Beth Marshall Presents

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Beth Marshall Presents is an independent production company based out of Orlando Florida, producing theatre, dance, music, multi-media performance art and all things creative in arts & entertainment with a special focus on original works and touring festival circuits. Established 2008.

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2012-13 SEASON AUDITIONS FOR BETH MARSHALL PRESENTS

Beth Marshall Presents will be holding Equity/Non-Equity auditions for select shows from our 2012-13 theatrical season on
Sat. June 23rd from 10am-5pm and Sun. June 24th from 10am-1pm by appointment only.
Auditions will take place at The Garden Theatre (160 W. Plant St. Winter Garden, Fl)

Actors should be knowledgeable of the plays and will be expected to read from sides. Actors auditioning for Children of A Lesser God should be prepared to learn sign language if cast.
Bring 1 headshot and resume to audition and know your schedules.

To schedule an appointment, please email Company Manager, Brenna Nicely at Brenna@BethMarshallPresents.com. Your email for auditions should have: SEASON AUDITION REQUEST in the subject line. Include your name, phone number, age range and union status. You may schedule an audition now through June 20th 2012 at 5pm.
We are looking for men and women ages 16+ of all races and ethnicities for the following shows:
Biloxi Blues
By Neil Simon
Directed by Rob Anderson
Performances: Febrauary 8-24, 2013 at The Garden Theatre
Rehearsals begin Dec. 2nd (with Holiday Break)
ALL ROLES PAID

CASTING:

5 Men (age 18-25)
1 Man (age 16-21)
1 Man (age 30-45)
1 Woman (age 16-25)
1 Woman (age 18-30)

NYC and Mississippi accents a plus.

About the play:

Winner, Tony Award for Best Play, 1985
The second in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon’s trilogy which began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and concluded with Broadway Bound.
When we last met Eugene Jerome, he was coping with adolescence in 1930′s Brooklyn. Here, he is a young army recruit during WW II, going through basic training and learning about Life and Love with a capital ‘L’ along with some harsher lessons, while stationed at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1943.

“A fine comedy, and another step in the process of making Simon neither so simple, nor so simplistic.”-New York Post

“Joyous and unexpectedly rewarding.”-The New York Times

“A play that rings with a newer, deeper, sweeter truth.”-New York Magazine
Children Of A Lesser God
By Mark Medoff
Directed by Beth Marshall
Performances: March 15-31, 2013 at The Garden Theatre
Rehearsals begin Dec.2011 (with Holiday Break)
ALL ROLES PAID

CASTING:

1 Man (age 30-45)
1 Man (age 45-65)
1 Man (age 18-25)
1 Woman (age 25-35)
1 Woman (age 18-25)
1 Woman (age 45-55)

Knowledge of American Sign Language a plus. Must be willing to learn ASL if cast.

About the play:

Winner of the Tony Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award “After three years in the Peace Corps, James, a young speech therapist, joins the faculty of a school for the deaf, where he is to teach lip-reading. He meets Sarah, a school dropout, totally deaf from birth, and estranged both from the world of hearing and from those who would compromise to enter that world. Fluent in sign language, James tries, with little success, to help Sarah, but gradually the two fall in love and marry. At first their relationship is a happy and glowing one, as the gulf of silence between them seems to be bridged by their desire to understand each other’s needs and feelings, but discord soon develops as Sarah becomes militant for the rights of the deaf and rejects any hint that she is being patronized and pitied. In the end the chasm between the worlds of sound and silence seems almost too great to cross…but love and compassion hold the hope of reconciliation, and a deeper, fuller understanding of differences that, in the final essence, can unite as well as divide.

“CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD is an extraordinary play-illuminating, consistently interesting and moving.” -Variety.
Also casting for Play-In-A-Day taking place in fall of 2012. NON-PAID. Only a 1 day committment.
About PIAD:

A team of roughly 40 theatre artists (actors, directors, writers and production team) work together to write, rehearse, tech and perform 5 original 10 minute short plays revolving around the same theme within a 24 hour time frame.
Additionally, this year, we will be adding an original 30 minute staged reading, as well as an original dance component, silent auction, raffles, appetizers and drinks to make for a full 2.5hrs of artistic fun.

