East Lynne Theater Company
CONTRACT
SPT $375 weekly minimum (SPT 3)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in East Lynne Theater Company's 2022 Season (see breakdown).
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare a comic monologue for WHO AM THIS TIME? and a dramatic monologue for POSSESSING HARRIET. You may do 2 different monologues within a 2-minute time frame. Auditioning with a comic piece will not prevent being considered for POSSESSING HARRIET and vice versa. Submit your one 2-minute video on Monday, March 7 between 1:00 AM - 11:00 PM ET. The preference of delivery is either YouTube or WeTransfer, but if videos are submitted through other means, they will be seen.
Deadline: Mon, Mar 7, 2022
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Viewing auditions:
Gayle Stahlhuth, Producing Artistic Director of East Lynne Theater Company / Director of DOROTHY PARKER and WHO AM I THIS TIME?
Mark Edward Lang, Director of POSSESSING HARRIET
OTHER DATES
WHO AM THIS TIME?
First rehearsal: Mon., July 11
Show runs from July 27 - Sept. 3, Wed.- Sat. at 8:00 pm.
POSSESSING HARRIET
First rehearsal: Mon., September 5
Show runs from Sept. 21 - Oct. 15, Wed.- Sat. at 8:00 pm
DOROTHY PARKER: A CERTAIN WOMAN
First rehearsal is June 6 and the show runs from June 15 - July 23, Wednesdays through Saturdays ag 8:30 pm.
Performance weeks are Wednesday through Saturday nights.
OTHER
https://www.eastlynnetheater.org
If there are difficulties in viewing any video, the actor will be contacted.
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
Actively looking for all of the roles in WHO AM THIS TIME? Actors were originally cast in POSSESSING HARRIET in 2020, but ELTC is looking for possible replacements should any actor originally cast not be able to be in the now 2022 production. DOROTHY PARKER: A CERTAIN WOMAN is returning from 2021 with the same actor performing.
WHO AM THIS TIME? (& Other Conundrums of Love) by Aaron Posner
This is an adaptation of three charming love stories by Kurt Vonnegut: Long Walk to Forever, Who Am I This Time? and Go Back to Your Precious Wife and Son. Vonnegut would have been 100 in 2022. Time frame for this pay is 1962; location - a small town in Connecticut.
Director: Gayle Stahlhuth
Seeking the following:
ACTOR 1: 45 - 55. TOM NEWTON - the engaging narrator as well as being in the telling of each tale.
ACTOR 2: 45 - 55. KATE NEWTON - Tom's wife, who enjoys performing in local community theater productions.
ACTOR 3: 20-50. NEWT - Tom Newton in his 20's, a soldier in 1940 gone AWOL to talk to a sweetheart; HARRY NASH - shy but plays all the leads in the community theater; and GEORGE MURRA - a successful writer married to an actress.
ACTOR 4: 20-50. CATHERINE - Kate Newton in her 20's; HELENE SHAW - shy but falls in love with Harry when acting with him in community theater; and GLORIA HILTON - a demanding movie star.
ACTOR 5: 20 - 25. JOHN DOODLES BROOKES - stage manager at the community theater; and JOHN MURRA - George and Gloria's son.
ACTOR 6: 45-55. VERNE MILLER - a hardware store owner who longs to be the lead in every show at the community theater; and ROY CROCKER, JR. - a plumber who enjoys life.
ACTOR 7: 20-25. PAULA NEWTON - Tom and Kate's daughter.
ACTOR 8: 60-70. DORIS SAWYER - A feisty librarian and community theater director.
POSSESSING HARRIET by Kyle Bass
In 1839, a runaway slave is hiding in an attic. With her are suffragist Elizabeth Cady and abolitionist Gerrit Smith. Based on a true story, this is a New Jersey premiere, and only its third production.
Director: Mark Edward Lang
Seeking the following:
GERRIT SMITH - Wealthy abolitionist living in upstate New York, Caucasian, 45-55.
THOMAS LEONARD - A freed slave who conducts on the Underground Railroad, Black, 35-45.
ELIZABETH CADY - Future icon of the Women's Suffrage movement, young and eager to learn, Caucasian, 24.
HARRIET POWELL - Escaped slave. Will she leave her mother and sister to risk a free life in Canada? Mixed race Black and Caucasian, 24.
DOROTHY PARKER: A CERTAIN WOMAN compiled by James Rana and dramaturged by Gayle Stahlhuth
Bits of Parker's life are interspersed with her poems and stories.
STORYTELLER: ROLE CAST. Capable of switching from giving interesting information about Parker, to performing her poetry and stories, age range 50 - 70
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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