
Audition Call
Heaven by Cheryl Foggo
Directed by Janelle Cooper
Heaven draws on the little-known true history of Black pioneers in the prairies. In 1927, Charlotte arrives in rural northern Alberta to work as a schoolteacher and find her own small piece of heaven. A prairie story of resilience, love and baseball.
Dates: May 24, 2022-June 26, 2022
CHARLOTTE WILLIAMS, 35 – a smart, Black woman who doesn’t know when to bite her tongue. Descendant of Ontario Underground Railroad
EZRA JONES, mid- 40s, a Black farmer and community leader.
Play takes place in February – July 1927
Location: Amber Valley Alberta was a real community of Black pioneers who fled brutal racism in their southern US home territories when those territories became the state of Oklahoma in 1907.
Please send your CV to [email protected] to receive the sides. Recorded auditions will be due December 10th at 5pm MT and digital call backs with Director Janelle Cooper will be on December 15-19, 2021 if needed.
We will only be accepting submissions from Alberta at this time.