ALABAMA STORY Submission - Georgia Ensemble Theatre Auditions

ALABAMA STORY - EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS

Georgia Ensemble Theatre

CONTRACT

Guest Artist $400 weekly minimum (Tier 2)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in ALABAMA STORY (see breakdown).

INSTRUCTIONS

Initial audition will be virtual. Choose role(s) to read for, prepare the sides available at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1yfT0XT1K73Br2nTau6RCyRa7uA5YjFpm and submit your video link in the form available at https://airtable.com/shrX3i9SlnXrejmcM. Use a reader for sides with dialogue. If you do not have access to a reader, please read the sides as if it was a monologue. Please upload to YouTube, Vimeo, or google drive and make sure we can access your audition.

Deadline: Mon, Dec 27, 2021

SUBMIT TO

Casting@get.org

PERSONNEL

DIRECTOR: Tom Jones
PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: Anita Farley
ASSOCIATE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: James Donadio
CASTING ASSOCIATE: Candy McLellan

OTHER DATES

In- Person Callbacks: January 3, 2022 (2 pm-10 pm ET)

See production dates in breakdown.

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

PRODUCTION DATES
First Rehearsal: January 25th
Opening: February 17th
Closing: March 6th

REHEARSALS
Tuesday- Sunday, Evening Rehearsals

SHOW TIMES:
Tuesday Feb. 15th @ 7:30pm (Preview)
Wednesday Feb. 16th @ 7:30pm (Preview)

Thursday Feb. 17th @ 8pm
Friday Feb. 18th @ 8pm
Saturday Feb. 19th @ 8pm
Sunday Feb. 20th @ 2:30pm

Wednesday Feb. 23rd @7:30pm
Thursday Feb. 24th @ 8pm
Friday Feb. 25th @ 8pm
Saturday Feb. 26th @ 4pm
Saturday Feb. 26th @ 8pm
Sunday Feb. 27th @ 4pm

Wednesday Mar. 2nd @7:30pm
Thursday Mar. 3rd @ 8pm
Friday Mar. 4th @ 8pm
Saturday Mar. 5th @ 4pm
Saturday Mar. 5th @ 8pm
Sunday Mar. 6th @ 2:30pm

GARTH WILLIAMS, 50ish or older, a white writer and illustrator from the East Coast, who also assumes the roles of OTHERS, including aged, sickly Alabama State Representative BOBBY CRONE, Montgomery newspaper reporter HERSCHEL WEBB, segregationist columnist HENRY BALCH, a RADIO ANNOUNCER and WHITE PASSERSBY. GARTH should be watchful and omnipresent, when practical.

LILY WHITFIELD, 32, a white woman from small-town Alabama privilege; genteel Alabama accent. She is sheltered, ashamed, loyal, religious, garrulous, charming, unhappily married, all facade, ready to blossom.

JOSHUA MOORE, 32, upwardly mobile middle-class African-American man, who left Alabama more than a decade ago; purposely subtle and suppressed Alabama accent, which becomes pronounced when agitated. He is aspirational, loyal, kind, worldly, happily married, slow to boil, a disciple of Dr. King.

SENATOR E.W. HIGGINS, 50ish or more, a white Alabama State Senator; pronounced but not extreme Alabama accent. He is a charmer, a bully, a poisoner, a politician, a victim of the world be grew up in.

EMILY WHEELOCK REED, 50ish or more, a white librarian, the State Librarian of Alabama, born in North Carolina and raised in Indiana; no Southern accent. She has no sense of humor, she does not suffer fools, she is all-business.

THOMAS FRANKLIN, 28, a white reference librarian, Emily's assistant, an Alabama native; genteel, educated, pronounced Alabama accent. He is officious, efficient, slightly uncomfortable in his own skin. Neutral and objective when conveying information.

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.