THE NERD and OTHER DESERT CITIES - NYC EPA
New Hope Productions LLC
AUDITION DATE
May 11, 2017
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1:30 to 2:30
CONTRACT
COST COST/ Tier 1; $677/wk
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles in
THE NERD and OTHER DESERT CITIES
PREPARATION
Prepare a brief contemporary monologue (comedic if mainly auditioning for The Nerd)
Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Pearl Studios NYC (500)
500 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10018-6504
4th floor
PERSONNEL
Robyn Goodman, Executive Producer
Alex Fraser: Producing Director
Stephen Kocis, Producer
Josh Fiedler, Producer
Teresa Sanpietro: General Manager, Bucks County Playhouse
Maureen Cotellese: Associate General Manager, Bucks County Playhouse
Casting: Caparelliotis Casting
OTHER
Personnel expected to be in attendance is still TBD.
It will be either David Caparelliotis, Lauren Port or Joseph Gery from Cap Casting and Stephen Kocis or Josh Fiedler from Bucks County
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
THE NERD
Director: Marc Vietor
Playwright: Larry Shue
1st rehearsal: 6/6/17. 1st preview: 6/23/17. Opens: 6/24/17. Closes: 7/15/17
SEEKING
WILLUM
A Vietnam vet turned architect. Warm and appealing, though indecisive and to a frustrating fault, and at a standstill in life. In love with TANSY, but too afraid of commitment to stop her from moving to another city for work.
RICK
Role CAST. WILLUM’s Vietnam war buddy. The “nerd.” Odd, outlandish and outrageous. Socially inept.
AXEL
Male. WILLUM’s best friend. A theater critic. Intelligent and witty, with an acerbic sense of humor. Beneath the barbs, a very good friend.
TANSY
Role CAST. Female. WILLUM’s nearest and dearest. A weather forecaster on the brink of a move to DC.
WALDGRAVE
Role CAST. Male. A new client of WILLUM’s, and a self-made millionaire. A pompous real estate tycoon.
CLELIA
Female. WALDGRAVE’s wife. Frustrated and repressed – she carries around saucers to smash at will in order to avoid melt downs.
THOR
Male. WALDGRAVE and CLELIA's 8 year old son. A menace.
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OTHER DESERT CITIES
Director: Sheryl Kaller
Playwright: Jon Robin Baitz
1st rehearsal:8/1/17. 1st preview: 8/19/17. Opens:8/20/17. Closes:9/3/17
SEEKING:
POLLY
Role CAST. Female. A former scriptwriter (with sister SILDA) turned politician's wife. The ultimate matriarch and hostess. Has an unbreakable willpower. Devoted to her children, despite the complications.
LYMAN
Male. POLLY's husband. The patriarch. A former movie star and US Ambassador. Most certainly a Republican, with a steely façade but a deteriorating core. A family man.
BROOKE
Female. POLLY and LYMAN's liberal daughter. A depressive and a writer, whose latest work threatens to undermine and expose everything her parents stand for and have become. A bundle of contradictions, both fierce and fragile.
TRIP
Male. POLLY and LYMAN's son. Intelligent, attractive, quick-witted producer of reality television. Returns to his parents' home for an extended visit at the request of his frequently unstable older sister; struggles to remain even-handed and purposefully neutral in the face of family drama but finds himself back in the family soup despite his best efforts.
SILDA
Female. Late 60s +. POLLY's alcoholic sister, living with Polly and Lyman; bitter and ill, but has a wickedly and acerbicly funny sense of humor. The ultimate truth teller in the family.
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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