SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY - NYC EPA
Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey
AUDITION DATE
Fri, Aug 18, 2017
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
SPT SPT Level 5; $ 382 per week
SEEKING
Equity actors for two female roles. Both characters are African-American. See breakdown for more info.
PREPARATION
Sides will be provided for each role at the audition. Sides can also be downloaded in advance at: www.wtnj.org/SGMsides. Please bring a resume stapled to your picture.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Playwright: Chisa Hutchinson; Director Rodney Gilbert, Artistic Director John Pietrowski; Set Design, TBD; Lighting Design, TBD; Costume Design, TBD; Sound Design, Jeff Knapp; Properties, Danielle Pietrowski; Stage Manager, TBD
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal, Tuesday September 5, 2017; Preview, Thursday, September 28, 2017; Opening, Friday, September 29; Closing, Sunday, October 15 2017. Rehearsals Tuesday-Sunday.
OTHER
The play will be rehearsed and performed at Symphony Hall in Newark, NJ. a short distance from the NJ Transit Morris and Essex train line originating at Penn Station NYC. Travel from NYC for rehearsal and performance is reimbursed for train travel only. Please direct all correspondence to auditions@ptnj.org. Copies of the script will be available on the day of the auditions as well as on line at www.ptnj.org.
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity monitor will be provided.
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 attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
ALNEESA:
African-American woman late 20s-early 30s. Barely making it in Newark, and raising her nephew after the death of his mother in a random shooting. She is realistic, but tough; in the play, her resentment results in some violence against her nephew.
BERNADETTE:
Late 60s -early 70s, lunch-lady at a Newark elementary school. Intelligent and tough, outspoken and crotchety, she takes good care of people she things deserves it. She finds out she has been diagnosed with MS in the play.
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 audition.
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