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
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.
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