SHOWCASE
JITNEY – OPEN Auditions
The Gallery Players (Brooklyn, NY) Equity Showcase
Producer: Lanie Zipoy/The Gallery Players
By August Wilson
Director: Gregory Simmons
Casting Director: Destiny Lilly.
1st rehearsal: 2/19/11. Evenings and weekends.
Runs: 3/19 – 4/3/11, Thursday-Sunday.
All auditions, rehearsals, and performances at The Gallery Players, 199 14th Street, Brooklyn.
OPEN Auditions (Equity/Non-Equity):
Sunday, January 9, 2011 at The Gallery Players
3 PM – 7 PM 199 14th Street (between 4th and 5th Avenue)
Sign in begins 2:30 PM Brooklyn, NY
Equity audition procedures are NOT in effect, although AEA members receive priority. No Equity monitor provided. Producer runs all aspects of the audition.
Prepare one-minute monologue from an August Wilson play and bring in your favorite poem to read.
Bring picture and resume, stapled together.
Callbacks 1/15/2011 and 1/18/2011.
All characters are African-American.
Seeking:
Becker:
Male, 60s. Well-respected man who runs the jitney station.
Turnbo:
Male, 40s-50s. Jitney driver who is always interested in the business of others.
Youngblood:
Male, mid-to-late 20s. Jitney driver and Vietnam veteran.
Fielding:
Male, 30s-40s. Jitney driver and former tailor, has a dependency on alcohol.
Doub:
Male, 40s. Longtime jitney driver and a Korean War veteran.
Shealy:
Male, 40s. Numbers taker who often uses the jitney station as his base.
Booster:
Male, early 40s. Becker’s son; recently released from prison.
Rena:
Female, early-to-mid 20s. Youngblood’s girlfriend and mother of their young son.
Philmore:
30s-40s. Local hotel doorman, a reoccurring jitney passenger.
Take the R to 9th St. or the F to 4th Ave. in Brooklyn. The R can be accessed at the Pacific/Atlantic station in Brooklyn which is served by the 2,3,4,5,N,B,D and Q trains from Manhattan.
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