Bedlam, Inc.
CONTRACT
LOA-NYC $820 weekly minimum
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in HEDDA GABLER by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Jon Robin Baitz and THE WINTER'S TALE by William Shakespeare (see breakdown).
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare one Shakespeare monologue in verse and one contemporary monologue. Email your headshot/resume along with your video submission.
Deadline: Thu, May 19, 2022
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Viewing auditions:
Artistic Director/Director: Eric Tucker
Associate Artistic Director: Zachary Elkind
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: 7/11/22
First Preview: 9/29/22
Final Performance: 12/11/22
OTHER
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The two plays will be in repertory at the Irondale Center in Brooklyn, New York.
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:
Actors will play one role in Hedda and also various roles in The Winter’s Tale. Doubling TBD.
HEDDA GABLER
Thea Elvsted: 35 - 45, woman (cis or trans), any ethnicity. A meek but passionate woman. She and her husband hired Eilert Lövborg as a tutor and she grew attached to Ejlert, acting as his personal secretary and aiding him in his research and writing. Mrs. Elvsted went to school with Hedda and remembers being bullied by her.
Hedda Gabler: 25 - 40, woman (cis or trans), any ethnicity. Daughter of the famous General Gabler; beautiful, intelligent, unpredictable, manipulative and sometimes dishonest. Dissatisfied with her life.
George Tesman: 30 - 40, man (cis or trans), any ethnicity. An amiable, intelligent scholar; ambitious and passionate about his work, and hopes for a professorship in History.
Julia Tesman: 45 - 60, woman (cis or trans), any ethnicity. George Tesman's aunt. After Tesman's parents died, Aunt Julia raised him. She is well-meaning, and she is constantly hinting that Tesman and Hedda should have a baby
Judge Brack: 35 - 55, man, (cis or trans), any ethnicity. A friend of both Tesman and Hedda, and he visits their house regularly. He has connections around the city and seems to enjoy meddling in other people's affairs. Worldly and cynical.
Eilert Loveborg: 35 - 45, man (cis or trans), any ethnicity. Tesman's biggest competitor in the academic world. After a series of scandals related to alcoholism and addiction, he was once a public outcast but has now returned to the city and has published a book to rave reviews.
THE WINTER'S TALE
Leontes: 40 - 55, man (cis or trans), any ethnicity. The King of Sicilia, and the childhood friend of the Bohemian King Polixenes. He is gripped by jealous fantasies, which convince him that Polixenes has been having an affair with his wife, Hermione; his jealousy leads to the destruction of his family.
Hermione: 35 - 50, woman (cis or trans), any ethnicity. The virtuous and beautiful Queen of Sicilia. Falsely accused of infidelity by her husband, Leontes, she apparently dies of grief just after being vindicated by the Oracle of Delphi but is restored to life at the play's close.
Perdita: 18 - 28, woman (cis or trans), any ethnicity. The daughter of Leontes and Hermione. Because her father believes her to be illegitimate, she is abandoned as a baby on the coast of Bohemia and brought up by a Shepherd. Unaware of her royal lineage, she falls in love with the Bohemian Prince Florizel.
Polixenes: 40 - 55, man (cis or trans), any ethnicity. The King of Bohemia, and Leontes's boyhood friend. He is falsely accused of having an affair with Leontes's wife, and barely escapes Sicilia with his life. Much later in life, he sees his only son fall in love with a lowly Shepherd's daughter—who is, in fact, a Sicilian princess.
Florizel: 18 - 28, man (cis or trans), any ethnicity. Polixenes's only son and heir; he falls in love with Perdita, unaware of her royal ancestry, and defies his father by eloping with her.
Camillo: 30 - 45, man (cis or trans), any ethnicity. An honest Sicilian nobleman, he refuses to follow Leontes's order to poison Polixenes, deciding instead to flee Sicily and enter the Bohemian King's service.
Paulina: 30 - 50, woman (cis or trans), any ethnicity. A noblewoman of Sicily, she is fierce in her defense of Hermione's virtue, and unrelenting in her condemnation of Leontes after Hermione's death. She is also the agent of the (apparently) dead Queen's resurrection.
Autolycus: 30 - 50, man (cis or trans), any ethnicity. A roguish peddler, vagabond, and pickpocket; he steals the Clown's purse and does a great deal of pilfering at the Shepherd's sheepshearing, but ends by assisting in Perdita and Florizel's escape.
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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