Olney Theatre Corporation
CONTRACT
COST $786 weekly minimum through 12/26/22, then $817 weekly minimum (Tier 1)
SEEKING
Equity actors for principal roles in Olney Theatre Center's 2022-23 Season (see breakdown).
All stage managerial positions have been filled.
Olney Theatre Center is committed to hiring actors who reflect the diversity of our world; actors of all backgrounds, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities are encouraged to submit.
INSTRUCTIONS
SEE PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS IN BERAKDOWN. Please email your headshot/resume and video submission.
Deadline: Fri, May 27, 2022
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Jason Loewith
Senior Associate Artistic Director: Jason King Jones
Associate Artistic Director/Director of Music Theater: Christopher Youstra
Associate Artistic Director/Casting Director: Jenna Place (viewing auditions)
Director of Curated Programming: Kevin McAllister
OTHER DATES
See production dates in breakdown.
OTHER
www.olneytheatre.org
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit.
BREAKDOWN
PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS:
Please prepare one of the following: A brief cut of a song (either with the provided accompaniment or of your own choosing) and a 1-minute Monologue, 2 contrasting 1-Minute Monologues, OR 2 Contrasting cuts (either with the provided accompaniment or of your own choosing). You may also use the accompaniment at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1RuOMREzrvKFk9JSvpjL7l1u3_yxuwC0g .
DANCE NATION, by Clare Barron
Performance Space: Lab
Director: Jenna Place
Dates:
Rehearsals Begin: 9/2/22
Previews Begin: 9/23/22
Opening: 10/1/22
Closing: 10/30/22
Synopsis: Somewhere in America, an army of pre-teen competitive dancers plots to take over the world. And if their new routine is good enough, they’ll claw their way to the top at Nationals in Tampa Bay. A play about ambition, growing up, and how to find our souls in the heat of it all.
SEEKING:
As this is a reschedule from the 21-22 season, all roles have been CAST.
DANCE TEACHER PAT - The head of the dance studio. ROLE CAST.
AMINA - The star dancer. ROLE CAST.
ZUZU - Always second best. ROLE CAST.
CONNIE - A talented dancer who thinks she should play the role of Gandhi. ROLE CAST.
LUKE - The only male dancer on the competition team. ROLE CAST.
MAEVE - The oldest and least talented dancer on the team. ROLE CAST.
SOFIA - Knows what’s up. ROLE CAST.
ASHLEE - Future president of a post-apocalyptic USA. ROLE CAST.
VANESSA - Could've been a phenomenon (aka THE CRUMPLED SAILOR). ROLE CAST.
THE MOMS - Means well. Grown up Wendy. Also Vanessa. ROLE CAST.
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman & Tim Rice
Book by Linda Woolverton
Performance Space: Mainstage
Director: Marcia Milgrom Dodge
Choreographer: Josh Walden
Music Director: Walter “Bobby” McCoy
Dates:
Rehearsals Begin: 10/21/22
Previews Begin: 11/3/22
Opening: 11/12/22
Closing: 1/1/23
Synopsis: Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST tells the classic story of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed into his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity.
SEEKING:
As this is a remount from the 21-22 season, all roles have been CAST.
NARRATOR, a voiceover during the Prologue. ROLE CAST.
YOUNG MAN, a selfish prince. ROLE CAST.
OLD BEGGAR WOMAN, an enchantress in disguise. ROLE CAST.
BELLE, a smart, plucky young woman from a provincial town. ROLE CAST.
MAURICE, an inventor and Belle’s father. ROLE CAST.
GASTON, a pompous and dim-witted “ladies man”. ROLE CAST.
LEFOU, a dim-witted lackey to Gaston. ROLE CAST.
MONSIEUR D’ARQUE, proprietor of the lunatic asylum. ROLE CAST.
THE BEAST, master of the castle who used to be a prince. ROLE CAST.
COGSWORTH, an English major-domo of the castle who is becoming a mantle clock. ROLE CAST.
LUMIERE, a French maître d’ who is becoming a candelabra. ROLE CAST.
BABETTE, a maid who is becoming a feather duster. ROLE CAST.
MRS. POTTS, a cook who is becoming a teapot. ROLE CAST.
CHIP, Mrs. Potts’s son, who is becoming a teacup. ROLE CAST.
MADAME DE LA GRANDE BOUCHE, an opera singer who is becoming a wardrobe. ROLE CAST.
KINKY BOOTS
Music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper
Book by Harvey Fierstein & Linda Woolverton
Performance Space: Mainstage
Director: Jason King Jones
Music Director: Christopher Youstra
Dates:
Rehearsals Begin: 1/10/23
Previews Begin: 2/10/23
Opening: 2/16/23
Closing: 3/19/23
Potential Extension: 3/26/23
Synopsis: Based on the 2005 British film by the same name; Charlie Price inherits a shoe factory from his father and forms a partnership and a friendship with Lola, a drag queen, to produce high-heeled boots and save the shoe business.
SEEKING:
CHARLIE PRICE - Late twenties. A bit confused, a bit unfocused, a hero hiding under a victim’s mantle. Rock belt.
YOUNG CHARLIE - Charlie Price as a seven-year-old boy. Lost, quiet, reflective.
LOLA/SIMON - Early thirties. A heterosexual drag performer with a killer voice and winning ways.
YOUNG LOLA/SIMON - This is LOLA as a ten-year-old boy who already knows he’s destined to wear high heels.
NICOLA - Twenties. Charlie’s long-term girlfriend. Driven, uncompromising. Pop voice.
