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THEA 4300 - Directing Class - Final One-Act Plays

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CAST LIST - Carrie, the Musical 

• Carrie White – Emily Holman
• Margaret White – Becca Moore
• Sue Snell – Maddie Maas
• Tommy Ross – Riley Keegan
• Chris Hargenson – Evelyn Shirley
• Billy Nolan – Owen Reid
• Miss Gardner – Rhea Geer
• Mr. Stephens/Reverend Bliss – Connor Beck
• Frieda – Victoria Janow
• Norma – Evyn Franklin
• Helen – Hannah Rockensock
• George – Andy Moyer
• Stokes – Grant Dukes
• Freddy – Rigel Marshall
• Sue’s Interrogators:
  • Male voice-CJ Allen
  • Female voice-Ash Yoder
• Student/Ensemble - Madison Kristoff
• Student/Ensemble - Dani Wolford 
• Student/Ensemble - Ash Yoder
• Student/Ensemble - CJ Allen

Thank you for a great night of auditions. I am always impressed by the talent on this campus. 

If you were not cast but expressed interest in tech work we will contact you shortly.

Our first cast meeting will take place on Sunday, September 10 at 1:00pm in the Backdoor Playhouse. Scripts and scores will be distributed as well as rehearsal schedules. Costume measurements will be taken at this time. 

If you have a conflict please contact Chloe White at ca.white8721@gmail.com and James Alder at jalder@tntech.edu.  I look forward to working with all of you.

Mark Creter, Director

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Cast List for Leading Ladies

• Meg – Maddie Maas
• Leo – William Guynn
• Jack – Quentin Powell
• Audrey – Kennady Campbell
• Duncan – Caleb Grider
• Florence – Rhea Geer
• Doc – Aaron Ramsey
• Butch – Max Johnson

Thank you for a great night of auditions. I am always impressed by the talent on this campus. 

If you were not cast but expressed interest in tech work we will contact you shortly.

Our first cast meeting will take place on Sunday, February 26, 2023 at 1:00 pm in the Backdoor Playhouse. Scripts will be distributed as well as rehearsal schedules. Costume measurements will be taken at this time. 

If you have a conflict please contact Emma Waltenbaugh at egwaltenba42@tntech.edu.  

I look forward to working with all of you. 

Mark H. Creter
Director

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Winterfest 2023 Cast List

Our first read through will be this Saturday from 2 to 5pm at the Backdoor Playhouse. Check your email for more information.  If, for whatever reason, you cannot make it to our first read-through please contact James Alder at jalder@tntech.edu. If you were not cast, but indicated that you’d be interested in crew work, we will contact you soon. Thank you for your interest and participation.

The Candidate by Brent Holland

• WHITE - Eddie Sorrow
• BLUE - Logan Campbell
• BLACK - Quentin Powell
• RED - Becca Moore
• DR. RUNNELS - Sharon Henry

Check Please by Jonathan Rand

• GIRL - Alivia Hintz
• GUY - Jax Lelle
• LOUIS - Kurtis Blevins
• MELANIE - Laken Brown
• KEN - Riley Grecol
• PHOEBE - Becca Moore
• MARK - Corey Goavec
• PEARL - Victoria Dell
• TOD - William Guynn 
• SOPHIE - Sharon Henry
• BRANDON - Dillon Preston
• LINDA - Miranda Boyd
• MATT - Quentin Powell
• MIMI - Emily Barnett

10 Ways to Survive The Zombie Apocalypse by Don Zolidis

• NARRATOR 1 – Todd Beasley
• NARRATOR 2 – Miranda Davis
• GIRL – Laken Brown
• NANNA – Sharon Henry
• CHRISTY – Becca Moore
• JIMMY - Ronnie Stegall
• SAM – Ray Rice
• SUSAN – Kennady Campbell
• ZOMBIE – Sam Hunter
• ZOMBIE – Robert Olson
• ZOMBIE – Mandy Jones

 

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Our Newsletters: 

Newsletter 02-10-2022
Newsletter 11-5-2021
Newsletter 8-25-2021

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We gratefully thank Spotlight Costumes for the beautiful costumes on our recent production of The Fantasticks! It is amazing to have this local company do such expert work. Thanks to Amy Ing and Anthony Herd!

Cast List for Airness

• Ed “Shreddy Eddy” Leary – Aaron Ramsey
• Gabe “Golden Thunder” Partridge – Aaron Ross 
• Mark “Facebender” Lender – Cory Goavec
• Astrid “Cannibal Queen” Anderson – Ashley Hale
• Nina “The Nina” O’Neal – Chloe White
• David “D Vicious” Cooper – Ronnie Stegall
• Announcer/Sprite Exec/ Hooded Figure – Robert Olson   

Thank you for a great night of auditions. I am always impressed by the talent on this campus. 

If you were not cast but expressed interest in tech work we will contact you shortly.

Our first cast meeting will take place on Saturday, February 19 at 10:00am in the Backdoor Playhouse. Scripts will be distributed as well as rehearsal schedules. Costume measurements will be taken at this time. 

If you have a conflict please contact me at mcreter@tntech.edu and Emma Waltenbaugh at egwaltenba42@tntech.edu and James Alder at jalder@tntech.edu.  I look forward to working with all of you. We are going to ROCK the Backdoor Playhouse!!!

