ACTORS PLAYHOUSE 2022-23 SEASON - EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS
Actors' Playhouse
CONTRACT
LOA
$795 weekly minimum (LOA ref LORT)
SEEKING
Equity actors 18+ for roles in Actors Playhouse's 2022-23 Season (see breakdown).
INSTRUCTIONS
SEE PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS IN BREAKDOWN. Email your headshot/resume and video submission.
BREAKDOWN
Actors Playhouse 2022-23 Season submissions
PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS:
For plays: Please prepare two contrasting one-minute monologues OR one two-minute monologue.
For musicals: Please prepare a brief, Broadway song in the style of either musical being presented showing range OR two brief contrasting cuts OR one brief selection and a one-minute monologue. You may also use the accompaniment at https://www.actorsplayhouse.org/auditions/
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET CHRISTMAS
Seeking:
Elvis: Lead, Male, 20-30. Singer/guitar player. Elvis in his 20s at the beginning of his career; familiar with his music and is able to play guitar; prepare an Elvis Presley song (or a song in that style or from the era) and accompany yourself on the guitar to audition. Note: Should sound and look somewhat like Elvis without being an “impersonator.”
Jerry Lee Lewis: Lead, Male, 20-30. Singer/pianist; he was rock & roll’s legendary piano prodigy and celebrated “Last Man Standing”; fun, energetic; comic skills a plus; prepare a Jerry Lee Lewis song (or song in that style or from the era) and accompany yourself on the piano to audition. Note: Should be a superb piano player that plays like Jerry Lee Lewis.
Carl Perkins: Lead, Male, 20-35. Singer/guitar player (lead guitar); he was the American pioneer of rockabilly music and best known for his song “Blue Suede Shoes”; an excellent lead guitarist; prepare a Carl Perkins or Elvis Presley song (or song in that style from that era) and accompany yourself on the guitar to audition.
Johnny Cash: Lead, Male, 20-30. Singer/guitar player. Johnny Cash at the dawn of his epic career; familiar with his music and is able to play guitar; tall; prepare a Johnny Cash song (or song in that style from that era) and accompany yourself on the guitar to audition. Note: Should sound and look somewhat like Johnny without being an “impersonator”;
Sam Phillips: Lead, Male, 25-40. “Father of Rock’n’Roll” and founder of Sun Records who discovered Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and many others including Roy Orbison and B.B. King; a towering and charismatic figure in American music; for the auditions, actors will be asked to prepare sides from the show.
Dyanne: Lead, Female, 18-30. Excellent singer; she was an aspiring singer and Elvis’s girlfriend; attractive; great singer with a wide range; sings solos and back-up throughout the show; for the auditions, actors will be asked to prepare a song from the era.
Drummer: Supporting, Male, 18-45.
Rockabilly Slap Bass Player: Supporting, Male, 18-50.
ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE
Seeking:
Tully: Male. 27-39. Smooth-talking, self-deprecating playboy. He's completely content with the life he's chosen as the singer/bartender at a tropical resort, until he meets Rachel, a vacationer who upends his heart. Guitar skills are useful.
Rachel: Female. 27-33 Fully committed to her job and helping the world. Willing to put in as many hours of hard work as it takes and expects everyone else to do that same. Suspicious of fools and operators, Rachel is not easily distracted from her life plan.
Tammy: Female. 30-39. Loyal friend to Rachel. Sees the best in people and has a zest for life that is often squelched by her fiance, Chad. Her low self-esteem manifests itself as denial in her own life.
Brick: Male. 30-39 The Island bartender. Has a big heart and a good friend to Tully. Not the brightest bulb, but sensitive and thoughtful.
Marley: Female. 40-49. No-nonsense and assertive with an island accent. She runs the resort and keeps everyone in check, but clearly cares about her employees, her customers, and J.D., an older island denizen. Great singer.
J.D.: Male. 60-79. A funny, endearing older man who always has a parrot on his shoulder. He's losing his vision and his hearing, but won't acknowledge it. A good-natured drunkard, he's always writing his memoirs on bar napkins and, as it turns out, he's lived a full life.
Ensemble: A 12-person ensemble who will make up the world of the play.
BRIGHT STAR
Seeking:
Alice Murphy: Female. Alice at age 38: an editor of a southern literary magazine; intelligent, attractive, professional–but with an air of melancholy. The same actress will also play Young Alice at age 16: rebellious, high-spirited, sexually forward, adventurous–looking to break out of small-town life and experience the world. Comfortable in folk and bluegrass styles. Vocal range: Very strong singer with a wide vocal range.
Billy Cane: Male. 21-24. A soldier returning home from WWII; an aspiring young writer; fresh, open, optimistic, charming, and a little naïve. A strong, athletic dancer, able to partner and lead a production number. Vocal range: Bright, natural Bari-Tenor.
