The Alabama-Korea Education and Economic Partnership (A-KEEP) invites our community to open auditions for amateur actors and actresses, dancers, stagehands and support staff to participate in the our 6th annual Korean Cultural Experience (KCE) musical performance of The Beloved Daughter of the Shims. Auditions, open to all ages, will be held on Monday, March 1st and Thursday, March 18th at 6:00 pm at the Armory Learning Center Fitness room.

Picture yourself in one of these roles? Then join us and audition for our production

Auditioning actors, actresses, and dancers will participate by reading from a provided script and learn and perform a short movement piece. Korean speaking skills are not required to audition.

The Beloved Daughter of the Shims is a musical play based on the Korean folktale Sim Cheong. The story will be adapted from both Korean and Alabamian cultures to provide an opportunity to have the new interpretation of a well-known tale. This community-based musical theater production will challenge Alabamians to become bridges of cultures between local migrant Korean and Alabamians communities under the direction of a local professional director and playwright, Dr. Angela Dickson and professional dance instructor. 

Thanks to funding from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, Hodges Commercial Real Estate, and the Alabama Commission on Higher Education, the program will push high-quality and multicultural learning to move audience members from being bystanders to partakers in bridging cultural arts between Alabama and Korea.

A-KEEP’s mission is to provide multicultural diversity education programs to the students and professionals of both Alabama and Korea. A-KEEP also serves the community as a global partnership facilitator by bridging the differences between institutions and corporations of Alabama and Korea for local economic prosperity. Our annual KCE provides community enrichment and multicultural experiences to local people.