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Contract
LORT Non-Rep
D; $675/week
Seeking
NYC auditions to be held 1st week of November, by appointment only.
Seeking submissions from AEA members only via this posting.
AEA members must submit themselves directly in order to be considered (no agent submissions).
See breakdown.
Other Dates
1st reh: 12/14/15. 1st perf: 1/9/16. Opens: 1/15. Closes: 2/7
Email picture and resume ASAP for consideration.
Please attach pictures and resumes as PDFs.
Personnel
By Robert Rechnitz and Kenneth Stunkel
Director: Jonathan Fox
Artistic Director: John Dias
Casting Director: Dale Brown
Other
Mark submissions: LIVES OF REASON / NYC APPTS / AEA LORT SELF SUBMISSION
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Breakdown
LIVES OF REASON
Set at an English Department faculty party, Lives of Reason brings audiences inside the world of academia, exposing the challenges of intellectual life—and what happens when one woman’s secret passions explode and her authentic self is revealed. This world premiere is written by Two River Theater Founder and Executive Producer Robert Rechnitz and Kenneth Stunkel, and directed by Jonathan Fox, the former artistic director of Two River, now the Executive Artistic Director of the Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara.
SEEKING:
ANDREW HEDMAN (Male, about 50)
Chair of the English Department, a man of florid taste and a bit of a mama’s boy. He dresses expensively, wears bowties, and is fussy about the small details of his appearance. He gestures grandly, rolls his eyes for emphasis, and smiles incessantly. With high self-regard, he expects to succeed the present dean of the college, due to retire in a few weeks. His field is Victorian literature, his favorite poet is Algernon Swinburne, whom he can’t resist quoting whatever the moment.
SAM DE LUCA (Male, late 60’s-70)
Senior professor of English, soon to retire. His wife has died recently; in addition to his work, he has gained great solace from his love for fishing. For him, literature opens doors and windows and realities of the human condition, the source of further and deeper solace. He enjoys making puns, finds humor in situations, and thinks Hedman is a fool and takes great pleasure in teasing him.
MATTHEW LIVINGSTON (Male, 45)
The only son of the college’s deceased founder. Like his father, he went to work early, is self-educated and enormously wealthy. He is handsome and is possessed of a dark intelligence, all of which gives him a sexual energy.
JACOB STEIN (Male, 60)
The President of Livingston College. An entomologist by training; he is a shrewd and intelligent man, an excellent president.
JEFFERSON CABOT (Male, about 38)
A professor of English, the descendent of a family of distinction from the revolutionary era. Bright and ambitious, with a Yale doctorate, he aspires to the deanship of the college. In his younger days, he lived a bohemian life, but he’s become more bourgeois and weak in the eyes of his wife.
HARTLEY CLARE (Male, about 50)
The department’s postmodern literary theorist and deconstructionist. He is contemptuous of the students, his colleagues, his wife, and the school itself. He always thinks he’s the smartest man in the room.
CARL HENDERSON (Male, mid-30’S)
Well-built and athletic looking, he teaches American literature. His is a Marxist who sees all literature has an expression of class relationships and repression. Nevertheless, he is a most likeable young man.
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