CLOUD 9 Equity Principal Auditions - The Studio Theatre Auditions

Call Type
Equity Principal

Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Wednesday February 10th, 2016
10 AM to 6 PM
Lunch 1:30 to 2:30

Contract
SPT
Cat. 10; $684/week

Location
Studio Theatre (Washington DC)
1501 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20005

Seeking
Equity actors for various roles.
Every actor will play at least two contrasting roles.

See breakdown for details.

Preparation
Please prepare a 2 minute contemporary monologue. Please bring a photo and resume stapled back to back

Other Dates
First Rehearsal: Monday August 8th, 2016
First Preview: Wednesday September 7th, 2016
Opening Night: Sunday September 11th, 2016
Scheduled Close: Sunday October 9th, 2016

Personnel
Associate Artistic Director: Matt Torney
Casting Assistant: Sivan Battat

by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Michael Kahn

· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

Appointments
No advanced appointments. AEA actors seen on first come, first seen basis.

Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.

Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.

Breakdown

(All doubling subject to change, but every actor will play at least two contrasting roles)

Clive/Cathy:
Male, 30-50. Clive is a colonial administrator in Africa in the Victorian period. A strong patriarchal figure who is becoming overwhelmed by the pressures of his job and family. Cathy is a five year old girl in 1970s London.

Betty/Edward:
Male, 25-40, Betty is a traditional Victorian wife and mother figure. Edward is a sexually confused young man in 1970s London

Joshua/Gerry:
Male, 30-40. Joshua is Clive’s African manservant who is torn between his racial identity and the needs of serving his white English bosses. Gerry is a working class gay Londoner in 1970s London.

Edward/Betty:
Female, 30-50, Edward is Clive and Betty's 9-year-old son whose innocence is challenged by the sexual politics of his family. Also plays Betty: the Act One character 25 years older in late 1970s London – who struggles with her children’s sexuality.

Maud/Victoria:
Female, 25-40. Clive’s mother in law. A battleaxe of a woman who is blunt with her opinions. Victoria is Edward’s sister who is stifled by an overbearing husband in an unhappy marriage in 1970s London.

Ellen/Mrs. Saunders/Lin:
Female, 20-30. Ellen is a repressed family governess in colonial Africa. Mrs. Saunders is an independent and confident woman who runs an African farm on her own. Lin is a working class Lesbian woman raising a child along in 1970s London.

Harry Bagley/Martin:
Male, 30-40. Harry is a handsome, intrepid, repressed homosexual Victorian explorer. Martin is Victoria’s husband struggling with a crisis of masculinity in 1970s London.