PRIVATE LIVES Submission - Raven Theatre Auditions

PRIVATE LIVES - EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS

Raven Theatre

CONTRACT

CAT $375 weekly minimum (Tier 1) - rehearsals $272 weekly minimum (Tier 1) - performance Raven Theatre will make pension and health contributions.

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in PRIVATE LIVES by Noël Coward (see breakdown).

Chicago-local actors are encouraged to submit auditions.

There will be an Equity Stage Manager.

INSTRUCTIONS

SEE PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS IN BREAKDOWN. Please submit your self-tape, along with your headshot and resume to https://www.dropbox.com/request/Dvu4WvvCAQWc5NiUwKm9 . Deadline: 10PM CDT on May 2, 2022.

Deadline: Mon, May 2, 2022

PERSONNEL

Director: Ian Frank (he/him)
Artistic Director: Cody Estle (he/him)
Casting Director: Catherine Miller (they/them)
Production Manager: Lorenzo Blackett (he/him)

OTHER DATES

Callbacks: Saturday, May 7th 10AM to 4:30 PM and Sunday, May 8th 10AM-12PM

First Read: 8/24/2022
Design Run: 9/15/2022
Tech: 9/23/2022 – 10/2/2022
Previews: 9/28/2022 – 10/2/2022
Opening: 10/3/2022
Closing: 11/13/2022

Previews: Wed 9/28/22, Fri 9/30/22, Sat 10/1/22 @7:30pm and Sun 10/2/22 @ 3:00pm

Opening Night: Mon 10/3/22 @7:30pm

Regular Run: Thu-Sat @ 7:30pm, Sun @ 3:00pm

OTHER

SCRIPT: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iovV84OtDn6BBI-yxkfzmctOZYaLi5S9/view?usp=sharing

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:

Include your name, pronouns, and Equity status in your slate. If you don't have access to a reader, please read the sides without the other character’s lines being read.

Please record the following side depending on who you are submitting for at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18TiygwqTe7DyWkVYdq1-cpSiGfMSh4ed

Elyot: Side D

Sibyl: Side A

Victor: Side B

Louise: Side F plus approximately 30-60 seconds of a love power ballad of your choice accompanied by yourself on the piano. If you’d like to show us an additional instrument(s), you are welcome to. Pick a song you'll have a blast showing to us.

To learn more about the concept for this production, please watch this video from our director: https://youtu.be/2eDo3ZQCZcI .

SEEKING:

All roles will be understudied.

SYBIL CHASE: (she/her) Early to mid 20s, coquettish, bubbly, and somewhat shallow not given to particularly deep thought. Very much the blushing bride, she is several years younger than her husband, deferring him and denying any intention to “manage” or run his life.

ELYOT CHASE: (he/him) Early to mid-30s, Sibyl’s wealthy, flippant, and self-indulgent new husband who is full of cutting wit; formerly married to Amanda. Refusing ever to be serious, his philosophy, if any, is his belief that in the long run everything is “nonsense”, nothing lasts and the intelligent response is to live for the moment. However, Elyot has his insecurities, and is not unaffected by social expectations.

VICTOR PRYNNE: (he/him) mid to late 30s, Victor is rather formal and dignified, possibly a bit dull. Steadfastly conventional and self-consciously masculine, he is the conservative counterpart to Elyot’s rebellious flippancy. Victor is very pleased to describe himself as “normal.”

AMANDA PRYNNE: ROLE CAST.

LOUISE: (she/her) 20s to 30s, the French maid at Amanda’s Paris flat (and French speaking). She is our Puck-like guide through this wild romp and at times, makes the show her own cabaret.

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.