Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center

102 Martin Luther King Avenue

St. Augustine, FL 32084

Contact: The Zora Project

               Deborah Dickey  ddickey@arizona.edu

February 3, 2023

TO: Arts & Entertainment Calendar Editor

Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center Announces Auditions for

COLOR STRUCK

Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center announces that The Zora Project is seeking actors and dancers for its upcoming production of Color Struck by Zora Neale Hurston to be presented at LMCC April 28-30, 2023.  Florida’s award-winning writer and folklorist was associated with the Harlem Renaissance and was noted for her celebration of African American culture of the rural south. Auditions will be held at the Apex Christian Academy located at 2487 US 1 South, in  the Lewis Point Plaza in St. Augustine on Monday, Feb. 20 and Tuesday, Feb. 21 from 6:30-9:30 pm.

The production is directed by Deborah Dickey, and actors will be asked to read from sides and monologues that will be provided.  Choreography for the production will be created by Antonio C. Scott, a composer and professional dancer who has performed for companies throughout the United States, including the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and Dance Theatre of Harlem. He currently serves as the Fine Arts Curriculum Specialist for St. Johns County in Florida.

Color Struck is set in St. Augustine and opens in 1900 in a Jim Crow railway car traveling from Jacksonville to a Cakewalk competition in St. Augustine. Filled with the joyous voices and dialects that Hurston recorded in her travels throughout Florida, the play celebrates African American life in the rural south. The story follows one young woman’s journey that takes her from the prestige of being the most popular dancer in the state to the reality of a culture of “colorism” that has her questioning her own place in that world.

Roles are available for 5 women and 5 men from age 16-65. Honorariums for actors will be provided, and all performances will be presented at The Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center located at 102 Martin Luther King Avenue on April 28-30.  For further information contact:

Director:                                                                    Lincolnville Museum and Cultural Center

Deborah Dickey at ddickey@arizona.edu                 www.lincolnvillemuseum.org

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