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Columbia University Performing Arts League Spring 2015 Season Guide This packet includes information on auditions, rehearsals, and performances for Spring 2015 seasons of some of CUPAL member groups. If you’re interested in getting involved with any of the productions and organizations, email [email protected], or contact the appropriate individuals from the group you’re interested in. CUPAL Member Groups Bach Society Barnard Theatre Department* Black Theatre Ensemble CoLab Columbia Ballet Collaborative (CBC) Columbia Classical Performers (CCP) CU Bellydance Columbia Musical Theatre Society (CMTS) CU Players (CUP) CUPAL Special Project: Film Fatale King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe (KCST) Latenite Theatre New Opera Workshop (NOW) NOMADS Orchesis V-Day Varsity Show Wind Ensemble XMAS! CUPAL Executive Board: CUPAL Board: [email protected] [email protected] Bach Society: Vincent Peng President: Allie Carieri Barnard Theater Dept Liaison: Alex Dabertin Vice President: Ally Engelberg BTE Rep: Amanda Perry Treasurers: Ankeet Ball, Emily Snedeker CoLab Secretary: Christina Kyrillos Columbia Ballet Collaborative Rep: Alyssa Technical Director: Aramael Pena-Alcantara Hubbard Columbia Classical Performers Rep: Katherine Cartusciello CU Bellydance CMTS Rep: Isabella Rosner CUP Rep: Rachel Cramer CUPAL Special Project: David Silberthau KCST Rep: Marilyn Minton Latenite Rep: Agnes Carlowicz New Opera Workshop Rep: Stepan Atamian NOMADS Rep: Waverley Engelman Orchesis Rep: Connor Yockus V-Day Rep: Casey Gilfoil Varsity Show Reps: Nikita Ash, Emily Snedeker Wind Ensemble Rep: Sara Wright XMAS! Rep: Matt Seife Tentative Performance Calendar February 21: Egg and Peacock X (KCST) April 16-18: Film Fatale (CUPAL Special February 26-28: Beyond Cis-terhood (V-Day) Project) Late February: MaMa Project (Orchesis) April 18: Spring Performances (CBC) March 1: Festival of Winds (Wind Ensemble) April 19: CCP @ CMS Trip March 1 - CCP @ CMS Trip April 23-25: Senior Theses in Directing March 5-7: Madame Bovary (Theatre (Theatre Department) Department) April 23-25: Rent (CMTS) March 5-7: Dead Man’s Cell Phone (CUP) April 26: Lerner 555 - CCP Concert March 8: Sulzberger - CCP Concert April 30-May 2: Much Ado About Nothing March 26-29: Double Bill: Handel's La (KCST) Lucrezia and Blow's Venus & Adonis (NOW) May 1-2: Senior Theses in Solo Performance March 28: Harvard Concert (CCP) (Theatre Department) April: Latenite Spring Anthology May 1-3: The 121st Annual Varsity Show April: Senior Showcase (CMTS) May 3: Sulzberger - CCP Concert Mid April: New Works Performances (NOW) Late April: Orchesis Spring Showcase TBD: April 2-4: Maybe I Am Not Reading This Map Black Theatre Ensemble Spring Productions Correctly (NOMADS) April 5: Lerner 555 - CCP Concert April 9-11: Joyriders (CUP) Actor Share, Auditions and Callbacks for Week 1 Productions “Week 1 Productions” are theatrical productions that hold auditions the first week of the semester (January 20th­22nd). Students interested in auditioning for any of these productions can attend auditions any day (information is listed on production pages) and should communicate all potential callback or rehearsal conflicts (class, work, other auditions or callbacks) at their audition. Productions will provide tech and rehearsal times to the auditioners so that both parties are aware of scheduling from the top of the process, and can better resolve or adjust respective conflicts and schedules if need be. Any student then invited to Callbacks that weekend will receive an email from the production they are being called back for; Callbacks will be that Friday, Saturday or Sunday and time and location will be sent out by the production. Students should look at the production pages for more information on what to prepare for their auditions. A member of the CUPAL Executive Board will be present and available for students at the beginning or end of each callback for any questions or clarification. An Actor Share Agreement will be sent out to all students who are called back to any CUPAL Week 1 production via email. Students must fill this form out after their final callback, and before 8:00 p.m. on Sunday January 25th—regardless of the number of shows they were called back for. Students who do not fill out an Agreement will not receive a call from CUPAL Executive Board members to discuss potential casting conflicts. Students can call a CUPAL Executive Board member anytime before 8:00pm on the 25th should they need to discuss potential conflicts, or be unsure about their plans for the semester. The Actor Share Agreement is designed to help students called back for multiple productions create a game plan should they receive parts in multiple shows, and allow the CUPAL Executive Board members to best help the actor in phone calls and on their behalf in the Actor Share room. These Agreements, as