Profile Theatre 2018-2019 Season - Portland EPA Day
Profile Theatre Project
AUDITION DATE
Sun, Aug 20, 2017
10:00 am - 5:00 pm (PDT)
Lunch: 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Mon, Aug 21, 2017
10:00 am - 5:00 pm (PDT)
Lunch: 12:30PM - 1:30PM
APPOINTMENTS
Email casting@profiletheatre.org with your availability for both days, along with a digital copy of your headshot and resume, and we will reply with an appointment time.
CONTRACT
SPT Minimum - $288/wk
SEEKING
Actors for various roles in the upcoming 18-19 Season.
PREPARATION
Please prepare 2 contrasting contemporary monologues no longer thant 3 minutes combined. Please bring a current headshot and resume.
LOCATION
Profile Theatre
1515 SW Morrison Street
Portland, OR 97205-1814
Check-in in the lobby off of Morrison street.
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Josh Hecht
Associate Artistic Director/Casting Director: Lauren Bloom Hanover
OTHER DATES
See breakdown.
OTHER
Profile is mid sized professional theatre company located in downtown Portland Oregon, with the unique mission of
featuring a single playwright each season. Our 2019-19 season is a special 18 month double season, centered on
the works of Lisa Kron and Anna Deavere Smith.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
2.5 Minute Ride by Lisa Kron: 1st rehearsal January 2nd, Opens January 27th, closes February 11th 2018
The Secretariesby the Five Lesbian Brothers: 1st rehearsal May 15th, Opens June 16th, closes July 1st 2018
Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith: 1st rehearsal September 25th, Opens October 24th, closes October 28th 2018
In the Wake by Lisa Kron: 1st rehearsal October 30th, Opens November 20th, closes December 16th 2018
Well by Lisa Kron: Spring 2019 - Dates TBD. Performed in rep with Let Me Down Easy
Let Me Down Easy by Anna Deavere Smith: Spring 2019 - Dates TBD. Performed in rep with Well.
2.5 Minute Ride by Lisa Kron
LISA: 30s-40s, Jewish (parents Eastern European), funny, wry, ironic, whip-smart. A writer-performer livingi n New York’s East Village. Prone to stress, especially when back home with her family in Michigan.
The Secretaries by The Five Lesbian Brothers
NOTE: all roles require great facility with comedy. This is satire. Broad satire.
DAWN MIDNIGHT - Office lesbian. Medium-butch to butch. (Doubled with Buzz Benikee)
ASHLEY ELIZABETH FRATANGELO – Susan’s sycophant, bulimic. Willing to do anything to please the boss.
PATTY JOHNSON – the new girl. An “every woman”. Smart and capable and ready for what life has to offer.
SUSAN CURTIS – office manager/cult leader. Smart, brisk businesswoman with a naughty side. Loves compliments. (Doubled with Sandy/Ron Kembunkscher)
PEACHES MARTIN – sweet, clueless, slow-moving target. Really well-meaning. (Doubled with Hank)
BUZZ BENIKEE – sensitive lumberjack. (Doubled with Dawn Midnight)
HANK AND SANDY – sexually harassing lumberjacks (slow). (Doubled with Susan and Peaches)
MR. RON KEMBUNKSCHER – the boss. (Doubled with Susan/Sandy)
Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith
PERFORMER: Able to transform into a multitude of different characters quickly and precisely. Highattention to physical and verbal details of the subjects required. Plays many roles across age, gender, ethic/national background, class, etc.
In the Wake by Lisa Kron
ELLEN: White, mid to late 30’s, is funny, earnest and self assured. She advocates for her ideas fiercelyand with enjoyment, and she grapples eagerly with the ideas and feelings of others. She is a delightful talker, charmingly self-aware, who often pokes fun at herself to soften her excesses - though she does not apologize for her passion. Her efforts to be big and good and responsible are sincere, as is her love for her family and friends.
DANNY: White, mid 30’s, is Ellen’s long-time boyfriend and Kayla’s younger brother. He is a schoolteacherand exceptionally good at it, though low-key when talking about it. He is easy-going and understated - but not simple. He runs deep. He is confident about what matters to him and doesn’t need his choices affirmed by others.
KAYLA: White, mid to late 30’s, is Laurie’s partner, Danny’s older sister, and best friends with Ellen since they were in college, where she was Ellen’s idol. She is a freelance writer of fiction and journalism. She supports herself with a series of day jobs at various not-for-profit social-justice organizations
LAURIE: White, mid to late 30’s, is Kayla’s partner and works as a chef. She’s fierce in her affections and loyalties and though she’s sometimes irritable with Ellen she loves her as family. She finds talk of politics stressful, and the heated conversations that take place regularly in her home feel to her like a rigged competition she could never win if she cared to compete - which she doesn’t.
JUDY: White, mid 50’s, is Ellen’s long-time friend. She is an international aid worker and the kind ofperson who feels most at ease in a crisis zone. She has no romantic illusions that the world can be changed, but she also cannot pretend that everything is fine. It is important to note that there is no sense of betrayal in her critique of American democracy, since she never believed American democracy was intended to include people like her.
AMY: white, mid 30’s to early 40’s, is an experimental filmmaker who lives in Boston. She is intelligent andunselfconsciously direct in conversation. Feelings move through her unmediated, and she presents them without calculation.
TESSA: Bi-racial, 16, is Judy’s niece.
Well by Lisa Kron
Dates TBD - Spring 2019
Ensemble will also perform in Let Me Down Easy by Anna Deavere Smith. The plays will be performed in rotating repertory.
LISA KRON: 30s-40s, Jewish (parents Eastern European), funny, wry, ironic, whip-smart. A writer/performer living in New York’s East Village. Prone to stress, especially when back home with her family in Michigan.
ANN KRON: Late sixties/early seventies, midwestern housewife, lethargic and in pain, yet surprisinglyvibrant at times. Warm and funny.
THE ENSEMBLE: Four actors that Lisa has “hired” to be in the play. They play a multitude of parts. Facility with comedy required.
A: White woman, 30’s/40’s
B: Black woman, 30’s/40’s
C: Black man, 20’s-50’s
D: White man, 20’s-50’s
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to audition.
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