Mason Holdings Theatre, Inc
CONTRACT
Mini $580 weekly minimum + Pension/Welfare
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in HART ISLAND (see breakdown).
All stage managerial positions have been filled.
Hart Island is a theatrical multimedia meditation on New York City’s Potter’s Field and the humans connected to it, living and dead. It weaves together the voices of Rikers Island inmates and gravediggers, the friends and family of Hart Island’s deceased, and fictional documentary narration during the COVID 19 pandemic.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare one side from https://www.dropbox.com/sh/unhrsqba0t5tn5p/AAA5M6EscuP9kMBzcqZBDBr
ea?dl=0 for the role you feel most comfortable with. Alternatively, you may prepare a short dramatic monologue. All audition videos must be sent as a streaming link (youtube, vimeo etc) or via wetransfer. Please include your full name, and the role you are submitting for in the subject line.
Deadline: Tue, Jan 18, 2022
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Set: Christopher and Justin Swader
Costumes: Natalie Loveland
Lights: Christina Tang
Sound: Philip Carluzzo
Video/Projections: Yana Biryukova
Associate Producer: Rashad Bailey
Viewing auditions:
Tracy Weller, Artistic Director and Playwright
Kris Thor, Director
Reed Ridgley, Producer
OTHER DATES
February 7, 2022 - April 9, 2022
OTHER
Venue:
Performance: The Gym at Judson (in-person/indoors)
Rehearsal: Ripley Grier (in-person/indoors)
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
SEEKING:
M.R. - Male, non-white, middle-aged or older. Composed, pleasant but worn. She carries the immense guilt and pain of having lost a child but has worked hard to conceal and contain it. She wrestles with her faith every day. She will always tell you she is “doing just fine” but she is not.
G.D. - Female, non-white, middle-aged-ish. She is trapped mourning her first love. She puts herself on constant internal trial for a mistake she may or may not have made. She wears an excellent mask and can stand up in her own defense, but she is perpetually preoccupied by the loss of her youth and her own potential guilt.
A.E. - Male, non-white, young and youthful, 20-30. He knows what it is to be an outsider. He may have done something unforgivable - or something merciful and righteous. His path is entirely that of the caretaker, but he has rarely received the care he needs. He has been told he has “a pretty face.” People have made assumptions about him that may be correct, but no one really knows him.
R.I. - Male, non-white, late 40s-100. He’s lived, and, in the worst conditions, he’s somehow adapted. He knows that hell is on earth, but his mind is a remarkable escape hatch. He is not well, but he is exceptionally good at denying his own need, pain and vulnerability.
N.E. - Male, non-white, youthful, early 20s or with the soul/spirit of absolute youth. Haunted, but he has an innate ability to seek the light and his own emancipation. His deep connection to the natural world and the life of his memories give him an almost ethereal quality. There is something essentially pure about him. He is a fierce but graceful survivor.
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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