cold read- reading something you haven't read before, sometimes used in auditions or after a play has been cast
I'm really sick and I haven't been in school much, so I have been to my placement much. Kind of a bummer for my last week. I've still had some work at home. I finished up transferring all of Tom's notes into a spreadsheet and I sent that off to him. Wednesday I felt well enough to go to school and it was my last playwriting class. We brought actors in to do cold readings of our plays. They just sat up front and read the parts. We also had someone reading stage directions for each, that way the actions in the script were made apparent even though the actors weren't using blocking. It helps tell the story, since a large portion of a play can be visual. I had Nic Morse and Noah Gehrmann come in to read for me. Jillian, a girl in my class, brought in two actresses who agreed to read my script as well. It was kind of nerve wracking and I'm glad it's over. We turned in a copy of our script, and Professor Miller took notes and he's going to e-mail us feedback.
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