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Contract
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Stipend (pending Equity approval)
Seeking
Seeking Equity actors (male & female) for an evening of one-acts retelling children's stories for grown-up audiences. Runs for 12 performances at the Chain Theater in Long Island City, Queens.
See breakdown for more information.
Other Dates
Auditions: 11/4 & 5
Callbacks: THURS 11/7
First readthrough Dec. 9.
Possible rehearsals pre-holidays.
Main rehearsals - Jan. 2-20.
Tech week begins - MON, Jan. 20.
Invited Dress - THURS, Jan. 23.
Run Dates: FRI, January 24 - SAT, February 8.
Personnel
Directors:
Paul Urcioli (Little Red Riding Hood)
P. Adam Walsh (Forever Neverland)
Sharone Halevy (When She Falls)
Casting Director: Chelsea Ignagni
Other
Playwrights:
Billy Aronson (Little Red Riding Hood)
Mike Swift (Forever Neverland)
Sarah Gallina (When She Falls)
Submit photo/resume no later than 6 pm on 11/5.
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Breakdown
The Truf presents FRACTURED FAIRY TALES, an evening of one-acts retelling children's stories for grown-up audiences, featuring LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD by Billy Aronson, along with original commissions FOREVER NEVERLAND by Mike Swift, and WHEN SHE FALLS by Sarah Gallina.
CAST:
LITTLE RED/DAISY: (CAST)
WOLF/MR. JUNIPER: (CAST)
GRANDMOTHER/ANNIE: (CAST)
SEEKING:
MOTHER/MOM: (Seeking)
HUNTER/DAD/BILLY: (Seeking)
PRINCE MICHAEL/JOE/LION TAMER: (Seeking)
MARK/GENE: (Seeking)
MARY: (Seeking)
*All Characters are open ethnicity.
MOTHER/MOM: (Female, late 20s - 60, open ethnicity). [MOTHER]: Classic 50’s TV mom. Pearls, sweater, constantly cheerful and upbeat. A plus if has experience with physical comedy and/or mime training. [MOM]: Caring, overprotective, artistic interests but more logically minded, independent, playfully banters with DAD
HUNTER/DAD/BILLY: (Male, mid 20s-40s, open ethnicity). [HUNTER]: A man’s man. Works hard all day long. No one else knows what it’s like to work really hard for your family. No one. Must have great comedic chops, a strong voice and masculine presence. A plus if has experience with physical comedy and/or mime training. [DAD]: Imaginative, boisterous, more blue-collar. [BILLY]: A large burly man. Earnest and sometimes brave, but has some rage issues, and also junk food issues.
PRINCE MICHAEL/JOE/LION TAMER: (Male, early to late 20s, open ethnicity). [PRINCE MICHAEL]: MJ’s son. A sadist, he hates but protects his father. He is used to be the puppet master of the boys, which is disrupted by MARY. [JOE/ LION TAMER]: Plays his child self as well. An introverted, heart-breaking musician. Curious, observant, poetic and a beautiful soul. Born in the countryside, patient, a vagabond, old fashioned, romantic, attractive. The love interest of DAISY.
MARK/GENE: (Male, mid 20s to early 30s, open ethnicity). [MARK]: Plays his child self as well. DAISY’S brother, a charismatic, charming, practical, logically minded, suited with a wry sense of humor, the antithesis of the starving artist. [GENE]: A grown man with an innate goodness and childlike wonder. A Man-Boy.
MARY: (Female, 18-22, open ethnicity). Plays a 13 year old girl with leukemia. She’s bossy and foulmouthed. An edgy and funny women.
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