North Carolina Shakespeare Festival /
Festival Stage of Winston-Salem
– Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT in GA
High Point and Winston-Salem, NC LORT Currently $555/week minimum (+ pension/health, transportation, housing*).
Managing & Artistic Dir: Pedro Silva
Resident Dir: Steve Umberger
Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT:
Thursday, November 11, 2010 Theatre in the Square
10 AM - 6 PM 11 Whitlock Avenue
Lunch from 1:30 – 2:30. Marietta GA 30064
For an appointment, call 336/841-2273, Monday to Friday. Equity Members without appointments will be seen throughout the audition day, as time permits.
Please prepare a brief (preferable two-minute) monologue. If interested in LUNCH AT THE PICCADILLY, please also prepare a verse and a chorus of two songs (ballad and up-tempo). If singing, bring sheet music; accompanist provided.
Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.
Festival Stage of Winston-Salem (FSWS) is an affiliate of The NC Shakespeare Festival. Company performs in the newly renovated 225-seat Hanesbrands Theatre in the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts in downtown Winston-Salem. Rehearsals are at NC Shakes's newly renovated Spirit Center campus in High Point. Housing is also in High Point.
Upcoming productions, with available roles:
LUNCH AT THE PICCADILLY Based on the best selling novel by Clyde Edgerton. Music/Lyrics: Mike Craver. Dir: Steve Umberger. 1st reh: 1/10/11. Runs 2/4-2/20.
Original musical. Revised version of a production that has been in development for the past few years. Story is set in Rosehaven Convalescence Center in Listre, NC – where the old folks are mad as hell and not taking it any more.
Note: All roles require some singing, and authentic Southern characters and voices.
Beatrice:
50s-70s. Simple, genuine, down-to-earth, unwittingly rebellious. Good comic sense. Lead.
Carl:
30s-40s. Unassuming, devoted nephew of lead character Aunt Lil. Caretaker, hard worker. Bachelor looking for love. Lead.
L. Ray Flowers:
50s-70s. Retired, but still fiery and cantankerous evangelist; stirs up trouble. Uses a wheelchair.
Anna:
30s-40s. Tough-but-vulnerable, single working mom who's trying to run the nursing home and her own life. Lead.
THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee Williams. Dir: Kristin Kundert-Gibbs. 1st reh: 4/18/11. Runs 5/13-5/29.
Laura:
Early - late 20s. Frail, fragile, kind; her shyness and lack of self-confidence are incapacitating.
Jim:
Early - late 20s. Bubbly; outgoing; kind of goofy. Self-confident and polite.
www.NCShakes.org ,
www.festivalstage.org
*Theatre states that it provides a private room and bath in a shared condo or apartment for actor housing; free Wi-Fi. Shared use of company vehicle.
Theatre’s statement: “Festival Stage of Winston-Salem is dedicated to non-traditional casting and invites Equity actors of diverse cultural and racial backgrounds to audition.”
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