INVASION! Equity Principal Audition - The Play Company Auditions

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:

• Seeking actors with special facility in language and quick comedic instincts.
• Actors of Arab, South Asian, Mediterranean or Middle Eastern heritage are especially encouraged to audition.

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.