LAUREN - Twenties. Strong working class girl. Belt and pop.
DON - Lola’s nemesis. Burly hypermasculine bear of a factory worker.
PAT - Officious office manager who will let loose her wild side when allowed. Lola’s love interest.
TRISH - Factory worker with a husband and kids to worry over.
GEORGE - Factory manager keeping up traditions. Reserved.
MR. PRICE - Charlie’s father in the opening and closing sequences.
SIMON SR - Lola’s father. An unforgiving tower of anger.
HARRY - A contemporary of Charlie’s but his opposite. He is successful, self aware, and confident.
RICHARD BAILEY - Nicola’s boss. An overtly attractive and successful man.
IN EVERY GENERATION, by Ali Viterbi
Performance Space: Lab
Director: Jenna Place
Dates:
Rehearsals Begin: 2/7/23
Previews Begin: 3/2/23
Opening: 3/8/23
Closing: 4/9/23
Potential Extension: 4/16/23
Synopsis: One family. One holiday. Four millennia. The Levi-Katz family celebrates Passover again and again (and again and again) and while times, location, and languages change, traditions stay the same. Over matzah ball soup and (vegan) brisket, the close-knit clan contends with questions of race, religion, and inter-generational trauma. The present echoes the past—and the past the present—as the family repeatedly reenacts the exodus from Egypt, each time asking themselves: must we define ourselves through trauma? Will we ever be free? And why is this night different from all other nights?
SEEKING:
VALERIA LEVI, female, white, first generation American, daughter of Davide and Paola, mother of Devorah and Yael, 57 years old in Part 1, 88 years old in Part 3.
DEVORAH (DEV) KATZ, female, Chinese American, adopted, daughter of Valeria, older sister to Yael, 23 years old in Part 1, 54 years old in Part 3
YAEL KATZ, female, white, daughter of Valeria, younger sister to Devorah, 19 years old in Part 1, 50 years old in Part 3.
DAVIDE LEVI, male, white, Italian, married to Paola, Valeria's father, 87 years old in Part 1: has ALS and no longer has the ability to speak, 22 years old in Part 2.
PAOLA LEVI, female, white, Yugoslavian/Italian, married to Davide, Valeria's mother, 85 years old in Part 1, 20 years old in Part 2.
THE WORLD GOES ROUND*
*co-production with Everyman Theatre and ArtsCentric
Music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb
Conceived Scott Ellis, Susan Stroman, and David Thompson
Performance Space: Mainstage
Director: Kevin McAllister
Music Director: Christopher Youstra
Dates:
Rehearsals Begin: 3/21/23
Previews Begin: 4/19/23
Opening: 4/22/23
Closing: 5/21/23
Synopsis: The World Goes Round is a musical revue featuring the music of John Kander and Fred Ebb.
SEEKING:
Note: Multi-hyphenate skills are a plus (instruments, languages, interesting special skills, etc).
WOMAN 1: 20s-40s - Passionate, tough, hopeful. Strong mover.
WOMAN 2: 30s-50s - Strong dancer. Big personality, but also has a reflective side. Strong mover.
WOMAN 3: 40s-60s - Confident in life but hesitant when it comes to her love life. Always ready for an adventure. Strong mover.
MAN 1: 20s-50s - Strong comedic timing. Strong dancer. Earnest and charming. Strong mover.
MAN 2: 20s-50s - Serious with a hopeless romantic streak. Strong mover.
A NICE INDIAN BOY, by Madhuri Shekar
Performance Space: Lab
Director: TBD
Dates:
Rehearsals Begin: 4/25/23 or 5/2/23
Previews Begin:5/24/23
Opening: 5/27/23
Closing: 6/25/23
Potential Extension: 7/2/23
Synopsis: Naveen Gavaskar just wants a traditional Hindu marriage to a nice Indian boy. While his parents are trying to wrap their heads around this, his older sister returns home and drops a bombshell of her own. A family comedy about love and marriage today- gay or straight, arranged or not.
SEEKING:
Naveen Gavaskar - Male. 31, second-generation Indian American. Smart, sharp, traditional.
Keshav Kurundkar - Male. Early 30s, Caucasian American. An utterly charming cross-cultural nomad.
Megha Gavaskar - Female. Late 50s, Naveen's mother. Sweet, loving, pragmatic.
Archit Gavaskar - Male. Early 60s, Naveen's father. Wry, solid, decent. An excellent cook.
Arundhathi Rao - Female. 33, Naveen's sister. Ambitious, caustic, vulnerable.
FELA!
*co-production with Round House Theatre
Music and lyrics by Fela Kuti
Book by Bill T. Jones and Jim Lewis
Performance Space: Mainstage
Director: Lili-Anne Cooper
Music Director: TBD
Dates:
Rehearsals Begin: 6/6/23
Previews Begin: 7/7/23
Opening: 7/13/23
Closing: 8/13/23
Potential Extension: 8/27/23
Synopsis: FELA! is the true story of the legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, whose music ignited a generation. Inspired by his mother, a civil rights champion, he defied a corrupt and oppressive military government and devoted his life and music to the struggle for freedom and human dignity.
SEEKING:
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti - Nigerian Afrobeat musician and political activist.
Sandra - Fela’s girlfriend, Black American and a firm believer in Black power. Also part of the ENSEMBLE.
Funmilayo - Fela’s mother, Nigerian. She only appears as a ghost and communicates with Fela through song. Also part of the ENSEMBLE.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit.
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