THE EXTINCTION METHOD Equity Principal Audition - Manhattan Theatre Club Auditions

THE EXTINCTION METHOD

– Equity Principal Auditions

Manhattan Theatre Club LORT $1,231/week minimum.

Author: Daniel Goldfarb

Dir: Sam Buntrock

Casting: Nancy Piccione

1st reh: 4/12/11. 1st perf: 5/10. Opens 5/25/11 at the Friedman Theatre. Runs for nine weeks.

Equity Principal Auditions:

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 Roy Arias Studios

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM 300 West 43rd Street, 5th Floor

Lunch from 1 - 2. New York City

Please prepare a brief comedic monologue.

Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.

Annie and Nate have a baby who won’t sleep. Claire and Luke are losing sleep over the decision to get married and start a family. In adjacent Brooklyn Heights apartments, parenthood unfolds and no one will rest until the truth between each of these couples is spoken.

Seeking (both tracks are available (i.e. not yet offered and accepted)):

Claire Desrosier / Annie Saxe:

One actress plays both. Track age: Mid - late 30s. Claire: Actress who was almost a movie star in her 20s. Charming, sophisticated and self-aware. Enjoys her cosmopolitan life, but it’s starting to feel shallow and empty…and her biological clock is ticking loudly. Annie: Recruiter for Proctor & Gamble, on extended maternity leave. Breadwinner and rule-maker of the family. Witty and direct, but so exhausted from lack of sleep that she is losing perspective and her sense of humor. Desperate to get the baby to sleep, and will not be deterred from this new method.

Luke Sean Joy / Nate Hamburger:

One actor plays both. Track age: Mid 30s. Luke: High-end antiques merchant. Stylish, in a professorial way. Aesthete. HBO-watching, sushi-eating Brooklynite. Just coming into his own professionally. Ordered, content in his grown-up urban milieu with Claire, he doesn’t feel an immediate need to have a child. Nate: Actor – formerly a regular on a long-running medical drama. Currently unemployed, and doing his best not to feel self-conscious about it. Humorous, sensitive, a hands-on dad. Likes to bake; hates reality TV. Wants parenting to be a partnership based on instinct – not self-help books.