AUDITIONS SET FOR KUMU KAHUA’S PRODUCTION OF Beretania Snapshots by Sean-Joseph Choo directed by Jason Kanda

AUDITIONS SET FOR KUMU KAHUA’S PRODUCTION OF

Beretania Snapshots by Sean-Joseph Choo

directed by Jason Kanda

Sunday January 28 and Monday January 29
at 6:00 pm
at Kumu Kahua Theatre 
46 Merchant Street Honolulu, HI 96813

Open auditions will be held to cast the world premiere production of Sean-Joseph Chooʻs Beretania Snapshots

WHERE: Kumu Kahua Theatre, 46 Merchant Street

WHEN: Sunday January 28th and Monday January 29th , 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm (Auditioners need only come to one audition). Callbacks as needed.

Rehearsals will begin immediately

Performances will be from March 28- April 28, 2024, Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:00 pm, Sundays at 2:00 pm.  There is the possibility of a one week extension.

Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Sides will be provided. Actors can prepare a monologue from the script if they desire to but it is not required.

Please note any conflicts on audition form.

Script Synopsis:

With the help of her imaginary dragon friend, Connie navigates the twists and turns of young love, her parents’ perplexing relationship, her tangled extended family, and loss — first of her grandfather, and later her grandmother. Like a book of old family photos, Beretania Snapshots is chock-full of nostalgic references to plays and people from Honolulu’s recent past, and reminds us to treasure one another before the memories fade.

Director Jason Kanda is looking for 6 actors to play the following roles. 

Connie - local female, age 18 (can be played by an actor age 18 - 25)

Lisa - local female, late thirties - mid forties

Jude - local male, late thirties - mid forties

Eleanor - local female, age 50-65

Wallace - local male, late thirties- mid forties

Beretania, et al. - ageless, any gender

 You can read the script by Clicking Here

Call the Kumu Kahua Theatre office 536-4222 or email officemanager@kumukahua.org  if you need more information.

Sean-Joseph Choo  is a queer multi-ethnic + multi-hyphenate artist from Honolulu. His work as a playwright, composer, and actor have been featured both in the Hawaiian islands and the island known as Turtle Island. Sean is invested in imagining how religion, queerness, and culture intersect and conflict, and he is dedicated to the stories and people of Hawaiʻi.
Sean is a member of the Dramatists Guild, LMDA, TYA/USA, ASCAP, CAATA, the Hawaii State Theatre Council, and founder of Kamamo House.

Kumu Kahua productions are supported in part by the NME Fund of the Hawaiʻi Community Foundation, the Island Insurance Foundation, The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, through appropriations from the Legislature of the State of Hawaiʻi, The AAPI Community Fund, The Richard Aadland Fund, The Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, The John R. Halligan Charitable Fund, Spectrum/Charter Communications, ABC Stores, the Gloria Kosasa Gainsley Fund, Hawaiʻi Public Radio, H. Hawaii Media, Simply Storage, The Kim Coco Fund for Justice of the Iwamoto Family Foundation, Vacations Hawaiʻi, Zippy’s Restaurants, Highway Inn, Generations Magazine, CVS/Longs Drugs, HMSA, Hawaiian Electric, MonkeyPod, Edric Sakamoto, Ron and Rachel Heller, Leonard and Charlotte Chow, and other foundations, businesses, and loyal patrons.