For Immediate Release
July 06, 2008

MANASSAS –Vpstart Crow Announces Auditions for the Inaugural Production of its 15th season.

Director, Stephanie Hanna, makes her debut at Vpstart Crow with Oscar Wilde's, The Importance of Being Earnest.

Auditionees should prepare a one to two minute comic monologue.

Ms Hanna is seeking five men (2 20-30, 1 any age, 1 30-50, 1 40-60) and three women (2 20-30, 1 40-60)

Auditions will be held in Manassas at the Cramer Center on Wednesday, July 23 and Thursday, July 24 at 7:00 PM. Callbacks will be scheduled if needed.

The address is:

9008 Center Street
Manassas, VA

For more information, please contact Ms Hanna at info@vpstartcrow.com or (800) 660-8580, or visit www.vpstartcrow.com.

ABOUT VPSTART CROW PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Founded in 1994, Vpstart Crow Productions, Inc. (pronounced “upstart”) is a non-Equity and non-profit professional theatre company dedicated to performing the works of William Shakespeare and other theatre classics. Vpstart Crow’s mission is to produce live theatre as a vital, accessible and exciting part of community life. Employing a resident company of local professional actors and artists of the highest caliber, Vpstart Crow is dedicated to breaking down the barriers between audience and actors in a performance style that is thought-provoking and altogether vpstartling.

The term “vpstart crow” comes from one of Shakespeare’s rival English playwrights, Robert Greene. In his 1592 pamphlet, Groats-Worth Of Wit Bought With A Million Of Repentance, Greene criticizes Shakespeare: “… for there is an vpstart crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his tigers hart wrapt in a players hyde, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blanke verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum (“Johnny-do-it-all” or “Jack-of-all-trades”), is in his owne conceit the onely ‘Shake-scene’ in a countrey.” In fact, Vpstart Crow spells its name with a “v” rather than a “u” in reference to the way the English language was written in Shakespeare’s day.