Elevator Repair Service 2018-19 (Off Broadway) Company Members - NYC EPA
Elevator Repair Service Theater, Inc.
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AUDITION DATE
Fri, Jul 27, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
Off Broadway $625/week
SEEKING
Equity actors, all genders, ethnicities, and ages, comfortable with performance dance movement, who have an interest in ensemble-drive experimental theater. We are always interested in meeting new people. Company members play multiple roles in original and text-based productions with non-traditional casting
PREPARATION
Please prepare one SHORT contemporary monologue (under 2 minutes), or sit down and have informal 2 minute chat with auditioners. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
The following personnel will be in attendance at the EPA:
ARIANA SMART TRUMAN, Producing Director
The following personnel may be in attendance at the EPA
LINDSAY HOCKADAY, Associate Producer
MARILYN HAINES, Director of Development
MAURINA LIOCE, Stage Manager
Producing Intern
OTHER
Please DO NOT CALL OR EMAIL Elevator Repair Service in advance of the auditions.
Regrettably they are only able to consider those able to attend the EPA, and will not be
able to respond to unsolicited communications.
www.elevator.org
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity monitor will be provided.
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 attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
ELEVATOR REPAIR SERVICE is a New York City-based company that creates original works for live theater with an ongoing ensemble. Since its founding in 1991 by John Collins and a group of actors, ERS has built a body of work that has earned it a loyal following and made it one of New York’s most highly-acclaimed experimental theater companies. Their work has been seen across America, Europe, Australia and Asia, and they have been the recipient of many awards including a 2012 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence; The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Theater Grant; the Theatre Communications Group's Peter Zeisler Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement; and (for GATZ) Elliot Norton Awards for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Visiting Production and Lucille Lortel Awards for Alternative Theatrical Experience and Best Director. ERS ensemble members have received OBIEs for Sustained Excellence in Performance, Lighting Design, and Sound Design. Next up for ERS: a revivial of GATZ at NYU Skirball in January 2019.
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 audition.
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