Victory Gardens 2017-18 Season - Chicago EPA Days
Victory Gardens Theater
AUDITION DATE
Mar 27, 2017
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (CDT)
Lunch from 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Mar 28, 2017
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (CDT)
Lunch from 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
APPOINTMENTS
AEA Members may schedule an appointment online through the Member Portal beginning Monday, March 20.
CONTRACT
CAT CAT 3; $393.73/wk
SEEKING
Actors for the 2017 - 18 Season running August 21, 2017 through August 2018. Please see breakdown for more information.
PREPARATION
Please prepare 2 monologues no more than 4 mins total. If actors would like to be considered for FUN HOME prepare 1 monologue and 16 bars demonstrating vocal range. An accompanist will ONLY be available on March 27. Contemporary preferred; should be contrasting in style and tone.
LOCATION
Victory Gardens Biograph
2433 N Lincoln Ave
Chicago, IL 60614-2414
Upstairs in Richard Christiansen Theatre. Check-in will be in the downstairs lobby which will also serve as a place to warmup.
PERSONNEL
Laura Alcalá Baker - Casting Director
OTHER DATES
See breakdown.
OTHER
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
FUN HOME
September 19 – November 12, 2017
Music by Jeanine Tesori
Book and Lyrics by Lisa Kron
Directed by Gary Griffin
ALISON - 30-45, the reflector rather than narrator; a intellectual cartoonist; she is able to reflect insightfully on her own life and her relationship with her father before his tragic death; Mezzo-Soprano
BRUCE - 40-49; high-school English teacher, funeral home director, spends his spare time on the historic restoration of his home; complex man with a hot temper as a result of years of repression; can be caring and attentive to his children but is also quick to anger; Baritone
ELLEN - 30-39, Alison’s mother; frustrated, exhausted by her tumultuous marriage; has spent her life trying to be a good mother and wife while turning a blind eye to the irreverent activities of her husband; Mezzo-Soprano
SMALL ALISON - 9-11, Alison Bechdel as a child; precocious and opinionated; on the cusp of finding herself and forming her own views on how a girl her age should behave and dress; confident and intelligent; strong singer, seemlessly moving from speech to singing, Alto
MEDIUM ALISON - 18-20; a freshman at Oberlin College, discovering her sexuality; an incredibly well-read, hyper-intelligent teenager; socially awkward; Mezzo-Soprano; strong mix-belt
CHRISTIAN - 10-15, Alison’s older brother; oldest of the three children; strives to be the leader, but is sometimes overshadowed by Alison’s strong personality; seeking a singer with a good sense of harmony and pitch.
JOHN - 7-9, Alison’s younger brother; like most boys his age, he is full of energy with a quirky imagination; looks up to his siblings; seeking a singer with a natural sound, good sense of harmony and pitch.
JOAN - 18-20, student at Oberlin; exudes a confident, sexual energy, with a dry sense of humor; unlike Alison, Joan is very comfortable in her skin and openly identifies as a lesbian; must be comfortable with harmony singing, alto lines
ROY/MARK/PETE/BOBBY JEREMY - Roy, a young man Bruce hires to do yard work; Pete, a mourner who visits the funeral home; Mark, a high school junior; Bobby Jeremy, the lead singer of a band in Alison’s imagination; singer with a strong clean 70s pop sound, Tenor.
BREACH
February 9 – March 11, 2018
By Antoinette Nwandu
Directed by Lisa Portes
Margaret – early 30s, Black-American, a disillusioned Freshman Comp teacher
Nate – early 30s, White-American, a successful businessman
Rasheed – 30s, Black-American, a successful Freshman Comp teacher and exconvict
Sylvia – 70s, Black-American, Margaret’s great-aunt
Carolina – 30s, Mexican-American, a very pregnant night janitor
FADE
November 4 – December 23, 2017
By Tanya Saracho
Directed by Sandra Marquez
LUCIA - 28, Mexican-born, acculturated. When in Mexico one would call her a Fresa but here, she's just an Americanized Mexican who navigates the code-switching between Spanish and English as well as the rest of her (globalized) generation.
ABEL - Early 30's, born in the U.S. Mexican-American but quite Mexicanized. Born and raised in LA, proud of his Mexican heritage. Got a little bit of a chip on his shoulder. Oh, by the way, don't ask about his tattoos because it really bothers him to talk about them, okay? Just don't. He gets grumpy.
DOING IT
April 6 – May 6, 2018
by Boo Killebrew
directed by Chay Yew
TBD
MEIS JULIE
May 25-June 24, 2018
By Yaël Farber
Directed by Dexter Bullard
MIES JULIE - Afrikaans daughter of a farmer, early 20s
JOHN - Xhosa man, a servant on the farm, late 20s
CHRISTINE - Xhosa woman, mother to John, a domestic worker on the farm who raised Julie, mid-60s
UKHOKHO - Xhosa woman, other-worldly ancestor of indeterminate age
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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