KITTY HAWK - Miami, FL EPA
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts | Miami, FL
Saturday, June 29, 2024
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM (E)
Please call 786-468-2287 or email education@arshtcenter.org for an audition appointment. Offices are open from Monday- Friday, 9:00 AM-5:00 PM. Video submissions are welcomed.
TYA
$594 weekly minimum
Equity actors for roles in KITTY HAWK (see breakdown).
There will be two understudies for all roles in this production. All Stage Managerial positions are filled.
Please come prepared to sing a brief audition song. An accompanist will be provided. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
1300 Biscayne Blvd
Miami, FL 33132
Entrance is the valet ramp on NE 13 Street
Between Biscayne Blvd & NE 2nd Avenue.
Book by: Tom Bryant
Music & Lyrics by Erik Della Penna
Jairo Ontiveros, Producer
Nathan Allen, Director
Choreographer, Jerel Brown
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Jairo Ontiveros, VP of Education & Community Engagement
Lakeisha Frith, Director of Education
Nathan Allen, Director of Kitty Hawk
Maru Holloway, Accompanist
June 29th - Call backs from 3:00pm to 5:00pm
September 3 thru September 13-Rehearals
Sep 17 thru Sep 20-Tech Rehearsals
Sep 21- Invited Dress
Sep 23-Sep 27- Performance, 2 shows: 10:15am and 11:45am. Running time: 60 minute show
www.arshtcenter.org
The producer plans to utilize stage-fighting, stage fog, haze, pyrotechnics and strobe lights in this production. Actors’ voices will be amplified. Actors may participate in talkbacks with students.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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 attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
All characters are very good singers who move well.
Male swing/female swing, strong singers.
Note: Singers with a comedy sense and, perhaps, an ear for foreign accents/languages are encouraged to audition.
Orville Wright: (Female) 20s - early 30s. Excellent singer. This character displays drive and determination without allowing to give up on their dream. Energetic and focused.
Katherine Wright: (Female),20s-30s. The Wright brother’s sister Katherine was a young woman with a career as a high school teacher. Independent and bright, Katherine was an integral part of the Wright brothers’ achievements contributing many ideas and most of her career earnings to their endeavors. She is the family peacekeeper, voice of reason, and motherly.
Samuel Langley: (Male or Female), 30s–50s-Langley was a scientist, a bureaucrat, and a politician. In this play Langley’s Achilles’ heel is his ego.
Harim Maxim/Conductor/Ensemble: 20s–early 40s. Though The ensemble characters were all serious inventors and engineers, they are depicted in this play with humor. Those at Kitty Hawk work as an ensemble. Think of them as a Greek chorus, voicing the doubts, the curiosity and ultimately, the excitement of everyday people experiencing all the new innovations of the Industrial Revolution.
J.M. Kaufman/John Daniels/Ensemble: 20s – early 40s - Though the ensemble characters were all serious inventors and engineers, they are depicted in this play with humor. Those at Kitty Hawk work as an ensemble. Think of the masa Greek chorus, voicing the doubts, the curiosity and ultimately, the excitement of everyday people experiencing all the new innovations of the Industrial Revolution.
Clement Ader/William Tate/Ensemble: (Male), (18 and over) A strong singer. Though the ensemble characters were all serious inventors and engineers, they are depicted in this play with humor. Those at Kitty Hawk work as an ensemble. Think of them as a Greek chorus, voicing the doubts, the curiosity and ultimately, the excitement of everyday people experiencing all the new innovations of the Industrial Revolution.
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