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Call Type
Non-Required Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Monday, June 9, 2014
11:30 am-4:00 pm
(lunch 2:00-2:30 pm)
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Contract
NEAT
$386 weekly minimum
Location
Roberts Studio Theatre / Calderwood Pavilion.
527 Tremont Street
Boston, MA
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Seeking
Equity actors, male and female, for NECESSARY MONSTERS.
See breakdown for more information.
Preparation
Actors will be asked to perform a scene or two of the play. Scripts are available for perusal at the StageSource office, 15 Channel Center Street, Suite 103 Boston, MA. See www.stagesource.org for directions and office hours.
Please bring TWO copies of your stapled headshot /resume.
Other Dates
Rehearsals: November 17-December 4
Performances: December 5-January 3
Other
If you have already been seen at SpeakEasy’s general auditions, you do not need to audition again.
Personnel
Producing Artistic Director: Paul Daigneault
General Manager/Production Manager: Paul Melone
Playwright: John Kuntz
Director: David Gammons
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
E-mail auditions@speakeasystage.com (preferred) or call (617) 482-3279. Please be sure to include a contact phone number and e-mail.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
Description: Sex, murder, and terrible danger lurk just around the corner in NECESSARY MONSTERS, the new reality-bending comedy from John Kuntz, author of the award-winning plays The Salt Girl and The Hotel Nepenthe. Through a series of intricately connected stories, Kuntz pulls us into the labyrinth of the human psyche for this dream-like and darkly hilarious look at the ways that we do violence and the stories we create to keep us up at night.
DRAKE: (Male) Pill-popper. Doesn't remember much. Forward and blunt. Always heavily medicated. Paranoid and haunted by ''beings.''
CISSA/GILLIAN: (Female) Cissa: A hard-working film special effects editor, displeased with her career. Tends to ramble. Gillian: Obedient, forgetful and somewhat dim. Mourning her recently deceased mother and being fired.
MIDGE/FAYE: (Female) Midge: An undercover cop. Forward, blunt and insensitive to the point of rudeness. Faye: A ruthless children’s TV star. Brutal, harsh, whiny and self-obsessed.
VICTOR/CLINT: (Male) Victor: An actor. Was attacked and is sensitive about it. Reticent and reserved. Seeks revenge. Clint: A sinister, sadistic serial killer who preys on young children.
STEPHEN/THEO: (Male) Stephen: All business, very professional. Had an intimate, emotional connection with Drake in the past. Theo: A struggling actor with one hand seeking revenge. Wishy-washy and non-committal, he feels victimized by his own wife and tends to overreact. This role has already been cast; actors may audition for possible replacements.
MIA/ABIGAIL: (Female) Mia: A prostitute. Brazenly open about her disturbing past. Desperate for approval and attention. Abigail: A binge eater who talks incessantly about the food she’s eaten. Anxious, lonely and depressed.
FLORA: (Female) A woman recounting her experiences on hash. Exaggerates often and rambles, she always seems as if she is still high. An obsessive stalker.
GREER: (Female – 50s-60s) A wealthy society matron, affluent to a point of ignorance. Speaks openly on her uncouth opinions of those she considers to be lesser than she. Bourgeois, apathetic and insensitive. This role has already been cast; actors may audition for possible replacements.
Theatre’s statement: SpeakEasy Stage Co. shall not practice discrimination against any Actor on the basis of race, color, creed, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, political persuasion or belief, age or disability of such Actor. SpeakEasy Stage Co. adheres to the Non Traditional Casting policy of Actors’ Equity Association.
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