BETWEEN RIVERSIDE AND CRAZY Equity Principal Auditions - Atlantic Theater Company Auditions

Call Type
Equity Principal

Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Friday, May 16, 2014
9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
lunch 1 to 2

Contract
Off Broadway
$566/week minimum

Location
Actors' Equity Association Audition Center
165 West 46th Street
16th Floor
New York, NY 10036

Seeking
Equity actors, men and women, for various roles.

see breakdown.

Preparation
Actors should prepare a brief contemporary dramatic or comic monologue.

Bring picture and resume, stapled together

Other Dates
1st Rehearsal: 6/9/14
1st Performance: 7/10
Opens: 7/31
Tentative Closing dates:
8/17 (6 weeks)
8/24 (7 weeks)
8/31 (8 weeks)

Other
This production will take place in the newly renovated Atlantic Theater Company main stage, the Linda Gross Theater at 336 West 20th Street.

Personnel
By Stephen Adly Guirgis
Director: Austin Pendleton
Artistic Director, Neil Pepe
Associate Artistic Director, Christian Parker
Literary Manager, Abigail Katz
Artistic Associate, Jaime Castañeda

· EPA Rules are in effect.

· A monitor will be provided.

Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend. Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.

Breakdown

POPS
50s-60s, African-American. The patriarch of the family. A retired cop and with a lawsuit against the city. Trying to keep whatever is left of his family intact. CAST.

JUNIOR
40s, African-American. Pop’s son and currently dating Lulu. Trying to work his way through life as best as he can. At odds with Pops and is perhaps doing some illegal activity to make a few bucks. Stuck at the moment.

OSWALDO
Late 20s/early 30s, Latino. Junior’s ex-con friend from rehab, crashing at Pop’s apartment. A troubled young man seeking comfort wherever he can find it. Fighting to stay sober. Alienated by his own family.

CHURCH LADY
30s-40s, Latina. Originally from Brazil, a novitiate for the convent. Is holding dark secrets that suggest a complicated history. Trying to do the right thing, whatever that means to her.

LIEUTENANT CARO
40s-50s, Italian. Has quickly climbed the ladder within the NYPD and is a future Deputy Commissioner. Engaged to Detective O’Conner. Trying to help Pops resolve a long fight with the department.

DETECTIVE O'CONNER
30s-40s, white. Pop’s former partner in the NYPD. Loves him dearly and wants the best for him. Caught between her ambitious fiancé and her mentor/father.

The following role has been CAST

LULU
20s-30s, Latina. Also staying at Pop’s. Dating Junior and trying to find a way to make herself necessary in their lives. Huge heart, yet not the sharpest tool in the shed. CAST