Jimmy Ray Dobb: Jimmy Ray at age 40. The same actor will play Jimmy Ray in his early 20s in flashbacks. Mayor Dobbs’ son and young Alice’s beau; handsome, boyishly charming, well-built, and intelligent; from a family of wealth and power and is being groomed by his father for a similar future in the family business; an independent thinker who is not afraid to stand up to his father for what he believes in; he has a sense of personal responsibility and morality as well as a deep reserve of passion and emotion. Vocal range: Very strong singer in a pop-folk style. Bari-Tenor.
Mayor Josiah Dobbs: Male, 54-56. The Mayor of Zebulon; he’s a political and financial powerbroker – distinguished, even elegant, an imposing and controlling presence; has a genuine interest in protecting his son’s future and his family name, but in doing so, is ultimately pushed to a point of extreme and irrevocable cruelty. Vocal range: Bass-Baritone.
Margo Crawford: Female, 21-24. A small-town bookstore owner; a childhood friend of Billy’s who now harbors romantic feelings towards him; a natural beauty with a keen intellect. Vocal range: A sweet, warm folk voice.
Daryl Ames: Male, 24-46. Precise, exacting, specific and effete. Dry and witty, with great comic timing. Any vocal range.
Lucy Grant: Female, 21-24. Great comedic timing, and a dynamic and sexy dancer. She has to have complete ease with dancing and partnering. Leads a production number. Vocal range: Strong belt.
Daddy Murphy: Male, 54-56. Alice’s father; an authoritative and a stern disciplinarian; devoutly religious, hard-working, a poor but proud farmer. Any vocal range.
Mama Murphy: Female, 50. Warm and strong, the center of her family. A fierce protector of her daughter, who she knows is deeply gifted, but a handful. Any vocal range.
Daddy Cane: Male, 60-65. A warm, loving country man. Loves to read. Has kept a secret for many years for all the wrong reasons. Any vocal range.
Male Ensemble: (3) Male, a variety of ages 20 – 60, who all move very well. Everyone moves scenery, is quite active throughout the entire show, and needs to be game to “move.” Everyone either “moves” or dances. There are some extensive partnering tracks. Any vocal range.
Female Ensemble: (3) Female, a variety of ages 20 – 60, who all move very well. Everyone moves scenery, is quite active throughout the entire show, and needs to be game to “move.” Everyone either “moves” or dances. There is some extensive partnering. Dance technique needed. Any vocal range.
PROOF
Catherine: Female, 25. A college dropout, she has spent several years at home caring for her mentally ill father. Their relationship, although sometimes antagonistic on the surface, was sustained by strong mutual affection. Although she is a highly intelligent woman, she has no direction in life. Catherine is worried that she may inherit her father’s illness, and the signs of mental instability are already there.
Robert: Male, 50-60s. Was a famous mathematician who has just died of a heart attack in his fifties. He is already dead when the play begins, but he appears in the first scene in Catherine’s imagination and returns in two later scenes, which flash back to earlier years. Robert was a mathematical genius. When he was in his early twenties, he made major contributions to game theory, algebraic geometry, and nonlinear operator theory. While he was still in his twenties, Robert was afflicted by a serious mental illness, which dogged the remainder of his life. He became so incapacitated that his daughter Catherine had to stay at home to care for him. Robert had a deep affection for Catherine.
Claire: Female. Catherine’s twenty-nine-year-old efficient, practical, and successful sister. Unlike Catherine, she has inherited none of her father’s erratic genius. Instead, she has made a career in New York as a currency analyst. Claire and Catherine have never gotten along well. Claire feels responsible for Catherine’s welfare and wants her to move to New York, but Catherine resents what she sees as Claire’s interference in her life
Hal: Male, a twenty-eight-year-old mathematician who teaches at the University of Chicago. He also plays drums in a rock band made up of mathematicians. Hal is a former student of Robert’s, whom he admires immensely, not only for the brilliance of his achievements in mathematics but because Robert helped him through a bad patch in his doctoral studies. Hal first met Catherine briefly four years earlier, and when he meets her again, he tries to make friends with her, and quickly becomes romantically involved with her.
Deadline: Fri, Sep 2, 2022
SUBMIT TO
auditions@actorsplayhouse.org
PERSONNEL
Barbara Stein: Founding Executive Producing Director
David Arisco: Artistic Director
OTHER DATES
Million Dollar Quartet Christmas:
Rehearsals begin October 25, 2022
Show runs November 16, 2022 – January 1, 2023
Escape to Margaritaville:
Rehearsals begin January 10, 2023
Show runs February 1, 2023 – February 26, 2023
Bright Star:
Rehearsals begin March 7, 2023
Show runs March 29, 2023 – April 16, 2023
Proof:
Rehearsals begin April 25, 2023
Show runs May 17, 2023 – June 4, 2023
OTHER
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