THE GLASS MENAGERIE - Columbus EPA Days
Short North Stage
AUDITION DATE
May 06, 2017
11:00 am - 3:00 pm (EDT)
May 07, 2017
11:00 am - 3:00 pm (EDT)
APPOINTMENTS
This an open call. AEA Members will be given priority.
CONTRACT
SPT SPT 4; $352/wk min
SEEKING
Actors to play Amanda, Tom, Laura and Jim in the upcoming production of THE GLASS MENAGERIE. Please see breakdown for more information.
PREPARATION
Please prepare a one minute monologue. Bring headshot and resume.
LOCATION
Garden Theater
1187 N High St
Columbus, OH 43201
Park in lot next to the theater
PERSONNEL
Elliott Lemberg, director; Edward Carignan, Artistic Director
OTHER DATES
Rehearsals start Aug 22, Runs Sept 7-Oct 1, 2017
OTHER
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
Amanda Wingfield (The Mother): Female, 46-54
an iron butterfly; a proud woman fiercely devoted to her children; still holds onto the ideals of her
genteel southern upbringing; girlish and grotesque; narcissistic and loving; sensitive and harsh; a
realist while living in the reveries of a life long vanished; charming and manipulative; a survivor.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Tom Wingfield (The Son): Male, 23-30
30-ish in the present, 21 in the memory; narrator of the play; a poet who works in a warehouse;
caught between responsibility to his family and following his dreams; explosive, mercurial, lonely,
and caring; deeply devoted to his sister; a suffocating dreamer.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Laura Wingfield (The Daughter): Female, 20-26
to play 23; sensitive; painfully shy; a childhood illness has left her physically impaired; retreats
from reality through her collection of glass animals; loves her mother and brother; always puts
others before herself; seeking disabled and non-disabled actors.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
Jim O'Connor (The Gentleman Caller): Male, 20-26
to play 23;Tom's lone friend at the warehouse and former classmate of Laura's; a nice guy;
pleasant in appearance and demeanor; peaked in high school; he is the outside world.
Ethnicity: All Ethnicities
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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