Mark H. Creter
Director

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Cast List for The Wolves* 

• #00 – Kennady Campbell
• #2 – Elise Hilpert
• #7 – Alanah Smitshon
• #8 – Lex Edwards
• #11 – Harley Dodson
• #13 – Miranda Davis
• #14 – Lilly Cunningham
• #25 – Emily Graham
• #46 – Ashley Hale
• Soccer Mom – Emily Amonett 

I am so excited to work with each and every one of you, and look forward to our first read-through, which will be this coming Saturday, November 20th, 11AM – 2PM. We will discuss the show, take measurements, and read through the show together! 

A large thank you to all the talented women who participated in auditions! You are all incredible and made casting this show delightfully challenging. If you were not cast but are still interested in working as a crew member on The Wolves, feel free to message stage manager Catherine McCaig at jwmccaig42@tntech.edu  for additional information!  

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Current Audition Information @ the TN Tech Backdoor Playhouse

Can be found on our new "Auditions" webpage here: 
Upcoming Auditions at the Tennessee Tech Backdoor Playhouse

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THE WOLVES

Auditions - Tuesday  NOV  16th from 7pm-10pm

By Sarah DeLappe

The Story:
Pulitzer Prize finalist The Wolves is the debut play of up-and-coming playwright Sarah DeLappe.
Featuring an all-female cast (comprised of nine adolescents and one briefly-seen adult), The Wolves chronicles six Saturday mornings in the lives of a soccer team somewhere in suburban America as they prepare for their games. The girls discuss everything from genocide to menstrual cycles to drugs to boys to literature to each other, and a group of girls whom at first seem indistinguishable as each is referred to by only her number and all are clad in the same jersey only bearing her number quickly become identifiable and different. In the course of six short weeks, the Wolves deal with love, loss, and identity in ways that real teenagers do.

Audition Notice Wolves PDF version

Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.
Roles available for 10 women (16-21).
Casting is open to all interested people. Minority performers are encouraged
to audition.
Directed by Joe Clark.   Produced by the TN Tech English Department.
For further information, or to borrow a script, please contact
Mark Creter at (931) 372-3478 or mcreter@tntech.edu  or visit www.tntech.edu/bdph 

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Cast List for The Fantasticks!

• The Narrator - Emma Olson                                                
• Bellomy, the Girl’s Father - Dylan DeVries  
• Hucklebee, the Boy’s Mother - Sheela Brachey 
• Luisa, The Girl - Emma Fox 
• Matt, The Boy - William Guynn 
• El Gallo - Eleni Fragopoulos 
• Henry, The Old Actor - Samuel Lloyd                                               
• Mortimer, The Man Who Dies - Brenden Stoops 
• The Mute - Quentin Powell 

Understudies-  Ryan Steele,  Emma Olson 

Thank you for a great night of auditions. I am always impressed by the talent on this campus.  If you were not cast but expressed interest in tech work we will contact you shortly.  Our first cast meeting will take place on Tuesday, September 14 at 7:00pm in the Backdoor Playhouse. Scripts and scores will be distributed as well as rehearsal schedules. Costume measurements will be taken at this time.  

If you have a conflict please contact me at mcreter@tntech.edu  and James Alder at jalder@tntech.edu   I look forward to working with all of you.   

Mark Creter / Director 

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The Fantasticks!

Book and lyrics by Tom Jones, Music by Harvey Schmidt.

Suggested by a play called “Les Romanesques” by Edmund Rostand. 

Directed by Mark Harry Creter

Music Direction by Mendy Richards

Auditions will take place at the Backdoor Playhouse.

Acting and Singing auditions on Thursday, September 9, 2021 from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

Callbacks on Saturday, September 11, 2019 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. (as needed)

Principle roles (both men and women) available for 8 performers (18-50). * 

*Originally the production called for 6 men and 1-2 woman. Our production is going to be more flexible with gender. The fathers could be mothers, or one father and one mother, The Old Actor and the The Man Who Dies could be woman, even El Gallo could be a woman. Ultimately, I believe the show can be mounted with any combination of male and female actors. Also, your age is not important as you will be actors playing characters therefore a young actor can play the “Old” actor. 

AVAILABLE ROLES:

1. The Narrator (m/f)                 
2. The Boy’s Father (Mother) (m/f)
3. El Gallo (m/f)                         
4. The Girl’s Father (Mother) (m/f)
5. The Girl (f)                             
6. The Old Actor (m/f)
7. The Boy (m)                             
8. The Man Who Dies (m/f)
9. The Mute (m/f)

You do not need to be a Tennessee Tech student to audition or to be cast. 

Minority actors are strongly encouraged.

Interested performers should prepare 16 bars of any song for their singing audition, acting auditions will consist of cold-reading and improvisation. 

Performance dates in the Backdoor Playhouse:

November 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 2021 at 8:00 p.m.

Late Show: November 11, 2021 at 10:00 p.m., Matinee: November 13, 2021 at 2:00 p.m.

Produced in arrangement with Music Theatre International. 

For more information contact Mark Creter at 372-6595 or mcreter@tntech.edu or visit our homepage at www.tntech.edu/bdph/.

 Interested actors are encouraged to read the script in advance. You may borrow one for 24 hours from Mark Creter by contacting him at 931-372-3478 or mcreter@tntech.edu.

For further information call the Theatre office at  931-372-6595 or Mark Creter at 931-372-3478.