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Gulfshore Playhouse 2011-12 Season – EPAs in FL
(Naples, FL) SPT 10; $571/week (tier and salary approval pending)
Producing Artistic Director: Kristen Coury
Equity Principal Auditions:
Thursday, May 5, 2011 at the Norris Center
8 AM – 4 PM 755 8th Ave S.
Lunch from 12 - 1. Naples, FL, 34102
AND
Friday, May 6, 2011
10 AM – 6 PM
Lunch from 1 - 2.
No appointment necessary. AEA members will be seen on a first come, first serve basis.
Please prepare two brief monologues - one comedic and one dramatic. Also, please remember to bring a headshot and resume stapled together.
For questions regarding auditions, please email Melanie at
mlisby@gulfshoreplayhouse.org
Actors of all races and ethnicities are encouraged to audition!
HANDLE WITH CARE
World Premiere by Jason Odell Williams
1ST rehearsal: 10/10/11. Runs: 10/27 – 11/20/11
The World Premiere Handle with Care is the story of Ayelet, an Israeli girl who is dragged by her grandmother on a road trip to America in search of a dream. Despite a botched DHL delivery, an unexpected blizzard, and an ill-equipped translator who is not really cut out for the job, the clues her grandmother deftly leaves behind eventually lead Ayelet to find what she didn't even know she was looking for: her destiny.
Seeking:
Edna:
Ayelet’s grandmother. 60+, Jewish. Should be warm, kind, funny and able to speak Hebrew.
Terrence:
30s, Virginian, a hilarious, southern DHL worker. Perhaps not the brightest tool in the shed. Think Owen Wilson in “You, Me and Dupree”.
The following roles have bee CAST. Actors will be considered for possible replacements if needed.
Josh: CAST Early 30's. All-American. Funny. Some basic knowledge of Hebrew
Ayelet: CAST Early 30's. Israeli - must speak Hebrew. Pretty, funny, charming but with a skeptical edge
RACE
by David Mamet
1ST rehearsal: 1/9/12. Runs: 1/26 – 2/12/12
The hot new Broadway hit Race follows a law firm taking on a racially-charged case. Three attorneys, two black and one white, are offered a chance to defend a white man charged with a crime against a black woman. The plot unfolds as the lawyers and defendant grapple with the evidence of the case and their own feelings. A true case of “he said, she said”, Race will make you question what you thought, what you heard, and what you think you know. Don’t miss this thought-provoking new play by the master of great dialogue.
Seeking:
Susan: a 20-something African American legal assistant
Henry Brown: early 40s, African American, lawyer
Jack Lawson: early 40s white lawyer
Charles Strickland: a well-to-do, white, well-spoken gentleman in his 40s who is accused of having raped a black woman
THE FOX ON THE FAIRWAY
by Ken Ludwig
1st rehearsal: 2/14/12. Runs: 3/1 – 3/23/12
The hilarious romp A Fox on the Fairway by Ken Ludwig (Lend Me a Tenor, Moon Over Buffalo), pulls the rug out from underneath the stuffy denizens of a private country club. Filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and over-the-top romantic shenanigans, it's a furiously paced comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers' classics. A Fox on the Fairway is Ken Ludwig’s brand-new tribute to the great English farces of the 1930s and 1940’s. You won't want to miss this charmingly madcap adventure – about love, life, and man's eternal love affair with… golf.
Seeking:
Justin: 25, offbeat, sweet, anxious and a bundle of nerves with unruly hair. Should be very comfortable with physical comedy.
Louise: 23, a knock-out, leggy, good-natured and a little ditzy. A waitress at the golf club.
Henry Bingham: 40s, Executive Director of Quail Valley Country Club, where the tournament is being played.
Dickie Bell: Executive director of the opposing club, 40s
Pamela Peabody: 39, tanned, sophisticated, soigné and blondly beautiful
Muriel Bingham: Henry’s wife, 40 and built like a tank. Think Frau Bingham more than femme fatale
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
by Tennessee Williams
1st rehearsal: 3/20/12. Runs: 4/5 – 4/22/12
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play follows the story of Blanche DuBois, a weak and disturbed woman on a desperate prowl for some place in the world to call her own. After losing their ancestral home, Belle Reve, Blanche shows up at the doorstep of her sister, Stella, in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Putting on airs of refinement and Southern gentility, Blanche tries to impress her brother-in-law, and his gentle, good-natured friend, Mitch. Seeking to escape from reality, and an emblem of a lost traditional South, Blanche becomes a victim of the harsh present. Marlon Brando starred in the Broadway production and the 4-time Academy Award-winning film adaptation. This will mark the 65th Anniversary of this enduring Tennessee Williams classic.
Seeking:
Stanley Kowalski: Early 30s, well-built, working-class, from New Orleans, who travels for work. Stanley is a force of nature: primal, rough-hewn, brutish and sensual. He dominates his wife Stella in every way and is physically and emotionally abusive. Stella tolerates his primal behavior as this is part of what attracted her in the first place; their love and relationship are heavily based on powerful—even animalistic—sexual chemistry
Stella Kowalski: Late 20s/early 30s – lovely, and well-bred, as well as self-effacing and deferential to Stanley, her husband. She’s a few months pregnant.
Blanche DuBois: A lovely Mississippi lady. She is a dainty, high-bred rather fragile woman in her 30s. Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light. There is a moth-like uncertainty in her manner. Blanche is a fading but still-attractive Southern belle whose pretensions to virtue and culture only thinly mask alcoholism and delusions of grandeur.
Mitch: Friend to Stanley – a worker on the precision bench in the spare parts department at the plant. Late 20s early 30s.
Steve Hubbell: A neighbor, mid-30s, working-class
Eunice Hubbell: Steve’s wife, late 20s/early 30s working-class
Pablo Gonzales: A late 20s/early 30s year old Hispanic friend
For more information on Gulfshore Playhouse, visit our website:
www.gulfshoreplayhouse.org.
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