For Immediate Release
April 25, 2010

Clemente Santiago makes his Vpstart Crow directing debut with our Summer production, The Princess and the Pea.

Auditions will be held at the Cramer Center. See address below and / or click the link for directions.
Sunday, May 9th - at 7:00 PM
Monday, May 10th - at 7:00 PM
Callbacks (if needed) Tuesday, May 11th -at 7:00 PM

The audition will consist of monologues and possible readings from the script. Monologues should not be prepared in an accent.

Mr. Santiago is seeking performers to fill the following roles:

6 men (2 aged 18-30, 4 aged 30-60)
10 women (7 aged 18-30, 3 aged 30-60),
3 Children, ages 8-13
(1 female, 2 male roles [could be played by females])

*Many of the roles are multiple character roles

Please come with a fun, comedic monologue prepared. Please also bring with you a headshot and resume.

Please click here for an audition form.

Performances are July 9-25.

Please be prepared to list your conflicts.

The performances will be at:
The Cramer Center
9008 Center Street
Manassas, VA

For more information, please contact Mr. Santiago at clementesantiago@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.