LORT
Contemporary American Theatre Festival 2011-12 Season
– EPAs in WV
(Shepherdstown, WV) Equity LORT Rep D; $566/week minimum
Producing Director: Ed Herendeen
Associate Producing Director: Peggy McKowen
1st rehearsal: June 7, 2011. 1st preview: July 6, 2011.
Season opens: July 8, 2011. Season closes: July 31, 2011 All shows in rotating rep.
Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT:
Saturday, April 5, 2011 at Center for Contemporary Arts
AND Shepherd University
Sunday, April 6, 2011 92 West Campus Drive, Room 202
Shepherdstown, WV 25443
9 AM – 5 PM each day (approx. 40 miles west of Washington, DC)
Lunch from 1 - 2.
For an appointment, contact Peggy McKowen,
pmckowen@shepherd.edu. Please indicate preference for audition day and time.
Prepare a 2 minute contemporary monologue.
Bring picture and resume, stapled together.
We are seeking a cast of versatile actors to play multiple roles in this rotating repertory season. Please note: characters will probably be doubled as detailed below, but these pairings are subject to change.
2011 REPERTORY:
THE INSURGENTS (World Premiere)
by Lucy Thurber
Director: Lear deBessonet
AGES OF THE MOON
by Sam Shepard
Director: Ed Herendeen
RACE
by David Mamet
Director: Ed Herendeen
WE ARE HERE
by Tracy Thorne
Director: Lucie Tiberghien
Note: This is a play with music (not a musical). Actors auditioning for characters who play instruments in this production will not be asked to play the instruments at these particular auditions
FROM PRAGUE (World Premiere)
by Kyle Bradstreet
Director: Ed Herendeen
SEEKING:
Actor 1:
John Brown, THE INSURGENTS: Late 50s. White. A frontiersman. A soldier. Passionate, intelligent. A revolutionary/Bryon, AGES OF THE MOON: Mid 60s. Strong. Physically fit. Good sense of humor. Passionate. A friend.
Actor 2:
Nat Turner, THE INSURGENTS: 31 years old. African American. A farmer. A soldier. A slave. A revolutionary. Passionate and poetic. Strong voice.
Actor 3:
Harriet Tubman, THE INSURGENTS: Late 30s. African American. Dark skin. A soldier. A spy. Escaped slave. Violent. Passionate and poetic. A woman of action/Shawn, WE ARE HERE: 31-36 years old. African American. Dark skin. The smartest one in the family. Angry. Not as pretty as her sister.*Plays guitar and sings.
Actor 4:
Timothy McVeigh, THE INSURGENTS: Mid-late 20s. White. A soldier. A veteran. A revolutionary. A terrorist. A small town boy/Hal, WE ARE HERE: 30s. White. Billie’s husband. Charming with a good sense of humor. Passionate, romantic. A truly decent guy.
Actor 5:
Sally, THE INSURGENTS: Mid 20s. White. A country girl. Middle-class. Southern. Strong willed. Tough.
Actor 6:
Jack, RACE: Late 40s-late 50s. White. A lawyer. Well dressed. Intelligent. Aggressive. Strong. Quick with language/AMES, AGES OF THE MOON: 60s. White. Strong. Physically fit. Charming, violent. He has a temper.
Actor 7:
Henry, RACE: Late 40s-late 50s. African American. A lawyer. Well dressed. Intelligent. Powerful voice…deep voice. Strong. Quick with language. Aggressive.
Actor 8:
Charles, RACE: Late 40s-50s. White. Wealthy tycoon, an executive. Elite education. Well known. Arrogant, spoiled. Frightened and desperate/Everett, WE ARE HERE: Early 60’s. White. “A boring white guy with a soul.” A father. Educated and wealthy. *Plays piano.
Actor 9:
Susan, RACE: Late 20s-30s. African American. Attractive and sexy. Strong-willed. Intelligent. Dangerous/Billie, WE ARE HERE: Late 20s-30s. Mixed-race. Light-skin. Alluring and smart. Always sure of herself. *Plays piano and sings.
Actor 10:
Samuel, FROM PRAGUE: Mid 50s-60s. White. College professor. Worn. Weathered, Drinks. Unkempt. Passion and guilty. Appreciates beauty in language…loves words…poetic. Raised Catholic. A disgraced academic.
Actor 11:
Charles, FROM PRAGUE: 30s-mid 30s. White. Sloppy in appearance. A beer drinker…lots! Intelligent. Devout Catholic. Like his father he is good with language…poetic. He still lives at home.
Actor 12:
Anna, FROM PRAGUE: 20s-30. White. Sexually attractive and aware of it. Raised Catholic but now an ardent atheist. A lover of words…poetic. An ex-patriot living in Prague. Rebellious.
Actor 13:
Vera, WE ARE HERE: Late 50s. African American. Billie and Shawn’s mother. She has an unusually affirmative; “take no prisoners” point of view on everyone and everything. Strong and intelligent. * She sings.
Actor 14:
Eli, WE ARE HERE: 18 or older to look 13. African American. He has a little kid’s body with a young-man’s rowdy mind. * He sings like a choir boy…a beautiful, heartbreaking voice.
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