Audition Notice
THE PENNY EXECUTIVE is the life story of Maggie Lena Walker, America’s first black woman to charter a bank and be a bank president. A businesswoman, community leader, and early civil rights activist in post-Civil War Richmond, Va, Walker founded a newspaper, advocated for women’s rights, and fought for education reform in the black community. She was a true Renaissance Woman!
As a 1-woman show, this play requires a black actress with fearless range, impeccable timing, clarity of character work, and specificity of movement and gesture. You will not only be playing Walker from a young girl to old woman, but also the narrator of the piece, as well as over a dozen men, women, friends, and family members.
BE BOLD!
Foster Solomon, Playwright and Director
Audition Details
- We are holding auditions on November 12. Readings will start at 1 pm, and Callbacks at 6.
- Rehearsals will be in December via Zoom, through January.
- In-person rehearsals will start late January, with tech and show dates in the first week of February.
If interested contact Tom Fusco for more details about scheduling, salary, etc.
Fusco@Rowan.Edu
Cell: 609-254-6879
Image credit: The Public Theater stage by David Shankbone (2008) via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0
