BURNING – Equity Principal Auditions
The New Group ANTC $486/week minimum.
Assoc Artistic Dir: Ian Morgan
Author: Thomas Bradshaw
Dir: Scott Elliott
Casting: Judy Henderson
1st reh: 9/26/11. Runs 10/28-12/17.
Equity Principal Auditions:
Monday, August 15, 2011 Theatre Row Studios
10:30 AM – 6:30 PM 411 West 41st Street
Lunch from 2 – 3. New York City
Ring bell for admittance.
Please prepare a contemporary, dramatic monologue, 2 minutes or less.
Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.
Takes place in New York City, 1990 and Berlin, Germany, present day.
Note: “BURNING” IS A SEXUALLY CHARGED PLAY, AND THEREFORE, MOST OF THE CHARACTERS APPEAR FULLY NUDE. (No nudity at the EPA.)
Seeking:
Chris:
AVAILABLE ROLE. Seeking actor 18+ to play a 14-year-old boy. Chris wants to be an actor.
Older Chris:
AVAILABLE ROLE. Man, 40. Good-looking. Confident. Not successful in life, and still holding onto his dream of becoming an actor.
Donald:
AVAILABLE ROLE. 30. A playwright.
Noah:
AVAILABLE ROLE. 30-50. A director. Intellectual dealing with the realities of “show business”. His sexuality is questionable.
Gretchen:
AVAILABLE ROLE. 28, Sudanese. A prostitute.
Michael:
Update, posted 8.2.11: Role previously listed as cast is now AVAILABLE. 24, German. A neo-Nazi.
The following roles are cast with actors who performed them in a July, 2011 reading. Auditioning performers will be considered as possible (emergency) replacements, should any become necessary.
Jack:
CAST. 40-50. A fairly famous actor. Head of the Drama program at the performing arts high school in New York.
Simon:
CAST. 40-50. Jack’s partner, a Broadway producer.
Peter:
CAST. African American, 29-33. An artist.
Josephine:
CAST. Caucasian British, 26-29. Peter’s wife.
Franklin:
CAST. 19, African American. Peter’s cousin. Urban/“ghetto” teen.
Katrin:
CAST. Actress 18+ plays 16. Katrin is a Caucasian German girl. Michael’s sister. A neo-Nazi.
Christian / Paul / Others:
CAST. Male actor plays various characters, 28-35. Christian: Caucasian German. A neo-Nazi. Paul: Caucasian British. A curator in Berlin. Sleazy art-world type. Actor also plays Funeral Director and Priest.
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