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Seeking
Equity actors for the following 2 plays in the upcoming 2016 Season:
DRACULA
and
BIOGRAPHY
See breakdown for more details
Preparation
Actors may read a side from the plays (provided at the audition), or do a monologue, preferably humourous.
Bring picture and resume
Other Dates
See breakdown for show dates
Other
www.eastlynnetheater.org
Personnel
Artistic Director, Gayle Stahlhuth (Director for both productions), expected to attend the EPA.
· 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
* UPDATED 2/16/16 *
For each production, there are two-and-a-half weeks for rehearsals, which begin on the
Monday two weeks before the opening week. Performance schedule is 4 shows a week:
Wednesday-Saturday, all in the evenings, except there is no show on Wednesday,
October 5, but a show on Sunday, October 9.
DRACULA
by John L. Balderston and Howard Deane
runs from July 27 - September 30.
This is the first successful adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 gothic novel, on Broadway
in 1927 starring Bela Lugosi, and in 1977 starring Frank Langella. All actors have English
accents, except Dracula.
Seeking:
DRACULA:
mysterious, polished, distinguished, continental in appearance and manner, speaks with
a Central European accent, age range 40-50
MAID:
attractive, age range 20-35; HARKER: handsome, direct and excitable, but well-
mannered and educated, age range 25-35
DR. SEWARD:
a psychiatrist who lives in a world of text books and patients, not a man of action, age
range 50-60
RENFIELD:
repulsive and a bit mad, a patient of Dr. Seward’s, age range 18-35
BUTTERWORTH:
a hospital attendant who is in charge of Renfield, age range 18-35
LUCY:
a beautiful woman, very pale, age range 18-25.
ABRAHAM VAN HELSING: always alert and resourceful, a man of action who is an expert
on vampires, from Holland, age range 50-60.
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BIOGRAPHY
by S. N. Behrman
runs from.September 21 - October 15.
Marion Froude is ready to publish her autobiography. Trouble is, it could jeopardize an old flame’s bid for the United States Senate. When this scintillating play opened on Broadway in 1932, Brooks Atkinson, reviewer for “The New York Times” wrote “S. N. Behrman can write comedies that shine with the truth of character.”
Seeking:
MARION FROUDE:
lithe, indomitably alive, internationally known portrait painter living in NYC, age range 30-45
RICHARD KURT:
editor of a magazine who wants Marion to write down her story, he has the intensity of the fanatic and the carelessness of the vagabond, age range 25-30
MINNIE:
Marion’s inseparable maid, German, age range 50-60
MELCHIOR FEYDAK:
a composer, humorist, and a good friend to Marion, age range 40-50
LEANDER NOLAN:
from Tennessee, good-looking, running for the U. S. Senate, was in love with Marion and now engaged to Slade, age range 35-50
WARWICK WILSON:
handsome, film star, bit of an ego, age range 30-45
ORIN KINNICOTT:
a wealthy Westerner, age range 55-60
SLADE KINNICOTT:
Orin’s daughter, and Nolan’s fiancé, age range 20-25.
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