AUDITIONS SET FOR KUMU KAHUA’S PRODUCTION OF Kimo the Waiter by Lee Cataluna directed by Jason Kanda

Sunday August 25th 6pm - 9pm
Monday August 26th 6pm-9pm
at Kumu Kahua Theatre 
46 Merchant Street Honolulu, HI 96813

WHERE: Kumu Kahua Theatre, 46 Merchant Street

WHEN: Sunday August 25th, and Monday August 26th, 2024 at 6-9pm 

Performances will be from November 7th - December 8th, 2024. Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:00 pm, Sundays at 2:00 pm. There is the possibility of added performances.

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:

Kimo waits tables while pursuing his dream of acting professionally in the 1980s—but he’s always too brown, or not brown enough. During a time when there were few roles for people of color, except for local commercials, those television images of Hawaiʻi people were, in some cases, even more limiting than Hollywood's idea of what it meant to be from Hawaiʻi. Kimo's quest is funny, frustrating and totally relatable as he tries to break free from stereotypical images of island characters.

CAST:

Kimo – man in his early 20s, very talented but very lost

The following characters can be played by two actors, or can be cast individually

Ensemble #1 – Dad, Casting Director #1, Casting Director #3, voice at Zippy’s, Bernard Didi Ah Yo, PA#2, Harry, Announcer for Ponderosa Pines,

sings “Far Too Wide”, Student

Ensemble #2 – Mom, Casting Director #2, assistant reading the part of TC, Jade,

Lady in restaurant, Production Assistant, Leilani, Carrie, Myra, Kalani, Gina Jenkins, Professor

 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.

JASON KANDA is a 25-year veteran of Honolulu's theatre scene with directing

credits at KKT, HSF and AMG. Past KKT directing credits include The

Ventriloquist by Mark Tjarks, Da Kine Space by Lee Tonouchi, Folks You Meet in

Longs by Lee Cataluna (2011), #haoleboyfriend by Tony Pisculli and Stephanie

Keiko Kong and Beretania Snapshots by Sean-Joseph Takeo Kahāokalani Choo.

Lee Cataluna

Lee Cataluna’s recent work includes commissions from Arena Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Honolulu Theatre for Youth, and San Francisco Playhouse. Her play Heart Strings premiered off-Broadway at Atlantic Theater in 2022 and will be produced in Chicago this spring. Her plays have been developed at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Native Voices at the Autry, Chautauqua Institute, Northwestern University and Ojai Playwrights Conference. Her first of many plays for Kumu Kahua Theatre premiered in 1998. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UC Riverside. She is of Native Hawaiian descent, was born on Maui, and now lives in Honolulu. www.leecataluna.com

Kumu Kahua productions are supported in part by The Kim Coco Fund for Justice of the Iwamoto Family Foundation, 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, Vacations Hawaiʻi, Zippy’s Restaurants, Highway Inn, Generations Magazine, CVS/Longs Drugs, HMSA, Hawaiian Electric, MonkeyPod, and other foundations, businesses, and loyal patrons.

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