[Perform-Talk] Blind actor search

[Katelyn MacIntyre]

Hi friends,
We received the below time sensitive request looking for a blind actor in the Maryland area. If you are interested and fit the description below, please email Max your headshot and resume to rapidlemon at gmail.com .

We are looking for a versatile actor who’ll be a member of an ensemble performing a few different roles in a group of nine 10-minute plays. This is part of our annual “Variations Project”, which commissions new short plays from local (Maryland) writers based on an audience-chosen theme. This year’s theme is “Vision”, and one of the plays we chose to include was written by a blind author. The main character in her piece is autobiographical … a middle-aged woman, of any race. The actor who plays this role will also be asked to portray sighted characters in other pieces. The nine plays will be performed together, as a staged reading. Memorization won’t be necessary, as we’ll be performing with scripts in hand. The blind actor will be provided with braille scripts. Stage blocking, if any, will be very simple.
Because of Covid-19 we plan to hold all of our rehearsals over Zoom. The only time our actors will be together will be the day of the performance, which will be streamed live and recorded for later download by audiences. There will be no in-person audience for the performance, and all members of the crew will be masked.
We’re a community theater company, without significant grant funding, so we’re limited to offering a small stipend of $50 to our actors. Audience access to the performance will be free of charge.
Our rehearsals will begin the middle of next week, and the performance will be on Sunday, August 9th at Motor House, 120 W. North Avenue in Baltimore. The building and its inside facilities are fully ADA compliant and we will take extreme care to disinfect all of the working space.


Warmest regards,

~Katelyn MacIntyre, M.M.
www.katelynmac.com
www.facebook.com/KatelynMacMusic
@KatelynMacMusic
Vice President, National Federation of the Blind Performing Arts Division