The Gamm Theatre 2018-19 Season - Pawtucket RI EPA
Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre
AUDITION DATES
Sat, Apr 28, 2018
10:00 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1:30 to 2
Mon, Apr 30, 2018
10:00 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1:30 to 2
APPOINTMENTS
For an appointment, please email auditions@gammtheatre.org. In your email, please offer a time block of 2 hours on one of the audition days. We will reply with a specific slot. EMAIL IS PREFERRED. If you do not have email, please call 401-723-4266 x152.
CONTRACT
NEAT $425/week (actors) $509/week (stage managers)
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles in the upcoming season. See breakdown.
Interested stage managers may either attend the EPAs or send a resume to jess@gammtheatre.org.
PREPARATION
Each performer will be allotted a minimum of 3 minutes and a maximum of 5 minutes. We ask that all performers prepare a 1-2 minute monologue of their choice. Only Equity Performers may choose to read from a script. The Gamm will provide sides on the day of audition and a reader. AEA members who wish to read a side may prepare their own and either provide us with a copy for the reader or let us know upon check-in the scene/page numbers so we may be prepared to assist you. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre
172 Exchange St
Pawtucket, RI 02860
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director Tony Estrella will be attending all auditions.
OTHER DATES
ABOUT THE GAMM THEATRE
Founded in 1984 as Alias Stage, the non-profit Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre creates the finest of live theater, engaging the audience intensely in current and recurrent issues of consequence. The Gamm further serves the public with educational outreach programming designed to support the theatrical experience, and help sustain and enhance the intellectual and cultural life of its community.
OTHER
Two copies of each play will be available at Stage Source's Boston office, 15 Channel Center, Ste. 103, Boston, Mass., at least 10 days before the audition for Equity members' perusal. Copies will also be available at the auditions.
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
THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA
by Tennessee Williams, directed by Fred Sullivan, Jr.
Rehearsals begin mid/late August, performances begin mid/late September through mid/late October 2018. Exact dates TBD.
HANNAH JELKES and T. LAWRENCE SHANNON have been cast.
Seeking:
NONNO – Hannah’s grandfather. The world’s oldest living poet.
MAXINE FAULK– 50ish, tough, smart, a powerhouse. Owner of the “resort.”
CHAROLTTE GOODALL– Young woman. A vacationer on Lawrence’s tour. Should read 16 years old.
JUDITH FELLOWES – 40s-50s. Charlotte’s chaperone.
HERR & FRAU FAHRENKOPF – 40-50s. German Tourists at the resort.
HANK – The Tour’s bus driver. Haggard, tough.
PEDRO & PANCHO – Mexican, young men. Employed at the resort.
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GLORIA
by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by TBD
Rehearsals begin mid/late October. Runs November-early December 2018. Exact dates TBD.
Seeking:
DEAN / DEVIN – extra-late 20s, white
KENDRA / JENNA – mid/late 20s, Asian
ANI / SASHA / CALLIE – early 20s, white
GLORIA / NAN – extra-late 30s, anything really
MILES / SHAWN / RASHAAD – 20 years old, black
LORIN – late 30s, unclear
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THE NIGHT WATCH
by Hattie Naylor, adapted from the novel by Sarah Waters, directed by TBD Rehearsals begin mid-December. Runs mid-January to mid-February 2019. Exact dates TBD.
The story of Night Watch runs backward in time from 1947 to 1941 in London during the blitz and its aftermath. British accents a must.
Seeking:
KAY LANGRISH – 25-35 . Brave, sensitive. Not “traditionally feminine.” A loner and ambulance driver.
JULIA STANDING (doubles as MRS. LEONARD) – 25-35. A writer. Enigmatic, magnetic.
HORACE MUNDY (doubles as MR. WILSON) – 55-70. Sickly, kind. Former prison warder.
DUNCAN PEARCE – 20-30. Sensitive, a conscientious objector during the war.
HELEN GINIVER – 25-35. Runs a dating service with Viv, Julia’s lover. Disatisfied.
VIV PEARCE – 25-35. On the bad end of an affair. Disappointed, searching.
ROBERT FRASER (doubles as COLE) – 20-30. Journalist. Old friend of Duncan’s.
MICKEY (doubles as MRS. ALEXANDER) – 25-40. Works the ambulances with Kay. Fierce, funny.
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ESCAPED ALONE by Caryl Churchill and COME & GO by Samuel Beckett
directed by TBD
Rehearsals begin mid-February. Runs March/early April, 2019. Exact dates TBD.
British accents a must.
The actors playing Sally, Vi and Lena will also play Flo, Vi and Ru in COME & GO.
The following characters are women. “They are all at least 70,” Caryl Churchill
Seeking:
SALLY
VI
LENA
MRS. JARRET
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TRUE WEST
by Sam Shepard, directed by TBD
Rehearsals begin in March. Runs April/May 2019. Exact dates TBD.
Seeking:
LEE – 35-45. Tough, unpredictable to put it mildly. Has been living in the desert and fighting pitbulls. Enough said.
AUSTIN – early 30s. Lee’s younger, professional brother. A moderately successful writer.
SAUL – 40s-50s. A movie producer.
MOM – 60s-70s. Lee and Austin’s mother.
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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