The first selection for the 2019 At the Table table read series for SAG-AFTRA/IFP will be Kris Swanberg’s I Used to Go Here.
The plot of the story revolves around a 35-year-old writer who gets mixed up in the lives of a group of college students after she’s invited to speak at her alma mater.
The table read will take place in the Kaufherr Center on Monday, Jan. 28, at 6 p.m., with a rehearsal on Thursday, Jan. 24 at 5:30 p.m.
If you are interested in submitting for a role, please email Kathy Byrne at kathy.byrne@sagaftra.org, and she will send you the character breakdown and submission information. The submission deadline is Jan. 11, 2019. If you previously submitted to be included in the database for this program, you will receive the submission information shortly.
At the Table Schedule for I Used to Go Here:
Jan. 11, 2019: Submissions due.
Jan. 24, 2019: Rehearsal at 5:30 p.m.
Jan. 28, 2019: Table read at 6 p.m.
Swanberg began her film career at Southern Illinois University, where she studied documentary film production. Her first feature, It Was Great, But I Was Ready to Come Home played in competition at the SXSW Film Festival in 2009, followed by her next feature, Empire Builder (2012) and short film Baby Mary (2014). Her third feature, Unexpected, premiered in competition at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Currently, Swanberg is teaching film at Northwestern University and prepping for her next feature film.