Alley Theatre 2018-19 Season - NYC EPA
Alley Theatre
**Revised/updated character descriptions are provided for TWELFTH NIGHT**
AUDITION DATE
Thu, Jun 28, 2018
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles in the upcoming 2018-19 Season. See beakdown
PREPARATION
Please prepare a brief monologue in the style of the show/role you wish to be considered for. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Ripley-Grier Studios (520)
520 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6507
Audition Room: 17A, Holding Room: 17B
PERSONNEL
Theatre Staff:
Interim Artistic Director: James Black
Managing Director: Dean R. Gladden
General Manager: Ten Eyck Swackhamer
In the room: Binder Casting/Chad Eric Murnane, CSA - Casting Director
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
ALLEY THEATRE
Now - February 16, 2019:
LORT B - $887
LORT C - $823
February 17, 2019 - February 15, 2020:
LORT B - $914
LORT C - 848
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SKELETON CREW
by Dominique Morisseau
Neuhaus Theatre (LORT C)
First rehearsal August 7, 2018. Performances August 31 to September 30, 2018
Seeking:
FAYE
*ALL OTHER ROLES ARE CAST
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TWELFTH NIGHT
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Jonathan Moscone
Hubbard Theatre (LORT B)
First Rehearsal September 4, 2018. Performances October 5 to October 28, 2018
Seeking:
[SEBASTIAN] Male, a person of color, mid 20s to mid 30s. Viola’s twin brother. Sebastian is impulsive, emotionally driven, both elated and terrified by the wild adventure he is on, shipwrecked as he is on the island of Illyria and believing his twin sister is drowned.
[SIR TOBY BELCH] Male, person of color, mid 40s to early 50s. Olivia’s fun-loving, free-spirited uncle. A juicy, big hearted, life-loving man. He enjoys drinking immensely. A complete extravert, he thrives on friendships and good times. When his way of life is threatened, he exacts revenge that stars as a joke and goes too far, so he definitely has a dark side underneath his bear-like joie de vivre.
[VIOLA] Female, a person of color, 20s – 30s. Viola is a fiercely determined and resourceful woman in her late-20's to 30's who drives the play's plot in the guise mostly of her twin brother, whom she presumes dead from the shipwreck that washes her ashore to the play's location, Illyria. Viola lives entirely by her wits. Her deep emotions live underneath her determined and wily surface. She focuses on action over thought and dives headlong into adventure, without considering the emotional
consequences. She is our heroine.
*ALL OTHER ROLES ARE CAST
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
by Charles Dickens, adapted by Michael Wilson
Directed by James Black
Hubbard Theatre (LORT B)
First rehearsal October 16, 2018. Performances November 15 to December 30, 2018
Seeking:
EBENEZER SCROOGE
*ALL OTHER ROLES ARE CAST
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THE CARPENTER
by Robert Askins
Hubbard Theatre (LORT B)
First Rehearsal December 18, 2018. Performances January 18 to February 10, 2019
Seeking:
GENE - Late 30s. Wears a red plaid pearl snap shirt. Dark Jeans. Work boots. His head is close shaved. He’s bearded. He’s got gold rimmed Dad glasses. He’s country. He’s smart, likes to take chances. Gets a little rowdy, a little aggressive. He and Dan share a Father.
DAN - Early 30s. Dan is bald. He has a studied fancy casual look to him. He’s wearing a nice kind of sweater, soft, Rag and Bone, maybe. Dark jeans. Nice thick nerd glasses. He’s a little neurotic. A little ‘Mansplainy’. He comes from not much, but it’s a little bit more than Gene.
STEVE - Early 30s. Steve is a to-the-manor-born version of Dan. He is not bald, in fact, he should have a glorious mane of hair. He is not afraid to wear pink. He is a tall thin charming bro of a man. He is a little bit gross, a little bit fun, a little bit too much. He’s pure Dallas.
TERRY - Early 30s. Terry is a Highland Park princess, but the kind of princess that went through a goth phase and starred in a slasher flick before deciding she’d rather be a mid-level executive at a tech start up. She looks like a million bucks, literally, like all the care wealth can afford.
CLAIRE - Early 30s. Terry’s best friend. She is bigger than life. Her clothes are wild, the height of fashion. She should not look like Dallas but like the worst excesses of LA. When she enters she does a little dance… it’s like “Did Coachella throw up in here?”
