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Audition to tell ‘COVID Stories’

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University of Illinois Springfield and SIU School of Medicine are partnering to present COVID Stories, a reader’s theater using real interviews about local Illinois residents’ pandemic experiences.

COVID Stories will be performed at the school of medicine at 7 p.m. on Friday, September 26, and at UIS at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, October 9.

Readers will be chosen from our central Illinois communities. No experience is necessary. Anyone interested in being a reader/orator may attend an audition on September 2 or 3 at 7 p.m. in VPA 170 on the University of Illinois Springfield (UIS) campus. Priority casting will be given to students, staff, faculty or alumni of either UIS or the school of medicine.

Rehearsal requirements and sign-up information for COVID Stories

Direct audition questions to Hope Cherry (hcherry@siumed.edu).

For more details about the COVID Stories project and its related events, visit our site here.

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