Black Box Auditions
Coloring
By Alyssa Borelli
A Staged Reading
Presented by: Alyssa Borelli
Playwright & Director: Alyssa Borelli
Location: The Black Box at The CENTER for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck
Performance Dates: April 4 & 5, 2025, at 8 PM
Tech Rehearsals: April 2 & 3, 2025
Rehearsals: 1–2 times per week over Zoom until tech
Seeking: Actors for a staged reading of Coloring, a full-length play exploring themes of trauma, healing, and personal growth. Actors will have scripts in hand during the performance and will receive minimal blocking notes.
Audition Details:
Submission Deadline: February 11, 2025
How to Audition: Pick one of the provided monologues HERE and submit a video audition to Alyssa.Borelli1@marist.edu.
Questions? Email Alyssa at Alyssa.Borelli1@marist.edu.
Play Synopsis:
Coloring follows Angelina, a student earning her Master’s in journalism. For her final thesis paper, she has chosen a topic she’s passionate about: the portrayal of school shootings in the media. As she prepares to conduct her research, Angelina finds out she’s pregnant. Her naive boyfriend, Luke, wants the baby as a last chance to fix their crumbling relationship while Angelina debates if she is meant for motherhood. Grappling with her decision, Angelina begins interviewing the survivor, Jamie. Listening to Jamie, Angelina’s perspective on life starts to change.
Jamie is a survivor of an elementary school shooting. Unable to move on from the life-altering incident, Jamie lives with her mother, Marie, and works at the tattoo parlor down the street. Marie convinces Jamie to participate in Angelina’s interviews, thinking it will help her heal. As Marie and Jamie’s brother, Xander, plan to move Jamie to a new apartment, they hope that Angelina can help Jamie face what she’s tried so hard to ignore.
Character Breakdown:
Angelina Ramos - 23 years old, bisexual, a grad student studying journalism.
Jamie Cassidy - 23 years old, lesbian, a tattoo artist, survivor of a school shooting.
Luke Wilson - 26 years old, a bartender, Angelina’s boyfriend.
Marie Cassidy - 51 years old, an English teacher, Jamie’s mom.
Xander Cassidy - Jamie’s brother