The Chicago Advertising Federation 25th Annual Career Day

Bring your resumes and get ready to discover what the Chicago advertising industry can offer you. In just one day, you’ll network with professionals from every niche of the business, learn the ins-and-outs of the industry and tour an advertising/marketing agency.

Date: Friday, February 23, 2007
Time: 7:30 am–4:00 pm
Place: Renaissance Hotel
1 West Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60601
312.372.7200

Map: http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/CHISR
(SE corner of Wacker & State)
Cost: $90*
Suggested attire: Business. Please dress for weather.

The course, IPC 490/COMS 586 Communication and Culture in Italy, explores intercultural communication in Italy with focus on representation of gender and the media, the impact of globalization in the nation, ICT, and business and organizational communication in Italy.

The course, which is offered June 28 - July 28, 2007 is open to all undergraduate and graduate students at universities in the U.S. and abroad. Transfer credit of the three-hour course and with a 3-hour SACI course is administered by BGSU.

The location of the course is the SACI institute; BGSU is the only U.S. university affiliated with SACI to offer courses there. SACI is located in the heart of Florence, steps away from Michelangelo's Medici Chapel, Fra Angelico's masterpieces in San Marco, the colorful central market and Florence's Duomo.

For more info on SACI, see www.saci-florence.org
 

Juniors and Seniors

The Association for Women in Communications, Springfield Chapter, seeks promising communications students for its annual scholarship award. The $2,000 scholarship will be awarded to a junior, senior or graduate-level college student majoring in communications, journalism, public relations or related fields and have an above-average GPA (3.0 or above on a scale of 4.0). The award symbolizes the commitment of the Association for Women in Communications, Springfield Chapter, to education and continuing high professional standards for the communications industry.
 
The deadline to submit application and all required information is March 9, 2007.

for applications please visit:  http://www.awcspringfield.org/Awc_scholarship.htm

HUMANA FESTIVAL COLLEGE DAYS
31st Humana Festival of New American Plays
March 16 – 18, 2007
Actors Theatre of Louisville

Only $99!

* See 3 groundbreaking Humana Festival stage premieres—before the rest of the world!
* Participate in talk-back sessions with seasoned theatre professionals
* Observe how it all comes together in technical rehearsal and scenic changeover
* Audition or interview for Actors Theatre Apprentice/Intern Company


Reserve Your College Days Package Now!
Deadline March 1.

for details please visit:
http://www.actorstheatre.org/humana_college.htm

or call:
502-585-1210 or groupsales@actorstheatre.org

Opportunities for Graduate Assistantships at Saint Louis University

The Department of Communication offers approximately ten graduate assistantships each year for teaching, research and professional endeavors.

Assistants typically work 20 hours a week in their assigned area (teaching, research or professional, receive a tuition waiver, stipend, and health insurance for the contract period.

Students should complete their application for admission and Assistantship

Request Statement by February 15th for first consideration. If you are unable to complete the application by this date, please contact Dr.Turner at 314.977.3193 or turnerp@slu.edu to discuss other arrangements.

Dr. Turner, Graduate Director
314.977.3193
turnerp@slu.edu.
 

Crimson Masque AUDITION INFORMATION
SPRING, 2007

Monday. Jan 22 - Shakespeare Auditions
7-10 pm - Wells Theater

Tuesday, Jan 23 - Shakespeare Auditions
3:00-5 pm and 7-10 pm - Wells Theater

Wednesday, Jan 24 - Blue Room Auditions
7 – 10pm – Wells Theater

Thursday, Jan 25 - Blue Room Auditions
3:30 – 5:30pm – Wells Theater
 

Woyzeck Auditions
7 – 10pm Wells Theater
 

Friday, Jan 26 - Woyzeck Auditions
3 - 5:30pm Wells Theater

Saturday, Jan 27 - Blue Room Call Backs
1 – 3pm Wells Theater

Woyzeck Call Backs
5 – 7pm Wells Theater

Sunday, Jan 28 - Shakespeare Call Backs

2 - 4 and 7 – 10pm Wells Theater

Monday, January 29 - Cast Lists Posted on the Crimson Call Board

All scholarship students not cast in a production need to immediately contact Doug to sign up for a tech position.

NOTES ON AUDITONS:

Actors cast in the Shakespeare production can also be cast in Woyzeck or Blue Room.  Actors will NOT be shared between Woyzeck and Blue Room. 

All actors are urged to come to auditions with a CLEAR understanding of all conflicts and scheduled events.
Actors will be required to fill out an audition form at each audition. A resume is helpful, but not required.
Actors will be notified via e-mail if they are needed for call-backs. Get used to checking your e-mail.
Casts lists will be posted on the Crimson Call Board.
 
Shakespeare: Othello and Hamlet

Directed by Dr. Bill Wallace and Michelle Anisette

Both productions will audition at the same time. Actors should expect monologues and cold readings from each script. The directors plan to have sign up sheets for specific audition time slots, as well as open times available for anyone to audition when it’s convenient for them. Call backs will be at separate times, and actors will be notified if they are needed for call backs. Approximately 3 actors are needed for Othello and 25 for the company of Hamlet.

The Blue Room

Directed by Leanna Wilson

The Blue Room follows a chain of sexual encounters between an intriguingly diverse selection of characters – a prostitute and a cab driver, a politician and a model, an actress and an aristocrat – and the journey that they take, individually and collectively, in their relationships, whether relationships of love or lust. When Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde, from which this play was adapted, premiered in Vienna in 1921 the play was closed down by the police, and the actors in its first Berlin production the same year had to endure a six-day trial on charges of obscenity.
A series of sexual encounters: erotic, illegal, vulgar, gentle, corrupt, dishonest, The Blue Room promises an unforgettable evening of thought provoking and challenging theatre.

Actors should expect to find themselves in PG-13 situations. The rehearsal schedule will be relatively light due to the set up of the show. The cast will consist of five men and five women. Bring conflicts and British accents to auditions if you have them. Auditions pieces will be provided. (Every scene is between a male and a female, so if you would like to be guaranteed a scene partner, bring one of those too).

Woyzeck

Directed by Professor Janeve West

Seen as 'working class' tragedy, Woyzeck has been considered a “difficult work to categorize.” Written in 1836, it has become one of the most performed and influential plays in the German theatre repertory and today is considered to be the first truly “modern” play. Woyzeck concerns the dehumanizing effects of society on the working class, and is the story of a soldier driven mad by inhuman military discipline and social deprivation. It is loosely based on the true story of Johann Christian Woyzeck, a Leipzig wigmaker who murdered Christiane Woost in a fit of jealousy in 1821 and was subsequently publicly decapitated. The production itself was unfinished and unorganized at the time of the playwright’s death. Often reorganized by directors and cast members, the splintered dialogue and jagged episodes are as stunning today as they would have been a hundred years ago.

Actors are urged, but not required, to come to both sets of Woyzeck auditions, to be prompt and to remain for the entire time. It is requested that actors dress in comfortable attire (sweats and tennis shoes) and be ready to move. The audition will consist of movement, improvisation and cold readings with scripts provided. All actors should come to auditions with a CLEAR understanding of their schedule. A resume would be helpful, but is not required. The director is looking for a company of 8 - 12 actors.