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Seeking
Equity actors for various roles in Three One-Act Plays.
**NOTE: Several actors cast in this production will play multiple roles.
See breakdown for more info.
Preparation
Sides will be provided. Actors may perform a side or a brief contemporary monologue.
Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.
Other Dates
First Rehearsal: April 5, 2016
Announced Run: May 3, 2016 through June 12, 2016 (possible three-week extension).
Other
Casting Director: Telsey + Company—Will Cantler & Karyn Casl
Personnel
Artistic Director: James Houghton
Associate Artistic Director: Beth Whitaker
Authors: Edward Albee, Maria Irene Fornés & Adrienne Kennedy
Director: Lila Neugebauer
General Manager: Gilbert Medina
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will be provided.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
SIGNATURE ONE ACTS: In honor of Signature’s 25th Anniversary, Signature One Acts revisits three one act plays produced in their playwrights’ original Playwright-in-Residence season: Edward Albee’s The Sandbox, María Irene Fornés’ Drowning and Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro. Directed by Lila Neugebauer (A.R. Gurney’s The Wayside Motor Inn), this trio of one acts celebrates Signature’s rich and diverse body of work over the past quarter century.
**NOTE: Several actors cast in this production will play multiple roles.
SEEKING:
FOR THE SANDBOX:
THE YOUNG MAN
Male, 20s-30s. A good-looking, well-built boy in a bathing suit. Bright-eyed, upbeat, endearing. Does calisthenics through much of the play. An aspiring Hollywood actor and the angel of death.
MOMMY
Female, 40s-60s. A well-dressed, imposing woman of high status. Ruthless, derisive and limited in compassion.
DADDY
Male, 50s-60s. A small man, born into wealth. Dutiful, entirely subservient to Mommy. A bit of a whiner.
GRANDMA
Female, 70s-80s. A wizened woman with bright eyes. Mommy’s mother. Fearful, confused and childlike, but also feisty and defiant with a rueful wit.
FOR DROWNING:
PEA
Male, 30s-40s. An innocent, capable of great wonder, devotion and hurt.
ROE
Male, 30s-40s. A mentor and friend to Pea, protective and deeply fond of him. Patient, proper. Wise in the ways of the world.
STEPHEN
Male, 30s-60s. A friend of Roe’s. A witness. Curious, empathetic, knowing. Also wise.
FOR FUNNYHOUSE OF A NEGRO:
NEGRO-SARAH
African-American female, 20s-30s. A writer living in an Upper West Side apartment; works at the public library. Aspirational, struggling to write, hungry for knowledge, preoccupied with glamour. Tormented by manifestations of her self and questions of identity, but see the horrors of the culture with great clarity. A sane woman by day, driven to nighttime torment. We see her in the last hours of her life.
DUCHESS OF HAPSBURG
African-American female, 20s-40s. A manifestation of Sarah's self, in the image of Betty Davis as the Duchess of Hapsberg in the 1939 film Juarez. Sarah’s delicate, romantic side. Glamorous, capable of haughtiness but also great vulnerability. A romantic, driven to madness. Wears a white royal gown.
QUEEN VICTORIA REGINA
African-American female, 20s-40s. A manifestation of Sarah's self, in the image of the statue of Queen Victoria outside Buckingham Palace. Sarah’s harsher, stern side. Regal, but plainer than the Duchess. Authoritative with the capacity to be imperious. Wears a white royal gown and headpiece.
JESUS
African-American male, 20s-30s. A manifestation of Sarah's self. An ineffectual Jesus, a failed savior, figured in the image of Gandhi, dressed in white rags and sandals.
PATRICE LUMUMBA
African-American male, 30s-40s. A manifestation of Sarah's self who is both Patrice Lumumba, the assassinated Prime Minister of Congo, and Sarah's father, desperate for her acceptance. Full of conviction and great need for connection. An empathetic soul, a noble leader. People believed he would save his race.”
SARAH’S LANDLADY
White female, 40s-60s. Landlady of Sarah's Upper West Side brownstone. Glamorous, imposing, patronizing. A mad funnyhouse character.
RAYMOND
White male, 20s-30s. Sarah's boyfriend. Jewish, a poet. Charming, narcissistic, condescending. The funnyman of the funnyhouse.
THE MOTHER
African-American female, 30s-40s. Sarah's mother, once committed to an asylum. An ethereal, haunting presence. Moves across the stage in a trance, wearing a white nightgown and carrying a bald head.
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