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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
9:30 am-5:30 pm
(lunch 1:00-2:00 pm)
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Contract
ANTC
$553 weekly minimum
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 DOT. See breakdown.
Preparation
Please prepare a contemporary monologue. Comedic monologues preferred.
Please bring a picture and resume.
Other Dates
1st Reh: January 5th, 2016
1st Pre: February 4th, 2016
Tentative Opening: week of February 22nd
Personnel
Director: Susan Stroman
Playwright: Colman Domingo
Artistic Directors: Douglas Aibel and Sarah Stern
Casting Director: Henry Russell Bergstein
· 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
Family matriarch Dotty and her three adult children gather for the holidays with more than exchanging presents on their minds. As Dotty struggles to navigate life with dementia, her children fight to balance care for their mother and care for themselves. A testament to the enduring bonds of family, this hilarious and moving new play by Colman Domingo (author of Vineyard’s A BOY AND HIS SOUL and Tony Award nominee for his role in Vineyard’s production of THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS) grapples unforgettably with aging parents, midlife crises, and the heart of an inner city neighborhood. Directed by Tony Award winner Susan Stroman, who returns to The Vineyard after her ground-breaking work on THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS.
SEEKING:
DOTTY: African-American. 65-70 years old. The matriarch of the Shealy Family. She has been suffering with the effects of dementia, which in our play is nearing a more advanced stage. She is, at her best, a force of nature. Strong, bold, witty, self-assured and a pistol. She is concerned with leaving a clear knowledge of legacy to her grandson Jason so that his life will have great meaning. Her pride is her children which she and her husband were raised to be strong, passionate citizens of the world.
SHELLY [CAST]: ?African-American. 45 years old. Dotty’s eldest child. Her parents made sure that she was college bound. She graduated from Villanova and then Temple University Law School. She is now a Public Defender. Has never lived anywhere but the Philadelphia area. Shelly practically lives in her mother’s house, since Dot’s dementia has advanced. She is overwhelmed--to say the least--in regards to being the principal caregiver and being a single mother.
DONNIE: African-American. 40 years old. Dotty’s middle child. Athletic and masculine. A musicologist and an independent music critic. He is married to Adam, the love of his life, although at this point in their lives they are at a cross roads, just as many couple are met with from time to time.
AVERIE: African-American. 37 years old. Dotty’s youngest child. She is very much a product of our modern culture. Boisterous, confident, and fame obsessed. She is the most gutteral in the way she operates. She is the modern sensibility of the neighborhood. She is all about moving forward and taking what the world has given with all its trauma and making something of it.
JACKIE: Caucasian. 35-45 years old. She is the product of the 1970/1980’s West Philadelphia. An inner city integrated neighborhood. She was Donnie’s teenage girlfriend. Broken hearted when Donnie turned out to be gay, she left the neighborhood to go to New York for college and never looked back. She is a consummate single girl. She is trying to navigate all the promises of what a modern girl could be in our society, and often going the wrong way.
ADAM: 35-40 years old. Donnie’s husband. Athletic and masculine. A kind and generous spirit who works for a non-profit that seeks help for homeless gay youth. He is having a bit of a midlife crisis that he isn’t very aware of. And is getting very busy enjoying the fruits of being out and carefree. He enjoys fitness, Fire Island and circuit parties. He is at a cross roads with his husband at this moment in our play. ??
FIDEL: A Kazakh. 20s-30’s. A care giver from Kazakhstan. He came to this country with absolutely nothing and forged a life for himself. Fidel is a quiet healing presence in the play that is always there. An unsung hero. He has forged an unlikely bond with Dotty—despite both their difficulties in expressing themselves. English is his second language. He is the only one who allows Dotty to express how she really feels because he is an outsider. He is also seeking what all of the characters are struggling to find: a new description of home.
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