Peninsula Players 2023 Season - Milwaukee EPA Peninsula Players Theatre Foundation, Inc. | Fish Creek, WI
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Thursday, December 15, 2022
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM (C)
To schedule an appointment, please email casting@peninsulaplayers.com .
Please indicate your preferred appointment time (or time range). Please also share any times you would NOT be able to audition.
All auditions must be requested by Tuesday, December 13.
CORST
$885 weekly minimum (Tier Z) Pending negotiations
Equity actors for roles in the Peninsula Players 2023 Season (See breakdown).
Please prepare a short, contemporary monologue appropriate to our season - British dialect encouraged. If auditioning for DAMES AT SEA, please also prepare a brief cut of a song. Please bring your book in case another selection is requested. An accompanist will be provided.
Milwaukee Youth Arts Center
325 W. Walnut Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212
THIS SPACE'S VENTILATION HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED BY ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION.
Expected to attend:
Artistic Director: Linda Fortunato
All dates are in 2023
A ROCK SAILS BY: Rehearsal: 5/30, Performance: 6/13, Closing: 7/2
BLITHE SPIRIT : Rehearsal: 6/15,
Performance: 7/5, Closing: 7/23
DAMES AT SEA: Rehearsal: 7/7,
Performance: 7/26, Closing: 8/13
TRYING: Rehearsal: 7/28, Performance: 8/16, Closing: 9/3
KEN LUDWIG'S BASKERVILLE: Rehearsal: 8/18, Performance: 9/6, Closing: 10/15
Peninsula Players Theatre celebrates equity, diversity, accessibility, and inclusion. Audition for the role you want. Whatever your ethnicity, race, gender identity, age, body type — all are welcome and will be considered.
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.
A ROCK SAILS BY - by Sean Grennan (World Premiere)
Director, Linda Fortunato
Multiple locations, today
Dr. Cummings - 50s-60s An astrophysicist, professor. She is very intelligent, somewhat sardonic, a believer in facts. ROLE HAS BEEN CAST
Olive - 20s-30s Cummings’s daughter. Smart, self-possessed, caring. A positive, smart person, she believes in more than she can see or is at least open to the possibility. She and her mother clash, but love each other very much.
Jason - 30s A journalist, he is “floating through life” somewhat. He works for a magazine he doesn’t respect. He isn’t sure what he believes about the greater questions. He does want there to more than this. He wants there to be meaning and order. Ethical, intelligent, searching.
Player - any gender, age, race, type. They make up the rest of the “world.” This includes multiple characters of different ages: Haley (graduate student/TA), Chancellor (Cummings’s colleague and friend, has authority but kindness), Farrell (online magazine editor, hipster boss), and Doctor (professional, sympathetic).
Messenger - An unexpected visitor to Dr. Cummings, seen only by her. Their exact origin and nature is unknown. ROLE HAS BEEN CAST
BLITHE SPIRIT - by Noel Coward
Director TBD
(British dialects required for all characters)
England, 1941
Charles Condomine - Intelligent, sophisticated English novelist who is somewhat at the mercy of his wives. ROLE HAS BEEN CAST
Ruth Condomine - Charles’s wife. Witty and sophisticated though slightly stuffy and predictable. A bit jealous of Charles’s relationship with his first wife.
Elvira Condomine - Elvira is passionate, outgoing, carefree and full of mischief. She was Charles’s first wife and appears as a ghost.
Madame Arcati - A spiritualist and medium. Eccentric, effusive, and boisterous. ROLE HAS BEEN CAST
Edith - The Condomine’s maid. She is nervous and always in a hurry in her effort to do things right and make a good impression.
Dr. Bradman - Friend of the Condomine’s. Practical; skeptical of the supernatural but tries to go along with the proceedings.
Violet Bradman - Friend of the Condomine’s. Somewhat skeptical but excited by the possibility of the supernatural and fascinated by Madame Arcati.
DAMES AT SEA - book and lyrics by George Haimsohn & Robin Miller, music by Jim Wise
Director TBD
New York City, the early 1930s
Mona Kent - Volatile leading lady, excellent singer and comedienne (a la Dorothy Brock). Tap dancing a plus, but not required.
Ruby - Sweet and innocent but learns quickly (a la Peggy Sawyer). Excellent tap dancer and singer. Joan - Sassy chorine with a heart of gold. (a la Anytime Annie) Excellent tap dancer and singer. Dick - Sweet sailor and songwriter, in love with Ruby. Excellent dancer and singer.
Lucky - Happy-go-lucky sailor, in love with Joan. Dick’s best friend. Excellent tap dancer and comedian.
Hennesey/Captain - (Double role) Hennesey is the uptight and slightly jaded producer of the show. Captain is a strict, put together military man - until he reunites with a lost love and melts. Comedian, good mover a plus but not required.
TRYING - by Joanna McClelland Glass
Director TBD
Washington DC, 1967
Judge Biddle - An eighty-one-year-old, once brilliant man who was Attorney General under Franklin Roosevelt. After an illustrious career, he now functions, as he says “somewhere between lucidity and senility.” Refined, cantankerous.
Sarah Schorr - A twenty-five-year-old who has been hired by Mrs. Biddle to be the Judge’s secretary. She is direct and plain spoken, originally from the prairie province of Saskatchewan.
Director TBD
(British dialects required for all characters)
England, the late 1890s
Sherlock Holmes - Highly intelligent, quick-witted, obsessive
Doctor Watson - Smart, grounded, full of heart and wonder.
Performer 1 - plays 14 characters including: Dr. Mortimer, Lucy, Barrymore, Stapleton
Performer 2 -plays 7 characters including: Baskerville, Daisy, Lestrade
Performer 3 - plays 14 characters including: Mrs. Hudson, Mrs. Barrymore, Mrs. Stapleton
(The three Performers can be any gender and show great versatility with physicality, character, and multiple dialects.)
Requirement for proof of vaccination:
Everyone entering the audition venue (i.e., venue employees, Equity members, non-members, casting personnel, creatives, producers, musicians, etc.) will be required to show proof of COVID vaccination prior to entry into the venue. (Anyone with a medical or religious exemption from vaccination, should e-mail ahoeschen@actorsequity.org with Vaccination exemption in the subject line and attach proof of exemption in advance of their appointment. Information provided will be kept confidential.) Anyone with symptoms of COVID, flu, or any other infectious disease that can be transmitted by casual contact should not attend the auditions.
Everyone participating in the auditions is encouraged to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at
www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
If the risk level for Milwaukee County is trending upwards and may rise to High (Red) we will contact members with appointments at least 48 hours before the first audition appointment time to let them know there is a chance that the auditions may need to be postponed or cancelled. All members with appointments will be notified at least 24 hours in advance if the auditions must be postponed or cancelled.
We encourage members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms.
Holding/Audition room information:
The audition room can accommodate no more than 4 individuals at a time.
The holding room can accommodate no more than 15 individuals at a time.
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