INVASION! – Equity Principal Auditions
The Play Company LOA-NYC $274/week minimum.
Founding Prod: Kate Loewald
Exec Prod: Lauren Weigel
Author: Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Dir: Erica Schmidt
GM: Martins Jukna
Artistic Assoc: Linda Bartholomai
Assoc Prod: Melissa Hardy
1st reh: 1/11/11. Runs 2/9-3/13.
Equity Principal Auditions:
Friday, November 19, 2010 Actors' Equity Association Audition Center
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM 165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor
Lunch from 1 - 2. New York City
Please prepare one two-minute monologue. Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.
Tongue-in-cheek comedy about Arab identity in today's world. Who is Abulkasem? Is he a character in a fairy tale, or an international super-spy? Is she a famous art-house filmmaker? Does he/she pose a clear and present danger? And is there more than one? Well, that depends on who you ask. Subversive comedy about identity, politics, and the way we mix it all up.
Seeking (all tracks are available (i.e. not yet offered and accepted)):
Notes:
Actor A:
Plays male characters, mostly in the 40-50 age-range. Fluent speakers of Arabic or Persian preferred. Characters include
Actor 1: Classically trained actor, adept at Shakespeare and Jacobean verse drama.
Lance: Lebanese. Gay. Termite exterminator.
Guide: Charming, professional MC/television host.
Journalist: Has taken a sabbatical to truly immerse himself in the study of Theatre.
Apple Picker: Illegal immigrant. Insecure in English, but blooms like a flower in his native tongue.
Actor B:
Plays male characters, mostly in the 20-25 age-range. Characters include
Arvind: Indian. Unruly student pretending to have major street-cred. Grows up to be a slightly geeky telemarketer with a slight stutter who is desperate to impress women.
Expert 1: Terrorism expert/talking head.
Fanon-Lover: First-year university student who has discovered post-colonialism, and falls over himself applying the concept to everything.
Actress C:
Plays female characters, mostly in the 20-25 age-range. Characters include
Actor 2: Classically trained actress, adept at Shakespeare and Jacobean verse drama.
Lara: Kurdish. Drama student. Sick and tired of ethnic stereotyping.
Expert 2: Terrorism expert/talking head.
Interpreter: Professional, with the skills of a UN interpreter.
Actor D:
Principally plays male characters, mostly in the 20-25 age-range. Characters include
Yousef: Lebanese. Unruly student pretending to have major street-cred.
Eric: Arvind’s slightly goofy friend.
Expert 3: Terrorism expert/talking head.
Anti-Nuclear Lady: Middle-aged, divorced woman who has discovered yoga and drum-circles, and is dabbling in acting classes.
Little Brother: The playwright’s little brother, remembering a traumatic experience he had as a child.
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