SUMMERR WORKS 2011 Submission - Clubbed Thumb Auditions

SHOWCASE

Summer Works 2011 – Photo / Resume Request

Producer: Clubbed Thumb (NYC) Equity Showcase; $800 total stipend

Casting Director: Alaine Alldaffer

Casting Director: Lisa Donadio

Presented at HERE Arts Center

NYC auditions will be held the week of March 28, 2011, by appointment only.

For consideration, email picture and resume to:
alldaffercasting@gmail.com

Indicate in the subject line: Summer Works 2011 Auditions

Or mail to:

Alaine Alldaffer

c/o Playwrights Horizons

416 West 42nd Street

New York, NY 10036

Attn: SUMMER WORKS

Summer Works 2011 Show:

JARRED

Playwright: Tanya Saracho

Director: Jerry Ruiz

1st Rehearsal: 5/7/11. Tech: 6/3/11- 6/5/11. Performs: 6/5, 6/6, 6/7, 6/9, 6/10, 6/11

Seeking:

Alicia:

Late 20s/ Early 30’s. Latina/Hispana, probably 3rd or 4th generation. There was something really solid and centered about Alicia at one point. She was your reliable friend.

Carolina:

Late 20s/ Early-30s. Latina of Mexican-descent. What one would call a Huppie (Hispanic Yuppie). Fresa-ish tendencies. Great heart. There is a lightness to her presence. Must speak fluent Spanish.

Yesenia:

Late 20s/ Early 30s. Latina of Caribbean descent. Urban. Like, really urban. Born and raised in Chicago. Dresses fresh to death. Fierce. But if you look beneath all the make up, the 5 inch boots and big hair, there is a tom boy in there. Something rough around the edges. (Probably also plays Romina).Must speak fluent Spanish.

Lulu:

20s, mixed race. That just means she’s a hybrid in more than one way. Alicia’s cousin. Nobody knows what she does for a living, yet she manages quite well. A little eccentric. Sometimes this girl doesn’t go outside of her apartment for weeks. Doesn’t have to. There’s peapod. And cable.

Karina/ Cat/ Marta:

These characters all speak fluent Spanish and will be played by the same actress.

Karina:

40 years old. An undocumented, Mexican national. She’s been in Chicago about a decade yet still doesn’t speak much English. She speaks in Nauahtl to her children, the Aztec tongue. Her talent is real.

Cat:

40s. A Hoodoo Rootworker. A conjure woman of the Hoodoo tradition. Lives in Bronzeville (Southside of Chicago) in one of those three flats that have seen better days. Tries to keep her Southern traditions in the urban center, while being a single mom to her daughter Romina. Who’s a smartie.

Marta:

50s. A Cuban national. Left Cuba because of Castro and has never returned, but that’s neither here nor there. She lives in Logan Square, is on a budget and wears a coiffed blond wig with her sweatpants and Betty Boop t-shirt. She loves Betty Boop for some reason. She is loud and boisterous, unless she thinks the neighbors are listening, then she’s back in Havana of 1962.

OUR SERIAL REMAINS

Playwrights: Kristin Newbom & W. David Hancock

Director: TBA

1st Rehearsal: 5/14/11. Tech: 6/10/11- 6/12/11. Performs: 6/12, 6/13, 6/14, 6/16, 6/17, 6/18

Seeking:

Stig:

30s- 40s. Brain damaged, but not in a conventional way. Surprising. the affect of a 14 year old.

Kathy:

Late 30s- Mid 40s. 2 kids, divorced, damaged. The reluctant matriarch of the family.

Alice:

Mid-Late 30s, A searcher, kind of lost. The youngest.

Toby:

Mid 40s. African-American. A wheelchair-bound vet, a big thinker-- or a big reader, anyway.

CIVILIZATION (ALL YOU CAN EAT)

Playwright: Jason Grote

Director: Seth Bockley

1st Rehearsal: 5/20/11. Tech: 6/17/11- 6/19/11. Performs: 6/19, 6/20, 6/21, 6/23, 6/24, 6/25

Seeking:

Mike:

30s- Early 40s. An academic turned management consultant. Zoe's husband.

Zoe:

30s. African-American. An emerging video and film director. Mike’s wife.

Jade:

Early 20s. A troubled girl but not quite as troubled as her mother Carol.

David:

30s. An actor and stand up comedian. Any ethnicity other than Caucasian.

Karen:

30s. A desperate, out-of-work actor. Into New Age stuff. Any ethnicity.