NEW JERSEY REPERTORY COMPANY 2011-12 SEASON Equity Principal Audition - New Jersey Repertory Company Auditions

New Jersey Repertory Company 2011-12

– Equity Principal Auditions in NYC and NJ

Long Branch NJ SPT (w/exception of THE SWEARING JAR, see below). $293/week minimum, + pension/health. Housing provided for out-of-area performers.

Artistic Dir: SuzAnne Barabas

Equity Principal Auditions / NYC:

Wednesday, January 5, 2011 Actors' Equity Association Audition Center

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM 165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor

Lunch from 1 – 2. New York City

EPA procedures in effect. Please prepare two monologues (one comic, one dramatic). Monologues should be no longer than one minute each.

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

Equity Principal Auditions / NJ by APPOINTMENT:

Friday, January 7, 2011 New Jersey Repertory Company

10:30 AM – 6:30 PM 179 Broadway, Rear Entrance

Lunch from 1 – 2. Long Branch, NJ

Directions:
www.njrep.org

The producer will run all aspects of this call. Equity audition procedures will NOT be in effect, and no Equity Monitor will be provided. For 5-minute appointment, call 732/229-3166 on 1/3/11 from 12 Noon – 4 PM, or e-mail
njrep@njrep.org any time. Equity Members without appointments will be seen throughout the audition day, as time permits.

Please prepare two brief contemporary monologues (one comic, one dramatic).

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

2011-12 season with available roles (plays/dates subject to change).

NIGHT TRAIN by John Biguenet. Dir: SuzAnne Barabas. 1st reh: On/about 4/5/11. Runs 4/28-5/29.

World premiere. Headed back home in the dead of the night, a wealthy banker finds himself unexpectedly sharing his first-class compartment with a dubious interloper, who only has a second-class ticket, a lot of questions, and a knack for conveniently forgetting the answers.

Alex Hampton:

40-50. Wealthy, upper-class banker.

Max:

Younger than Alex. Hunched, a little rough. Lower-class. A smuggler.

Marta:

Young woman. Beautiful, sexy. Eastern European accent.

THE SWEARING JAR by Kate Hewlett. Dir: Evan Bergman. 1st reh: On/about 5/23/11. Runs 6/9-6/26. LOA Periodic Performance Contract ($50/performance minimum).

New Jersey premiere. Simon and Carey are the perfect couple. But when Carey performs at Simon's 40th birthday celebration, she is forced to come to terms with the greatest lie her husband ever told. Bittersweet comedy about marriage, migraines and swearing.

Carey:

Woman, 30something. Married to Simon. Music teacher. Uncomfortable with strangers.

Simon:

30something. Married to Carey. Tortured writer with an acerbic wit and a painful secret.

Owen:

30something. Musician, and bookstore drone. Shy when it comes to meeting new people.

Bev:

50-60. Simon’s mother. Attractive. Self-centered. Sharp-tongued and witty.

NO DUMB BLONDE! THE JUDY HOLLIDAY STORY by Bob Sloan. Dir: SuzAnne Barabas. 1st reh: 6/4/11. Runs 7/7-8/14.

New Jersey Premiere. AKA JUST IN TIME: THE JUDY HOLLIDAY STORY. Fast-paced romp through the life of the original “dumb blonde” and one of the funniest actresses of all time. Features Holliday's exalted cohorts Orson Welles, Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Gloria Swanson among others. Buoyant valentine to a bygone era.

Judy Holliday:

The famous “dumb” blonde from the 1940s - 1950s.

Helen Tuvim:

Judy’s mother.

Woman:

One actress plays various characters, 30s. Characters include Principal, Betty Comden, Receptionist, Manicurist, Katharine Hepburn, Dorothy Kilgallen, Arlene Francis, Gloria Swanson and Tallulah Bankhead.

Man:

One actor plays various characters, 30s. Characters include Adolph Green, John Daly, Orson Welles, John Houseman, Hollywood Agents, Peter Lawford, Harry Cohn andGarson Kanin.

JERICHO by Jack Canfora. Dir: Evan Bergman. 1st reh: On/about 9/20/11. Runs 10/13-11/13.

National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. Set in Manhattan and its suburbs. Thought-provoking new play that explores how people cope with collective and personal tragedy. Characters are touchingly human, struggling to learn what it means to belong to another person and to a larger community, all while figuring out how to meet their own needs. With surprising humor, the play undertakes some of the larger and more troubling questions of American life without forgetting that every struggle, even political ones, is ultimately personal.

Beth:

About 35. Muslim-Irish Catholic lineage. Attractive. Smart, funny.

Dr. Kim / Alec:

Young man, about 30.

Ethan:

Jewish, 30something. Attractive. Dating Beth. Quick-witted. Patient.

Jessica:

Jewish, 30something. Josh’s wife. Not orthodox in her religion.

Josh:

Jewish. Ethan’s older brother. Religious.

Rachel:

Ethan and Josh’s mother. Controlling. Manipulative.

BAKERSFIELD MIST by Stephen Sachs. Dir: SuzAnne Barabas. 1st reh: 11/8/11. Runs 12/1/11 – 12/18/11 and 1/5/12 – 1/22/12.

National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere. Inspired by a true story. Unemployed bartender living in a trailer park buys the ugliest painting she can find for three bucks. Turns out it might be a Jackson Pollock worth millions. Is it authentic or not?

Maude Gutman:

50s. Unemployed bartender. Lives in a trailer. Drinks to excess. Funny, loud and uncouth, yet vulnerable.

Lionel Percy:

50s-60s. Art expert. Prissy snob, passionate about art. Uncompromising.

IN A DAUGHTER’S EYE by A. Zell Williams. 1st reh: On/about 1/24/12. Runs 2/16/12 – 3/18/12.

New Jersey premiere. Two-woman drama set in Oakland, CA near the year 2000. Story of two daughters: one grew up to be a civil rights attorney and whose father, Rashid Abu-Salaam, is an incarcerated Black Panther; the other is the daughter of the police officer Rashid was convicted of killing. Inspired by the true case of Mumia Abu-Jamal and recent US Supreme Court rulings, the play deals with issues of race, social inequality and classism, and explores the new landscape of ethnicity in 21st Century America.

Rehema Salaam:

African American woman, 27. Passionate, determined, a realist. Daughter of a revolutionary, as well as of a revolution. It’s not that she has a foul mouth; she just doesn’t give a damn.

Kathryn (Katie) Tinney:

Caucasian woman, 34. Calm, independent, thoughtful. Charming and disarming, but goal-oriented. A lifetime of pressure has nailed her on the cross.

Theatre’s statement: “Non-traditional casting is encouraged, and actors of color, seniors and performers with disabilities are encouraged to audition for all the plays.”