Vivid Stage 2023-24 Season - Summit, NJ EPA Vivid Stage | Summit, NJ
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Friday, August 25, 2023
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Audition appointments will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis beginning at 9:00am on the morning of the audition. No appointment necessary.
SPT
$293 weekly minimum (SPT 1)
Equity actors for roles in Vivid Stage's 2022- 23 Season (See breakdown).
Vivid Stage is actively seeking to increase our knowledge of a diverse pool of actors. Actors of all ethnicities are encouraged to attend. Although some roles are cast from our ensemble, we draw on actors we meet for productions, readings and other projects as well as future opportunities.
Please prepare a brief contemporary monologue, no more than three minutes in length. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together. There will be no accompanist present.
Vivid Stage 2023-24 Season
The Oakes Center
120 Morris Ave
Summit, NJ 07901
Between Ashwood Avenue and Russell Place. See breakdown for directions to The Oakes Center.
Expected to attend:
Artistic Director: Laura Ekstrand
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production specific dates.
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.
Directions to the Oakes Center, provided by the Theatre: Take NJ Transit, either bus or train, to the downtown Summit stop. Walk down Broad Street approximately ½ mile, make a right on Ashwood (dry cleaner on corner). Make first left onto Morris Avenue. Theatre is on the corner between Ashwood and Russell. Enter in the Russell Place alley on the side of the building.
Director: Laura Ekstrand
1st rehearsal: Monday, September 11, 2023
Runs October 5-15 (Thursday-Sunday).
SYNOPSIS: When struggling New York photographer Jennifer Evers tells her husband Christopher that the photo she took of him by his mother’s deathbed—the one he never gave her permission to take and asked her not to show anyone—was secretly entered in a very prestigious competition, it doesn’t go well.
Jennifer Evers, (CAST) around 30, Female - A fine art photographer with a wry sense of humor. Christopher Larsen, (CAST) around 30, Male - An entomologist, introverted.
Roy Phelps, (CAST) 70, Male – A retired news photographer.
Doug Windsor, (CAST) 70s, Male – A retired Air Force officer.
Nancy Windsor, (CAST) 70s, Female - Doug’s wife, haunted by the past.
Please audition for replacements only.
Musical Director: TBD
1st rehearsal: Monday, January 29, 2024
Runs February 22 - March 3 (Thursday-Sunday)
SYNOPSIS: A wry and whimsical documentary musical of loss devised from interviews with real-life New Yorkers by The Civilians, the acclaimed New York-based company.
There is no breakdown of roles. It was performed by an ensemble of six actors, three men and three women.
This production is fully cast.
The original cast was:
Damian Baldet
Maria Dizzia
Michael Esper
Trey Lyford
Jennifer R. Morris
Alison Weller
Director: Betsy True
1st rehearsal: Monday, March 25, 2024
Runs April 18-28 (Thursday-Sunday)
SYNOPSIS: A play about love, nostalgia, the seasons and how we learn to say goodbye. This is an ensemble show with actors playing multiple roles.
Photographer - CAST (40s - 50s) Female
Gravedigger / Young Man / Policeman - CAST (mid-30s-mid-40s) Male
Hardware Store Owner / Perfume Maker / History Professor / EMT 1 - CAST (mid-40s - 50s) Male
Mystery Novelist / Librarian / Florist / Friend / EMT 2 - (mid-40s - 50s) Female: Warm, quirky, able to subtly transform physically while remaining honest.
Young Woman / Waitress / Marjory - CAST (mid-20s-30s) Female
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