CHERYL - 60s. Dan’s Mother. She is pure country lot and can sure give a backhanded compliment. She is the kind of conflicted Mom that wants her babies to do good, but maybe not too good. She shops a Marshall’s.
JESSE - late 20s. Dan’s sister. She’s wearing a ‘back to the woods hipster’ flannel and maybe has a ring in her nose. She lived in Austin until too many ‘Claires’ showed up, so she moved to Asheville, NC. She’s an eye roller, very dry.
KIP - 60s. Terry’s Father. Smoking Jacket. Scotch. A shotgun. You remember when they opened up a Yale club in Permian because every jerk in New England had to come to Texas to take money out of the ground? Yeah, like that.
VENUS - Any age. Venus is not messing around. She is a big woman. She strips. She owns a gun. She probably has two houses and a very nice car. She also likes men that are maybe a little shady (Gene) but is trying to like men who are less shady (Dan).
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QUACK
by Eliza Clark
Neuhaus Theatre (LORT C)
First Rehearsal January 8, 2019. Performances February 8 to March 10, 2019
Seeking:
DR IRVING BAER – White; early 50's, a very successful, famous, TV doctor who has been a household name for twenty years. To the outside world, he is a model feminist, a generous and charming man. To those in his inner circle he is a charming narcissist with an easily bruised ego.
KELLY HENNING – Non-White (Female); 30s. Studious, sensible, his assistant and a registered nurse. She’s an idealist who left Oklahoma to work for Dr. Baer because she believed in his vision and the work he was doing. She is very good at managing her boss’s fragile ego and trying to carefully and sensitively guide him toward the version of himself she wants him to be, but lately she has started wanting to use her own voice a little more.
MEREDITH BAER – White; 40’s - 50's. Dr. Baer’s wife. She's tightly wound and tightly muscled, the empress of a diet empire. Her business is directly tied to her husband’s fame and success and she helps to manage his career with a tight fist. She is shrewd, business savvy, with a tough facade.
RIVER THUMBOLT- Non-White; 20's. A journalist whose career is on an upswing. She has spent years toiling in fashion and teen magazines, always wanting to be taken seriously. After losing two hundred pounds, she wrote a memoir that was well-reviewed and got her taken seriously by the literati. She covers her youth by maintaining a serious veneer — she is non-plussed, not easily baited.
BROCK SILVER – White; 30's. He once managed a trucking company, but after being unceremoniously fired, he has found a new calling as a blogger for the alt right. He is unassuming, affable, surprisingly reasonable, even charming at times, but his outward appearance (fastidious, tightly maintained) belies a dark underbelly capable of acts of extreme cruelty, and a pessimistic, bigoted worldview.
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THE HUMANS
by Stephen Karam
Directed by Brandon Weinbrenner
Hubbard Theatre (LORT B)
First rehearsal January 29, 2019. Performances March 1 to March 24, 2019
Seeking:
ERIK BLAKE
RICHARD SAAD
BRIGID BLAKE
*ALL OTHER ROLES ARE CAST
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CRIMES OF THE HEART
by Beth Henley
Directed by Theresa Rebeck
Hubbard Theatre (LORT B)
First Rehearsal March 12, 2019. Performances April 12 to May 5, 2019
Seeking:
BABE BOTRELLE
*ALL OTHER ROLES ARE CAST
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CONSTELLATIONS
by Nick Payne
Directed by Leslie Swackhamer
Neuhaus Theatre (LORT C)
First Rehearsal April 9, 2019. Performances May 3 to June 2, 2019
*ALL ROLES ARE CAST
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THE THREE MUSKETEERS
by Ken Ludwig
Hubbard Theatre (LORT B)
First rehearsal April 30, 2019. Performances May 31 to June 30, 2019
Seeking:
D’ARTAGNAN
SABINE
FATHER
ATHOS
PORTHOS
ARAMIS
CARDINAL RICHELIEU
ROCHEFORT
RAVANCHE
MILADY
MONSIEUR DE TREVILLE
ADELE
CONSTANCE
KING LOUIS XIII
QUEEN ANNE
SEPTIME
SOPHIE DELACROIX
MOTHER SUPERIOR
INNKEEPER
FACHE
THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
STANLEY
THE ABBESS
*ACTORS MAY PLAY MULTIPLE ROLES
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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