Buffalo Theatre Ensemble
CONTRACT
CAT $272 weekly minimum (CAT 1)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Buffalo Theatre Ensemble 2022-23 Season (see breakdown).
We encourage participation by performers of all races and ethnicities.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare two contemporary monologues no longer than three minutes total. Submit your headshot/resume and video submission at https://tinyurl.com/AEA-Submission . Please title your submission with Name AEA or Non AEA_BTE Submisson_22_23_Season .
Deadline: Fri, Jul 1, 2022
PERSONNEL
Managing Artistic Director: Connie Canaday Howard
Associate Artistic Director: Amelia Barrett
Production Directors:
Clybourne Park: Kurt Naebig
Season’s Greetings: Connie Canaday Howard
Andy Warhol’s Tomato: Steve Scott
OTHER DATES
Clybourne Park
Rehearsals will start week of 8/8
Preview: 9/8
Opens: 9/9-10/9/2022 - Thursdays-Saturdays 8pm; Sundays 3pm
Closing: 10/9/22
Season’s Greetings
Rehearsal will start week of 10/19
Preview: 11/17
Opens: 11/18- 12/18/2022 - Thursdays-Saturdays 8pm; Sundays 3pm
Closing: 12/18/22
Andy Warhol’s Tomato
Rehearsal will start week of 1/4/2023
Preview: 2/2
Opens: 2/3- 3/5/2023 - Thursdays-Saturdays 8pm; Sundays 3pm
Closing: 3/5/23
OTHER
btechicago.com or atthemac.org
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.
BREAKDOWN
All roles will be understudied.
Clybourne Park, by Bruce Norris
Seeking:
Bev Stoller/Kathy (ROLE CAST): Bev: Female, 40’s-50’s, Caucasian mother, middle class, resilient, 1959/Kathy: Female, Caucasian, Lawyer 2009.
Betsy Lindner/Lindsey (ROLE CAST): Betsy: Female, Caucasian, 30’s, pregnant, 1959 /Lindsey: Female, Caucasian, 30’s, outspoken pregnant, uptight, 2009.
Francine/Lena: Francine: Female, 30’s, African-American, Mother, housemaid to Bev and Russ, 1959/Lena: Female, 30’s, African American, married to Kevin, determined and strong, 2009.
Russ Stoller/Dan (ROLE CAST): Russ: Male, 40’s-50’s, Caucasian father, middle class, grieving, depressed, married to Bev, 1959/Dan: Male, 40’s-50’s, Contractor, 2009.
Jim/Tom/Kenneth Stoller: Jim: Male, 20’s -30’s, Caucasian, minister, conservative, 1959/Tom Driscoll: Male, Caucasian, Lawyer, Gay, 2009/Kenneth Stoller: Male, Caucasian, late teens -20’s, depressed, Veteran from the Korean War, son of Bev and Russ
Karl Lindner/Steve: Karl: Male, Caucasian, Mid-30s to Mid-40s, conservative, closed minded, 1959/Steve: Male, Mid-30s to Mid-40s, Loving, supportive, crude, 2009.
Albert/Kevin: Albert: Male, African American, married to Lena, 1959/ Kevin: Mid-30s to Mid-40's, successful banker, peacemaker, affable,2009
Season’s Greetings, by Alan Ayckbourn
Seeking:
Bernard (ROLE CAST): a feeble-spirited doctor, with strong views on non-violence. Every year he creates an elaborate puppet show for the children, which he fondly imagines they enjoy (though they actually hate it).
Phyllis (ROLE CAST): Bernard’s lush of a wife, whom Bernard struggles to support.
Neville (ROLE CAST): Phyllis’s brother, always busy fiddling with anything mechanical out in his shed.
Belinda (ROLE CAST): endures a stale marriage to Neville, resorting to flapping about the house and constantly dressing the Christmas tree.
Eddie: a lackluster and lazy man who tried to strike out on his own but failed, sucks up to his friend Neville for work.
Pattie: Eddie’s pregnant wife, largely ignored, and can only nag at him.
Rachel (ROLE CAST): Belinda’s emotionally fuddled sister.
Clive: a writer, in a non-starter of a relationship with Rachel.
Harvey (ROLE CAST): Neville and Phyllis's uncle, a cantankerous man who boasts about thirty years' experience as a security officer, bemoans the collapse of society whilst himself gorging on TV violence, much to Bernard's annoyance.
Andy Warhol’s Tomato, by Vince Melocchi
Seeking:
Mario Bones Bonino (ROLE CAST): Male, Caucasian, Late 30's, early 40's. Working-class, 2nd generation Italian American, bar owner.
Andy Warhol: Male, White, The iconic artist at 18, while a sophomore at Carnegie Tech University in Pittsburgh.
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.
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