SWEAT **Updated** Submission - Savannah Repertory Theatre Auditions

SWEAT - EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS

Savannah Repertory Theatre

**UPDATED** Deadline extended to July 30. Description of the role of Oscar updated.

CONTRACT

SPT $354 weekly minimum (Category 3 - pending approval)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in SWEAT (see breakdown).

INSTRUCTIONS

SEE BREAKDOWN FOR PREPARATION. Send video submissions using an unlisted YouTube or Vimeo link ONLY, no attachments. If you don’t have access to these platforms we can provide you a shared drive to upload to. Links such as WeTransfer or DropBox will not be opened. Please include a headshot and resume as pdf attachments to your email when submitting; links such as Google Drive or Backstage will not be opened. Deadline is July 23rd, 2021 by 8pm EDT.

Deadline: July 30, 2021

SUBMIT TO

casting@savannahrep.org

PERSONNEL

Director: April Jones (viewing auditions)
Executive Artistic Director: Ryan McCurdy (viewing auditions)
Managing Director: Jennifer Bishop (viewing auditions)
Professor of Theatre at Armstrong: Ms. Pamela Zeigler Sears (viewing auditions)
Professor of Technical Theatre at Armstrong & Student Liaison: John Wright
Author: Lynn Nottage
Director: April Jones
Stage Manager: Jennifer Bishop

OTHER DATES

First Rehearsal: September 7th, 2021
Open: September 23rd, 2021
Close: October 3rd, 2021

Live, inside, in-person, with audience 8 performances - Both performance weeks: Thursday/Friday/Saturday at 8pm and Sunday at 3pm

OTHER

The Rep is not EMC eligible.

CoProduction between SAVANNAH REPERTORY THEATRE & GSU ARMSTRONG CAMPUS THEATRE DEPARTMENT

Venue: Jenkins Hall/Armstrong Campus

Savannahrep.org | cah.georgiasouthern.edu/commarts/majors/theatre/armstrong-campus-theatre

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.

BREAKDOWN

PREPARTATION INSTRUCTIONS:
Video recording sides from the show are available here - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kHdzoQxHNC5SDcxELhDjzcCLwzmRmEZY?usp=sharing. If you don not have someone to read scenes with you, the option preferred is only reading the side that is already a monologue or a scene that can be easily cut/read as a monologue is good. Slate your name and which part you are reading for. We ask you to only read for one role in your audition.

Ethnicities and genders are as described by Lynn Nottage in the script. All characters were born in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Dual ages represent the time change between 2000 and 2008.

NOTE: Students from Armstrong/GSU theatre department encouraged to submit for the roles of Jessie, Jason, Chris, Oscar, and Evan.

CYNTHIA – African-American (ages 45 & 53) Female. Started at the plant as a teenager. She and Tracey have been best friends ever since. Strong, Driven. Loyal friend. Soft heart for family.

TRACEY – White American of German descent (45 & 53) Female. Presents as a strong, loyal friend. Secure in her community. Becomes frightened and antagonistic. Started at the plant straight out of high school, her life is the factory. Her friendship with Cynthia is complicated by her own unconscious racial bias.

STAN – White American of German descent (50s) Male. Has a limp. Peacemaker. Wise anchor of the community. Requires participation in stage combat.

BRUCIE – African-American (40s) Male. Former factory worker now struggling with addiction. Disheveled.

JESSIE – Italian-American (40s) Female. Heavy drinker who is disillusioned with the path her life has taken. Factory worker, dresses provocatively.

JASON – White American of German descent (21 & 29) Male. Son of Tracey. Blue-collar worker. Small town mentality. Anger fueled by victimhood. Requires participation in stage combat. NOTE: For scenes in 2008, the role of JASON will require wearing makeup indicating white-supremacist face tattoos.

CHRIS – African-American (21 & 29) Male. Son of Cynthia. Ambitious, open-minded. Loyal friend. Warm-hearted toward family. Requires participation in stage combat.

OSCAR – Latin American (22 & 30) Male. Working class. Observant. Waiting for his break in life.
Requires participation in stage combat.

EVAN – African-American (40s) Male. Parole officer. Weary yet professional. Trying to make a difference.

SYNOPSIS: The play portrays a meeting between a parole officer and two ex-convicts, and three women who were childhood friends and had worked in the same factory. The action takes place in a fictional bar in Reading, Pennsylvania. Filled with warm humor and tremendous heart, SWEAT tells the story of a group of friends who have spent their lives sharing drinks, secrets, and laughs while working together on the factory floor. But when layoffs and picket lines begin to chip away at their trust, the friends find themselves pitted against each other in a heart-wrenching fight to stay afloat.

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.