Record a one-minute monologue of your choice and one verse and chorus of a gospel, jazz, or R&B piece. Send .mp4 or .mov video files under two minutes to fpirise@gmail.com
Deadline: 05/23/2021
C.T. VIVIAN - African-American, male. Persistent Civil Rights Movement Leader with SNCC and other influential organizations, from age 5 to his 90s
OCTAVIA VIVIAN - author, wife of C.T., from college age to her 90s
Many of the following roles will be played by the same ensemble member
Soloists
GRANDMOTHER ANNIE WOODS TINDELL - African-American female. Spiritual matriarch in C.T.’s childhood. His grandmother and Euzetta’s mother.
EUZETTA VIVIAN - African-American female. C.T.’s young single mother
CHILDHOOD PREACHER - African-American male. Baptist preacher
DIANE NASH - African-American Female Civil Rights Freedom Rider
JAMES BEVEL - African-American Male Civil Rights Freedom Rider
JOHN LEWIS - African-American Male Civil Rights Freedom Rider, leader
REV. MLK JR - African-American Male Civil Rights Movement Leader, friend of CT
STOKELY CARMICHAEL - African-American Civil Rights Freedom Rider & Organizer
REV. ANDREW YOUNG - African-American Male Civil Rights Leader
HOSEA WILLIAMS - African-American Male Civil Rights Freedom Rider
RALPH DAVID ABERNATHY - African-American Male Civil Rights Freedom Rider
MISSISSIPPI PRISONERS (4) - African-American males
JESSE JACKSON - African-American Male Civil Rights Movement Leader
JIMMY LEE JACKSON - African-American male victim of Bloody Sunday
SAMMY DAVIS, JR - African-American male. Famous vocal artist
HUEY P. NEWTON - African-American Male Black Panther Party leader
ANGELA DAVIS - African-American female. Afro-sporting Black Panther Party leader
CORETTA SCOTT KING - Dear friend of Octavia’s, wife/widow of MLK Jr
JEAN YOUNG - African-American. Wife of Andrew
JUANITA ABERNATHY - African-American. Wife of Ralph David
JACQUELINE BROWN JACKSON - African-American. Wife of Jesse
Other Noted Ensemble
JAMES LAWSON - African-American Civil Rights Freedom Rider
MARION BARRY - African-American Civil Rights Freedom Rider
BERNARD LAFAYETTE - Civil Rights Freedom Rider
HARRY BELAFONTE - Civil Rights Freedom Rider, friend of Sammy Davis, Jr
REV. MALCOLM BLACKBURN - Civil Rights movement leader
GEORGE WALLACE - Caucasian male. Segregationist Governor of Alabama
SHERIFF CLARK - Caucasian male. White Alabama sheriff
SHERIFF BULL - Caucasian male. White Alabama sheriff
LEONARD SENGALI - African-American male. Leader of a Chicago gang
BIG JOHN - African-American male. Leader of a Chicago gang
FRED BOBBY GORE - African-American male. Leader of a Chicago gang
DOROTHY - Caucasian female. Battered wife in distress, Grandmother Tindell’s neighbor
WHITE KIDS/COLLEGE STUDENTS (4) - Caucasian males & females, early 20s
COLLEGE PROFESSOR - Caucasian male.
SERVER - Caucasian female.
SHERIFF - Caucasian male.
BOB FILNER - Caucasian male. Civil Rights Freedom Rider
JAMES FARMER - African-American male. Civil Rights Freedom Rider
WINONAH MYERS - Caucasian female. Civil Rights Freedom Rider
FRANCES WILSON - African-American female. Civil Rights Freedom Rider
EDWINA - African-American female. SNCC phone operator
ATTORNEY GENERAL KATZENBACH - Attorney that assisted in integrating schools on marshall law
JFK - 35th president of the US
LBJ - 36th president of the US
BARACK H. OBAMA - 44th president of the US
GORDON H. HADLEY - Caucasian male. Cowboy who wrote condolences to Coretta
REV. MUSGRAVE - African-American male. Civil rights leader who wrote condolences to Coretta
CONSTRUCTION SUPERVISOR - Caucasian male. Chicagoan.
MAYOR DALEY - Caucasian male. Mayor of Chicago
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR - Caucasian, any gender
DENISE VIVIAN - African-American teenage daughter of CT & Octavia
PRISON GUARD - Caucasian male
MISSISSIPPI JUDGE - Caucasian male
MAN IN SUIT - Mysterious FBI agent
NEWS ANNOUNCERS - any gender or ethnicity
KLAN LEADER - Caucasian male.
EMCEE - any gender or ethnicity
SHOWGIRLS - females of any ethnicity
Videos
