North Carolina Shakespeare Festival/Festival Stage of Winston-Salem Equity Principal Audition - North Carolina Shakespeare Festival Auditions

North Carolina Shakespeare Festival /

Festival Stage of Winston-Salem

– Equity Principal Auditions

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:

Monday, December 6, 2010 Ripley-Grier Studios

10 AM - 6 PM 520 Eighth Avenue, 16th Floor

Lunch from 1:30 – 2:30. New York City

Please prepare EITHER a brief (preferably two-minute) monologue OR 16 bars of a song and a one-minute monologue. 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.

Seeking the following roles only:

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. Music has a range of styles, with strong folk influence.

Beatrice:

50s-70s. Simple, genuine, down-to-earth, rebellious without knowing it. 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. Lead.

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.

www.NCShakes.org ,
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*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.”