Laguna Playhouse
AUDITION DATE
Wed, Jul 13, 2022
1:00 pm - 5:15 pm (PST)
APPOINTMENTS
Please email wally@lagunaplayhouse.com to make an audition appointment.
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep $926 weekly minimum (LORT C) Housing is available.
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Laguna Playhouse 2022-23 Season (see breakdown).
PREPARATION
Please prepare two contrasting monologues.
LOCATION
Laguna Playhouse
606 Laguna Canyon Rd
Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Street parking.
PERSONNEL
Viewing auditions:
Wally Ziegler, Artistic & Audience Services Manager/Casting Director
Rachel Garlington, Company Manager
Denys Baker, General Manager
OTHER DATES
KIM’S CONVENIENCE
Rehearsal Begins: Tuesday, August 30, 2022
First Preview: Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Opening night: Sunday, September 25, 2022
Closing night: Sunday, October 9, 2022
LOVE AMONG THE RUINS
Rehearsal starts: 10/4
Previews 10/26
Opens: 10/30
Runs through: 11/20 (ends before Thanksgiving)
Performance schedule: 8 shows per week
STAGED
First rehearsal: Jan. 25
Runs through: Feb.12, 2023
MURDER ON THE LINKS
First rehearsal: May 31
Runs through: June 18, 2023
OTHER
https://lagunaplayhouse.com
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of 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.
BREAKDOWN
No roles will be understudied.
KIM’S CONVENIENCE
Seeking:
APPA (DAD) (Male, 59 years old, 1st generation Korean-Canadian): The owner of ‘Kim’s Convenience Store', who is searching for his replacement to take over the family business. He is a gruff, undemonstrative traditionalist who loves his family. Fluent in Korean, and speaks English with a Korean accent.
UMMA (MOM) (Female, 56 years old, 1st generation Korean-Canadian): Married to Appa. As dutiful wife and mother, she struggles to mend her broken family while balancing her own happiness. Fluent in Korean, and speaks English with a Korean accent.
JANET (Female, 30 years old, 2nd generation Korean-Canadian): Daughter of Appa and Umma. Though she is unmarried and still lives at home, she is thoroughly assimilated, with dreams of a career in photography. Speaks some Korean with her parents.
JUNG (Male, 32 years old, 2nd generation Korean-Canadian): He is the son of Appa and Umma, with a 2-month-old son. Ran away from home at 16 and hasn’t spoken to his father since. Adulthood has not been good to him.
RICH/MR. LEE/MIKE/ALEX (Male, 30s, Black): Has character dexterity, great comedic timing, and experience with dialects.
LOVE AMONG THE RUINS
Based on the Emmy award-winning George Cukor film starring Katharine Hepburn and Laurence Olivier. When London’s greatest barrister agrees to defend a beautiful former West End star in a sensational breach of promise case, he's incensed that she apparently doesn't remember that they once fell madly and passionately in love decades ago. But as it appears that they might lose the case -- their courtroom theatrics become a battle of wits and wills and the unbreakable power of love.
SEEKING:
No roles will be understudied.
[SIR GEORGE DRUISE] Male, 60s, any ethnicity, possibly South Asian. Sir Arthur’s associate and close friend, he’s a straight-laced, by-the-book and dependable solicitor who introduces Jessica to Sir Arthur. British accent.
[SIR JOHN FRANCIS DIVINE] Male, 40s. This cheeky man is the lawyer for the prosecution, with a regular guy personality and easygoing sense of humor that hides his toughness and cleverness, but appeals to juries. British accent. (Although the character is written as Anglo-Irish, he may be played as any ethnicity.)
[ALFRED PRATT] Male, late 20s – 35, any ethnicity. Very handsome in his full-dress officer’s uniform, he is a well-spoken young man who claims that he was engaged to be married to Jessica, and is suing her for breach of promise for a huge amount of money. He insists that their relationship was a love match that has nothing to do with her money. He represents himself as a by-the-book officer who is only interested in doing the right thing. British accent.
[FANNY PRATT] Female, 55 – 70, any ethnicity. This low-born Cockney woman, with a spontaneous delivery, is Alfred’s mother, who takes the witness stand to testify about how loving her son and Jessica were around one another. She’s coarse and ill-spoken, but her testimony hits home with the jury. Cockney accent.
[HERMIONE DAVIS] Female, late 20s – early 30s, all ethnicity. She’s Jessica’s loyal and compassionate young employee, who has run the household for several years. She’s nervous when she takes the witness stand and initially claims that she remembers nothing about Jessica and Alfred’s interactions. British accent.
[JUDGE PHILLIP TANDY] Male, 55 – 65, any ethnicity. This no-nonsense judge presides over the breach of promise trial. He runs a tight courtroom, with little patience for anything off the track, but is sometimes hard-pressed to pull Sir Arthur out of his state of state of abstraction. British accent.
[BAILIFF] Male, 40s, any ethnicity. This bailiff keeps order in the courtroom, but without the level of authority of certainty that the Judge brings to the courtroom. He reads back Fanny Pratt’s testimony for the disbelieving Sir Arthur. British accent.
[HERBERT] Male, 50 – 60, all ethnicity. He is Sir Arthur’s protective, efficient and dedicated valet. British accent.
STAGED, directed by Martin Bergman
Jan. 25 - Feb.12, 2023
ALL ROLES CAST.
MURDER ON THE LINKS, directed by Steven Dietz
ALL ROLES CAST.
Requirement for proof of vaccination/negative test:
Everyone entering the audition venue (i.e., venue employees, Equity members, non-members, casting personnel, creatives, producers, musicians, COVID Safety Managers, etc.) will be required to undergo a symptom check and provide one of the following prior to entry into the venue:
o Proof of full vaccination. “Fully vaccinated,” as defined by the CDC, is more than 14 calendar days following receipt of a final dose of an FDA or World Health Organization authorized or approved vaccine.
(OR)
o Proof of a negative PCR test result taken no earlier than 48 hours prior to entry into the audition venue.
(OR)
o Proof of two negative antigen test results (e.g., the first taken the night before and the second taken no less than 2 hours) prior to entry into the venue. Results of non-proctored at-home antigen tests will not be accepted.
Two-ply cloth face masks, surgical masks, singer’s masks and respirators (N95, KN95 or KF94) will be allowed for face coverings. Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas are not acceptable face coverings. Everyone in the holding room and audition room will always wear a face covering as described above, except for the actor when they are actively auditioning. The time spent unmasked should be as minimal as possible. Face coverings must be worn correctly (covering the nose and mouth). Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
If the risk level for Laguna Beach is trending upwards and may rise to High (Red) we will contact members with appointments at least 24 hours before the first audition appointment time to let them know there is a chance that the auditions may need to be postponed or cancelled. All members with appointments will be notified if the auditions must be postponed or cancelled.
We encourage members to prepare for their audition at home, to the extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms. Additional information required in notice:
Holding/Audition room information:
The audition room can accommodate no more than 360 individuals at a time.
The holding room can accommodate no more than 80 individuals at a time.
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 audition.
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