EUGENE O'NEAL 2011 NATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE Equity Principal Audition - Eugene O'Neal 2011 National Playwrights Conference Auditions

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Eugene O'Neill 2011 National Playwrights Conference

– Equity Principal Auditions

The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (Waterford, CT) LORT; $444/week

National Playwrights Conference Artistic Director: Wendy C. Goldberg

Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Executive Director: Preston Whiteway

Eugene O'Neill Theater Center General Manager: Jill A. Anderson

Equity Principal Auditions:

Friday, May 13, 2011 at the Actors' Equity Audition Center

9:30 AM — 5:30 PM 165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor

Lunch from 1 - 2. New York, NY

Please prepare a brief monologue. Please bring TWO (2) copies of your picture/resume, each stapled together.

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center presents staged readings of new plays during the National Playwrights Conference. Each play is in residence for one week between July 1, 2011, and July 30, 2011.

Seeking Equity Female and Male Actors of all races and ethnicities for the 2011 summer Conference.

THE NETHER

by Jennifer Haley

Sims: A man in his middle age, educated, charismatic

Morris: A young woman, late 20s, even, intense

Doyle: A man heading into old age, under a great weight

Iris: A small girl, about nine-years-old, shining and new

THE HAPPIEST SONG PLAYS LAST

by Quiara Alegria Hudes

Elliot: Male, 20s, Latino

Yaz: Female, 30s, Latina, Elliot’s cousin

Shar: Short for Sharnush, female, 20s, Arab-American, emphasis on the American

Joaquin: Male, 60s, Latino

Ali: Male, 40s, Arab, thick accent

Lefty: Male, old, any ethnicity, can be played by the actor who plays Ali

GOOD GOODS

by Christina Anderson

Stacey: Black American male. 28 years old. The former straight man in a comedy duo with Patricia. Now he’s inherited his father’s general store called Good Goods.

Truth: Black American male. 35 years old. The shop assistant and watch guard of Good Goods.

Wire (aka Patrick): Black American male. 30 years old. A messenger. Short in stature.

Patricia (aka Patty): Black American female. 29 turning 30 years old. Wire’s twin sister. Also the other half of the comedy duo.

Sunny: Black American female. 18 years old. A young lady who befriends Patricia.

Waymon as Hunter Priestess: Factory folk – Black American male. Ageless.

AN INCIDENT

by Anna Ziegler

Lillian: Jewish, upper middle class, in her 50s

Philip: Jewish, upper middle class, in his 50s; Lillian’s husband

Joey: Lillian and Philip’s 17-year-old son

Nora: Lillian and Philip’s 16-year-old daughter

Mike T.: Joey’s camp counselor, early-mid 20s

ACQUAINTED WITH THE NIGHT

by Keith Reddin (5M/3W with doubling)

Each actor doubles for additional minor roles in the script. The main characters are listed below:

Arthur: an executive at the Raytheon Corporation

Bernadette: Arthur's assistant

James: a night janitor

Ernie: a subway worker

April: cashier at Duane Reade

Celia: a 911 emergency worker

Maxwell: a 911 worker

Alex: a physics professor

TELL US OF THE NIGHT

by Keith Huff

Nick Moroni: 30s-40s, Italian American Detective Sergeant in the Violent Crimes Unit of the Chicago Police Department’s District 19. He has been Perez’s partner for the past 5 years. He’s married to his first serious girlfriend, Donna. He has one son, Anthony (8). He skipped college to go to work and support his family. Rough around the edges, not particularly well educated, but street smart. Handsome and knows it, lifts weights and it shows.

Bernadette Perez: 30s-40s, Puerto Rican American Detective in the Violent Crimes Unit of the Chicago Police Department’s District 19. She has been Moroni’s partner for the past 5 years. A Gulf War veteran, she is married and has two daughters, Lisa (6) and Maria (4). Outspoken, sharp-tongued, capable of holding her own in a man’s world (military, law enforcement), but tired of having to continually prove herself. Entered the military to pay for college, but skipped college when she was discharged and went to work. Beautiful, shapely, but dresses down to avoid the typical pitfalls of dressing up.

Carter Hutch: 30s-40s, African American, college educated, late-career law school student who works as a night watchman to pay for his education, unmarried, deeply cynical, wounded. Likeable, sharp-witted, occasionally sullen, Hutch has a brutally dark sense of humor.

Amanda Brackett: 30s-40s, mixed heritage, passes for white, married, pregnant, religious, haunted. College educated. More self-confident than self-righteous.

B.J. Lyles: 40s, African American, down on his luck, a transient with a long history of run-ins with the law. Basically a good man who can’t catch a break.

Katie Yates: 7, half-white, half-African American, bright, good-hearted, lost, scared, compassionate, trusting.

THE TROUBLEMAKER PROJECT

By Dan LeFranc (8-9 M/W with doubling)

In order to accommodate the demand for both 13/14 year-old characters and double-casting, the playwright recommends casting 8-9 youthful-looking actors in their 20s.

Bradley Boatright: Our Hero, 14, m

Mikey Minkle: Our Hero, 13, m

Jake Miller: Their Nemesis, 14, m

A-Hole #1: Their Nemesis, 14, m

A-Hole #2: Their Nemesis, 13, m

Loretta Stiletto: Their Friend, 13, f

Freddie Vanilla: Their Friend, 15, m

Patricia: An Adult, 30s/40s, f

The Yard Duty: An Adult, 40s/50s, m

The Superintendent: An Adult, 40s/50s, f

Cornelius: An Adult, 30s, m

Clerk: A Tiny Part, 30s/40s/50s, m

Principal: A Tiny Part, 50s/60s, m

Newsboy: A Tiny Part, 12, m

HOW WE GOT ON

By Idris Goodwin (2M/2W)

Hank: (Rapper) 15, black boy, kind of awkward and regular in that midwestern kind of way, better writer than rapper.

Julian: (Rapper) 15, bi racial boy (part latino), athletic (basketball not football) confident, better rapper than writer

Luann: (Rapper) 15, black girl - neat and conservative in appearance but an artist lives underneath, best rapper of the three

Selector: Female, 30s-40s African American, Afro Latino or Afro Caribbean, an old school DJ.