June 15.  Doors will open at      7 pm, show begins at 8!