well as all phone calls between actors and CUPAL Executive Board members are completely confidential and are not shared with the productions. In order to allow each production and actor to work with each other in the most efficient way possible, CUPAL hosts an Actor Share at the end of this week, in order to ensure that there is not considerable overlap in an actor’s schedule so that both the actor and the production are able to function. The decision of the actor as to which production(s) and role(s) they would like to accept is completely up to the actor. Actors who are cast in multiple productions will receive calls from a non­biased CUPAL Executive Board member (i.e., someone not involved in any of the productions the actor is called back for). The Executive Board Member will inform the actor of the roles offered to them, as well as if the actor can take one or multiple roles due to the dates of production and rehearsal schedule. Absolutely no decisions will be made on behalf of the actor by the CUPAL Executive Board or the productions. Actors must keep their phones on and nearby in order to keep the process going. Actors who do not receive calls from CUPAL that night may still be cast in one production. Only actors who are offered roles in multiple productions will receive calls. We ask that actors keep their phones on and nearby beginning at 9:30pm on Sunday as to keep the process going so all shows can cast their productions in a timely manner. Should an actor need time to decide on their semester, the actor will decide on a time that night when the CUPAL Executive Board Member will call them back for a decision. Actors cast in Department productions and still interested in student productions must prioritize their Department involvement and rehearsals when considering their student production involvement. Actors auditioning for additional productions later in the semester must also communicate their Week 1 involvements to these productions. Barnard Theatre Department Spring 2015 Events Auditions for the spring are tomorrow, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. There's a meeting at 5.30 which will be MUCH SHORTER than usual, and then auditions beginning at 6. We will audition 6­8 and 8­10, with a short break in between. Tuesday 6­8. If you are auditioning Tuesday we encourage you to get there before 8 as we have a lot of work to do sorting out the classes, etc. We encourage people to come on Tuesday. No different days for first­years. Info on the department website: http://theatre.barnard.edu/auditions Callbacks will be Thursday evening, cast lists for all shows posted Friday. If you are cast, you must sign up for the appropriate section of THTRV 3122 Rehearsal and Performance. Students cast must provide director with all potential conflicts to rehearsal as part of casting. Auditions are open to all undergraduate students, and casting is up to the directors. We are always looking to put together the best cast for each production. b. Our first show, which runs March 5­7, is Madame Bovary, directed by Kyle deCamp. Kyle is a terrific solo performer and has extensive experience with doing devised work in NYC. This performance, which will feature a cast of 10 or so, will be devised in rehearsal; each of the actors will play all of the parts (i.e., men and women will play Mme Bovary, etc.). Rehearsals will begin a week from today. c. We have three terrific senior theses in directing, as well as five playwriting theses in the works for the later spring. Festival I: Senior Theses in Directing Thursday, April 23 – Saturday, April 25 (exact times TBA) The Crazy Locomotive by Stanislav Witkiewicz Directed by Dafna Gottesman The Serpent by Jean­Claude van Itallie Directed by Andrea Marquez Woyzeck by Georg Büchner Directed by Adrian Alea Thesis directors will be casting at the departmental auditions tomorrow and Wednesday; rehearsals begin the week prior to spring break. Festival II: Senior Theses in Solo Performance and in Playwriting Friday, May 1 and Saturday, May 2 This year we will have plays by Nissy Aya, Rae Binstock, Anuradha Golder, Mingjing Huang, Piper Rasmussen. Each of the plays will have a staged reading, and we will be looking for both directors and performers. Contact Andy Bragen in the Theatre Department, or the playwrights. d. Backstage: as always, we have plenty of opportunity for backstage technical theatre work if you are interested. This work is credited; we also have workstudy and occasionally nonworkstudy employment opportunities as well. If you are interested see Mike Banta, Milbank 504 [email protected] CU Players Presents: Dead Man’s Cell Phone! This is a show that has it all: death, the afterlife, gun fights, true love, make-outs, stationary and flip phones. Dead Man's Cell Phone opens when Jean answers Gordon's cell phone and then proceeds to discover that he is dead.

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