THE OLD SETTLER - NYC EPA
Billie Holiday Theatre, Inc.
AUDITION DATE
Thu, Aug 24, 2017
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
lunch 2 to 3
CONTRACT
LOA $800/WEEK
SEEKING
Equity actors for 3 available roles. The role of Elizabeth has been cast. Actors may be considered for possible replacements if becomes necessary.
PREPARATION
Actors will read from sides, available at the auditions. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Center for Arts & Culture at Restoration
1368 Fulton St
Brooklyn, NY 11216-5372
The Billie Holiday Theatre
PERSONNEL
Personnel in attendance at auditions:
Executive Director: Dr. Indira Etwaroo
Director: Michele Shay
Producing Manager: Kristen Adele Calhoun
Writer: John Henry Redwood
OTHER DATES
Rehearsals begin: September 28, 2017
Tech begins: October 16, 2017
Previews begin: October 20, 2017
Opening night: October 26th, 2017
Closing night: November 19, 2017
OTHER
RestorationArt and The Billie Holiday Theatre are located at Restoration Plaza, 1368 Fulton Street (between New York Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue) in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York 11216.
Subway: A, C to Nostrand Avenue; Long Island Railroad to Nostrand Avenue; B25 to Marcy Avenue and Fulton Street Stop; Commercial parking lot is located adjacent to 1368 Fulton Street.
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
Synopsis: Sparks fly in a 1943 Harlem tenement between fifty-five year old spinster, Elizabeth Borny, and her skeptical sister, Quilly McGrath when Husband Witherspoon, a handsome young Great Migrator arrives on their doorstep. Husband’s quest to find his long-lost love, Lou Bessie, is thwarted when he finds an unexpected new romance with an Old Settler. Full of humor and grit, John Henry Redwood’s authentic story of American love and survival reverberates with timelessness and warmth.
Quilly
African American, 55-65 years old, Bess’s younger sister, a little spoiled, hiding a secret about how her marriage ended, comes to live with her sister and finds out the assumptions she makes about how they will live together are wrong. A bit of a fish out of water at this moment in her life, Q can be a lovable pain in the derrière. A sense of humor and personality is a must for this role.
Husband
African American, 25-35 years old, An attractive young man full of the virtues and charisma and naïveté of someone emerging from strong roots of a Southern country upbringing. Good as gold and sidetracked by infatuation with Lou Bessie who he follows to NY from his country town. He is looking for something real and wants to be ready for it. Genuine and charming.
Lou Bessie
African American, 25-35 years old, An ambitious good looking girl who knows how to work what she's got to help her move up in life though she doesn't quite know what to do with herself. She is in love with another man, but also gambling on Husband. She likes the Harlem high life and longs to belong to it, dreaming of an exciting new life with a new name to match. She is a tigress underneath with a strong will. She represents a longing for new shiny things and loves being young.
The following role has been CAST:
Elizabeth
Role CAST. African American, 55 - 65 years old.
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.
RestorationART, the cultural centerpiece of the nation’s first community development corporation, is a 21st century creative complex in the epicenter of Black culture in the US. RestorationART seeks the voices of the community’s disenfranchised and folds them in with those of world class artists to create new artistic works and community experiences, which tell the stories of the community in dance, music, theater, visual arts and conversation. RestorationART is a community bastion where new works and new voices are discovered, created, nurtured, performed, and presented to community members from around the corner and the world.
The Billie Holiday Theatre (The Billie), founded in 1972 by Restoration, is an OBIE and Audelco Award-winning theater devoted to the discovery of world-class storytelling with a focus on stories for, by and about people of African descent with 2-3 major productions annually. The Billie presents, promotes and sustains art that reflects the definitive issues of our time in and through all of its forms of expression, especially drama, and including jazz, opera, ballet, film, poetry, and other forms of intellectual and instructive entertainment; to produce and stimulate performances or theatrical productions of all kinds with a focus on, but not limited to the African American experience; and to commission and premiere original works.
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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