University of Pittsburgh
Guest Artist
$621 weekly minimum (Tier 3) - URTA as paymaster
Equity actors for roles in SEVEN GUITARS (see breakdown).
Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh casts both Equity and non-Equity actors.
Please prepare two (2) monologues in contrasting styles. Please limit each monologue to a maximum of two (2) minutes. Submit digital submissions to this Google Form:
https://forms.gle/Vuk5hGkuY3CYYj1S9
Deadline: Mon, Dec 12, 2022
Author: August Wilson
Director: KJ Gilmer
Rehearsals: January 10 - February 9, 2023
Tech rehearsals: February 11-17, 2023
Opening: February 18
Closing: February 26
**Rehearsals will be evenings and weekends
This play contains adult themes, strong language and profanity, racial oppression, discussion of the Bible, Christian/God, death, choreographed physical violence and sex, and intimacy, an intimacy and fight choreographer will be retained.
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.
FLOYD: 30’s, Black. An aspiring Blues singer and guitar player, Floyd “Schoolboy” returns to Pittsburgh at thirty-five years old with a hit song and an opportunity to record a record back in Chicago. In the time since the recorded the initial song, Floyd has squandered the flat fee he received for recording, left his girlfriend (Vera) for another woman, was then left by the other woman, pawned his guitar, and spent ninety days in jail after being arrested while walking home from his mother’s funeral. After a year of trials and tribulations, Floyd wants to return to Chicago with Vera, his guitar, and a new sense of self. He is ready to “live with” not “live without” Unfortunately, the lengths he is willing to go to, to make his dreams happen, become his undoing. This role has violence and intimacy.
CANEWELL: 30s. Black. A man from the country with traditional values. He had to learn street smarts. He is an edgy, quick-tempered harmonica player, who’s tired of playing back-up in life for Floyd. He made the trip with Floyd to Chicago for the first time and regrets it. Wary, and dissatisfied, thinks he knows best. He loves Vera. He and Red Carter are Floyd’s closest friends.
RED CARTER: 30s, Black. Floyd’s drummer migrating from Alabama. A slick and citified ladies' man who is also laid-back, practical, steady, and balanced. He and Canewell are Floyd’s closest friends. This character is a smoker.
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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