BLITHE SPIRIT EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS - Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park Auditions

BLITHE SPIRIT - EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS
Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park

CONTRACT
SPT
$279 weekly minimum (SPT 1)

SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in BLITHE SPIRIT (see breakdown).

Oklahoma based actors are encouraged to submit.

INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare 1 monologue, no more than 2 minutes total. Email your headshot/resume and video submission (YouTube or Vimeo). Attachments or links to shared drives will not be opened. Deadline is Friday, August 12, 2022 at 5:00pm ET.

Deadline: Fri, Aug 12, 2022

SUBMIT TO
info@okshakes.org

PERSONNEL
Viewing auditions:
Director: D. Lance Marsh
Artistic Director: Kathryn McGill
Executive Producer: Tyler Woods

OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: September 19, 2022
Opening Date: October 14, 2022
Closing Date: October 29, 2022

BREAKDOWN

Seeking:

Charles Condomine (pre-cast)- A novelist. Charles is bright, sophisticated, articulate, and debonair but somewhat at the mercy of his wives, past and present. His interest in spiritualism as a subject for a novel leads Charles to ask Madame Arcati to dinner and a séance. He is skeptical but becomes a believer when the ghost of his first wife appears—and stays.

Ruth Condomine - Charles’s second wife. Like her husband, Ruth is witty and sophisticated, and she is quite the society matron. Ruth is a bit stuffy and a little predictable. She is convinced that Charles has lost his mind when Elvira appears. Ruth acts as a concerned wife, trying to restore Charles to normalcy.

Elvira- The ghost of Charles’s first wife. Only Charles can see or hear her. In life, Elvira was spirited, outgoing, wild, and carefree. In death, she is no different; she socializes with Genghis Khan. She does love Charles, if somewhat casually, and is jealous of Ruth.

Madame Arcati (pre-cast) - The local spiritualist and medium. Elderly but spry, Madame Arcati comes into the play talking to an eight-year-old contact on the other side. She truly is in contact with the other world and inadvertently is the “medium” through which Elvira is called back to this one. She is eccentric, effusive and boisterous.

Dr. George Bradman - A good friend of the Condomine's who is invited to dinner and the séance. He is entirely skeptical of anything to do with the occult but tries his utmost to go along with the proceedings for the sake of Charles’ research.

Violet Bradman - Dr. Bradman’s wife. Simple and naïve, she is quite excited about being in the presence of the medium, whom she finds fascinating.

Edith - The Condomine’s new maid. She is nervous and tears around at breakneck speed trying to do things right and make a good impression.

OTHER

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Invited callbacks will be held virtually or in-person, as the COVID situation & individual actor location dictates.

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 submit.