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He notes another important element for the Williams series is having cast student actors who are \u201copen enough to understand what it’s like for a character to go through extreme loneliness and the decisions that people make when they feel like they don’t have other options.\u201d Two of the actors, Colin Kinnick \u201922 (SFA) and Andre Chan, an MFA student, each appear in the first two productions separately and then perform together in the third.
\u201cWe’re developing that language between us in these earlier shows that will be super beneficial later on, because like any director who has actors they love working with, you get to a point where you have that common language; you don’t need to say much,\u201d Singleton says. \u201cI think it is a big challenge, and one that actors enjoy, to be able to play various roles within a series of one acts or within a production.\u201d<\/p>\r\n
The director says CRT audiences are accustomed to seeing the development of student actors as they perform throughout their time at UConn, whether as undergraduate students or in the Master of Fine Arts program.<\/p>\r\n
\u201cYou’re really seeing a company of actors and their progression,\u201d he says. \u201cWe hope that based on their talent and abilities that you are potentially seeing the next person who’s going to be a star on Saturday Night Live or the next actor who’s going to be on Broadway. Our department has a history of having actors from this program go on to have successful careers in TV, film, and theater.\u201d Student actors will interpret the work of the famous playwrights in the new and challenging medium of Zoom theater. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":169267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1711,2235,2225],"tags":[2069],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1918],"class_list":["post-169174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-storrs","tag-arts"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 02:46:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169174"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169268,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169174\/revisions\/169268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/169267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169174"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=169174"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=169174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The cast for \u201cTalk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen\u201d includes Kinnick as the Man and Casey Wortham, an MFA student, as the Woman. There will be a talkback following each performance throughout the series.
Ticket holders for all shows will receive a link via email 24 hours prior to the performance. For more information, visit the CRT website<\/a> or call 860-486-2113.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"