FLY - NYC Appointments
Alabama Shakespeare Festival
APPOINTMENTS
NYC auditions to be held November 8, 2017 by APPOINTMENT ONLY.
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep LORT D Contract; $656/week
SEEKING
Equity actors for 4 roles. See breakdown.
Seeking submissions from AEA members. AEA members must submit themselves directly in order to be considered via this posting (no agent or third-party submissions).
INSTRUCTIONS
For consideration, mail picture and resume to address below. EQUITY MEMBERS ONLY. SUBMISSIONS RECEIVED AFTER November 3 WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. ****PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A HIGH SECURITY BUILDING AND DROP-OFFS ARE NOT POSSIBLE****
SUBMIT TO
ELISSA MYERS CASTING
421 7th Avenue
Suite 1011
ATTN: FLY, Role of _________
New York, NY 10001
PERSONNEL
Playwrights: Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan
Director: Ricardo Khan
Artistic Director: Rick Dildine
Casting Office: Elissa Myers Casting
Casting Director: Paul Fouquet
Casting Associate: Karie Koppel
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: January 2, 2018
Opens: January 27, 2018
Closes: February 11, 2018
OTHER
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
[CHET SIMPKINS]
(Male, 20’s-30’s, African-American) A timid African-American young man. Elderly at beginning and end of the play. Must be able to play 17 (secretly) for most of the play as he begins training. Must be able to be aged believably. From 125th Street in Harlem. Hard-working and quietly confident. Truly in love with flying and understands the poetry of it.
[J. ALLEN]
(Male, 20’s, Afro-Caribbean) Bahamian Airman, from the British West Indies. Very British and very proud. Motivated by his father’s own unfulfilled dreams. Eager. Competent. Must be able to do a Bahamian accent.
[BOMBER PILOT REYNOLDS]
(Male, 20’s-30’s, Caucasian) Midwesterner. Also plays an instructor and Col. Snopes in Part One. A leader. Learns to deal with fear and to appreciate those who have his back.
[BOMBER CO-PILOT SHAW]
(Male, 20’s-30’s, Caucasian) Southerner. Also plays the Staff Sergeant and the Barman in Part One. Newlywed. Has never met his little girl. Proves to be a team player despite events from his past.
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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