Breakdown-

Location: Garden Theatre (160 W. Plant St, Winter Garden, FL)

When: June 23rd-24th & July 21st

• Sat June 23rd: 10AM-5PM (Auditions)
• Sun June 24th: 10AM-1PM (Appointment Only Auditions)
• Sun Junes 24th: 1:30PM-4:30PM (Callbacks for Children of a Lesser God)
• Sat July 21st: 11AM-4PM (Callbacks for Biloxi Blues)

What we are casting for:

• Biloxi Blues
• Children of a Lesser God
• PLAY-IN-A-DAY

Looking for:

• Men and women 16+
• All races and ethnicities
• Paid: Biloxi Blues & Children of a Lesser God Equity and Non-Equity
• Not Paid: PLAY-IN-A-DAY but open to Equity and Non-Equity

What to Bring:

• 1 Hard Copy of your Head shot and resume

To Schedule an Appointment:

Please e-mail our Company Manager Brenna Nicely at Brenna@BethMarshallPresents.Com. In the subject header please put SEASON AUDITION REQUEST. You may schedule now through June 20, 2012.

                                                                                                                                                               

 Chasmin Hallyburton Says Goodbye to Orlando

Chasmin Hallyburton has worn a variety of hats on that fabulous hair of hers with Beth Marshall Presents over the past 3.5 years. Whether serving as our Stage Manager, Production Manager, Beth’s Personal/Professional Assistant, Actor, Company Manager or Associate Director she has ALWAYS been at THE TOP OF HER GAME!

In addition to her time with BMP, she served 2 years as Beth’s Assistant at both Orlando Fringe and Play-In-A-Day, completed her Theatre degree at UCF and worked as a Stage Manager for Carbon Production’s Spring Awakening, acted in MadCow’s Porgy and Bess, served as Event Coordinator for Disney’s Every Child Makes A Difference, was the singing voice of the Eyeball in Captain Discovery: The Edible Musical and sang as a Zen Bot (aka back-up singer) for Vova Zen.

July 1st 2012 is Chasmin’s final day in Orlando as she spreads her wings and soars off to The Big Apple to persue her goal to become a Broadway Stage Manager.
“Her move is a bittersweet one for all of us at BMP. There will never be another Chasmin and I am losing my very best “Girl Friday” however, I know that Chasmin will be a tremendous asset to the NYC theatre scene. She will be deeply missed and is welcome back with us at any time” says Beth Marshall.

June 25th, 2012 marks Chasmin’s last day with Beth Marshall Presents. We wish her a world of success in her next chapter!

                                                                                                                               

Our 2012-2013 Beth Marshall Presents Season

We are pleased to announce our 2012-2013 theatrical season and look forward to continuing to bring both quality original and published works to our audiences within Central Florida as well as our touring regions. We are honored to once again be partnered with The Garden Theatre and Orlando Shakespeare Theatre serving as our venue hosts. Tickets for our season will go onsale Sept.1st 2012.

PLAY-IN-A-DAY

HISTORY:

Play-In-A-Day has been present within our Orlando theatre community for numerous years. Beth Marshall has been involved as an artist for 15 years and has served as Producing Artistic Director for the event for the past 7 years as a benefit for Orlando Shakespeare Theatre’s annual PLAYFEST. Moving forward, Orlando Shakes/PLAYFEST has graciously gifted Beth Marshall Presents with the annual event to fully produce under her own production company. In our next newsletter, we will have a big announcement of our new partner and venue location for this beloved annual event.

About PIAD:

A team of roughly 40 theatre artists (actors, directors, writers and production team) work together to write, rehearse, tech and perform 5 original 10 minute short plays revolving around the same theme within a 24 hour time frame.
Additionally, this year, we will be adding an original 30 minute staged reading, as well as an original dance component, silent auction, raffles, appetizers and drinks to make for a full 2.5hrs of artistic fun.

Play- In- A-Day will take place in fall of 2012 and kick off our BMP season.

AMERICAN ALPHABET

American Alphabet
Written & Performed by Lisa Cordes
When: January 17-20, 2013
Where: Lowndes Shakespeare Center
Mandell Theatre (812 E. Rollins St, Orlando FL)
ORLANDO PREMEIRE!

