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Call Type
Equity Principal
Date of Audition
3/20/2011
Location
Park Square
408 St. Peter Street
Saint Paul, MN 55102
Rehearsal Hall
Time(s)
Sunday, March 20th
Monday, March 21st
Tuesday, March 22nd
5-9 PM each day
Appointments
will be taken by the Producer. Call 651-767-8491 on either Monday March 14th from 10am to 1pm or Tuesday March 15th from 3pm to 6pm.
> EPA Rules are in effect.
> A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Personnel
Leah Cooper, Director
Michael Hoover, Scenic Designer
Other Dates
1st rehearsal August 16th
Show runs September 9th-October 2nd
Breakdown
Beverly Weston (M, 69): Patriarch of the Weston family, father to three daughters, husband to Violet. A retired professor, former poet, and lifetime alcoholic. According to the playwright, "a poet cowboy." This character has one long, nearly-monologue scene at the top of the play, then disappears, commits suicide, and is not seen in the play again.
Barbara Fordham (F, 46): Bev and Violet's daughter, a professor. As the oldest, she is the one inclined to take charge, the one most likely to be just like her mother despite her best efforts to move on and focus on her own family. Sadly it is her desperation to control everything that alienates the teenage daughter and estranged husband she most wants to keep together.
Bill Fordham (M, 49): Barbara's husband, a professor. A decent husband, a good father, an intelligent man, he has come home with his wife and daughter during a time of crisis despite being separated from his wife because he is a man of character. He is also having an affair with one of his students.
Jean Fordham (F, 14): Barbara and Bill's daughter. She smokes cigarettes, smokes pot, and watches a lot of TV. She also knows a lot about her parents and is working pretty hard to be too tough and too grown up to be phased by their breakup.
Ivy Weston (F, 44): Bev and Violet's daughter. The mousy middle child who stayed in her hometown and takes care of her mother. She's known as her mother's favorite despite her mother repeatedly telling her she's plain and should find a man. She is having a secret affair with Little Charles (her cousin), and is planning to move to New York with him.
Karen Weston (F, 40): Bev and Violet's daughter. After many years of distance from the family, she is excited to reconnect and introduce her fiancé, Steve, the perfect man who has made her happy for the first time in her life. Steve turns out to be much less than perfect.
Mattie Fay Aiken (F, 57): Violet's sister. Tough like Violet while not as intellectual, she has a funny and lovable side but can't seem to stop herself from belittling both her husband and her son.
Charlie Aiken (M, 60): Mattie Fay's husband and longtime friend of Beverly. He is easygoing, kind, cuckolded and does his best to be gentle and supportive of Little Charlie. The moment in the play when he finally stands up to Mattie Fay and demands she treat her son with respect is a very moving one.
Little Charles Aiken (M, 37): Mattie Fay and Charlie's son. He still lives at home, apparently spending much of his time watching TV. His mother relentlessly treats him as though he were stupid and incapable. Over the course of the play one wonders whether he really is, or if this is a self-fulfilling prophesy. He is having a secret affair with his cousin, Karen, and they are planning to move to New York.
Johnna Monevata (F, 27, Native American): A Cheyenne woman, hired by Beverly to be a live-in housekeeper and to take care of Violet, Johnna had to leave nursing school to care for various family members of her own. She stays, no matter how violently insane the Weston household becomes, because "she needs the job," but it also seems like she fits here somehow as a caretaker and a protector.
Steve Heidebrecht (M, 50): Karen's fiancé, a successful businessman in what eventually sounds like pretty shady business. He is smart, fit, charming, very kind to Karen, respectful to the whole family, and also tries to molest 14-year-old Jean after getting her high.
Sheriff Deon Gilbeau (M, 47): The town sheriff who delivers various updates on Beverly's disappearance and death. A former boyfriend of Barbara's, he is kind and considerate. Many characters comment on the irony that he is sheriff, having been the son of a notorious ex-con.
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Contract
SPT
Tier 8; Actor min. $444/wk
Seeking
Male and Female Actors for AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY. See breakdown.
Breakdown
A breakdown has been added for this notice. See below.
Preparation
Please prepare a 3 minute or less Contemporary Monologue. Bring headshot and resume.
Other
Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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