Artists Repertory Theatre 2018-2019 Season - Portland EPA Day
Artists Repertory Theatre
AUDITION DATES
Thu, Apr 19, 2018
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (PDT)
Fri, Apr 20, 2018
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (PDT)
APPOINTMENTS
Equity Actors: Email casting@artistsrep.org to schedule an audition slot. Note your preferred audition day/time. Non-Equity will be seen as time permits.
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep Minimum - $676/wk. EMC points available.
SEEKING
Principal roles for the upcoming Artists Repertory Theatre season.
PREPARATION
Two contrasting monologues not exceeding 3 minutes total. Please see www.artistsrep.org/learn-about-us/work-with-us.aspx for further instructions.
LOCATION
Artists Repertory Theatre
1515 SW Morrison
Portland, OR 97205
PERSONNEL
Vonessa Martin - Casting Director
OTHER DATES
SKELETON CREW: Rehearses Aug 7 - Sept 2, 2018. Performances Sept 2 - Sept 30, 2018.
SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS: Rehearses Sept 11 - Oct 7, 2018. Performances Oct 7 - Nov 4, 2018.
EVERYBODY: Rehearses Oct 30 - Nov 25, 2018. Performances Nov 25 - Dec 23, 2018.
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE: Rehearses Nov 27 - Dec 6, 2018. Performances Dec 6 - Dec 23, 2018.
TEENAGE DICK: Rehearses Dec 11, 2018 - Jan 6, 2019. Performances Jan 6 - Feb 3, 2019.
A DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2: Rehearses Jan 2 - Jan 27, 2019. Performances Jan
OTHER
No Stage Management positions are available. Actors unable to attend this call may submit headshot/resume to casting@artistsrep.org
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
SKELETON CREW by Dominique Morisseau (4 roles)
FAYE – Black woman, mid-to-late 50s. Working-class woman. Tough and a lifetime of dirt beneath her nails. Somewhere, deep compassion.
DEZ – Black man, mid-to-late 20s. Working-class young man. Young hustler, playful, street-savvy, and flirtatious. Somewhere, deeply sensitive.
SHANITA – Black woman, mid-to-late 20s. Working-class young woman. Pretty but not ruled by it. Hard-working. By-the-books. Believes in the work she does. Also, pregnant. Somewhere, a beautiful dreamer.
REGGIE – Black man, late 30s. White-collar man. Studious. Dedicated. Compassionate. The Foreman. Somewhere, a fire brims.
SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS by Bess Wohl (7 roles)
THE TEACHER – Precast
JOAN – late 40’s, wears a lot of clothes and jewelry from India. She is a therapist and sex educator in colleges, high schools and in private practice with couples. She likes to focus on pleasure rather than on fear or don’ts. She is also incredibly, mind-bendingly, soul-crushingly angry and she has been since about the age of six when her parents divorced and her mother told her, Daddy doesn’t love us enough.
JUDY – maybe 50, is Joan’s partner. She works at O Magazine as a top editor in the art department—a few times a year, she finds herself in the same room with Oprah. She’s the kind of person who only needs four hours of sleep per night. She finds that building up a healthy rage in the morning helps her greet her day. She likes control. She’s direct. Her soft spot is Joan.
ALICIA – is around 30-ish, from Southern California. She’s the kind of person who manages to make a lot of noise even when she’s in silence. She likes being watched. Up until a few months ago, she was with Fred, a hedge fund manager who kicked her out. She doesn’t have a lot of experience with mediation retreats but she needs something to take away the pain of living without Fred.
NED – 39 year old Jewish guy from Great Neck who works for a non-profit called Earthwatch and has had a severe run of bad luck worse than the worst country western song. Ned fell while rock climbing and cracked his skull in eight places. His wife left him for his brother and is now pregnant with his brother’s baby. He almost killed them both but opted for a mediation retreat instead.
RODNEY – mid-30s, ageless, fit, maybe Asian or Southeast Asian, gorgeous, grew up in the Pacific Northwest, teaches yoga in New York and the Hamptons (in the summer). He is married to his former student and he has affairs with current students. His wife makes him feel trapped, and this reminds him he’s going to get old and die.
JAN - 50-ish, is from a small town in Finland. He does not speak much English. He is pale and sweet, with a wide-eyed continually curious air about him, like a little sprite or woodland creature. He is a pastor at a small Lutheran church back in Finland and his church sent him on a one-year sabbatical to explore religious life around the world and figure out a way to appeal to more of the Finnish people. He likes to be prepared.
EVERYBODY by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (9 roles)
1st actor - USHER/GOD/UNDERSTANDING
2nd actor - DEATH – played by the oldest actor in the company
3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th actors - SOMEBODIES – played by every actor not the oldest, not the youngest, and not an usher.
EVERYBODY – played by a SOMEBODY until chosen by lottery
8th actor - GIRL – Precast
9th actor - ALL THE SHITTY THINGS –played by a completely different actor than the SOMEBODIES
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY by Joe Landry (6 roles).
All roles played by any ethnicity.
FREDDIE FILMORE – Announcer, Gower, Potter, Billy, Joseph, Peter Bailey, Ernie, Old Man Collins, Ed, Pete, Man (at Martini’s), Nick, Bridge Keeper, Binky, Cop
JAKE LAURENTS – George Bailey (and Young George)
SALLY APPLEWHITE – Mary Hatch (and Young Mary)
LANA SHERWOOD – Violet (and Young Violet), Rose Bailey, Matilda, Ruth, Mrs. Hatch, Mrs. Thompson, Schultz, Zuzu, Janie, Sadie Vance
HARRY JAZZBO HEYWOOD – Harry (and Young Harry), Bert, Clarence Oddbody, Sam Wainwright, Martini, Dr. Campbell, Charlie, Man (at run on bank), Horace the teller, Mr. Welch, Tommy, Sheriff
FOLEY ARTIST
TEENAGE DICK by Mike Lew (5 roles)
Richard – (male, to play 17) junior class secretary, slyly ambitious, has CP
Buck – (female, to play 17) his best friend, earnest, wheelchair user
Elizabeth York – Precast
Eddie – (male, to play 17) junior class president, football guy, kind of a dick
Anne – (female, to play 17) big-hearted yet dark, dancer, formerly the most popular girl in the school
A DOLL’S HOUSE, Part 2 by Lucas Hnath (4 roles)
Nora – Precast
Torvald – Nora’s husband, any ethnicity, 50s-60s
Anne Marie – Precast
Emmy – female, any ethnicity, 20’s, Nora and Torvald’s daughter
WOLF PLAY by Hansol Jung (5 roles)
ASH – female, late 20s, southpaw boxer, not Asian
ROBIN – female, late 30s, Ash’s wife
RYAN – male, early to mid 30s, Robin’s brother
PETER – male, late 30s, A father.
WOLF – male, actor to play young boy as a puppet, East Asian descent
THE REVOLUTIONISTS by Lauren Gunderson (4 roles)
OLYMPE De Gouges – badass activist playwright and feminist. 38. Theatre nerd, excitable, passionate, a showman. Widowed and never married to ensure her personal freedom.
CHARLOTTE Corday – badass country girl and assassin, 25, Very serious, hardened by righteousness. Never been kissed.
MARIE Antoinette – pretty badass but fascinating former queen of France. Bubbly, graceful, opinionated, totally unaware, unintentionally rude and oddly prescient. Never had a real friend. 38.
MARIANNE Angelle – A badass black woman in Paris. She is from the Caribbean, a free woman. A spy working with her husband, Vincent Tough, classy vigilant, the sanest one of them all. 30s.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to audition.
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