THE CONVENT - NYC EPA
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AUDITION DATE
Wed, Jun 13, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1:00-2:00 pm
CONTRACT
Mini $543 weekly minimum
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in THE CONVENT (see breakdown).
PREPARATION
Sides will be provided. Please bring a picture/resume stapled together.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Playwright: Jessica Dickey
Director: Daniel Talbott (expected to attend)
Assistant Director: Ale Mesa (expected to attend)
Executive Producer: Kendra Bator
General Manager: Snug Harbor Productions, Inc. (Steven Chaikelson)
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: 11/26/2018 (break from 12/21/2018 - 1/04/2019)
First Preview:1/16/2019
Opening: 1/24/2019
Closing: 2/17/2019
OTHER
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
JILL (early-mid 30s): Open, naïve, recently left her marriage. Smart, but has trouble with consequences. In the midst of a massive cracking open of her life and her self. On the verge of major change and deeply conflicted.
MOTHER ABBESS (late 50s): Wise, truth-telling, powerful and can definitely cut a bitch, runs the convent as her spiritual platform to raise women’s sense of intrinsic divinity. Has her own darkness to carry.
PATTI (30): Sexy, dark, likes to steal. Damaged, charismatic, truth-telling, manipulative, but also searching for the light and meaning. Deserves to be saved. A propensity for cutting.
WILMA (60): A nun. Frank, earthy, very self-possessed. Not what you’d expect. Very present, authentic. A juxtaposition to all the neurosis and drama around her. Possesses the wisdom that comes from a lot of time alone and silence. Came to the convent because she has lost God.
DIMLIN (40s): From a wealthy British family, but in a way that it makes her orphaned, lives off her trust fund. Deeply codependent with Bertie, in love with her but has no concept that women can be together. Or cannot bear the idea of how that might affect her life. Appears perhaps stuffy, even nosy and prudish, but really is just sheltered.
BERTIE (30s): Younger than Dimlin, sillier, more flirtatious. Raised in a compound. Has nothing of her own. Throughout the play uncovers her own longing to know love, to know sex, to know more of the world.
TINA (25): Raised in southern California, lost, stoner, psoriasis. Slightly immature, has come to the Convent out of a fetish for Renaissance Fairs. A deep longing for her dead mother and to find her place in the world.
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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