Audition opportunity

TuYo Theatre is partnering with CSUSM for our upcoming spring production, an immersive theatre set in WW2 San Diego and we are looking for actors.

On Her Shoulders by Maria Patrice Amon

Produced by TuYo Theatre and CSUSM with TurnKey Theatre

On Her Shoulders We Stand is a multi-sensory, immersive experience that brings audiences into a forgotten memory using the power of names to understand the role of Latinas in WWII. It is a 30-40 minute theatrical experience where small groups of audiences, between 1 and 4 people, travel through staged rooms to experience a performance focused on hidden community stories. 

Schedule: 

Rehearsals: Tuesdays-Sundays January 12-30 at SDSU campus and CSUSM campus

Tech: February 2-6 at the Athenaeum Gallery in the Bread and Salt Building in Barrio Logan

Performances: Feb 8-27, Tuesday-Sunday in the Athenaeum Gallery in the Bread and Salt Building in Barrio Logan

Character breakdown:

• Air raid warden: a peppy young Mexican-American woman, teens-20’s
• Amá: a mother of young children, a dancer performing a playful mock adelita dance, speaks fluent Spanish, 20-50’s
• Mrs Cusack: a well meaning and slightly tone-deaf teacher, a white woman, 20’s-50’s
• Jenny: a Pachuca young woman, fiery and defiant, teens-20’s
• Uncle Sam: bombastic and patriotic man who bends the world to his will, 20’s-50’s 
• Rosita: friendly first generation woman working in her first industrial job, teens-20’s
• WASP: a brave young pilot finding her voice, teens-20’s
• Betty: a young latina wartime bride, flighty and ready to assimilate, teens-30’s
• Ricky: a young latino soldier, a dancer performing a death dance, teens-30’s
• Adela: a young latina giving a speech at school, hopeful and future looking, teens-20’s 
• Museum docent 1: engaging, greets audiences and shares information about historical Latinas, improv conversation, open gender, open age, open ethnicity
• Museum docent 2: engaging, greets audiences and shares information about historical Latinas, improv conversation, open gender, open age, open ethnicity

 

To Audition submit a video recording of a one minute monologue via the online submission links by November 16, 2021:

OHS Audition Submission

 In person callbacks will be scheduled Nov 22-23.

 All roles are for non-equity performers.

All artists, including students, will be paid. Additionally, course credit is available for current students.