STORM THEATRE Equity Principal Auditions - Showcase Auditions

Storm Theatre – Equity Principal Auditions

Seasonal Showcase $356 project stipend

Artistic Dir/Stage Dir: Peter Dobbins

Assoc Artistic Dir: Stephen Logan Day

Equity Principal Auditions:

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Actors' Equity Association Audition Center

Wednesday, March 21, 2012 165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM both days. New York City

Lunch from 1 – 2.

Please prepare a comic monologue (2 minutes or less, contemporary or classical) with good use of language

Please bring a photo and resume, stapled back-to-back.

All roles are available unless otherwise specified. For pre-cast roles, auditioning performers will be considered as possible (emergency) replacements, should any become necessary.

THE PRESIDENT by Ferenc Molnar. Adaptation: Morwyn Brebner. 1st reh: 4/2. Runs 4/27-5/26.

From 1938. The president of a corporation turns a lowly taxi driver into a count within the hour!

Some actors will play more than one character.

George: 20s. His valet.

Lydia: 20s. From Iowa. In Norrison's care.

Miss Perley, Miss Petrovich and Miss Posner: 20s. Tall, beautiful stenographers.

Miss Kuno: Late 20s. Head of the steno pool. Not so tall, not so beautiful.

Menswear Salesman: Early 30s. Obsequious, bearded.

Mr. Osso: Early 50s. Board member of the Norrison Corporation.

Mr. Ciring: Early 50s. Board member of the Norrison Corporation. Health nut.

Mr. Wolf: Early 50s. Board member of the Norrison Corporation. Has an ulcer.

The Count: Early 60s. A janitor, formerly a European count.

Dr. Faber: German, 40s. Norrison's personal physician.

Tailor: Italian or English, 40s. Energetic. Balding.

Miss Hoyngabow: 30s. Unattractive. Businesslike secretary.

Mr. Felix: Mid 40s. Director of an auto company. Answers to Norrison and the Board.

Mr. Armand Colleon: Mid 40s. Works for the State Dept.

Mr. Christian: Early 30s. Works in Media and Public Relations for Norrison.

Mr. Ferdinand: Early 30s. Headwaiter at Hotel Majestic.

Norrison: CAST. Late 40s. Successful and powerful president of the Norrison Corporation.

Bartleby: CAST. 60s. Norrison's chief secretary.

Tony: CAST. 35. Her secret husband. Taxi driver and Communist Party member.

Mr. Pinsky: CAST. Late 30s, early 40s. Lawyer for Norrison.

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by Shakespeare. 1st reh: 5/21. Runs 6/15-30.

Oberon: The king of the fairies.

Titania: The beautiful queen of the fairies.

Lysander: Young man of Athens, in love with Hermia.

Demetrius: Young man of Athens, initially in love with Hermia and ultimately in love with Helena.

Hermia: Egeus’s daughter. Young woman of Athens. In love with Lysander. Helena’s childhood friend.

Egeus: Hermia’s father.

Theseus: The heroic duke of Athens, engaged to Hippolyta.

Hippolyta: The legendary queen of the Amazons, engaged to Theseus.

Philostrate:

Theseus’s Master of the Revels, responsible for organizing the entertainment for the duke’s marriage celebration.

Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Mote, Mustardseed:

The fairies ordered by Titania to attend to Bottom after she falls in love with him.

Peter Quince:

Carpenter. Nominal leader of the craftsmen’s attempt to put on a play for Theseus’s marriage celebration.

Snug: The joiner. Chosen to play the lion.

Puck: CAST. Oberon’s jester, a mischievous fairy who delights in playing pranks on mortals.

Helena: CAST. Young woman of Athens. In love with Demetrius.

Nick Bottom:

CAST. Overconfident weaver chosen to play Pyramus in the craftsmen’s play for Theseus’s marriage celebration.

Francis Flute: CAST. The bellows-mender. Chosen to play Thisbe.

Robin Starveling: CAST. The tailor chosen to play Thisbe’s mother.

Tom Snout:

CAST. The tinker. Chosen to play Pyramus’s father, but ends up playing the part of Wall, dividing the two lovers.