Help Out Magic Futurebox While You Spring Clean

We're producing a fantastic show in late June/early July (exact dates TBA), and we need your old clothes to make costumes! The show is Tommy Smith's Demon Dreams and we'll be donating part of the proceeds to the Japanese prefectures hardest hit by the recent earthquake and tsunami, Doctors Without Borders, and Japan Earthquake Animal Rescue and Support. 

To that end, we're asking for donations of fabric and old clothes (please make sure they are bedbug free!) to assemble our costumes so that we save on overhead for the production (and can increase our donations to Japan). While you're getting rid of your winter clothes you didn't wear and the summer ones you won't, please donate the ones the resale stores won't take to Magic Futurebox! Not only will you make room in your closet, help us help Japan, but we'll even thank you in the program and on our website. 

For more information or to schedule a pick-up (that's right, we'll come to YOU!), please contact us at donations@magicfuturebox.com or leave us a comment with your contact info. 

(Note: All clothing not used for costumes will be donated to local charities.)

Auditions: Demon Dreams

Casting for Tommy Smith’s Demon Dreams NYC premiere in June.  Auditions will be held at The Tank in the ground floor theater, 354 W. 45th St. between 8th and 9th on Thursday, 4/7 from 10am to 4pm and Friday, 4/8 from 10am to 2pm.  Actors of all ethnic backgrounds encouraged to audition.  The show, directed by Kevin Laibson and produced by Magic Futurebox, runs in June and will rehearse in May.

Seeking 6 actors (3m, 3f) in their early twenties, to play 54 roles including animals, elements, and demons.  Strong ability to spit ill rhymes, physical or martial arts background preferred.  Please come prepared to rap 16 bars unaccompanied, move, mime, and play, and perform a 1-minute monologue.

Auditions by appointment only.  Please submit headshots/resumes to submissions@magicfuturebox.com with Demon Dreams in the subject line.

International Womens' Day -- Women in Theatre and Art

This morning, The Public asked on its Twitter feed: "On this International Womens' Day, a big shout out to all the amazing women in theatre. Which have inspired you?" Even in the very few months that MFb has been around, we've had the opportunity to work with some amazing women theatre artists, both on and off the stage: designers Kate Freer, Jesca Prudencio, Katherine Ramos, and Emily Peterson; composer Stephanie Johnstone; directors Jaclyn Backhaus and Zoe Farmingdale; dramaturg Tracy Cameron-Francis; choreographer Ani Niemann; stage hands and board ops Laura Merforth and Lauren Kennedy; publicist Jenn de la Vega; graphic designer Kei Kreutler; future-super-producer Maggie Baker; writer Janani Sreenivasan; and actors Corrie Pond, Carmen King, Catherine Mueller, Heather Paradise, Erin Patricia Wagner, Jari Majewski, Liz Alderfer, Ellie Famutimi, Sanaz Ghajarrahimi, Claire Rothrock, Jessie Barr, Kate Weber, Jo Lampert, Saffron Wayman, Jennifer Luong, Antonia Lema, Heather Christian, Kate Weber, Molly McAdoo, Lea Tolub, Kara Durrett, Kristen Connolly, and Liz Wisan. PHEW! That's a LOT of really talented women-- and so many of them are multi-talented, writers and directors, designers and actors, dancers and musicians. 

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