Aug 22 2021
Rap Unzel Auditions

Rap Unzel Auditions

Presented by The VORTEX at The VORTEX

Rap Unzel Auditions at The VORTEX

Seeking adventurous and enthusiastic BIPOC performers.

Performer compensation: $700 stipend.

PREPARE: Please prepare a one-minute contemporary monologue or a faery tale of your choice, told with a sense of humor or a twist. Bring 2 Resumés. Recommended/Optional: One-minute of rap. Headshot.

To schedule an audition slot, please contact vortex@vortexrep.org.

Callbacks Wedneday, August 25, 2021.

Rehearsals September 2021.

Production @ The VORTEX October 2021.

About the play: Rap Unzel presents a journey of Black Boy Joy, self-care, and hair. Reginald “RAP” Unzel is a young man with big hair and bigger dreams of musical stardom. . . IF only he can get out of his room. This celebration of identity, awareness, and empowerment features hip hop music and dance. Appropriate for ages 6 and up. https://rap-unzel.co/

Rap Unzel by Jeremy Rashad Brown received 2 productions in 2019, debuting at Scottish Rite Theatre with another production in New Orleans by the Radical Baffoons. One of the most significant cultural and social contributions of current American theatre is to center voices and images of people of color. Jeremy Rashad Brown creates a contemporary view for Black Boys and young men with fresh characters for new audiences. This significant representation for young people provides new pathways for social change and reframing identity. The VORTEX proudly presents this new production.

About the Director: Indiia Wilmott is an actor, director and teaching artist.  She is currently a voice actor/on-camera host for e-learning company, Edgenuity. Her favorite theatre credits include Dance Nation (San Francisco Playhouse), Bootycandy (Black Artists Contemporary Cultural Experience), Zenith (San Francisco Playhouse), and Lucia Berlin: Stories (Word for Word/Z Space). She has taught at American Conservatory Theater, California Shakespeare Theatre, and Ecole Jeannine Manuel in Paris. For the 2020 election Indiia wrote and directed voting PSAs for the Texas Civil Rights Project. Indiia is co-founder of the Austin Black Theatre Alliance and on the board at New Manifest Theatre Company.

The VORTEX Mission: We conjure urgent, unashamed art to create action in a shifting age. We embrace diverse communities, break down barriers, and elevate inclusive discourse from our cultural harbor in Austin, Texas. We enliven humanity with magical green new theatre at our Butterfly Bar and Sanctuary.

The VORTEX Core Values: Our core values are encompassed by the Pentacle of Integrity: Transformation, Magic, Community, Diversity, and Earth. Integrity lives at our core. We engage in radical transformation through edge-walking artistic creations and innovations. Magic emanates from our cultural harbor, engaging Spirit. Our space and our culture support expanding circles of inclusive community. Our art reflects diversity of people and voices from the global majority. Sustainability and environmentalism center Earth at our foundation.

Rap Unzel is funded and supported in part by VORTEX Repertory Company, Texas Commission on the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.

www.vortexrep.org

Admission Info

Please contact vortex@vortexrep.org to make an audition appointment.

Dates & Times

2021/08/22 - 2021/08/22

Location Info

The VORTEX

2307 Manor Road, Austin, TX 78722