LANTERN THEATER COMPANY SEASON Equity Principal Auditions - Lantern Theater Company Auditions

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Lantern Theater Company | Philadelphia, PA

Date of Audition:
3/2/2015


Call Type
Equity Principal

Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT
Monday, March 2, 2015
10 AM to 6 PM
lunch 1 to 2

Contract
SPT
Tier 6; $417/week AEA min.

Location
Lantern Theater Company
923 Ludlow Street
(10th and Ludlow)
Philadelphia, PA 19105


Seeking
Equity actors for the 2015-16 Season.

see breakdown

Preparation
Prepare a single or contrasting monologues (comedy and/or Shakespeare encouraged). Total audition time 3 minutes.

Bring picture and resume, stapled together.

Other Dates
The theatre will also be attending the Greater Philadelphia Area Auditions on 3/23

Other
www.lanterntheater.org

Personnel
Kathryn MacMillan, Associate Artistic Director

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

Appointments
AEA members Contact Lauren Tuvell Tues, 2/24 11am-5pm & Thurs 2/26 2pm-5pm ONLY; 215-829-9002x 106 ltuvell@lanterntheater.org

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

Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.


Breakdown

Seasonal Dates

PHOTOGRAPH 51
by Anna Ziegler
September 10 - October 11, 2015


Seeking:

Rosalind Franklin
Female, mid 30s, scientist, British, doesn’t suffer fools; based on a real person

Maurice Wilkins
Male, late 30s/early 40s, British, formal, proper, Rosalind’s sparring partner, a wounded soul but not bumbling or buffoonish; based on a real person

Don Caspar
Male, late 20s/early 30s, American, open and affable, honest; based on a real person

James Watson
Male, early/mid 20s, American, all confidence, arrogance, hunger and drive; based on a real person

Ray Gosling
Male, mid/late 20s, British, awkward, endearing, kind; based on a real person

Francis Crick
Male, early/mid 30s, British, very proper, not unkind, brash, a philosopher among scientists, based on a real person

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UNDERNEATH THE LINTEL
by Glen Berger
November 5 - December 6, 2015

Seeking:

The Librarian
Male, 40s-60s, Dutch, a small town’s assistant librarian, eccentric with a bureaucratic streak, obsessive, sympathetic [Role CAST]

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OSCAR WILDE: FROM THE DEPTHS
by Charles McMahon
January 14 - February 14, 2016

Seeking:

Oscar Wilde
Male, 40, British, during his incarceration at Reading Gaol

Robbie Ross/ensemble
Male, 20s-40s, British, Wilde’s friend and a pivotal member of the late Victorian London arts scene, an aesthete and intellectual, based on a real person

Reading Gaoler/ensemble
Male, 30s-50s, British, working class, Wilde’s antagonist and bully

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AS YOU LIKE IT
by William Shakespeare
March 10 - April 10, 2016

Seeking:

Rosalind/emsemble
Female, 20s, daughter of the exiled duke, courageous, smart, a bit cynical

Celia/ensemble
Female, 20s, Rosalind’s cousin, loyal, devoted, a person of simplicity and deep emotion

Phoebe/ensemble
Female, 20s, a shepherdess

Duke Senior/ensemble
Male, 40s-60s, exiled duke, kind, fair, unambitious, a lover of nature

Orlando/ensemble
Male, 20s, an attractive, romantic young man of indifferent education and great potential

Jacques/ensemble
Male, 30s-50s, hopelessly melancholy, loyal, a cynical observer of others’ foolishness

Touchstone/ensemble
Male, 20s-30s, a bawdy but loyal clown

Oliver/ensemble
Male, 20s-30s, jealous, short tempered but capable of change

Amiens/ensemble
Male, 40s-60s, a jolly lord loyal to Duke Senior, a singer

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36 VIEWS
by Naomi Iizuka
May 26 - June 26, 2016

Seeking:

Setsuko Hearn
Female, 20s-40s; Asian, assistant professor of East Asian literature;

Claire Tsong
Female, 20s-40s, Asian, a restorer of Asian artifacts

Elizabeth Newman-Orr
Female, 20s-40s, white, charming, assertive, pragmatic, amoral

Darius Wheeler
Male, 40s-50s, white, a dealer of Asian arts and antiquities, adventurous, very smart, a bit of a swindler

John Bell
Male, 20s-30s, white, Wheeler’s long suffering assistant

Owen Matthiassen
Male, 40s-50s, white, chair of the East Asian studies department

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