Sundance Institute Theatre Program Summer 2017 - EPAs
Sundance Institute Theatre Program
AUDITION DATE
May 31, 2017
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1:30 - 2:30
CONTRACT
Special Agreement $447/week. This year the lab will take place in Sundance resort in Utah. Housing, meals and transportation are provided.
SEEKING
Equity Actors for various roles in the upcoming season.
See Breakdown.
PREPARATION
Please prepare a brief contemporary monologue or a song. Accompanist will be provided.
Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.
LOCATION
Pearl Studios NYC (500)
500 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10018-6504
4th Floor
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Philip Himberg
Producing Director: Christopher Hibma
Literary Manager: Ignacia Delgado
Casting Director: Henry Russell Bergstein
Casting Assistant: Satchel Buck Jones
OTHER DATES
Commitment dates: July 17-28, 2017
OTHER
www.sundance.org/programs/theatre/
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity monitor will be provided.
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
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
The Sundance Institute Theatre Program, a core component of Sundance Institute, champions theatre artists and their plays as a source of vital, challenging and diverse ideas in society. Through the guiding principles of risk-taking, experimentation, and freedom of expression, the Sundance Institute Theatre Program aims to provide developmental opportunities rarely available to contemporary artists, to support these artists throughout their careers, and ultimately to contribute to a meaningful and engaging cultural dialogue between artists and their audiences.
For the purposes of this call, we have included representative character descriptions from 2 of the plays selected so as to give Equity Members an example of the type of pieces and roles that will be included in the Institute.
SEEKING:
Black Lady Authority
By Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm
Directed by Lisa Marie Rollins
The year is 2020, and the Race Wars have left America all but decimated. Three women take refuge in a theatre; they take control of their destiny and devise a revolution that puts the black woman in charge.
JONA, a black woman, 25-40. A leader/founder of the Black Lady Authority.
CHIC, a black woman, 25-40. A leader/founder of the Black Lady Authority.
OLIVIA/MOTHER, a black woman, 25-30. A pregnant woman that stumbles upon the Black Lady Authority as she wanders through the land trying to survie.
GREENLEAF, a black man, 25-30. Loving, free-spirited, and trying to survive.
YUSEF, an old black man, 50+. He’s seen it all, and has wisdom to share…even if you don’t want it.
JUSTICE/DARNELL, a black boy, 14. Born on the compound, the abandoned theater and the Black Lady Authority is the only life he has ever known. He is a budding writer.
MERCY, a black girl, 14. Powerful and empowered, but also an ingénue.
Tuvalu or the Saddest Song
By Antoinette Nwandu
Directed by Danya Taymor
Los Angeles, California in the mid-nineties, and Jackie-girl is at a crossroads. Tuvalu or The Saddest Song, a coming of age story with a soundtrack, asks how the girls whose mother's lives have been tainted by abuse, violence, poverty and shame ever grow into healthy and empowered women.
JACKIE - Black, female, 12, 19, 30s. Dramatic, hyper-imaginative. Prone to take others way too literally and herself way too seriously.
RAYLENE - Black, female, mid 30s, 40s. Lena’s fast friend and landlady. Church go-er and prayer warrior. Like an older sister to Lena. Like an auntie to Jackie. Also plays ENSEMBLE #1. The One in Charge of Time.
MOMMA - Black, female, late 30s, 40s. Jackie’s mother. Prone to lay down at times. Also plays ENSEMBLE #2. The One in Charge of Song.
NICOLE - White, female, mid 30s. Charming, fragile, kind. Always seems afraid. Also plays ENSEMBLE #3
MAN - Black, male, late 30s, 40s. Alternately menacing and sexy. A man who holds the capacity for violence within him. Also plays ENSEMBLE #4
BOY – Any ethnicity, male, 15, 20s. A cute church-going boy. Fast as he wanna be. Also plays ENSEMBLE #5
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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