Nonprofit acting troupe will hold auditions in Unity
Storyz Studios, a nonprofit theater company, will host auditions for its upcoming production of a murder mystery, “Whispers in a Dark Manor: A Whodunnit.”
Auditions will take place March 21 from 7-8:30 p.m. and March 23 from 2-4 p.m. at the SpringHill Suites, 115 Arnold Palmer Drive in Unity. Auditions will consist of improvised scenes.
Characters include both men and women ranging in age from 20 to 55. Actors will need to be able to start rehearsals in late March. The show opens April 27 at SpringHill Suites.
Storyz Artistic Director Stephen Schrum started the company with Pitt-Greensburg alum John Paul Ritchey, a local Greensburg actor, founder and CEO of nonprofit arts group Artistic Prosperity, and a veteran of several film and Netflix production crews.
“In Westmoreland County, we have traditional theater pretty well covered,” he said. “We have a strong community theater, we have facilities at The Palace. But when it comes to utilizing art for social change? That isn’t seen too often. If you want to see a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, we have that. But there are a lot of arts patrons who are looking for a little more meat on the bone, so to speak, and I think that’s where we’re headed.”
For more, email Schrum at storyzstudios@gmail.com, or visit StoryzStudios.org.
Patrick Varine is a TribLive reporter covering Delmont, Export and Murrysville. He is a Western Pennsylvania native and joined the Trib in 2010 after working as a reporter and editor with the former Dover Post Co. in Delaware. He can be reached at pvarine@triblive.com.
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