HOW TO USE A KNIFE - NYC Appointments
Florida Studio Theatre
APPOINTMENTS
NYC auditions to be held Nov. 13 and 14, at Ripley Grier Studios, 520 8th Ave, BY APPOINTMENT ONLY.
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles.
Seeking submissions from AEA members. AEA members must submit themselves directly in order to be considered via this posting (no agent or third-party submissions).
INSTRUCTIONS
For consideration, email picture and resume by 5PM on November 4th. Mark submissions: HOW TO USE A KNIFE - NYC Appointment Submission
Deadline: Sat, Nov 4, 2017
SUBMIT TO
casting@floridastudiotheatre.or
PERSONNEL
James Ashford, Casting & Hiring Coordinator
Richard Hopkins Producing Artistic Director
by Will Snider
OTHER DATES
(Rehearsals Begin Dec. 29, 2018; Runs Jan. 19, 2018-Feb. 2, 2018)
OTHER
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
In the chaos of a Wall Street restaurant kitchen, Chef George is trying to stay sober. In between yelling at a pair of trash-talking line cooks and a pot-smoking bus¬boy, he befriends Steve, an East African immigrant. Set during busy dinner shifts and filled with unforgettable characters, How To Use A Knife bursts with grinding suspense, energy, and surprise. All Roles Available
STEVE:
(Male, 50-55) Rwandan, born in Uganda, black; speaks with an East African accent; he is the dishwasher in the restaurant, was well educated at home, is carefully spoken, wise, carries himself with dignity; he’s reserved and rather elegant but with strong opinions; has sadness, but the sadness is deep; he controls it; he is tactical; he has a sense of humor and deadpan; hides his pain with a smile; slow to anger; any anger he has is tactical; he doesn’t yell.
GEORGE:
(Male, 45-55) American, a New Yorker, half-Irish, half-Puerto Rican; a trained chef, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict picking up his first job since getting sober manic, cynical, sarcastic, patronizing, intelligent, blustery, angry, self-hating: a bull in a china shop and liable to move from casual shit talking to screaming to apologizing all in the same breath; a natural leader and knows it, as do the employees; overweight and tall, is a strong presence in his kitchen who takes pleasure in yelling.
MICHAEL:
(Male, 35-40) American, white; a hustler; owns the restaurant and is a self-made man; a ball of energy; has great attack; very fast talking; blunt; rude; funny; pompous, foul mouthed; a mover and a shaker; he Is of a new generation of cooks who think they’re rock stars; not a frat boy; would pick a nice bottle of wine and is maybe okay yes fine, is sexy.
CARLOS:
(Male, 30-35) Guatemalan, speaks fairly good English with an accent and must speak Spanish as well; cook at the restaurant; intelligent and circumspect, keeps the more volatile Miguel under control; very much in control of his job and himself, walks a fine line between impudence and respect concerning his employers; a good manipulator; keeps his place but is very good at veiled sarcasm; he’s playing the long game.
MIGUEL:
(Male, 25-35) Guatemalan; speaks only Spanish for much of the play; the other cook; fast-talking and sarcastic, even insulting, though his barbs are all in Spanish so he is saying pretty much whatever he wants; sharp sense of humor and appreciates his own cleverness; the holy fool of the kitchen; others think he’s crazy; he’s not.
JACK:
(Male, 20-30) American, white; a nice white kid just graduated from a good college; not traditionally handsome, short maybe or with some acne scars, shouldn’t look like a damn Kennedy; the busboy and runner of food; wants to be a writer but doesn’t know what to write about; bides his time with this lousy job; sincere and open to direction; wants to be cool; wants to joke around.
KIM:
(Female, 30-40) INS investigator; educated, competent, no-nonsense.
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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