ALL OUR CHILDREN - NYC EPA
Sheen Center, The
AUDITION DATE
Fri, Nov 16, 2018
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1:30 to 2:30
CONTRACT
Transition $550/wk
SEEKING
Equity actors for 3 roles. See breakdown.
There are also 2 Stage Management positions available: one Production Stage Manager, and one Assistant Stage Manager. See separate SM posting for info.
PREPARATION
Please prepare a short contemporary monologue, under 2 minutes.
Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.
LOCATION
Sheen Center, The
18 Bleecker Street
New York, NY 10012
***PLEASE ENTER AT THE ELIZABETH STREET ENTRANCE*** Check in at front desk, and ask for Studio A (on the second floor). Please note that the building officially opens at 9:00AM.
PERSONNEL
Written by: Stephen Unwin
Directed by: Ethan McSweeny
Casting: Brick Wall Theatrical
Personnel in attendance:
Sarah Cooney, Casting Associate
Kelley Girod, Program Associate – The Sheen Center
Cole Matson, Program Associate – The Sheen Center
Andrew Levine, Managing Director – The Sheen Center
OTHER DATES
1st rehearsal: March 12th, 2019
1st preview: April 6th, 2019
Opening: TBD, April, 2019
Closing: May 12th, 2019
Possible Extension: May 19th, 2019
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
Note:
The persecution, sterilization and murder of hundreds of thousands of disabled people is one of the most overlooked chapters in the whole ghastly history of Nazi Germany. Between 1939 and 1941 as many as 100,000 people with a wide range of disabilities were dismissed as lebensunwertes Leben (‘lives unworthy of life’) and systematically killed in six converted psychiatric hospitals across Austria and Germany. Public opposition to the programme was limited. The most striking intervention came from the churches, especially the Catholic Bishop of Münster, Clemens August Graf von Galen. All Our Children is very much a work of fiction, but rooted firmly in the true evils of the past.
Seeking:
[MARTHA] Female, late 30's - 40's, Caucasian, Victor Franz's maid. A simple woman who believes in Dr. Franz and that the party is doing good work. A mother to a teenage daughter and wife to an absent German soldier, devoutly Catholic. Protective, passionate, but obedient.
[ERIC] Male, 25-35, Caucasian. A true believer in the Nazi party, he relishes the power that his status gives him over others. Cocky, arrogant, a man living in a world without consequences. Handsome, charismatic, Aryan & ruthless.
[ELIZABETTA] Female, late 40's, Caucasian. Gaunt, working class, a mother and a widow. Her special needs child has been put in the care of a camp/hospital run by the Nazi party. Unable to see her child, she is anxious, desperate for reassurance, and devastated when she learns the truth of her son's fate.
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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