SUNDOWN, YELLOW MOON - NYC EPA
Various Producers
AUDITION DATE
Aug 26, 2016
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
ANTC
Category 2 (contract/salary pending; No less than $475/wk)
SEEKING
Equity actors for 6 available roles in this play with songs. See breakdown
PREPARATION
Prepare a brief contemporary monologue (under 2 minutes). Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 West 46th Street
16th Floor
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
A Play with songs by Rachel Bonds. Music & Lyrics by The Bengsons. Additional Lyrics by Rachel Bonds. Directed by Anne Kauffman. The following personnel are expected at the EPA (each will be at the EPA for part of the day - schedule is still yet TBD): Lisa McNulty (Producing Artistic Director, Women’s Project); Emily Shooltz (Associate Artistic Director, Ars Nova); Eric Shethar (Artistic Programs Associate, Ars Nova)
OTHER
Note: This is a co-production between Ars
Nova and the Women's Project.
First Rehearsal: January 30, 2017. First Preview: February 28, 2017. Maximum Run End: April 22, 2017.
An Equity monitor will be provided.
Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
Synopsis: SUNDOWN, YELLOW MOON is a play with music that takes place in a small college town in the South and focuses on twin sisters who have come down from New York to visit their Dad. Slowly the family’s world unravels, as everyone is haunted by his or her secrets and fraying at the edges. It’s a play about fathers and daughters, and loneliness, making mistakes, and making art.
Seeking (for any role that is CAST, actors may be considered for possible replacement should it be needed):
Ray (Rayleen):
Joey’s twin sister, mid 20’s. A stalled singer-songwriter, anxious, caring, vulnerable, kind, open-hearted, a bit of a homebody, a worrier. A lover of art and music—she greets the world through emotion and not practicality. She has always been a bit in her sister’s shadow. Her heart has just been broken for the first time; love is still new and strange—she’s a bit of a novice. The family peace-keeper. From the south, but has been in New York since college. (Must be able to sing and play guitar)
Joey (Josephine):
Ray’s twin sister, mid 20’s. Strong-willed, direct, driven, deeply ambitious. A runner. An academic. More mature than her sister on the surface. Dark and sharply funny—she keeps all things in order with an iron fist, but underneath is a very frightened, vulnerable girl. She has bouts of real self-destructive behavior. From the south, but has been in New York since college.
Tom:
their dad, mid/late 50’s. Brash, funny, leftist, opinionated, highly intelligent, Southern. A high school English teacher who loves his job. He loves his daughters openly. Very proud, he hates to be pitied or questioned; he has strong convictions, is unafraid to voice them, and has a temper—he is wrestling with the consequences of this. He can be depressive, and lately this has manifested itself in anger. He is deeply kind beneath a sometimes gruff exterior. A lover of literature and music. (Must be able to sing and play guitar)
Carver:
Tom’s counselor, early/mid 30’s. Deeply kind, though a bit uncomfortable in his own skin. He enjoys talking to people, offering advice and feeling of use. He is a caretaker and wants to connect to those around him. But there is certainly an old bruise, old damage, and a deep well of sadness that he carries with him; at times you can see the lonely young boy in him. He was a musician at one time—a kid who was darkly cool and going places in high school before his potential got cut off. A bit of the walking wounded. Southern. (Must be able to sing and play guitar)
Ted Driscoll:
a poet, 40’s. Highly intelligent, well-spoken, and a deeply stalled writer. Self-deprecating and both full of self-doubt and self-centeredness. He is bright and quick, appreciates language, and is drawn to and enamored with women. He’s sincere, though, and honest—there is not any kind of slick or slime to him. Not from around here—he has traveled and experienced more culture than most in this town.
Jean:
a family friend, early 50’s. Sweet, warm, caring, talkative—open-hearted. A caretaker. Southern. She’s likely seen some dark times and you can see it on her face, but she’s carried on anyway. She loves her husband, her friends and animals. (Must be able to sing)
Bobby/ College Radio Station Late Night DJ:
Bobby: a family friend, mid/late 50’s. Kind, quiet, largely keeps to himself unless he’s singing or playing a song. A talented musician. He cares very much and very quietly about his family and friends. Southern. (Must be able to sing and play guitar) *This actor also plays the Late Night DJ: A late night radio DJ… a salty old hippie. There’s the sense that he started working at the college radio station in the 70’s and just never left the booth.
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