Kumu Kahua Theatre Holds Auditions for Blue by Wil Kahele WHAT: Auditions for Blue by Wil Kahele
WHERE: Kumu Kahua Theatre 46 Merchant Street
WHEN: March 26, 2pm-5pm; March 27, 6pm-9pm
INFO: 808-536-4222,
kumukahua.org and
officemanager@kumukahua.org
Open auditions will be held to cast the world premiere of Blue written by Wil Kahele. The show will be directed by Iasona Kaper and runs May 26 - June 26, 2022. Both the auditions and performances for this production will be held live at Kumu Kahua Theatre. Show description: It’s not just fun and games at Waik?k?’s Aloha Sunset L?nai. Balancing personal dreams and multiple jobs, a dynamic musical duo and their hula counterparts discover that sometimes the entertainment they provide has profound impacts. Director Iasona Kaper is looking for actors to fill the following roles: JON - 30s, Male - Hawaiian musician (actor should be able to sing and play guitar or ?ukulele) AMY - 30s, Female - Tourist originally from Kansas KUMU - 50s - Kumu hula and hotel bar server (actor should have hula experience) HOKU - Female - Hula dancer, med school student at UH (actor should have hula experience) All actors should be familiar with the play. A digital copy of the script can be found
here. Auditions will consist of readings from the script. For further information, call the Kumu Kahua Theatre office at 536-4222, or email
officemanager@kumukahua.org. Wil Kahele (Playwright)- has worn many hats at KKT including actor, director, and now playwright. His acting credits include several musicals at DHT, MVT, and ACT, as well as work in films, including Haole, Under the Blood Red Sun, 6B, The Ride, Silent Years, and The Sand Island Drive-In Anthem. For KKT, he has appeared in Echoes of Dat Red Guitar, Folks You Meet in Longs, Waiting for a King, The Hilo Massacre, The Great Kaua‘i Train Robbery, and Flowers of Hawai'i. His directing credits include co-directing - with Harry Wong - the 2007 KKT revival of Alani Apio’s K?mau, which also toured to the Pacific Arts Festival in S?moa in 2008. He also directed Jokerin 2015, M?ui the Demigod in 2010, K?mau A'e in 2012, and Koi, Like the Fish in 2014 here at KKT. Iasona Kaper (Director)- is an actor, director, writer and translator currently pursuing an MFA in Hawaiian Theatre at UH-Ma?noa, where his most recent project was directing scenes in Hawai?i No? Ka ?Oi: A Sakamoto Celebration. At KKT, he has served as assistant director for Living Pidgin, Ka?mau, Pele Ma?, Hostage Wife, Waiting for a King/Kaluaiko?olau, Ka?mau A?e, My Boy, He Play Ball, and co-director for The Statehood Project. His KKT acting credits include Prolonged Sunlight, Ghosts in the Plague Year, The Great Kaua?i Train Robbery, Ka?iulani, and Way of a God. Kumu Kahua productions are supported in part by the NME Fund of the Hawai?i Community Foundation, the Island Insurance Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020 and the American Rescue Plan of 2021, McInerny Foundation (Bank of Hawaii, Trustee); The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, through appropriations from the Legislature of the State of Hawai?i, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser, Hawaiian Electric Company, Alexander & Baldwin, The John R Halligan Charitable Fund, Spectrum/Charter Communications, ABC Stores, the Gloria Kosasa Gainsley Fund, Hawai?i Public Radio, The Kim Coco Fund for Justice of the Iwamoto Family Foundation, Edric Sakamoto, John Mazur and other foundations, businesses, and loyal patrons. |
