BLACK NATIVITY - Seattle, WA EPA Intiman Theatre Company | Seattle, WA
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Friday, July 7, 2023
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (P)
Lunch 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
To set up an audition appointment please contact Kiefer Harrington at: (425) 298-3898, kiefer@intiman.org, Tuesday - Thursday, 10- 6. If you are unable to attend the in-person auditions on July 7th, you may submit a video audition. See details in Breakdown.
SPT
$576 weekly minimum (SPT 6)
Equity actors for BLACK NATIVITY by Langston Hughes. (See breakdown).
Local Seattle or King County actors are encouraged to audition.
Please prepare one of the two sides located at: Side A:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/toaizipjmpkyq4h/BN%20SIDE%20A.PDF?dl=0 - Side B: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yhk04xd5ifc178s/BN%20SIDE%20B.PDF?dl=0 . Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Seattle Central College - Fine Arts Building 801 E. Pine St
Seattle, WA 98122
Door is west of SIFF Cinema Egyptian entrance. Someone will be posted at the door. THIS SPACE'S VENTILATION HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED BY ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION.
Marcos Everstijn - Production Director Kiefer Harrington - Artistic Coordinator
Expected to attend:
Jennifer Zeyl - Artistic Director, Production Scenic Designer
Valerie Curtis-Newton - Director
Steve Sneed - Assistant Director
Callbacks (in-person): August 4-6, 2023
First Rehearsal: November 7, 2023
Previews: December 12, 13, 2023
Performance Schedule: December 12-17, 19- 23, 26-30, 2023
Opening Performance: December 14, 2023 Closing Performance: December 30, 2023
OTHER
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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.
BLACK NATIVITY
VIDEO
Please prepare the same as for the in-person audition (Sides).
Please submit your audition video, resume, and headshot at:
https://www.dropbox.com/request/mLNTsKEuFrTtSYBDe1tG .
The deadline to submit your video submissions is July 7, 2023. Naming format of files submitted should be
“LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_TYPE” (type specifying Resume/Headshot/Audition)
ABOUT THE PLAY: “The Christmas story in dialogue, narrative, pantomime, gospel song and folk spirituals–the unique creation of the poet and playwright Langston Hughes… ‘His tone has that intimate, elusive, near-tragic, near-comic sound of the Negro blues, and is equally defiant of analysis’ is how a critic described this work by Langston Hughes, who mentions Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman as his main literary influences. As a young man, Hughes participated enthusiastically in the activities of the Karamu Players in Cleveland, and later he was to found Negro theater [in] Harlem, Los Angeles and Chicago. He wrote a number of plays and musicals and then came to his own special creation which calls ‘the Gospel Song-Play’... which is Black Nativity.” Source: Dramatic Publishing
Experience with performing gospel choir vocals is a plus.
WOMAN: Lead soloist of the ensemble
MAN: Ensemble member
NARRATOR: Leads the ensemble through the Nativity story
OLD WOMAN: Townsperson of Bethlehem
ELDER: Leads the ensemble through the Nativity story
Videos
