Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep $926 weekly minimum (LORT C)
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles in the 2021-2022 season (see breakdown).
Performers of all cultural, racial, and gender identities, and of all abilities are encouraged to attend. Please visit our website to learn more about our theater’s ongoing work to promote anti-racism on and off our stage.
Understudies may be used.
INSTRUCTIONS
SEE PREPARATION IN BREAKDOWN. Submit a link to an unlisted YouTube video of your prepared monologues along with electronic copies of your headshot and resume at https://pct.formstack.com/forms/pptepa by Friday July 9, 2021 at 5:00 PM EDT. If you have any trouble with the online audition form, please let us know at playtime@ppt.org.
Deadline: Fri, Jul 9, 2021 (EST)
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Marya Sea Kaminski (Reviewing audition materials)
Managing Director: Louis Castelli
Artistic Manager: Brian Pope (Receiving and reviewing audition materials)
OTHER DATES
See production dates in breakdown.
OTHER
If you cannot submit a video for this audition, you may send a picture and resume to:
Brian Pope
ATTN: Casting
Pittsburgh Public Theater
621 Penn Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
www.ppt.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 comedic piece and one piece from the classic American canon (i.e. August Wilson, Alice Childress, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams, etc.). NOTE: All material should not exceed 4 minutes total. Instructions for creating an unlisted YouTube video can be found at https://drive.google.com/file/d/19rAYavix102sxvLSfT01HfvB1emG6E4X/view. In the video, please slate yourself with your full name and the play titles of the pieces you’re presenting.
*All dates subject to change
SLOW FOOD
By Wendy MacLeod
1st Rehearsal: September 13, 2021
Runs: October 17, 2021
SLOW FOOD will be rehearsed and performed in-person and indoors at a found location. It will be performed without a live audience and be recorded for streaming at a later date.
This production is CAST.
THE CHIEF
By Rob Zellers & Gene Collier
1st Rehearsal: September 28, 2021
Runs: November 7, 2021 (Possible extension to November 14, 2021)
THE CHIEF will be rehearsed and performed in-person and indoors at the O’Reilly theater.
Seeking: All Roles
Arthur J. Rooney
HOW THE HELL DID I GET HERE?
Book and Songs by Lesley Nicol & Mark Mueller
1st Rehearsal: January 11, 2022
Runs: February 13, 2022
HOW THE HELL DID I GET HERE? will be rehearsed and performed in-person and indoors at the O’Reilly theater.
This production is CAST.
AGATHA CHRISTIE’S MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS
Adapted by Ken Ludwig
1st rehearsal: March 15, 2022
Runs: May 1, 2022 (Possible extension to May 8, 2022)
AGATHA CHRISTIE’S MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS will be rehearsed and performed in-person and indoors at the O’Reilly theater.
Seeking: All Roles
Hercule Poirot
Monsieur Bouc
Mary Debenham
Hector Macqueen
Michel the Conductor
Princess Dragonmiroff
Greta Ohlsson
Countess Andrenyi
Helen Hubbard
Colonel Abruthnot
Samuel Ratchett (doubles with Colonel Arbuthnot)
Head Waiter (doubles with Michel the Conductor)
TWO TRAINS RUNNING
By August Wilson
1st rehearsal: May 3, 2022
Runs: June 19, 2022 (Possible extension to June 26, 2022)
TWO TRAINS RUNNING will be rehearsed and performed in-person and indoors at the O’Reilly theater.
Seeking: All Roles
Memphis
Wolf
Risa
Holloway
Sterling
Hambone
West
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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