Westport Country Playhouse 2017 Season - NYC EPA
Westport Country Playhouse
AUDITION DATE
Mar 07, 2017
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EST)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
COST
$799/week minimum. WCP will be paying $809/week “favored nations”
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles in the upcoming 2017 season shows to include:
LETTICE AND LOVAGE
GROUNDED
APPROPRIATE
SEX WITH STRANGERS.
See breakdown.
PREPARATION
Please prepare a 2 minute contemporary monologue. Please bring a photo and resume, stapled back-to-back.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Mark Lamos
Associate Producer: David Dreyfoos (expected to be in attendance)
Casting: Tara Rubin Casting, Laura Schutzel (expected to be in attendance)
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
LETTICE AND LOVAGE
directed by Mark Lamos
1st Rehearsal May 5 (First rehearsal in Westport. All other rehearsals in NYC)
Tech May 26-28
Previews May 30 & 31, June 1 & 2
Opening June 3
Closing June 18
Seeking:
Miss Lettice Douffet
(female, 40-60s) A bravura role that needs great comic technique. She is an intelligent woman with a delicious imagination and sense of humor who likes to embellish the truth to make life more wonderful.
Miss Charlotte Schoen
(female, 40-60) She’s the head of the national trust and a woman of great authority, who likes to stick to the rules even when those rules tend not to make sense. Under her hard exterior there is a sensitive side that is trying to come out throughout the play.
The following roles have been CAST:
Miss Framer / Woman with the Baby:
Played by the same actor. This Role is CAST
Miss Framer: 20-35. Lotte’s assistant. She is frightened and afraid of her own shadow, typically insecure and nervous.
Woman with the Baby: A woman who is disgusted by Lettice’s tours.
Mr. Bardolph / A Surly Man
Played by same actor. This role is CAST.
Mr. Bardolph (male 30-50) A solicitor with a very dry sense about him who is transformed by his meeting with these two extraordinary women.
A Surly Man: A man who is not impressed with Lettice’s embellishment of a story and demands facts
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GROUNDED
directed by Liz Diamond
1st Rehearsal June 16 (All rehearsals in Westport)
Tech July 7-9
Previews July 11-14
Opening July 15
Closing July 30
GROUNDED is a play in one act set in the imagination and memory of a fighter pilot
Seeking:
THE PILOT:
mid 30’s. Tall, trim, athletic build. Radiates good health, physical grace and resilient vigor. She’s the girl who beat all the boys in the 5th grade 50 yd dash and won the popularity contest; who won, throughout high school and college, top awards for athletics and academics. She has served with distinction as a major in the US Air Force, where she flew combat sorties over Iraq until she became pregnant, and was then assigned to fly drones. Now imprisoned for disobeying orders on a drone combat mission, (a fact the audience will not know until the end of the play) the PILOT recounts, in no-nonsense language, without self-pity or sentimentality, her story.
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APPROPRIATE
directed by David Kennedy
1st Rehearsal July 18
Tech August 11-13
Previews August 15-18
Opening August 19
Closing September 3
Please Note: The Lafayettes grew up in Washington, D.C., but spent childhood summers in rural Arkansas and are very much a Southern family.
Seeking
Toni Lafayette
White female, late 40s/early 50s – The oldest Lafayette sibling, lives in Atlanta, rough around the edges, fueled by resentment and grudges concerning how her life has turned out, personally and professionally. She has a temper, can be cruel, and is a master of venom and sarcasm (some in her family describe her as “scary’). She’s also lonely, a martyr, sentimental about family, fiercely devoted to the memory of her father, and desperate for a real connection with her teenage son.
Bo Lafayette
White male, late 40s/early 50s – The middle Lafayette sibling, an executive at a New York firm, driven and success oriented, he has the air of someone for whom everything comes easily. Smarter and more capable than anyone else in the room, but also drowning in his life’s responsibilities, which means anger and desperation are just below the surface for him. Obsessed with money, he resents that he’s been taken advantage of by his family, which can bring out a cruel streak in him.
Franz Lafayette
White Male, late 30s/early 40s – The youngest Lafayette sibling, a prodigal son, recovering alcoholic, and drug addict who has drifted aimlessly through life. There’s something open, sincere, and childlike about him—he’s unselfconsciously immature—but beneath his exterior there’s a deep well of anger about his family. In mourning for his wasted life, he’s engaged in a 12-step program to make amends for his past.
Rachael Kramer-Lafayette
Female, late 40s – Bo’s wife, a Jewish New Yorker married into a Southern family. She can be lovely, sweet, and supportive, but also demanding, sometimes to the point of controlling. She has that slight air of condescension and superiority a person gets when they are always convinced of the correctness of their own thinking. Bo’s family brings out the worst in her.
Rhys Thurston
white male, late teens – Toni’s Son, attractive in that troubled, brooding teen sort of way. Expelled from high school for dealing drugs, he has become withdrawn and sullen, harboring secrets.
Cassidy Kramer-Lafayette
white female, early teens – Bo and Rachael’s oldest child, Cassidy is in the middle of adolescent awkwardness and rebellion. Annoyed by her parents and wanting to grow up fast, she’s nevertheless still a child. Extremely smart, curious, articulate, and cunning. Has a crush on Rhys.
Ainsley Kramer-Lafayette
white male, 8-years old – Bo and Rachael’s youngest child, rambunctious, always underfoot, and into everything he shouldn’t be.
River Rayner
white female, early 20’s but looks in her teens – Franz’s fiancée, a part-time vegan chef from Portland, Oregon. She’s pretty, sincere, sweet, open to the best in other people, patient, understanding, and helpful. She’s also tougher than she looks and shrewd. A spiritual person with a sincere belief in New Age thinking, she approaches the world with a sense of wide-eyed wonder. A child of a privileged upbringing.
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SEX WITH STRANGERS
directed by Katherine M. Carter
1st Rehearsal September 1
Tech October 27-29
Previews October 31, November 1-3
Opening November 4
Closing November 19
Seeking
OLIVIA
39-41. Novelist, teacher, sexy, outwardly strong but covering some fragility. American, but spent many years living abroad. She is fiercely aware of her need of approval.
ETHAN
28-30. Very charismatic, blogger, a fast talker, used to being the center of attention. From Chicago but has little to no specific accent. Rather than seeking approval, Ethan takes it.
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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