[EVENT] FALL AUDITIONS

From: Amy Sarno <sarnofra_at_beloit.edu>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:40:52 -0500

 Greetings Everyone:

I wanted to let you know about audition plans for the fall semester. We're
doing two shows: *In Case You Forget *by Ben Snyder (directed by Visiting
Artist Johnny Jones) and *Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson Apartment 2B* by Kate
Hamill (directed by Amy Sarno). Johnny will be auditioning on August 28
and 29th (yup...first and second day of school). I will be
auditioning for *Ms.
Holmes and Ms. Watson *on September 5 and 6th. Here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LejqCDI9oU0DSY79mfxqvr-jBE7zjOKc1vDKMEl44go/edit?usp=sharing>
is the information for *In Case You Forget*. Here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1j86tmejBjm7xTOQybhYOahB_HNx-i-HJCQA1yb7NlVE/edit?usp=sharing>
is
the information for* Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson*.

If you have any questions regarding auditions for either show, don't
hesitate to contact Amy Sarno at sarnofra_at_beloit.edu.

[image: Johnny Jones Front.jpg]
Johnny Jones is a visiting Hip Hop professor from Simmons College in
Louisville, KY.

Johnny Jones is the Fall 2023 Artist-in-Residence of Theatre and Dance
Studies with an emphasis on Hip-Hop Theatre Studies and the
Interdisciplinary Studies program. He currently teaches and chairs the
Cross-Cultural Communication program at Simmons College of Kentucky,
Louisville’s only Historically Black College/University. Johnny is an
interdisciplinarian creative who has taught Theatre Arts, African American
Studies, Modern to Contemporary African American Theatre, and Composition.
A native tongue of the Arkansas Delta, Johnny’s writing focuses on black
narratives in modern and contemporary theatre and media. His academic
publications include “‘Body-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody-ody’: Interrogating
Black Bodies in Cable Television” for *One Size Does Not Fit All:
Understanding the Performance of Bodies in Popular Culture*; “A Reflection
on the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff’s *The Hip Hop Project: *Insight
to the Hip Hop Generation” for *The Routledge Companion of African American
Theatre and Performance*; “Black Radical Masculinities in American Warfare:
Reconfiguring Resistance in the Body of Muhammad Ali towards Exile” in
*NORMA—International
Journal of Masculinity Studies. *Additionally, Johnny’s directing credits
include The NEXUS Staged Reading Series at Westmont College; *The
Mountaintop *by Katori Hall (2019 National Black Theatre Fringe Festival;
ACCelerate Festival for Creativity & Innovation); Dominique
Morisseau’s *Detroit
‘67* for University of Louisville; University of Arkansas Pine Bluff’s *The
Hip Hop Project: Insight to the Hip-Hop Generation* (2005 finalist for
Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival).



Johnny is a proud graduate of the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff, New
York University, Tisch School of the Arts (Performance Studies, M.A.),
California Institute of the Arts (Creative Writing, M.F.A.). He is a
Hurston and Wilson scholar-artist who is working on unblocking creatively
and writing a series of “blackplays” [sic] and poetry.

Ciao--
Amy

-- 
Amy L. Sarno, PhD
Chair,  Department of Theatre and Dance
(She/Her)
(608)346-4731 (cell )
Beloit College
700 College St.
Beloit , WI 53511



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