HANNAH Equity Principal Audition - Premiere Stages Auditions

Hannah – Equity Principal Auditions

Premiere Stages Union NJ LOA $398/week minimum + $102/week for transportation.

Producing Artistic Dir / Author: John Wooten

Dir: Adam Immerwahr

CD: Carol Hanzel

1st reh: 8/16/11. Runs 9/1-9/18.

Equity Principal Auditions:

Thursday, June 2, 2011 Actors' Equity Association Audition Center

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM 165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor

Lunch from 1 - 2. New York City

Sides will be provided at the audition. Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.

New play, based on a true story.

Seeking (all roles are available):

Hannah Senesh:

Woman, 20s. Powerful idealist. Captured, imprisoned and tortured by the Nazis. Strong, resilient; makes her own path, regardless of the challenge. A natural-born leader, she is smart, funny, fierce, charismatic and utterly magnetic.

Prison Guard / Police Officer:

Male roles (20s) for one actor. Guard: German. Strong but sensitive. Moral man in an impossible position. Gruff, physically imposing and capable of violence. A father, he is also both kind and compassionate. Actor also plays a Police Officer.

Young Hannah / Rachel:

Girl characters (10-13) for one actress. Young Hannah: Hannah as a child. Young, inquisitive, bright, sweet and wise beyond her years. Rachel: Jewish prisoner. Sweet and kind, but also a willing conspirator, if it means saving her family. NOTE: Hannah deals with adult situations.

Catherine Senesh:

Appears first in her 30s, later in her 50s. Hannah's mother. Striking; maintains her looks, grace and elegance amidst the terror of war. Efficient and in control; a widow fighting to keep her family together. Pragmatic in a way her daughter isn’t.

Silon:

Man, 40s-60s. Disciplined, sharp, beguiling. Icy, brilliant and manipulative interrogator, used to getting what he wants. A commanding presence—suave and sophisticated, but capable of great cruelty

when necessary.

Superintendent / Sondi / Frenchman / Guard 2:

Male roles (30s) for one actor. Strong character actor needed to play several diverse roles. Superintendent: Leader of a private school in Budapest. Careful, precise, and condescending. Sondi: Hungarian communist political prisoner in Budapest. Inquisitive and nervous. Frenchman: Helps Hannah hide from the Germans in Hungary. Lascivious, and smooth under even the direst circumstances. Great comic timing and experience with several different accents a plus.

Yoel:

Man, 20s-30s. Soldier. Hannah’s realist counterpart—scared by what he has signed on to face, though with great effort he can summon up the bravery to overcome it when necessary. Caring, honest and self-effacing. Boyish and handsome in an awkwardly charming way.

George / Bela:

Male roles (30s) for one actor. George: Hannah’s brother. An intellectual, surprised to see the soldier his younger sister has become. Kind, caring, smart and pragmatic. Bela: Hannah’s father. Funny, smart; has an artist’s flair for words and theatrics. Physically frail after years of illness.

Premiere Stages at Kean University is in Union NJ, 30 minutes from Manhattan. Train from Penn Station stops at the Kean campus.