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Seeking
4 males age ranging from late 20s to 60s and 1 female age 30s/40s to fill roles in the World Premiere production of BANK JOB by John Kolvenbach.
Preparation
For audition please prepare selected sides from the play. Contact Natalie Chapa at
natalie@amphibianproductions.org for digital copies of these materials.
Other Dates
First Rehearsal: January 20, 2014
Opening: February 13, 2014
Closing: March 2, 2014
Performances Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8pm & Sundays at 2pm
Other
www.amphibianproductions.org
Callbacks: December 4, 2013 from 8:00 - 10:00 PM
Personnel
See breakdown for details.
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
For an audition appointment please contact Company Manager, Natalie Chapa by phone
(817) 923-3012 or email
natalie@amphibianproductions.org.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
Just one simple bank job. How hard can it be? For two brothers new to the armed robbery industry, it turns out it’s a lot more difficult than it appears in the movies. When plans A and B (and C through F) fail, Tracey and Russell find themselves locked in the bank bathroom with no choice but to depend on a brave bank teller, an unsuspecting cop, and the man who put them up to the whole thing. Bank Job is a quirky comedy about the holes we dig ourselves into and the people we trust to help us out.
“… a writer of real skills. We will be hearing more of him.” – London Daily Telegraph
Russell: 29. Skinny, smart in a way that is invisible to his family, bitter. Hasn’t made much of himself, but is a seeker of meaning. Gentle soul trying to create a tough exterior.
Tracey: Late 30s/40s. Book smart. Doctor. Nervous, careful, essentially law-abiding, he was never the one who broke the rules, even the little ones. Easily rattled.
Dale: 40s-50s. Cop. Has seen it all. Not corrupt, but he’s no martyr – he’ll do what’s needed to come out ahead. A little whacky, whimsical.
Jill: 20s. Tough, resourceful, clever. Not easily knocked off balance. Wants to be a painter. Longing for adventure – her world is well-behaved and boring, but she is not.
Francis: 60s. Russell and Tracy’s father. Seems stupid, but he is actually playing chess when everyone else is barely playing checkers. Loves his sons in his way. Totally without moral compass.
*While Russell, Tracey, and Francis all have to be credibly part of the same family, all roles can be played by actors of any race.
Jessica Bauman (Director) recently directed the New York Off-Broadway premiere of The Last Seder by Jennifer Maisel. Other recent projects include a workshop of Flight by Patrick Gabridge at the Huntington Theater in Boston and Taming of the Shrew at Juilliard. Making Up the Truth, the solo performance she developed and directed, written and performed by This American Life journalist Jack Hitt, premiered at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven in June 2011 and has subsequently been seen in the 2012 Spoleto Festival and at Joe’s Pub. She has been collaborating with e-book publisher The New Book Press to create a revolutionary new way of reading Shakespeare, blending video and text in electronic books for the iPad. For that project, she directed video versions of the complete texts of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth (both currently available on iTunes). Other video projects include Alcohol Education Videos for a web-based program for incoming freshman at Yale College.
She is the founder and Artistic Director of New Feet Productions, for which she directed and produced Into the Hazard (Henry 5), her own six actor adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V, All Day Suckers by Susan Dworkin and Milk by Emily DeVoti (co-produced with New Georges) and, most recently, the world premiere of Leave the Balcony Open by Maya Macdonald. For the 24 Hour Plays on Broadway, she has directed the premieres of Terrence McNally’s Teachers Break with Cynthia Nixon and Maura Tierney, Harrison Rivers’ and it seems to me a very good sign… with Naomi Watts and John Krasinski, and David Lindsay-Abaire’s Dress the Orphans with Rachel Dratch and Rosie Perez. Her work has been seen at theatres such as New Georges, New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep, the Public, Juilliard (including the world premiere of Fuddy Meers by David Lindsay-Abaire), Rising Phoenix Rep and the 52nd Street Project. Regionally, she has worked at the Huntington Theater, Portland Stage Company, Shakespeare Theatre of NJ, Theatre Outlet (Allentown, PA), Vermont Stage Company and the O’Neill. She has collaborated with playwrights such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Kia Corthron, Tracey Scott Wilson, Emily DeVoti, Jenny Lyn Bader, Diana Son, Napoleon Ellsworth and Kirsten Greenidge. She has been an Artist-in- Residence at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, a Drama League Directors Project fellow, and is an alumna of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, a NYTW Usual Suspect and New Georges Affiliated Artist. Jessica was a finalist for the 2007-2009 TCG/NEA Career Development program for Directors. She is a graduate of Yale College.
Amphibian Stage Productions is a non-profit theatre company founded in 2000 by three alumni of TCU's Department of Theatre who strive to produce innovative and engaging works of theatre that challenge the way we see the world around us. Now in its fourteenth season, Amphibian has produced numerous groundbreaking and challenging plays (some regional premieres, others US or world premieres) that foster a deeper understanding of ourselves as members of the global community. The company is widely recognized for its stylistically and thematically varied scripts.
Committed to nurturing young and diverse audiences, Amphibian has developed a strong internship program, a summer acting workshop for teens, and a dynamic outreach project, Tad-Poles, that is steadily increasing the company’s visibility and following. The group travels to schools and community centers, performing and spreading a message of multicultural collaboration and tolerance.
Amphibian is generously funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Texas Commission on the Arts, the Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Ann L. & Carol Greene Rhodes Charitable Trust, Amon G. Carter Foundation, The Ryan Foundation, Alcon Foundation, Pangburn Foundation, William E. Scott Foundation, Wells Fargo Bank, Berlene T. and Jarrell R. Milburn, Mrs. Betty J. Sanders, the Hattie Mae Lesley Foundation, Out of Nowhere Website Design, Bates Container, Pier 1 Imports, and the Devonian Society, a group of Amphibian’s devoted donors who are proud to be the force behind nurturing the next generation of artists and audiences.
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