CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2012 SEASON Equity Principal Auditions - Contemporary American Theatre Festival Auditions

Contemporary American Theatre Festival 2012 Season

– Equity Principal Auditions

(Shepherdstown, WV) LORT d; $566/week minimum

Artistic Director: Ed Herendeen

Casting Director: Pat Mccorkle

Casting Associate: Joe Lopick

Casting Assistant: Katja Zarolinski

Season 1st Rehearsal: 6/5/12. Season 1st Preview: 7/4/12. Opens: 7/6/12. Season Closes: 7/29/12

(approx. 40 miles west of Washington DC

Equity Principal Auditions:

Monday, April 23, 2012 at Pearl Studios 500

10 AM – 6 PM 500 Eighth Avenue, 12th Floor

Lunch from 1:30 – 2:30. New York, NY

Please prepare a brief contemporary monologue under 2 minutes.

Bring picture and resume, stapled together.

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

2012 repertory:

CAPTORS

by Evan M. Wiener – Directed by Ed Herendeen

BARCELONA

by Bess Wohl – Directed by TBA

GIDION’S KNOT

by Johnna Adams – Directed by Ed Herendeen

IN A FOREST, DARK AND DEEP

by Neil LaBute – Directed by Ed Herendeen

THE EXCEPTIONALS

by Bob Clyman – Directed by Tracy Brigden

Seeking:

Actor 1:

(Play Bobby, IN A FOREST, DARK AND DEEP/Peter Malkin, CAPTORS)

? Bobby: male, 30s-40s. Handsome, strong, sexy and charming. He is a contractor. He has a temper and a good bullshit detector. He is masculine, the “All American Male” type. He loves his older sister. This role requires hand-to hand stage combat.

? Peter Malkin: a brash, spirited, artistic Israeli MOSSAD agent with three specialties: 1) hand-to-hand combat; 2) explosives; 3) disguise. He is a strongman for the MOSSAD. He is aggressive and righteous. Physically, he is the strongest guy in the house. He is volatile but charming and clever. (Israeli accent.)

Actor 2:

(Betty: IN A FOREST, DARK AND DEEP)

? Betty: female, 40-45. An attractive, sexy woman at least five years older than Bobby her younger brother. She is a college dean/professor of English Lit. She is clever, skilled in deception, charming with a sense of humor. She is strong willed and volatile and passionate. This role requires hand-to-hand stage combat.

Actor 3:

(Gwen: THE EXCEPTIONALS)

? Gwen: female, 30s. A divorced mother of a 5 year old son (the product of artificial insemination), She is a research scientist/teacher. She is judgmental, entitled, superior, patronizing and brittle. She is hypersensitive, high-strung and intense. Very insecure, and terrified of being rejected.

Actor 4

(Allie: THE EXCEPTIONALS/Irene: BARCELONA)

? Allie: female 30s. A married mother of a 5 year old son. She is a full-time wife and mother. She is loud, brassy, irreverent and full of attitude. She is friendly in an expansive, in-your-face way with large comedic energy. She is a blue-collar “Jersey girl” and proud of it.

? Irene: pretends to be late 20s, she is actually 35. She is a young American tourist. Bubbly, funny, and charming, but masking a deeper feeling of terror. She has a profound strength and wisdom far beyond what she herself could ever expect.

Actor 5

(Tom: THE EXCEPTIONALS/Hans: CAPTORS)

? Tom: male, 30s-40s. Allie’s husband. He is a low level white-collar salesman from a blue-collar upbringing and proud of it. He is gregarious and loud, with big comic energy. He is boisterous, and overly friendly with natural charm. He has a hair trigger temper that goes from zero to 60 in a second.

? Hans: male, 38. He is an Israel/MOSSAD interrogator born in Berlin. He operates with iciness and efficiency—he is cool, rigid, by-the-book. He never likes to lose control. He is intimidating. Hans is the ice to Malkin’s fire. This role requires hand-to-hand stage combat. (German accent.)

Actor 6

(Claire: THE EXCEPTIONALS)

? Claire: female, 40s. She is the program director of the donor insemination research program. She is extremely intelligent, a master of persuasion and control with a no nonsense quality. She bears her own private grief over never having a child of her own. She is commanding. She is a patrician.

Actor 7

(Eichmann: CAPTORS)

? Adolf Eichmann: male, 54. Iconic for his role in the Holocaust. He is a former Nazi bureaucrat. He is twitchy, cunning, and savvy, in matters of survival. He is a company man who remains startlingly unrepentant - even indignant. He is intelligent and charming with a steel spine. This role requires hand-to-hand stage combat. (German accent.)

Actor 8

(Uzi: CAPTORS)

? Uzi: male, 34. A MOSSAD agent and team leader of the Israeli Operation Eichmann. He is small, yet strong, outwardly easy-going but with deep rooted purpose and conviction. He commands respect. He possesses a fair minded leadership style. He becomes Malkin’s conscience. This role requires hand-to hand stage combat. (Israeli accent.)

Actor 9

(Cohn: CAPTORS)

? Cohn: male, 30s. He is an American writer and journalist. He is agreeable, studious, earnest, smart and thorough in his work. He is interested in the truth. This role requries hand-to-hand stage combat.

Actor 10

(Manuel: BARCELONA)

? Manuel: male, 50s-60s. He is a sensual, elegant, handsome Spaniard from Madrid. He has a dry wit and a dangerous, quiet magnetism. He can command a room without saying a word. He is sexy and darkly mysterious. He has a bottomless well of deep grief, profound loss, and an EXPLOSIVE combination of rage and despair. (Spanish accent.)

Actor 11

(Heather Clark: GIDION’S KNOT)

? Heather: female, 40s. A former AD executive, now a grade school teacher. She is reserved and measured…BUT…prone to high anxiety and panic attacks.

Actor 12

(Corryn Fell: GIDION’S KNOT)

? Corryn: female, 40s-50s. A professor. She has a big presence. She is demanding, arrogant, difficult and brilliant. She is self critical and brutally honest.