|
Send To
Email
richcolenyc@hotmail.com
|
Contract
LORT Non-Rep
$812. minimum. Theatre pays above minimum
Seeking
NY auditions to be held 9/29-9/30, by appointment only
Seeking submissions from AEA members only for these appointments.
The AEA member must submit him/herself directly in order to be considered.
Deadline: must be received by 9/25
see breakdown
Other Dates
1st reh: 12/15. Open: 1/9/15. Close: 1/24/15
You must put ALABAMA STORY and the name of role sought in the subject line of your email.
You must embed resume and a thumbnail headshot in the body of your email.
Attachments will not be opened!
Personnel
Artistic Director/ Director Karen Azenberg
Writer: Kenneth Jones
Casting Director: Rich Cole
|
|
Breakdown
GARTH WILLIAMS
40s to early 60s, white omnipresent narrator. Educated abroad, a famous American illustrator of children's books. Humane storyteller at ease with sincerity and sentiment, yet capable of a waspish comic remark. He also assumes the roles of OTHERS, including a wizened and infirm 80-year-old Old School Southern politician, a liberal Montgomery reporter, a Florida newspaper columnist and a menacing local citizen. A nimble chameleon with gravitas. Think the Stage Manager in "Our Town."
SENATOR E.W. HIGGINS
late 40s to early 60s, a white Alabama State Senator, bawn 'n' bred in Alabama. Implacable in his belief in the traditions of the South. A charismatic bully given to speechifying and posturing but can be a cool and calculating game player when on the attack. 98 percent unflappable. Passionate and desperate, but rarely showing the latter. A bear of a man. Welcomes the spotlight. Think of him as a cousin to "Big Daddy" in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
EMILY WHEELOCK REED
50s, white State Librarian of Alabama. Raised in Indiana; more Midwestern than Southern. Pert, businesslike, completely unsentimental, quick on her feet, excellent at her job, rare to show her weakness in public. 98 percent unflappable. Limited sense of humor, but not a librarian cliché — not a drudge or a spinster or a prude. Has worked in the system enough to know how to be politic and moderate while still pushing for what she wants. Avoids the spotlight.
THOMAS FRANKLIN
27, white reference librarian, assistant to Emily Reed, head of the State Library's reference department. An Alabama native. Educated, exacting, fiercely loyal, a Type-A personality at work, hiding a secret or two, which might give him the slight quality of seeming shifty, sensitive, shy or slightly peculiar at times. Charming. Dryly funny.
LILY WHITFIELD
32, a white woman from small-town Alabama privilege. A Southern belle, with some wear around the edges. Sheltered, still living in her ancestral home. Delicate, hiding a secret, sentimental and quick to conjure the past. Mercurial, garrulous, charming, vivacious, with streaks of sadness. Impulsive. Her chemistry with Joshua is palpable.
JOSHUA MOORE
32, a middle-class African-American man who left Alabama when he was 20 following a childhood trauma that involved Lily's family. Upwardly mobile and confident, but aware of the limits of the Jim Crow South. Has shed his Southern accent, though it surfaces in passion. Focused, content with life, emotionally measured but not afraid to express himself. Burdened by the past without knowing it. His chemistry with Lily is palpable.
|
