SEA LADY Submission - Metropolitan Playhouse Auditions

SEA LADY - HEADSHOT/RESUME SUBMISSIONS

Metropolitan Playhouse

CONTRACT

Showcase-NY $1,000 stipend for run ($125/week)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in SEA LADY (see breakdown).

The Sea Lady is an unproduced play from 1935 by Neith Boyce, of the Provincetown Players. The Sea Lady tells the tale of a mermaid come to land on the English seacoast in search of a soul.

INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit headshot and resume for consideration.

Deadline: Tue, Jul 12, 2022

SUBMIT TO

casting@metropolitanplayhouse.org

Metropolitan Playhouse

220 E 4th Street
New York, NY 10009

PERSONNEL

Alex Roe - Director
Neith Boyce - Author

OTHER DATES

Selected actors will be invited by 7/15/22 to submit a self-tape by 7/18 for consideration for in-person calls.
First Rehearsal: 9/7/22
Opening: 10/6/22
Closing: 10/30/22

OTHER

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

Mrs. Bunting, 35 to 60 years old, female. Mrs. Bunting is a matriarch devoted to the mores and particulars of a high society in which she will never be at ease. Thrilled and then dismayed, and then thrilled by the mermaid's arrival.

Lady Poynting-Mallow, 45 - 60 years old, female. is a superior and practical gatekeeper of the upper class, perfectly able to overlook a mermaid’s tail if her darling nephew is set on her and her riches are in hand.

Harry Chatteris, 20-30 years old, male. An up-and-coming candidate for Parliament with a family pedigree and a rakish past. Torn between the dully respectable responsibilities of his engagement and his political career, on the one hand, and the allure of a flattering mermaid who promises “better dreams,” on the other.

Fred Bunting, 20 - 30 years old, male. A self-satisfied young man of too much leisure who “hate[s] a woman with ideas.” Engaged to Mabel, enchanted by the Sea Lady, and out of his depth with both.

Adeline Glendower, 20 - 30 years old, female. A serious-minded heiress devoted to helping the less-advantaged. Engaged to Harry, she is intent on making the most of his promise as an MP and her position as his wife. Proud and unromantic, she manages her feelings with less care than her causes, and she keeps them both at a distance.

Mabel Glendower, 20 - 30 years old, female. An unserious, young woman who expects her engagement to Fred to lead to a leisurely life full of flattery and free of thought…until the Sea Lady turns everyone’s head.

Horace Melville, 40 to 60 years old, male. A cousin to the Buntings summoned to manage the disruptive presence of the Sea Lady. Worldly and cool-headed, he is both drawn to and challenged by her allure, her amorality, and promise of another life.

Randolph Bunting, 40 to 65 years old, male. A comfortable man of means and the nominal head of a middling aristocratic family. His chief interest is fishing; his chief pleasure is tea. The arrival of a wealthy immortal distracts from both, uncomfortably.

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.