AUDITION NOTICE

Mainstage Fall 2019

SPACE by Keli Garrett
Directed by Faculty Member Brian Shaw
Presented in the Courtyard Theater
SPACE washes the 1927 Mississippi Floods into the aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina in 2005. It is a tangled tale of rising waters and high ground and floating
refrigerators and you’d better be careful who you get in a boat with. And it’s about
who gets to tell the tangled tale and how it gets told.
CAST
Teacher/Ezekiel — Male, Black. 30’s. A kind of philosopher poet

Young Kass/Kass — Female, Of(f)-Color. An intrepid reporter.

Joacosta — Female, Black. A determined woman of New Orleans.

Buelee — Female, Black. A survivor of Hurricane Katrina who tells it like it is.

JoJo – Female, Black. A determined woman of Mississippi.

Greyson /Grey —Male, Of(f)-Color. A resourceful man of the Bayou.

Laurent/Landlord/Frank — Male, White, 20’s. A Go-Getter.

Alec — Male, White, 20’s. A TV Anchor.

Robin — Male, White, 20’s. A bad-old Good-Old-Boy.

Javreaux — Male, White, 20’s. A less-bad-old Good-Old-Boy.

Pogo — Black, late Teens, early 20’s. A Time-Traveler.

Keli Garrett is a theatre artist whose plays and adaptations have been performed in numerous
theaters throughout the country. Her play Uppa Creek: A Modern Anachronistic Parody in the
Minstrel Tradition is anthologized in Contemporary Plays by African American Women. She
received a BA from Columbia College in 1991, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown.
Dates:
Rehearsals Begin the first week of the Fall 2019 semester.
First performance: Oct. 16th
Final Performance: Oct. 26th

Audition Dates:
Tuesday, April 9th 7pm to 10:00pm 72 E. 11th Street Room 202
Wednesday, April 10th 6:00 pm to 10:00pm 72 E. 11th Street Room 507
Friday, April 12th 1pm to 5pm 72 E. 11th Street Room 202

Call Backs: Monday, April 15th 6:30 pm to 10pm 72 E. 11th Street Room 202

For the Audition, please prepare ONE monologue of no more than 2 minutes in length.

A copy of SPACE can be found on the Departmental Canvas page. Go to the Department page.
Click on the Modules link and scroll down a bit. You will see pdf’s for all the mainstage shows.

Email Brian Shaw at bshaw@colum.edu if you can’t find the script, or have other questions
about the auditions or the production.