City Theatre's "Sweat" Audition at Sacramento City College
Date and Time
Friday, January 19, 2024
6:00 pm
Location
This is an in-person event.
Contact
C. Janey Pintar
PintarC@scc.losrios.edu
Website
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Sweat
By Lynn Nottage
Directed by Janey Pintar
About the Play
Filled with humor and immense heart, Sweat tells the journey of a group of friends who share drinks, laughs, and secrets at their favorite local bar after work on the factory floor. The close-knit group’s trust is tested during impending layoffs and strikes as they fight to stay afloat and reach for the American dream. This powerful and poignant story provides an emphatic look at working-class Americans and the intricacy of identity, race, and humanity. Produced on Broadway, Lynn Nottage’s contemporary play Sweat won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 2017.
About the Playwright
Lynn Nottage is an American playwright, screenwriter, and professor. She is the first and only woman to win two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. Nottage’s plays and musicals have been produced on Broadway and throughout the United States at professional and community theatres, and colleges. Her plays include Intimate Apparel (starring Viola Davis in the Off-Broadway production), By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Ruined (2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama), Sweat (2017 Pulitzer Prize winner for Drama, Clyde’s, and POOF!. Nottage’s musical work includes writing the book for MJ the Musical featuring the music of Michael Jackson, writing the book for the musical adaption of Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Secret life of Bees, and an opera adaption of Intimate Apparel.
Nottage has received numerous awards and fellowships including the MacArthur "Genius Grant" Fellowship, Nelson A. Rockefeller Award for Creativity, and Helen Hayes Award. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and her Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Drama. Also, Nottage is a Theatre Arts Professor at Columbia School of the Arts.
Auditions and Callbacks
Auditions
Art Court Theatre
Performing Arts Center (PAC)
Sacramento City College.
- January 17, 2024 6:00 pm
- January 18, 2024 6:00 pm
Callbacks
Art Court Theatre
Performing Arts Center (PAC)
Sacramento City College.
- January 19, 2024 at 6:00 pm
- January 20, 2024 at 12:00 pm, if needed
What to Prepare for Auditions
Auditions will consist of readings of sides from the Sweat script. You may see the Sweat audition sides on the City Theatre website.
For the auditions, please bring:
- Theatre/performance resume if you have one,
- Headshot if you have one, and
- Any conflicts you may have for the rehearsal and performance schedule.
Rehearsals
January 22 to February 28, 2024:
- Mondays to Fridays from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm
- Tech and dress rehearsals are from February 24 to 28.
Brush-up rehearsal is March 6 from 6 – 11 pm.
Performances
March 1 to 17, 2024:
- Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7:30 pm
- Sundays at 2:00 pm
- Saturday, March 16 at 2:00 pm
- Performance Location
Art Court Theatre in the Performing Arts Center at Sacramento City College
All performances are in person.
Tickets
- $20 – General
- $15 – Seniors, People with Disabilities, Military/Veterans, & SARTA Members
- $10 – Students
Creative
- Playwright: Lynn Nottage
- Director: Janey Pintar
- Scenic Designer: Shawn Weinsheink
- Lighting Designer: Isaiah Leeper
- Costume Designer: Nicole Sivell
- Projection Designers: Shawn Weinsheink, Janey Pintar
- Production Stage Manager: Eva Hernandez