Auditions for Devin T. Mays/For Instance, a presentation of Endgame by Samuel Beckett, will be held in person November 6 and 7 in the Stock Pavilion.
The performance will be Saturday, May 1, 2027, at 7 pm, in the Stock Pavilion, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Looking for performers willing to take on the role of Clov
Looking for performers willing to take on the role of Hamm
Looking for performers willing to take on the role of Nagg
Looking for performers willing to take on the role of Nell
Email Amy L. Powell for further audition instructions: alpowell@illinois.edu. Subject line should read: ENDGAME Auditions. Please email by October 30. Non-actors and actors are encouraged to respond.
Must be willing to talk in circles
Must be willing to be in circles
Must be willing to be a circle
Must be willing to circle
This is a paid opportunity
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Devin T. Mays’s (based in Chicago and Galveston, Texas) interdisciplinary practice is an exercise in wandering he often refers to as a practice-in-practice. Mays creates poetic gestures of observation and ritual through sculpture and installation, sound, performance, and photography. Mays will be a featured artist in Degrees of Archive: contemporary art and the shape of history at Krannert Art Museum (Feb 4–July 3, 2027). Instagram: @devintmays
He also teaches at Rice University as Assistant Professor of Art:
Devin T. Mays (b. Detroit, MI) is an artist interested in the here and there of things. He uses sculpture, installation, performance and pictures for everything and nothing. He often refers to his practice as a place for things to become Things.
Mays has exhibited and performed at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna; The Power Station, Dallas; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; gta exhibitions, Zürich; Sweetwater, Berlin; F Gallery, Houston; SculptureCenter, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Regards, Chicago, among others.
Mays holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Howard University and a Master of Fine Arts from The University of Chicago.
For Instance is presented in conjunction with Degrees of Archive: contemporary art and the shape of history at Krannert Art Museum (Feb 4–July 3, 2027).
This project is commissioned by Campus Arts Research in the Office for Arts Integration at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
