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Open, in-person auditions for the Hamilton-Gibson Women's Project are being held at 10 a.m. on Aug. 28, 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 30 and 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 1 in the Warehouse Theatre, 3 Central Ave., Wellsboro.
No registration is required to audition. Interested readers can select an audition date and time and come to the Warehouse Theatre.
The HGWP production "Woodpecker Lips," inspired by the phrase "She's tougher than Woodpecker Lips," includes 13 original monologues. Some of them are dramatic with intense moments. Others are bolder and funnier or quiet and reflective.
The monologues range from 5 to 11 minutes apiece. Written by local women especially for this year's production, all of them are about real Pennsylvania women, both contemporary and historical.
Needed are 13 female adults and young women ages 13 and up, to fill the roles. Material from the monologue scripts will be provided to those who audition.
The 13 woman featured in the monologues are: Alison Bechdel at age 22 in the mid-1980s in Beech Creek, on the cusp of becoming a well-known American cartoonist and graphic novelist; Mary Wells at age 51 in 1814 who, with her husband, founded Wellsboro; Mariette Butler Sears at age 48 in 1880, wife of George Washington Sears whose pen name was Nessmuk; Mary Cassatt at age 73 in 1917, a painter and printmaker living in France; Hetty Murray, in her late 20s in the late 1700s, a black servant who moved from Delaware to the Wellsboro area; Edna Goodwin at age 31 in 1950 who came to Wellsboro from South Carolina; Mary Jemison at age 69 in 1812, a woman born of Scotch-Irish descent who was adopted into a Seneca Nation of Indians family; Elizabeth Jane Cochran at age 22 in 1887, a journalist better known by her pen name Nellie Bly; Joan Marie Larkin at age 13 in 1971 taking her first guitar lesson before becoming known as Joan Jett; Queen Anne (last name unknown) who is in her mid 50s in the late 1800s and the proprietor of a "hotel" and rum bar in Slate Run; Tabitha Ann Wilcox, at age 82 in 1990, a wizened, white-haired old woman who has had an adventurous life; Cornelia Bryce Pinchot at age 53 in 1934, a feminist, suffragist, social justice activist and wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania; and Rachel Carson at age 57 in 1963, a marine biologist, author and conservationist.
The 2021 women's project will conclude with performances of all 13 monologues at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 29 and 30 and Nov. 5 and 6 and at 2:30 p.m. on Oct. 31 and Nov. 7.
For more information about the auditions, the Woodpecker Lips production or to get involved, call the Hamilton-Gibson office at 570-724-2079 or email Jessie Thompson at WoodpeckerLips2021@gmail.com.