UNIFIED AUDITIONS WILL BE HELD MAY 16, 17 & 18 @ 7PM

The goals of the Unified Auditions:

• By having all directors attend the Unified Auditions, they will get to see the entire pool of talent the Guild has to draw from.
• Gives those actors who do audition and perform at other theatres in the area a platform in which to make a decision; to accept a Guild’s offer to be cast in a show, or not.
• Once the Unified Auditions have taken place, the individual directors are free to cast any remaining roles by any method available to them.
• That Dracula, Sleuth, Calendar Girls, I Do! I Do!, See How They Run and Native Gardensmight have at least 2 or 3 key roles cast so quality publicity photos for the entire season will meet media deadlines with costumed characters.
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How the Unified Auditions will be conducted:

• All 6 directors and our choreographer will be in the audition space all three nights the auditions are held. Because of being in production for “Moonlight & Magnolias” during this time, the auditions on Sunday and Monday will be in the theatre and Tuesday will be held on the second floor.
• The casting team will sign in the auditionees, making sure their forms (which we will provide) are fully filled out; check to see they have brought their own resumes and head shots as requested. If they did not (?) the casting committee will take their photos upon registering. 
• The casting committee will make 6 copies of the registration form, the auditionees’ resumes and photos so each of the directors will have their own copies. 
•  Pending upon the turn out each evening, the casting team will admit no more than 6 auditionees into the audition space at a time. Auditionees should come prepared to either deliver a memorized or read a monologue between 60 and 90 seconds in length. (There will be no reading from the scripts at this time.) If you are auditioning for I Do! I Do! you must bring a CD track or MP3 of a song of your choice. No one may audition for the musical singing acapella. Once you are done your monologue or song, we will allow a few minutes for the directors to ask questions of the auditionees. 
• Once the six have been seen and interviewed, you will be dismissed and the next set will be brought in until all have been seen on that evening.
• Some directors may ask you to please wait until the auditions have concluded that evening and will conduct a call back with you that evening.

How directors will see more and/or have you interact with each other using actual scenes from the script:

• If a director does not hold a call back on the night of the Unified Auditions, each director will have scheduled a call back session with Lauretta (vbtgvolunteers@gmail.com) and reserved a space at the theatre for a later date.
• The auditionees will be informed by the casting team about a requested call back within three days after the Unified Auditions. You will also be informed as to the date, time and location of those call backs. 
• If a director is unable to cast his or her show from the Unified Auditions, they will set up an open audition for all roles that are not cast approximately 2 weeks prior to when they plan to go into rehearsal. 

The Directors are expected to cast those from the Unified Audition pool as quickly after the Unified Auditions as possible:

• Directors will not keep auditionees dangling forever. If a director wishes to cast you, you will be contacted as soon as possible and lock down a commitment with you. It is the policy at the Guild that the casts (or portions thereof) are to be posted on the call board within 7 days of casting. This is the director’s or their stage manager’s responsibility.
•  The directors themselves or the casting team will inform you if you have been cast or not within 7 days after the final audition/set of callbacks. 
•  Depending on the size of a cast; casting can be a very arduous task for any director. Please have patience with them. They will do their best to do it as quickly as possible without jeopardizing the quality of their production.
•  According to the job description as written by the board of directors, the Artistic Director has final say in all casting before any calls are made committing people to a role or roles.

• IMPORTANT: if you are auditioning for the musical “I Do! I Do!” you MUST come prepared to sing a song! Accompaniment track on CD is our first preference or mp3 from your phone through our cable to our speakers. If tracks are not available to you, we will match your voice to scales on the piano. No one auditioning for the musical may sing acapella.
• In the event that not all roles in all shows are cast from the May 16, 17 & 18 auditions, each show will hold another audition approximately 6 weeks prior to its opening and the roles remaining to be cast will be clearly stated on the Guild’s website under the audition tab.  

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7. BEST FILM/TRADITIONAL RAW PHOTOGRAPH – “Golden Pod Series #7” by Jim Swallow (St. Petersburg)
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