AUDITIONS SET FOR KUMU KAHUA’S PRODUCTION OF SOUTHERNMOST

Sunday, October 27th, 6pm - 9pm
Monday, October 28th, 6pm-9pm
at Kumu Kahua Theatre 
46 Merchant Street Honolulu, HI 96813

Where:

Kumu Kahua Theatre, 46 Merchant Street

When:

Sunday October 27th, and Monday October 28th, 2024 at 6-9 p.m.

Performances will be from January 23 - February 23, 2025. 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:

For former fisherman Wally Chaves, who lives with his retired wife Becky in the familiar hills of Ka'u at the southernmost tip of the Big Island, planting keiki trees for a coffee farm is giving him new life. When daughter Charlene visits with her girlfriend Jessica—Wally calls her “one vegetarian lesbian”—everything begins to get unstable. But when earthquakes start to really shake things up, should they stay or should they go?

Cast:

WALLY CHAVES (68): Former fisherman, Becky's husband, Charlene's father. 

BECKY CHAVES (58): Retired accountant, Wally's wife, Charlene's mother. 

CHARLENE CHAVES (25): Graphic designer living in Los Angeles.

JESSICA COLEMAN (25): Data analyst in Los Angeles, Charlene's girlfriend.

BRUCE KANIHO (50): Coffee farmer, Wally's unmarried best friend.

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.

About Harry Wong III

HARRY WONG III has directed over 100 plays in his career, 52 of those plays were directed at KKT in his capacity as Artistic Director. Harry was the co-founder of HSF and a founding Board Member of the Lizard Loft. Awards he has received include the 2015 Ho‘okele Award recipient; second recipient in the non-profit art industry, given to sustain quality service in the non-profit sector.

Harry is the 2010 recipient Outstanding Alumni of HCC, 1999 recipient of the SFCA Individual Artist Fellowship Grant for Theatre Directing; first non-playwright to be honored, 1996 Princess Grace Award for Theatre Directing Recipient; recommended by HTY for outstanding work in directing, 1996 Lincoln Center Theatre Director's Lab participant; result of a national search of young directors, 1995-1996 Allan Lee Hughes Fellow at Arena Stage Washington DC; result of a national search of postgraduate people of color entering the regional theatre scene and the 1991 & 1993 Masako Sakamoto Scholarship for Acting; given to Hawai‘i High School graduates studying acting or playwriting.

Mary Lyon Kamitaki

Mary’s plays have previously been produced by Playwrights’ Arena and developed at Page 73, Alliance Theatre, A Noise Within, Open Fist Theatre Company, Pasadena Playhouse, Skylight Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre/LA, and UCLA. She is an alumna of the New West playwrights’ group at EST/LA and the Page 73 writers’ group. Mary’s plays center mixed, queer girls and women who reinvent themselves to survive in transforming worlds. She was born and raised on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi, and now lives on the island of Manhattan.