VENUS IN FUR Submission - Pittsburgh Public Theater Auditions

Send To
submission.mccorklecasting@gmail.com
email picture and resume
to above email address
. NY .

Contract
LORT Non-Rep
Cat. C; $799/week

Seeking
NYC auditions to be held on 2/11-2/12, by appointment only.

Seeking submissions from AEA members only via this posting.
AEA members must submit themselves directly in order to be considered (no agent submissions).

See breakdown

Other Dates
First Rehearsal: May 10, 2016
First Performance: June 2, 2016
Closing: June 26, 2016

Personnel
Artistic Dir: Ted Pappas
Dir: Jesse Berger
By: David Ives
Casting Director: Pat McCorkle
Casting Associate: Katja Zarolinski
Casting Assistant: Rachel Goldman

Other
Email picture and resume by 2/8 for consideration.
Mark submissions: VENUS IN FUR / NYC APPT SUBMISSION
Make sure to include your AEA status on your resume.

Breakdown

Casting Director's Note:
Both roles can be played by actors of any ethnicity or race in any combination. Actors of all ethnicities strongly encouraged to submit.

SEEKING:

THOMAS.
Male, 30s. Does not have to be a tall actor but should not be under 5’5''. Must be in good physical shape. Must be very skillful with language and extremely facile with hairpin emotional terms and quickly shifting power dynamics. The character is an up and coming slightly jaded writer-director with artistic and literary obsessions and pretensions of the highest order. Also plays a 19th century Austrian aristocrat who longs to be sexually dominated and humiliated in his own play within the play. Darkly handsome, tortured artistic type. Virile with a seductive intellect and casual charm. Actor preferably has a lower, rich speaking voice.

VANDA.
Female, mid-20s. Preferably 5’7''+. Must be in good physical shape and confident in her attractive physique; the character appears at some length in underwear. Must be very skillful with language and extremely facile with multiple characters, hairpin emotional turns and quickly shifting power dynamics. The character is a struggling young actress – and the Goddess of love. She also plays a poised young 19th century Austrian woman in the play within the play. She possesses a startling instinctual ability to switch from crude to dignified, from loudmouthed to cultured, on a dime. Highly aware of and completely comfortable with the power of her sexuality. Possesses the disarming charisma of a first-class con artist, or a Roman goddess, or a desperate actor with nothing much to lose. Actor preferably has a lower, rich speaking voice.