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Seeking
Equity actors, men and women, for the 2013-14 season plays.
see breakdown
Preparation
1) to read 1 or more scenes from the season’s plays; OR
2) perform 1 or more monologues of choice; OR
3) or prepare a combination of scene(s) & monologues(s) from other sources.
Theatre suggests if not preparing a scene from a play, then prepare 2 contrasting monologues
Other Dates
EPA for the season musicals will be held 6/12, 9am to 5pm, same location. See separate notice
Other
Bring picture/resume stapled together
Scripts are available for perusal at the StageSource office, 88 Tremont Street
Personnel
Producing Artistic Director: Paul Daigneault
General Manager/Production Manager: Paul Melone
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
For an Equity appointment, please email
auditions@speakeasystage.com (preferred) or call
(617) 482-3279. Please be sure to include a contact phone number and email, Equity status, and the hour during which you would like to be seen. You will receive an email or phone call confirming your audition time. Equity Members without appointments will be seen throughout the audition day, as time permits.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
2013-2014 Season Dramas with available roles:
TRIBES
By Nina Raine
Director: M. Bevin O’Gara
Dates: September 13 – October 12, 2013.
Note: This is a family of highly intelligent egomaniacs. They are insular and tight nit. That being said, they argue because they love one another deeply and while they are often unable to recognize each other’s pain or are unequipped to deal with it, there is the desire to try. Love is at the center of the family dynamic. And while they are not religious, they are culturally Jewish.
Beth (Female– 55-65): – Wife of Christopher and mother to Billy, Ruth & Daniel. She is sensitive and empathetic to the complexities of her children’s lives, but oblivious to the real issues. Enjoys having adult children whom she can relate to, but she could have possibly always treated them as adults. She is attempting to redefine herself as a mystery writer.
Ruth (Female– 25-30): Billy’s older sister. Like the rest of her family she is struggling with self-identity. Typical middle child. Self-aware; perhaps the most self-aware of the entire family (in a way only a 20 year old can be). At present she thinks of herself as an opera singer.
Christopher (Male– 55-65): Billy, Ruth and Daniel’s father. He would probably like to think of himself as liberal or at the very least “open-minded”, but in reality things are very black and white to him. He’s a writer and an academic. He loves his children, but wants all of them to be things they aren’t. He has spurned the deaf community
Billy (Male- 20-30): Deaf since birth. Brought up Oral. Wears hearing aids. He meets Sylvia who teaches him to sign, opening him up to a world he never knew before. Sheltered. Considerate. A gentle spirit.
Sylvia (Female– 25-35): Born with hearing but now rapidly going deaf. While she hasn’t wanted to let someone in, she falls for Billy. While Billy might see her as a vibrant new light in his life the rest of the family sees her as “nice and funny”. Experience with ASL and the piano a PLUS.
Daniel (Male– 25-35): Billy and Ruth’s brother. A pot head. Emotional. Uncomfortable with change. He has always defined himself in reference to being Billy’s big brother, once Billy starts to find himself Daniel is unable to cope with the loss and his depression and childhood stutter return.
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MAKE UP YOUR MIND
By: Kurt Vonnegut
Assembled Nicky Silver
Director: Cliff Fannin Baker
Dates: November 1 – 30, 2013.
ROLAND STACKHOUSE (Male – 40s-50s): The creator of Make Up Your Mind Inc. An insecure fellow. Nice-looking and personable, ambitious but badly educated.
KAREN FINCH (Female – 50s): A very wealthy, attractive, seemingly elegant woman, innocent despite a harrowing life. She is surprisingly uneducated and kind. This role has been cast; actors may audition for possible replacement.
GEORGE STACKHOUSE (Male – 60s-70s): Roland’s father, a curmudgeon. Also uneducated. A self-declared marriage counselor.
OTIS FLETCHER (Male – 50s-70s): A customer, somewhat more erudite than the others. A Harvard-educated chain smoker, the son of a president of the Chase Manhattan Bank, who has pissed away his inheritance without ever having held any sort of a job, or having accomplished much of anything.
KURT VONNEGUT (Male – 60s): A writer. May be played by the same actor as Fletcher.
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THE WHALE
By: Samuel D. Hunter
Director: David R. Gammons
Dates: March 7 – April 8, 2014.
CHARLIE (Male – Early-Mid 40s): A morbidly obese man (somewhere around 650 lbs) who is dying of congestive heart failure throughout the play. He’s been wasting away for years, ever since giving up on himself since the death of his partner. But however awful his life has become, he has put all of his hopes and optimism on his daughter, who he hasn’t seen in 17 years. A very insightful, intelligent, well-educated man who is sensitive, gentle, and thoughtful. Actors of all physical types should audition. This role has been cast; actors may audition for possible replacement.
LIZ (Female – Mid-Late 30s): Charlie’s best friend. A nurse who would like to think of herself as very hardened, but she’s not. She’s masking a huge amount of emotional depth, and she’s constantly trying to shove her feelings down into herself. She’s brash, stern, and loud, but pretty sensitive on the inside.
ELDER THOMAS (Male – 19): Auditioning performers will be considered as possible (emergency) replacements, should any become necessary. 19. Male. A Mormon missionary who happens upon Charlie just as he has his first cardiac episode. A somewhat naïve, innocent young man who just wants to see Mormonism help one person before he ends his mission. He makes a big effort to be a good Mormon boy, but underneath it all he’s a normal disaffected, pot-smoking Midwestern teenager.
ELLIE (Female – 17): Charlie’s daughter whom he hasn’t seen since she was a baby. A deeply intelligent, deeply cynical teenager who feels—probably accurately—that she is always the smartest person in the world. Very manipulative and shrewd, has convinced herself that she doesn’t care about her ailing father. Never valley-girl or sarcastic and eye-rolling, Ellie doesn’t say things to be mean, she says them because they are true.
MARY (Female – Early-Mid 40s): Ellie’s mother. Charlie’s ex-wife, who has also not seen Charlie in 17 years. A hardened alcoholic who has been there, done that. A woman who has made a lot of bad choices, but feels that she has done the best she can given the cards she was dealt.
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Theatre’s statement: “SpeakEasy Stage Co. shall not practice discrimination against any Actor on the basis of race, color, creed, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, political persuasion or belief, age or disability of such Actor. SpeakEasy Stage Co. adheres to the Non Traditional Casting policy of Actors’ Equity Association.
Directions / more info:
www.speakeasystage.com.
Theatre’s mailing address: SpeakEasy Stage Co. 539 Tremont St. Boston, MA 02116.
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