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Send To
Email
gjcastingsubmit@gmail.com
Personnel
Director: Timothy Douglas
Playwright: August Wilson
Arena Stage Artistic Director: Molly Smith
Casting Director: Geoff Josselson
Other
Please submit headshot/resume to gjcastingsubmit@gmail.com.
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Contract
LORT Non-Rep
$883 weekly minimum
Seeking
Equity actor to play King Hedley in KING HEDLEY II. See breakdown for more information.
Other Dates
Rehearsal begins on/about 1/6/15
Performances begin on/about 2/6/15
Close: 3/8/15
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Breakdown
The eighth work in playwright August Wilson's ten-play cycle chronicling the history of the African-American experience in each decade of the 20th century, King Hedley II is set in 1985 and tells the story of an ex-con in post-Reagan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania trying to rebuild his life.
The play has been described as one of Wilson's darkest, telling the tale of a man trying to save $10,000 by selling stolen refrigerators so that he can buy a video store.
SEEKING:
[KING HEDLEY II] African American male, mid 30s. An ex-con, King is a walking, talking and prancing expression of the frustration of the marginalized man in a world full of 'no'. He is big-hearted and open-throated with his communication. He is at once beautiful and terrifying. Requires an actor steeped in the effusive flow of August Wilson's towering, blues-inspired language, and who can deliver it with Shakespearean breadth and depth.
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