Purple Rose Theatre 2018-19 Season - Chelsea EPA Days
Purple Rose Theatre
AUDITION DATES
Mon, Apr 09, 2018
9:00 am - 5:00 pm (EDT)
Break: 1-2pm
Tue, Apr 10, 2018
1:00 pm - 9:00 pm (EDT)
Break: 5-6pm
APPOINTMENTS
To make your audition appointment, please call our business office at 734.433.7782 beginning Monday, March 12 at 10AM.
CONTRACT
SPT SPT 6; $479/week minimum.
SEEKING
Male and female actors 18 years and over. Both Equity and Non-Equity actors are welcome. Casting principles, supporting and understudies. See breakdown for details.
PREPARATION
One-minute comedic monologue, headshot and resume. Actors may be asked to perform an additional monologue.
LOCATION
Purple Rose Theatre
137 Park St
Chelsea, MI 48118-1038
Please enter through the lobby entrance off of Park Street.
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director Guy Sanville, Guest Directors and Playwrights
OTHER DATES
HOUSEWIVES by Jeff Daniels: 1st rehearsal: August 21st, 2018, 1st preview: September 20th, 2018, Closing: December 29th, 2018
NEVER, NOT ONCE by Carey Crim: 1st rehearsal: December 11th, 2018, 1st preview: January 17th, 2019, Closing: March 16th, 2019
ALL MY SONS by Arthur Miller: 1st rehearsal: March 5th, 2019, 1st preview: April 4th, 2019, Closing: June 1st, 2019
WELCOME TO PARADISE by Julie Marino: 1st rehearsal: May 21st, 2019, 1st preview: June 20th, 2019, Closing: August 31st, 2019
OTHER
If you will be late or need to cancel your audition appointment, please call our business office at 734.433.7782 and let us know.
If you are unavailable for our general auditions, but would like to be considered for our 2018 / 2019 season,
please send your headshot and resume to:
The Purple Rose Theatre Company
ATTN: Guy Sanville, Artistic Director
137 Park Street
Chelsea, MI 48118
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
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
Fall Production
Housewives (working title) by Jeff Daniels
3 women: ages early 30's - 50's: 3 comfortable Michigan housewives and old friends
1 man: any age, to play a variety of roles
Winter Production
Never Not Once by Carey Crim
Nadine Walker: African American, late forties- early fifties. Aerospace Engineer.
Allison Davis: Caucasian, forties, owns an antique store (CAST)
Eleanor Davis: Caucasian, twenties, biology major at Princeton
Rob Wilson: Asian American or Latino. Twenty-three, graduate student at Princeton
Doug Larkin: Caucasian, forty-two, Financial Analyst
Spring Production
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
Joe Keller: 60, factory owner
Kate Keller (Mother): 50's, Joe's wife
Chris Keller: 32, Joe and Kate’s son. Returned home from the war.
Ann Deever: 26, Larry Keller's former girlfriend
George Deever: 31, Ann’s older brother, a successful New York lawyer and WWII veteran, and a childhood friend of Chris'
Dr. Jim Bayliss: successful doctor, but is frustrated with the stifling domesticity of his life.
Sue Bayliss: Jim's wife, a friend of the Keller family.
Frank Lubey: 33, neighbor, always one year ahead of the draft, so he never served in World War II.
Lydia Lubey: 27, was George's love interest before the war; after he went away, she married Frank and they quickly had three children.
Summer Production
Welcome to Paradise by Julie Marino
Rory: 25-30, a traveler with no particular place to go
Evelyn: 70-80, the owner of the beach house
Greg: 45-50, Evelyn's son
Trish: 45-50, Greg’s wife
Sydney: 20-s, Greg and Trish's daughter *requires partial nudity
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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