ANNE & EMMETT - NYC EPA
Billie Holiday Theatre, Inc.
AUDITION DATE
Fri, Mar 23, 2018
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EST)
Lunch 2 to 3
CONTRACT
LOA $900/WEEK
SEEKING
Equity actors for 4 roles. See breakdown.
PREPARATION
Actors will read from sides, provided at the audition. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
1368 Fulton St
Brooklyn, NY 11216-5372
Billie Holliday Theatre. Signs in the lobby will guide you to the audition.
PERSONNEL
by Janet Langhart Cohen
Directed by Thomas W. Jones, II.
Personnel in attendance at auditions:
Executive Director: Dr. Indira Etwaroo
Director Thomas W. Jones, II
OTHER DATES
- Rehearsals: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 through Sunday, October 14, 2018/ Tech: Monday, October 16 – Friday, October 19, 2018 - Previews: Tuesday, October 20 – October 24, 2018 - Performances: Thursday, October 25 is Opening Night with Closing Night on Sunday, November 18, 2018
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
SETTING:
The one-act play opens with the two teenagers meeting in Memory, a place that isolates them from the cruelty they experienced during their lifetime.
The beyond-the-grave encounter draws the startling similarities between the two youths’ harrowing experiences and the atrocities against their respective races.
SYNOPSIS:
At a time of racial unrest across the globe, The Billie Holiday Theatre, the artistic home to one of the most diverse communities in the nation, presents Anne & Emmett, an imaginary conversation between Anne Frank and Emmett Till, both victims of racial intolerance and hatred. Frank is the 13-year-old Jewish girl whose diary provided a gripping perspective of the Holocaust. Till is the 14-year old African-American boy whose brutal murder in Mississippi sparked the American Civil Rights Movement.
In Memory, Anne recounts hiding in a cramped attic with her family after German dictator Adolf Hitler ordered the Nazi military to round up Jews and put them in concentration camps en route to gas chambers. Anne died of typhus at the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp in March 1945, a few weeks before British troops liberated the concentration camp.
Emmett tells Anne about how he, in 1955, ended up being brutally attacked by a group of racists and thrown in the Tallahatchie River with a cotton gin fan tied to his neck. This happened after he whistled at a white woman while visiting his uncle in Money, Mississippi.
SEEKING
Emmett Till: African American young male; boyish charm; born and raised in Chicago.
Mamie Till: African American middle aged female (mid 30s to early 50s); warm, protective and strong.
Anne Frank: White, young female; born in Germany, but lived most of her life in Amsterdam. Anne is curious, spunky and passionate; Dutch/German accent.
Otto Frank: A German businessman who later became a resident of the Netherlands and Switzerland. He was the father of Anne Frank. As the sole member of his family to survive the Holocaust; age range late 30s to late 40s.
RestorationART, the cultural centerpiece of the nation’s first community development corporation, is a 21st century creative complex in the epicenter of Black culture in the US. RestorationART seeks the voices of the community’s disenfranchised and folds them in with those of world class artists to create new artistic works and community experiences, which tell the stories of the community in dance, music, theater, visual arts and conversation. RestorationART is a community bastion where new works and new voices are discovered, created, nurtured, performed, and presented to community members from around the corner and the world.
The Billie Holiday Theatre (The Billie), founded in 1972 by Restoration, is an OBIE and Audelco Award-winning theater devoted to the discovery of world-class storytelling with a focus on stories for, by and about people of African descent with 2-3 major productions annually. The Billie presents, promotes and sustains art that reflects the definitive issues of our time in and through all of its forms of expression, especially drama, and including jazz, opera, ballet, film, poetry, and other forms of intellectual and instructive entertainment; to produce and stimulate performances or theatrical productions of all kinds with a focus on, but not limited to the African American experience; and to commission and premiere original works.
GENERAL INFORMATION:
RestorationArt and The Billie Holiday Theatre are located at Restoration Plaza, 1368 Fulton Street (between New York Avenue and Brooklyn Avenue) in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York 11216.
Subway: A, C to Nostrand Avenue; Long Island Railroad to Nostrand Avenue; B25 to Marcy Avenue and Fulton Street Stop; Commercial parking lot is located adjacent to 1368 Fulton Street.
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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