Auditions for #VOICED by Janelle Gray will take place in University Theatre on December 12 and 13 at 7 p.m.

There are no special audition requirements. Students receive course credit for Spring Semester 2023. Community members are also welcomed to audition.

#VOICED by Janelle Gray, is an exciting multimedia play where characters are seen interacting through digital technologies: Instagram, FaceTime, Texts, news stories, and Youtube. Students are seen scrolling on their phones, taking pictures, using social media all of which are witnessed on screens designed for the stage and seen by the audience.

Important dates:

Rehearsals: evenings January 16th thru Feb. 15; times TBD

Performance dates: Feb 16-18 & Feb 23-25, 2023

Story Summary: For the seniors at Lamont Private School, there’s nothing but blue skies ahead as they prepare to head to college — that is until a mass shooting at a nearby school hits a little too close to home. With only a semester left until graduation, six student journalists explore the tragedy only to find that their relationships with issues like parental pressure, racism, immigration, religion, and mental health may affect their ability to make positive change. Tired of being silenced, these six friends have to decide if it's worth the sacrifice to move from reporting the news to creating it, risking their reputation and future in order to finally speak out about issues that really matter to them.

About the playwright: Janelle Gray is a creative and instructor from Dallas, Texas who produces and publishes under her company, All A Gray Area. Gray holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Spanish from Stephen F. Austin State University and a Master of Liberal Arts in Creative Writing and Literature as well as a Graduate Certificate in Social Justice from Harvard University Extension School. She is a doctoral student at The University of Texas at Dallas where she teaches Rhetoric.

Directed by Tinamarie Ivey.

For more information, contact tinamarie.ivey@utdallas.edu