WT PLAYers
Performance Troupe for WCT PLAY Program
​ Peer Leadership Through the Arts for Youth

The PLAYers is a joint partnership/collaboration with the Anika James Foundation, and will be supported by local artists in varied disciplines.

 The Walltown PLAYers, will use performance as a means to engage each other and their peers in constructive conversations about issues challenging today’s youth.

PLAYers will meet once on Tuesdays for instruction with key staff and then again on Thursdays for practice labs.
WCT artistic staff will develop the PLAYers’ journal notes into artistic, expressive performance pieces based on common threads/issues identified, and incorporating the various disciplines practiced by the students (music, singing, dance, acting). With these pieces, PLAYers will engage with and perform for the broader WCT student population and their parents, other groups of youth, and/or the general public. After presentations, PLAYers will engage the audiences in conversations on the topic(s) presented, gaining valuable feedback and insights. This will feed a perpetual cycle of reflection and growth within the PLAYers. With consistent encouragement, practice, and exposure opportunities, our PLAYers will begin to master the art of expressing themselves dynamically through various creative outlets. 
To recommend your youth for the WT PLAYers, please respond by  Saturday, September 4, with a two paragraph recommendation answering the following:
-how will your youth be good for the PLAYers
-how will the PLAYers be good for your youth.
Please direct your recommendations and/or any questions to Cara Williams at cara.williams@wctdurham.org.

WTown Ensemble Players

CASTING NOTICE
 
Walltown Children’s Theatre, with the support of the Anika James Foundation is now expanding its programming to include a community-based,
​semi-professional performance ensemble. 
 
New Auditions for the Inaugural
Walltown Ensemble Players coming soon!

Walltown Children’s Theatre
Black Box Theatre
1225 Berkeley St.
Durham, NC 27705
 
For auditions, please prepare a 1-2 minute contemporary monologue.  If you are also a dancer or singer, please be prepared to perform one song or one dance.  You may also be asked to do a cold reading from a script.
 
Requirements:
  • Must be between the ages of 18-35.
  • Display talent as either an actor, singer/rapper, and/or dancer.
  • Be willing to stretch artistically, if you are a singer/dancer, must be willing to study acting/playwriting and vice versa.
  • Commit to one year and participation in performances.
  • Interested in using your artistic talents to bring  light to issues that pre-teens, teens, and young adults are facing.
 
To kick things off, the Ensemble players will participate in an intensive workshop with Mark Perry and ongoing weekday evening workshops.  This workshop will be taught by playwright, teacher, dramaturg and director, Mark Perry.  Mark teaches in the UNC Department of Dramatic Art and serves as dramaturg for PlayMakers Repertory Company. He is the founder of Drama Circle, which seeks to build community through the performing arts.
Ensemble Players will get a percentage of the box office of all performances and
​receive a stipend for performing in schools.