Central Square Theater
CONTRACT
NEAT $546 weekly minimum (NEAT 6)
SEEKING
Equity actor for the role of Ada Lovelace in ADA AND THE ENGINE (see breakdown).
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare 1 monologue of your choice AND/OR a monologue from Ada and the Engine (sides emailed upon request); along with a brief expression of musical ability on piano, violin, flute or harp. Please email your video submission along with your headshot/resume. Label all submissions with full name. Deadline: Thursday, May 12, 2022, 5pm EDT.
Deadline: Thu, May 12, 2022
SUBMIT TO
dwise@undergroundrailwaytheater.org
PERSONNEL
Debra Wise, Artistic Director of Underground Railway at Central Square Theater and stage director for Ada and the Engine (viewing auditions).
OTHER DATES
CALLBACKS (live and virtual) Thursday, May 19th, 2022, 2-7pm.
First rehearsal: TBD
Performances: Sept. 22 - Oct. 23, 2022
OTHER
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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
Seeking:
Ada Byron Lovelace - Female-Identifying, ages from 18-36. Endlessly curious, funny, brilliant, aware of her story and that of her infamous father. Mathematician and musician (plays piano, ideally; otherwise, violin, harp or flute).
Charles Babbage - CAST. (40-60) Lauded genius mathematician and scientist, holder of famous London salons, an inventor.
Lady Annabelle Byron - CAST. (35-55) Ada's mother, a mathematician and intellectual, has had a hard life largely due to Ada's father.
Lord Lovelace - CAST. (25-45) A gentleman who becomes Ada's husband. Proud, serious.
Mary Sommerville - CAST. (40-60) Babbage's colleague, Ada's mentor, successful and respected scientist. (Doubled with Lady Byron.)
Byron - CAST. (36) The poet. Charming, unpredictable, emotional, brooding but self-aware. Ada's father. (Doubled with Lovelace.)
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 submit.
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