Description:

UrbanTheater Company is accepting video submissions for the world premiere of Sammy A. Publes' Chicago Lore(s).

About UTC
UrbanTheater Company (UTC) is founded by, led by, and for people of color in order to preserve the Puerto Rican and Humboldt Park community voice. We celebrate cultural experiences through interdisciplinary art forms. Through fellowship and community, we aim to elevate a diverse and culturally specific collective of Chicago creatives. We create innovative and accessible theater through a decolonized praxis.

Chicago Lore(s)
Written by Sammy A. Publes
Direction by Miranda Gonzalez

Jose "Cha Cha" Jimenez Co Founder of the Young Lords, is an aging civil rights revolutionary being visited by voices from his past as he recounts key moments in his life with the help of his best friend, Billy "Che" Brooks. The play reconnects the audience with the birth of the Young Lords as a gang in 1960's Chicago to a groundbreaking and radical political organization helping reshape the politics of the city. Through the eyes of Cha Cha and Che, we're able to look at historical events that shaped not only the city of Chicago but future generations of social activists. The characters are an amalgamation of key individuals in Cha Cha and Che's life, they guide not only the protagonists but the audience as well to rediscover forgotten American history of Puerto Ricans in Chicago.

Characters/Tracks
-ACTOR A - (Latina - Spanish Speaker) → Doña Eugenia/Margarita/Tia
-ACTOR B - (Black or Afro-Latina - Spanish Speaker) → Olga/Akua Njeri/Lawyer/Hilda
-ACTOR C - (Latino) → Jake/Larry/Cop 1/Judge Rodriguez/Corkey/Andres/Orlando/
-ACTOR D - (Caucasian) → Judge Stevens/Cop 2/Anthony/Kenny/Crowd/Johnny/Officer Lamb
-ACTOR E - (Black or Afro-Latino - Spanish Speaker) → Grandson/Fred/Obed
-ACTOR F - (White Passing/Presenting Latina) → Female Young Lord/Mary/
-CHE - (Black Man) → Che/News Reporter
-CHA CHA - (White Latino) → Cha Cha

Pay: $1200 flat stipend

Please Note
This production is ensemble-centric. Deep listening, strong physical movement experience, and collaboration are integral to UTC's decolonized praxis.
All tapes must be received by August 8th at 11:59 p
In-Person Callbacks will be Monday, August 12th
This audition is for Non-Equity actors only