Golden Thread 2024 Season Generals - San Francisco, CA EPA Golden Thread Productions | San Francisco, CA
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Friday, February 2, 2024
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM (P)
To set up an audition appointment please go to:
https://calendly.com/wendy-gtp/goldenthread-auditions-2024?month=2024-02&date=2024-02-07 .
Once you have chosen your time slot, please fill out the following form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdx6lDBdGfKoFoPp54FqDbyPyj1b3K2Z7FGv9qgaJ8p78PwJg/viewform .
For questions contact auditions@goldenthread.org. The deadline to set up an audition appointment is January 30th, 2024.
Bay Area Theatre
$400 weekly minimum (Intro Tier) - 20 hours/week
Potrero Stage
1695 18th St
San Francisco, CA 94107-2376
The entrance to the building is located on 18th street, west of Arkansas St. Once you reach the gate, call or text (415) 466-5692.
Expected to attend:
Sahar Assaf, Executive Artistic Director Wendy Reyes, Production Associate Samer Al Saber, Director of Returning to Haifa Evren Odcikin, Director of ALAA: A Family Trilogy
RETURNING TO HAIFA
Rehearsals: Monday, March 4, 2024 Open: Monday, April 15
Close: Saturday, May 4
ALAA: A FAMILY TRILOGY
Rehearsals: Monday, October 28, 2024 Performances: November 9 and 10, 2024
OTHER
IMPORTANT: Please note that Golden Thread is a fully vaccinated company. Actors will be required to email their proof of vaccination prior to their audition appointment date. Your final dose must be administered at least 2 weeks prior to the first day of in-person auditions.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity actors for Golden Thread's 2024 Season general auditions (See breakdown).
Actors auditioning for General Auditions may be considered for roles in the 2024 spring mainstage production, RETURNING TO HAIFA, and in the workshop production of ALAA: A FAMILY TRILOGY.
Actors of all ages, races, genders, ability and experience levels are welcome. We are a company focused on the Middle East, so we do have numerous roles in productions and staged readings for actors of Middle Eastern heritage.
Actors looking to showcase physical movement experience, such as clowning; dance; ensemble, devised work; and musicians are encouraged to audition.
Local (Bay Area) actors are encouraged to audition.
Please prepare a two-minute monologue that showcases your vocal, physical, and emotional range. You may also opt to use sides which can be found at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gCiNkOYB0b4s231M5aCQiYQXC_UOZfzd .
By Ghassan Kanafani
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 attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
Adapted to the stage by Ismail Khalidi and Naomi Wallace
SYNOPSIS: The 1969 novella Returning to Haifa remains one of the most important and timeless works by Ghassan Kanafani (1936-1972), the great Palestinian novelist and intellectual who authored some of the most admired stories in modern Arabic literature. His novellas and short stories, now translated into dozens of languages, are considered by many today as having been ahead of their time, both in form and content. Returning to Haifa is a testament not only to Kanafani's commitment to the politics of liberation but also his deep empathy for the 'other' as well as his modern approach to storytelling. Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated in Beirut in 1972 at the age of 36. This adaptation for the stage of Returning to Haifa presents a deeply human portrait of two families, one Palestinian, one Jewish, forced by history into an intimacy they didn't choose. But while this is a drama about the Middle East, it is also very much about ourselves today. This is political drama at its best: personal, darkly comic and ultimately hopeful.
SAID -- a Palestinian man (mid 40s)
SAFIYYA -- a Palestinian woman, Said's wife (early 40s)
MIRIAM -- an elderly Israeli Jewish woman (60s)
DOV -- a young Israeli soldier, and Miriam's son (20)
YOUNG SAFIYYA -- Safiyya, twenty years earlier (early 20s)
YOUNG SAID -- Said, twenty years earlier (mid 20s)
By Adam Ashraf Elsayigh
Generative Dramaturgy by Salma Zohdi
SYNOPSIS: In 2011, techie Alaa Abd El-Fattah emerged as a leading voice in the Egyptian Revolution through his animated political writings and activism. But Alaa has spent much of the decade since in Cairo Prisons, unlawfully held by a military regime seeking to crush him and the revolutionary movement he belonged to.
Yet, they fail every day.
Weaving writings and personal testimonials from Alaa and his family members, alongside vivid memoryscapes and haunting images, Alaa: A Family Trilogy is an epic dramatization of a single family's unwavering resistance at the heart of a nation's fight for justice.
An ensemble of BIPOC actors of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, abilities, ages, etc.:
Track 1: 30s, woman, MONA
Track 2: 60s - 70s, woman, LAILA
Track 3: 60s - 70s, woman, AHDAF
Track 4: 8-14 male, child (Neurodivergent actors are particularly encouraged to audition for this track), CHILD ALAA (age 4 to 17), CHILD KHALED, ENSEMBLE CHILD, MICKEY TOY
Track 5: 20s - 30s, man, YOUNG ALAA (age 17 to 33), COUSIN OMAR
Track 6: 50s - 60s, man, OLDER ALAA (age 33 to the Present), SEIF
Track 7: 20s, woman, SANAA, ENSEMBLE MEMBER #1
Track 8: 20s, woman, MANAL, ENSEMBLE MEMBER #3
Track 9: 30s, man, MINA, WARDEN, ENSEMBLE MEMBER #2
Track 10: 60s, man, GENERAL S, OFFICER, ENSEMBLE MEMBER #4
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