LUNGS and THE GOLDEN DRAGON **Revised** Equity Principal Audition - The Studio Theatre Auditions

LUNGS and
THE GOLDEN DRAGON

– Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT in DC

The Studio Theatre Washington DC SPT (approval/salary level pending; 2010-11 weekly minimum: $571).

Artistic Dir: David Muse

Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT:

Friday, June 10, 2011 The Studio Theatre

11 AM – 3 PM 1501 14th Street NW

Washington DC 20005

No appointment necessary.

For an appointment, call Jenn Harris at 202/232-7267, M–F, 10:30 AM – 5:30 PM. Equity Members without appointments will be seen throughout each audition day as time permits.

Sides will be provided at the audition, and are posted at
http://ow.ly/57LAz .

Please bring a current picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.

Still seeking:

Note from Equity: New information for each production has been added since Studio Theatre’s Equity Principal Auditions were held in April. Please read this breakdown carefully. All appropriate actors are encouraged to audition, including actors who auditioned at Studio Theatre’s April EPA.

LUNGS by Duncan MacMillan. Dir: Aaron Posner. 1st reh: 8/29/11. Runs 9/28-10/16.

Note from casting personnel: “Both actors need to be courageous, generous, attractive, excellent with language, quite game, and really great memorizers. I mean that... really great memorizers.”

W:

Woman, 30ish. Wicked smart, fast, funny, unedited, dangerous, anxious, impulsive, intense.

M:

Man, 30ish. Concerned, caring, charming, alert, apologetic, adoring, and a very good guy.

THE GOLDEN DRAGON by Roland Schimmelpfennig. Translation: David Tushingham. Dir: Serge Seiden. 1st reh: 10/3/11. Runs 11/2-12/11.

USA premiere. Still relatively unknown in the US, Mr. Schimmelpfennig is renowned in Germany. In 2010, he won the coveted Else-Lasker-Schuler Prize for Dramatic Literature. THE GOLDEN DRAGON was produced by scores of German theatres this year, and won the 2010 Mulheim Prize. It was also chosen as “play of the year” in the 2010 Theater Today Yearbook German critics’ survey. Clip from a production of the play directed by the author at the Burg Theatre in Vienna (in German) can be found at
http://ow.ly/57KLf

Ensemble piece for five actors in which men play women, women play men, young actors play older characters and older actors play younger characters. Theatre states, “We encourage men and women of all ethnicities to audition.” Subtle vocal and physical characterizations will be required, as well as direct-address narration/storytelling. No accents. Standard stage speech is required.

Man Over 60:

Track’s characters include a Female Flight Attendant, a Young Man who discovers his wife is pregnant, and a Cook in an Asian take-out restaurant.

Woman 20-30:

Track’s characters include a Middle-Aged Man whose wife is leaving him, a Young Cook in an Asian take-out restaurant with a toothache, and a flight attendant’s Hunky Boyfriend.

Man 20-30:

Track’s characters include a Grandfather, a Waitress in an Asian take-out restaurant, and a Young Asian Woman being kept as a sex-slave by a shop owner (The Cricket).

Man 43-55:

Track’s characters include a Middle-Aged Woman who is leaving her husband, a lonely Female Flight Attendant, and a Cook in an Asian take-out restaurant.

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