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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Thursday, October 8, 2015
9:30 am-5:30 pm
(lunch 1:00-2:00 pm)
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Contract
LOA-NYC
$315/week + pension and health
Location
Actors' Equity Association NYC Audition Center
165 West 46th Street
16th Floor
New York, NY 10036
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Seeking
Equity actors, male and female, for BOY. See breakdown.
Preparation
Please bring a headshot and resume stapled together and prepare a contemporary monologue.
Other Dates
First Rehearsal: Jan 26, 2016
First Preview: Feb 23, 2016
Opening: Mar 10, 2016
Closing: Apr 9, 2016
Other
Venue: Clurman Theatre at Theatre Row
Personnel
Playwright: Anna Ziegler
Director: Linsay Firman
Producers: Keen Company/EST/The Alfred P. Sloane Foundation Project
Casting: Calleri Casting
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will be provided.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
DR. WENDELL MORTIMER: (Male 40s-50s), He’s passionate about his work and driven by his belief that it can spare psychic pain and enable his patients to live fuller lives. On top of this he is warm and genial, charismatic and extremely smart. He has done groundbreaking work changing the landscape for transgendered people at a time when that was extremely radical, and he believes he can apply the same ideas to ''save'' a child, although he knows he is taking the family into uncertain territory.
ADAM TURNER (Male early-mid 20s), the actor also plays him at an earlier age, working class but self-educated. Adam's got a kind of a PTSD from his damaged past, which leads him to be impulsive, manic, sexually insecure, unsure of how to navigate social situations, and he often deals with that insecurity by being aggressive rather than passive. Throughout his childhood he was deeply unhappy, felt wrong, out of place. Has a lot of anger because of this history. At the same time, It's important that he brings hope -- and an almost childlike innocence -- to trying to create a new life despite the obstacles. Possible partial nudity required.
JENNY (Female early-mid 20s), Adam’s girlfriend. Jenny is working class, a bit toughened and wary but still hoping for wonderful things. Jenny must be believably needy, someone who courts abuse in her relationships, is a mix of vulnerability and defensiveness. A single mother with no partner around at all, she has made a series of bad choices which make her not trust her own judgement. She approaches life with forthrightness and also an innate positiveness - she tries to be hopeful despite life's lessons.
TRUDY (Female 30s-40s); Adam’s mother warm and lost and hopeful, trying to make sense of a confusing world and doing her best. Her refusal to accept failure gives her strength but also creates a dangerous blind spot.
DOUG (Male 30s-40s) Adam’s father, a man of not very many words, working class and in over his head, just trying to get by. Has an intuitive practical intelligence, a sense of humor, and despite a rough exterior can be heartbreakingly honest when trying to convey what he needs to those he loves.
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