Audition for this Saturday, June 26 for 5 lead roles (first five in list below) 11:00am to 1:00pm
 
If you cannot make the audition on Saturday, you can attend either Monday, June 28 or Tuesday, June 29 from 6:30pm- 10:00pm.
 
All Auditions will be in Salt Lake City, Utah

On August 23 through Sept 6, 2010 they will be filming, "Shadows of Courage, Shades of Treason," and then on September 29 through October 16 (two dress rehearsals and 10 performances) will be premiering the same as an original full length play, at the Fort Douglas Theater on the
University of Utah Campus (it has already been contracted).

This project depicts or concerns, "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques,” (deemed by many as torture and by others as a legitimate tool of warfare), religious conflict and content, terrorism, three mock executions, treason, an attempted suicide, courage and redemption.  It contains coarse language (mainly voiced by character Horatio) and two of the characters (John Walker Lindh and William Lee) are briefly wearing only underwear while tied to a stretcher.  (See synopsis below
for more detail).

This project also depicts scenes of intense psychological conflict when human kindness, tolerance and civility have broken down.

If possible, and any management, talent and crew who are available for both, they will enlist and hire for both projects.  If not, they will employ separate personnel for each production.

For this project they will need the following talent:

CHARACTERS IS BOTH FILM AND PLAY:

John Walker Lindh:  Must look 21; must be trim and muscular; must have huge acting range and exude humility and determination; tall, handsome, swarthy preferred but not necessary; must be willing to be in shorts or underwear for several scenes; for film long hair and beard preferred--otherwise short hair and willing to wear long hair wig and beard in some scenes.
Pay Rates: Play: $450 base rate + $450 if reach goal of 500 attendees at play.
Film: $1,950 + 15% bonus if film accepted into Sundance Film Festival or a festival of equivalent prestige.  To be determined.
Approx. 560 lines, 28 scenes, 8-10 days shooting, 2 ADR sessions.
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William Lee:  Must look 32; must be handsome, robust, muscular and athletic; must have huge acting range and exude great confidence and goodness; must be clean shaven; must be willing to be in shorts or underwear for one scene; average height preferred.
Pay Rates: Play pay: $400 base rate + $400 if reach goal of 500 attendees at play.
Film pay: $1,800 + 15% bonus if film accepted into Sundance Film Festival or a festival of equivalent prestige.
Approx. 464 lines, 24 scenes, 7-9 days shooting.
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John Brown the Abolitionist:  Prefer younger JB 35-45, but may cast older JB 45-65; must be tall, rangy, muscular; must have huge acting range and exude intensity and power; must have long hair; younger JB probably clean shaven and older clean shaven or with beard.
Pay Rates: Play pay: $400 base rate + $400 if reach goal of 500 attendees at play.
Film pay: $1,800 + 15% bonus if film accepted into Sundance Film Festival or a festival of equivalent prestige.
Approx 472 lines, 20 scenes, 7-9 days shooting, 2 ADR sessions.
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Horatio Lee:  Must look 50-65, must exude the once brimming vigor of a powerful man and be at least moderately trim; must have huge acting range; must be clean shaven and display great hurt and anger; average height preferred but not necessary.
Pay Rates: Play pay: $350 base rate + $350 if reach goal of 500 attendees at play.
Film pay: $1,700 + 15% bonus if film accepted into Sundance Film Festival or a festival of equivalent prestige.
Approx. 309 lines, 25 scenes, 6-8 days shooting, 2 ADR sessions.
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Frank Lindh:  Must look 48-65, must exude intelligence and great restraint that is barely kept under control and be at least moderately trim; must have moderate acting range; goatee preferred; tall height preferred.
Pay Rates: Play pay: $350 base rate + $350 if reach goal of 500 attendees at play.
Film pay: $1,600 + 15% bonus if film accepted into Sundance Film Festival or a festival of equivalent prestige.  Approx.
241 lines, 14 scenes, 5-7 days shooting, 2 ADR sessions.

SYNOPSIS:
On June 2001, John Walker Lindh, a US citizen, and a devout Muslim who, due to his religious convictions, joins the Taliban to fight the Northern alliance.  John converted to Islam at age 16 after watching a Malcom X. DVD.  After his initial training, he is sent to the front line on October 2001 as a sentinel in a bunker held by the Taliban facing the last stronghold of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan.
On September 11, 2001, William Tecumseh Lee, a CIA agent in the Special Activities Division, after watching the tragic footage of the Twin Towers’ collapse, is the first to volunteer for a clandestine mission to Afghanistan. Leaving his beautiful wife and young family, he is also one of the first Americans flown into Afghanistan to spearhead the CIA’s intelligence gathering activities to locate and
kill Osama bin Laden.
On approximately November 24, 2001, William Lee is tasked to interrogate 300 prisoners, including John Walker Lindh, captured by the Northern Alliance under the leadership of General Dostum, one of
the most brutal and ruthless warlords who once had allied himself with the Russians.

After William Lee attempts to interrogate a scared and exhausted John Walker Lindh, a riot breaks out among the prisoners. During the ensuing melee, the prisoners break into an arms room, William Lee is
shot and killed, and John Walker Lindh is wounded and left for dead. John is later rescued by a comrade, and over the course of seven hellish days, 87 members of the original 300 prisoners are recaptured and those considered having intelligence information, including John
Walker Lindh are turned over to the United States Army.
Now in the custody of US military, John Walker Lindh is tortured, interrogated and eventually tried and given a 20-year sentence due to his allegiance with the Taliban.  During this ordeal, John Walker
Lindh finds himself in the almost constant company of the spirit of William Tecumseh Lee.  William Lee’s soul is trapped in a world in which his only companion is John Walker Lindh.
The US public and William’s father, Horatio Lee, blame John Walker Lindh for the murder of  William Lee.
As a spirit, William Lee soon discovers that he can only converse with John Walker Lindh, he can visit as a lone wanderer all the places that John Walker Lindh has traversed during his life, and he can silently visit his father when his father is alone.
As William Lee explores his new existence, he seeks to complete the mission he had in life, to find Osama bin Laden.

As events unfold, William Lee learns that his father is obsessed to uncover all the details that led to William Lee’s death, and to thereby ensure that John Walker Lindh receives the death penalty.
Will’s father, Horatio Lee is pitted against John Walker Lindh’s father, Frank Lindh, who, although he recognizes, to the degree his fatherly loves allows, that his son has made a mistake, he does not
believe his son should be punished any further.

Due to his quest, Horatio Lee, to William Lee’s distress, becomes so obsessed for revenge that he quickly descends into alcoholism and insanity.  Desperate to help him, William Lee turns to the only living person he can communicate with, John Walker Lindh.  William Lee asks John to help him communicate with his father.  John resists, knowing what Horatio is bitterly ill-disposed towards him and his father Frank.  Through ensuing court proceedings, setbacks and trials, William Lee, with John’s help, is able to arrest his father’s descent, John is granted a presidential pardon and both William and Horatio Lee achieve redemption through their association with the erstwhile “American Taliban” and terrorist John Walker Lindh.
 
If you are interested in auditioning, email crazeagency@sisna.com or bookings@crazeagency.com your:
 
    Name
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    Role you are interested in
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