FIT Submission - Notch Theatre Company Auditions

FIT - NYC Appointments

Notch Theatre Company

APPOINTMENTS

NYC appointment auditions to be held on an upcoming date TBD.

CONTRACT

Showcase-NY $300 stipend

SEEKING

Actors to participate in NYC workshop of FIT, a new play. The process will be one of development, incubation, and generation, and will have a small performance on May 18th. The cast includes two actors with Down Syndrome, and we are eager to work with actors who have experience or interest in collaborating with the intellectually disabled community.

INSTRUCTIONS

For consideration, email picture and resume by 4/16

Deadline: Mon, Apr 16, 2018

SUBMIT TO

assistant@notchtheatre.org

PERSONNEL

Ashley Teague, director
Gwen Kingston, playwright
Marina Morrissey, creative producer

OTHER DATES

Rehearsals begin Friday, May 11th and end Friday, May 18th, Monday 5/14 OFF. One matinee performance on May 18th.

OTHER

In November 2017, FIT was workshopped at the White Heron Theatre in Nantucket, MA. In early 2018, the play traveled to Providence, RI for a workshop in Trinity Repertory Company's PCPC space. We are now bringing this original play to New York for a week-long workshop at La Mama's Great Jones Studio in the East Village.

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

[CLARENCE ]
Male. 19 years old. Any Ethnicity. Fresh faced, a good ole-boy from 1920's Virginia. Guileless, earnest and a little dorky. Actor will play multiple roles.

[ DOCTOR PRIDDY ]
Male. Middle-aged. Any ethnicity. Priddy is the Super Intendant for the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and the Feebleminded in 1920's Virginia. Fastidious, detail-oriented, utterly devoted to his research and less adept with his social skills. Passionate about his work, deeply believes in the cause. Actor will play multiple roles.

[ COLONEL STRODE ]
Male. 40 to 60. Any Ethnicity. Strode, a Virginia State Congressman in 1920, is charismatic, ambitious, a consumet salesmen with an arrogant ease. An almost televangelist quality. A master orator. Actor will play multiple roles.

[ LAUGHLIN ]
Male. 30 to 50. Any ethnicity. Laughlin is the head of the 'Eugenics Record Office' in 1920. He is a lobbyist, a charming Washington insider. He's making a name for himself as the fix it guy, the guy you call to get things done.

[ ALICE LANSING (MOM) ]
Female. 40 to 60. Any ethnicity. A single mom, Alice is dedicated to her adult daughter who has Down Syndrome. She's a fighter, a survivor, carving out a life for her and her daughter through a sea of bureaucracy. Humor is her friend. Never wallowing, an external processor, hyper verbal.

[ EMMA ]
Female. 35-55. Any ethnicity. An inmate of the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and the Feebleminded. Homeless, mother of four, including Carrie Buck. Will do whatever it takes to feed her family. No formal education, resourceful. Humor helps her survive. We are interested in the moment when her survival mask falls away and she is revealed before quickly putting it back on. Actor will play multiple roles.

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.