MATT PARK IS PEER GYNT WITH THE NORWEGIAN HAPA BAND Equity Principal Auditions - Ma-Yi Theater Company Auditions

MATT PARK IS PEER GYNT WITH THE NORWEGIAN HAPA BAND - NYC EPA

Ma-Yi Theater Company

AUDITION DATE

Aug 12, 2016

9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)

Lunch 1 to 2

CONTRACT

LOA-NYC

$414/WEEK

SEEKING

Equity actors. All actors must be musicians familiar with singing and playing the rock and roll idiom. Actors with disabilities, Transgender and Gender non-conforming, and actors of color encouraged to attend.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a brief rock and roll song. Bring sheet music; accompanist will be provided. Bring picture and resume.

LOCATION

Actors' Equity New York Audition Center

165 West 46th Street

16th Floor

New York, NY 10036

PERSONNEL

Playwright: Michi Barall ; Composers: Paul Lieber and Matt Park ; Director: Jack Tamburri

OTHER

First rehearsal: December 12, 2016; Runs: January 21 - February 11, 2016

An Equity monitor will be provided.

Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to attend.

Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.

BREAKDOWN

MATT PARK IS PEER GYNT WITH THE NORWEGIAN HAPA BAND centers on Peer, a brash young man on a journey to discover his ultimate self in this rock music odyssey about risk, reinvention and going roundabout. Ma-Yi Theater Company’s remaking of Ibsen’s classic verse drama asks what it means when we sacrifice everything to be most fully ourselves.

PEER:
30s-40s, Asian-American, male-identified. Strong singer who plays electric guitar at a professional level. Quirky, brash, with rock-star charisma -- a charmer and a seeker. Character ages from 16 to late 60s over course of play.

OSE:
50s-60s, Asian-American, female-identified. Confident singer who plays keyboard/piano. A working-class mother who raised her off-beat son on her own. She is feisty and a fighter -- she knows who she is.

INGRID/THE LADY IN GREEN:
20s-40s, person of color, female-identified. Strong singer who plays a string instrument at a professional level; multi-instrumentalists encouraged; actors with movement training encouraged

• Ingrid is a young (and then much older) woman from the town's only well-to-do family. She is desperate for approval but also knows how to stand her ground.
• The Lady in Green is a mysterious, seductive and other-worldly woman.

SOLVAY:
20s-40s, person of color, female-identified. Strong singer who plays acoustic guitar, a wind instrument, or both. A fresh, independent woman who feels most at home alone in the mountains. She is a little reserved, extremely observant, and deeply kind. Character ages from 15 to late 60s over course of play.

JON/ANITRA/HELGA:
late 20s-40s, person of color, any gender. Confident singer who plays electric bass at a professional level. Transgender and gender nonconforming actors encouraged; actors with movement training encouraged. This is a role for an extremely versatile actor whose range can include a sassy 7 year old (HELGA), a club performer and dominatrix (ANITRA), and a menacing smuggler (JON).

MADS/BEGRIFFENFELDT

30s-40s, any ethnicity, male identified. Confident singer who plays drums and percussion at a professional level. The actor should have enough range to play a rough-edged town bully and also a highly verbal and intellectual asylum director.

THE BANDLEADER/TROLL KING

30s-40s, any ethnicity, any gender: Strong singer who plays guitar, keyboard, and other instruments at a professional level and can lead a musical ensemble while playing. A charismatic figure with a dark edge.