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Haunts & Horrors Festival Auditions


  • Black Box Arts Center 113 South Princess Street Shepherdstown, WV, 25443 United States (map)

Auditions will be held August 18 and August 19 at 7 PM.

Show dates are October 24 through 27.

You can audition for the following shows to be performed at the Haunts & Horrors Festival:

Show 1: The Three Husbands of Sarah Tilbury

by Connor Casey, directed by Andrew Reed

CHARACTERS:

  • Archibald Tilbury (M, 50’s-70’s): A retired Navy officer and widower, desperate to find a suitor for his eldest daughter.

  • Lily Tilbury (F, 18-25): A dreamer and romantic, slightly detached from reality.

  • Sarah Tilbury (F, 25-35): A beautiful and intelligent woman with a dark and dour demeanor.

  • Captain Covington (M, 30-45): An arrogant Navy captain, looking to settle down.

Show 2: 0° Alcestis

by Ian Downes, directed by Tim Vinson

CHARACTERS:

  • Adam: The husband of Allie, a prolific writer of short horror stories, agoraphobic, paranoid, asexual, racist, with twisted ideals of how the world works, and perhaps how it should work.

  • Dr. Muñoz: A professor at Miskatonic University, intrigued by the works of Adam, he’s found a way to cheat Death, clothed in purple, “a man of birth, cultivation,…high-bred.”

  • Allie: The wife of Adam, friends with jazz musicians, an immigrant by heart, but not by birth. This is her second loveless marriage, and won’t be her last, but she had hoped for more this time.

  • Death: A very capable black man. Dressed as a dapper gentleman. He seems to live above the time of the 1920s, the specter of death for America. He holds no love for the living, especially those outside his reach.

Show 3: Arti Doll

by Mark Byham, directed by Seth Morris

CHARACTERS:

  • Dr. Benhamin Nichols (M, 40’s-50’s): Head of SETI Institute.

  • Jeff Nichols (M, 30’s-50’s): Ben’s Brother.

  • Pam Nichols (F, 30’s-50’s): Jeff’s wife.

  • Arti (F, late teens-20’s): Artificial robotic companion, an electronic doll.

  • Alexa (offstage role): Voice of Alexa.

Show 4: Harvest Day

by B.L. Hardgrove, directed by Riley Taylor

CHARACTERS:

  • Hunter (M): A hunter lost in the woods.

  • Rabbit: A sociable and polite fellow.

  • Frog: A distinguished Scottish gentleman.

  • Raven: Beautiful and mysterious.

  • Raccoon: High-strung and worrisome.

  • Owl: An upper-crust intellectual, a bit of a curmudgeon.

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