About the show:
American Alphabet is a powerful exploration of one woman’s family tree, from its racist “white cracker” roots to the green shoots of hope found among its 21st century branches. Beginning with the Civil War and her slave-owning great-great-grandfather through the election of Barack Obama, Lisa Cordes weaves personal narrative with the larger history of race and sex in America, traversing this rancorous terrain with acerbic humor, unflinching honesty, and a really big chalkboard. The epic story that unfolds in this theatrical classroom is one of heartbreaking beauty and deep forgiveness.

About the Writer/Performer:

Lisa Cordes is a freelance theater artist, writer, and recovering arts executive. Cordes has collaborated over the years with a number of visual artists and composers, creating a body of work that pokes at the American psyche and its discordant history with equal parts salt and salve.

In 2010, she was a recipient of a Charlotte Street Rocket Grant and an ArtsKC Inspiration grant for the development and performances of her play, Prop 8 On Trial, based on original trial transcripts from the first ever same-sex marriage case to be argued in a federal court. In 2012, Prop 8 On Trial was produced by Beth Marshall Presents in Orlando. As a resident artist at the Fishtank Performance Studio, she has collaborated on a number of performance projects including the “We Read It So You Don’t Have To” which debuted with a public reading of Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue. American Alphabet, a sobering yet acerbic solo exploration of her family tree and its inextricable ties to the history of race in America debuted at the 2010 Kansas City Fringe Festival.

Her interest in community-based art-making led her to a teaching stint at the Kansas City Art Institute and playwright residencies for high schools, a public housing projects, and a social service agencies, exploring issues such as homelessness, gun violence, and addiction. As a professional playwright, she has written several plays commissioned by The Coterie Theater, including scripts for their award-winning Dramatic AIDS Education Project that reaches some 18,000 young people annually.

Cordes is also the founder of two performance companies, Eyes Wide Open and Big Fragile Stage and her interest in a “theater of immediacy” led her to create “The Bus Event”, a series of performances staged at city bus stops involving over 60 artists and musicians. As a spoken word artist, Cordes has opened for musicians John Cale and Jello Biafra, and journalist Molly Ivins.

Cordes has served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, the Missouri Arts Council and the Charlotte Street Foundation, and has consulted and written for the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities.

BILOXI BLUES

Biloxi Blues
By Neil Simon
Directed by Rob Anderson
When: Febrauary 8-24, 2013
Where: Garden Theatre (160 W. Plant St, Winter Garden)

About the play:

Winner, Tony Award for Best Play, 1985
The second in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon’s trilogy which began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and concluded with Broadway Bound.
When we last met Eugene Jerome, he was coping with adolescence in 1930′s Brooklyn. Here, he is a young army recruit during WW II, going through basic training and learning about Life and Love with a capital ‘L’ along with some harsher lessons, while stationed at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1943.

“A fine comedy, and another step in the process of making Simon neither so simple, nor so simplistic.”-New York Post

“Joyous and unexpectedly rewarding.”-The New York Times

“A play that rings with a newer, deeper, sweeter truth.”-New York Magazine

CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD

Children Of A Lesser God
By Mark Medoff
Directed by Beth Marshall
When: March 15-31, 2013
Where: Garden Theatre (160 W. Plant St, Winter Garden)

About the play:

Winner of the Tony Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Drama Desk Award “After three years in the Peace Corps, James, a young speech therapist, joins the faculty of a school for the deaf, where he is to teach lip-reading. He meets Sarah, a school dropout, totally deaf from birth, and estranged both from the world of hearing and from those who would compromise to enter that world. Fluent in sign language, James tries, with little success, to help Sarah, but gradually the two fall in love and marry. At first their relationship is a happy and glowing one, as the gulf of silence between them seems to be bridged by their desire to understand each other’s needs and feelings, but discord soon develops as Sarah becomes militant for the rights of the deaf and rejects any hint that she is being patronized and pitied. In the end the chasm between the worlds of sound and silence seems almost too great to cross…but love and compassion hold the hope of reconciliation, and a deeper, fuller understanding of differences that, in the final essence, can unite as well as divide.

“CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD is an extraordinary play-illuminating, consistently interesting and moving.” -Variety.

TOURING SEASON

In addition to our fully staged theatrical productions, we will continue producing Paul Strickland’s original shows globally and will be spending the entire season working on 2 new original works for local and touring productions in future seasons. As always, we remain open to producing commissioned shows within our “OFF THE WALLS SERIES”.