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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
EPAs by APPOINTMENT
Saturday April 27, 2013 and
Sunday, April 28, 2013
10 AM to 5:30 PM each day
Lunch 1:30 to 2
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Contract
NEAT
$364/week current AEA minimum
Location
The Gamm Theatre
172 Exchange Street
Pawtucket, RI
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Seeking
Equity actors, men and women, for the 2013-14 season.
See breakdown
Interested stage managers may send a resume to
jess@gammtheatre.org.
Preparation
Prepare a 1-2 minute monologue of their choice. Equity Performers only may choose to read from the script(s). Sides and reader will be provided.
Also bring picture/resume.
Other Dates
Other note: Two copies of each play will be available at Stage Source's Boston office, 88 Tremont St., Ste. 714, Boston, Mass., at least 10 days before the audition for
Equity members' perusal. Copies will also be available at the auditions.
Other
**Please offer a time block of 2 hours on one of the days. You will be emailed with a specific slot.
Callbacks for individual plays will be announced at a later date.
Personnel
Gail Hulbert, Communications and Marketing Director
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
email to
auditions@gammtheatre.org (preferred method) or call 401-723-4266 x18 if no email. **see OTHER section for more info.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
2013-14 SEASON
GOOD PEOPLE
by David Lindsay-Abaire
Director: TBD
Rehearsals begin August 20, 2013. Runs September 12-October 13, 2012
All actors should have strong dialect skills.
Margaret (Margie): White, 50. Tough funny, Boston Irish working-class.
Stevie: White, 20’s. Decent, affable, funny.
Dottie: White 60ish. Margie’s landlady.
Jean: White 50. Margie’s friend. Tough. brassy.
Mike: White 50. Handsome, successful. A doctor who has made it out of Southie.
Kate: African-American, 30’s. Mike’s wife.
THE BIG MEAL
by Dan LeFranc
directed by Tyler Dobrowsky
Rehearsals begin October 16, 2013. Runs November 7-December 8, 2013
ALL actors must be extremely versatile. The play covers several generations. Each actor is responsible for many characters covering a specific age range in the family. As the characters grow older they are “passed on” to the actor representing the next generation.
Older Woman: 50+. Plays all women of the family’s oldest generation.
Older man: 50+. Plays all men of the family’s oldest generation.
Woman: Late 30’s/40. Plays all the women of the family’s middle-aged generation.
Man: Late 30’s/40. Plays all the men of the family’s middle-aged generation.
Young Woman: 20’s. Plays all the women of the young-adult generation.
Young Man: 20’s. Plays all the women of the young adult generation.
Girl: 9-13. Plays all the female children of the family.
Boy:9-13. Plays all the male children of the family.
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A NUMBER and FAR AWAY
by Caryl Churchill
directed by Tony Estrella
Rehearsals begin mid-December 2013. Runs January 9-February 9, 2014
A NUMBER
Salter: Late 50’s/60’s. Complex, tough, enigmatic. Domineering and diminished.
His Sons: 30’s/40. Must play several characters, physically identical but psychologically very different, from gentle to verging on the sociopathic.
FAR AWAY
Young Joan: 10-12. Scared, confused, innocent.
Harper: 40-50. Her aunt.
Older Joan: 20’s. Increasingly aware to the terrors around her.
Todd: 20’s. Joan’s companion and colleague.
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BLACKBIRD
by David Harrowerdirected by Tony Estrella
Rehearsals begin Feb 4, 2014. Runs Feb.27- March 30, 2014
For Ray and Oona, Blackbird is an unrelenting play. It has scenes of raw physical and emotional intimacy.
Ray: Mid 50’s. Contrite. retiring. Desperately holding on to his sense of self. A broken, semi-reconstituted man.
Oona: Mid 20’s. Strong outer shell. commanding. A desperate wreck inside. Broken as a child, lost.
Girl: 12 years old. Ray’s stepdaughter.
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MACBETH
by William Shakespeare
directed by Fred Sullivan, Jr.
Rehearsals begin March 25 Runs April 24 – June 1, 2014
NOTE: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have been cast.
All actors need strong language skills and versatility as there will be doubling.
Banquo: 40. Strong, fatherly, Intelligent. A warrior with a brain and heart.
Duncan: 50’s/60’s. A king. Wise, physically failing but remains robust of mind.
MacDuff: 40’s. A warrior’s strength but a sensitive heart. Articulate and passionate.
Malcom: 20’s. A prince. Courageous but uncertain.
Lady MacDuff: A woman alone. Ferociously protective of her family.
Witches: Ageless. Prophets from the future?
Porter: Drunk. But with some wisdom to offer. Comic timing a must.
Ross: 30-50. A Scottish nobleman.
Lenox: 30-50. A Scottish nobleman.
Boy: 10-13. To play Banquo’s son Fleance and Macduff’s son.
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About The Gamm Theatre
Founded in 1984 as Alias Stage, the non-profit Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre creates the finest of live theater, engaging the audience intensely in current and recurrent issues of consequence. The Gamm further serves the public with educational outreach programming designed to support the theatrical experience, and help sustain and enhance the intellectual and cultural life of its community.
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