THE GRIEVING PROJECT MUSICAL - Equity video submissions
Open Circle Theatre | Rockville, MD
Guest Artist
$850 weekly minimum (Tier1)
Travel and housing provided for non-local performers.
Equity actors for roles in THE GREIVING PROJECT MUSICAL (See breakdown).
Actors with and without disabilities are encouraged to apply.
SEE BREAKDOWN FOR SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Please submit your headshot, resume and audition video for consideration using the following form: bit.ly/TGPSubmissionForm2.
Deadline: 01/05/2024
Book and Lyrics: Lisa Sniderman
Music: Lisa Sniderman/Aoede and Angelo “Scrote” Bundini and Stewart St John & Michael Plahuta
Director: Suzanne Richard
Accessibility Director: Jessica Wallach
Director of American Sign Language: Michelle Banks
Viewing submissions:
Artistic Director: Suzanne Richard
Playwright/Artist in Residence at Open Circle
Theatre: Lisa Sniderman
In-Person Rehearsals at The Voxel - March 4th through March 8th, 2024
In-Person Performances at The Voxel - Friday, March 8th, Saturday, March 9th, 2024
https://opencircletheatre.org/
Location of Rehearsals and Performances: The Voxel, 9 W 25th Street, Baltimore, Maryland
For Project info:
https://thegrievingproject.com/musical
For Questions, please email: info@thegrievingprojectmusical.com
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.
THE GREIVING PROJECT MUSICAL
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Please submit your headshot, resume and audition video for consideration using the following form: bit.ly/TGPSubmissionForm2.
Please prepare a contemporary monologue and one song.
For the song, given the spoken nature of most of the songs, timing and rhythm will be essential for lead performers. Please choose a current modern Pop/Rock, modern Broadway, or Indie Pop/Rock song of your choosing that shows us both your rhythmic ability and your vocal strengths. For song inspiration, you may look to these Broadway shows: Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen, Kinky Boots, and to these musical performers: Sia, Tori Amos, Beck, Lana Del Rey, Florence & the Machine, Ed Sheeran. If you do not have access to your own accompaniment, you may use any of the following tracks and sheet music:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bcxeNDA2k4UYyklH99cZ3_tLn59RXYEc?usp=drive_link.
PROJECT: The Grieving Project is a spoken word musical about finding your voice, exploring concepts of mental health, transformation, identity, acceptance, grieving and thriving in 14 stages that asks, “How can we live fully and thrive if we don’t grieve?” The Grieving Project is intended to bring live, accessible, immersive, theatrical experiences using multi-media, to those who can’t attend live theater - primarily chronically ill and disabled communities - and to create comparable live and virtual experiences. OCT in collaboration with the playwright, will be producing and pioneering a Proof of Concept (POC), staging and filming two live in-person and online performances - five scenes (about 30 minutes) from the musical, demonstrating innovative and accessible tech, such as projected animations, immersive audio, and a custom digital experience. This POC will pave the way for a future full-staged production.
SYNOPSIS: While the whole world deals with the outbreak of a global pandemic in 2020, Lis, a disabled artist who’s struggled with her own rare chronic illness for twelve years, is stuck in San Francisco: getting blood infusions, with a chronic disease, at home, unable to write new music, and now with a pandemic. . . She desperately needs inspiration to write music again and yearns for her art-her life-to have meaning, purpose, and to be validated and thrive, while homebound. Devoid of inspiration to write a song for emPower Arts Competition, The Grieving Project, Lis meets three other finalists on a Zoom show: thriving artists Danica, Charli, and Brandon, each battling a different physical or mental illness and disability, sending her on an unexpected spiritual quest to find her voice and accept herself. And all must discover what grieving and thriving even mean while struggling with chronic illness, and what happens when we don’t.
Actors with and without disabilities are encouraged to apply. While actors with disabilities or chronic illnesses are encouraged to audition, they are not required to have the same chronic illness as the character they wish to play.
LIS/AOEDE (Female) (35-50) Musician from San Francisco, California, who has a rare progressive muscle disease (Dermatomyositis) and uses cane and walker. Anxious, perfectionist. Overly positive and avoids all negative emotions. (F3-C#5)
DANICA (Female) (25-35) Children’s Book Illustrator from Providence, Rhode Island (New England accent) who has Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and uses wheelchair. Controlling, gregarious. (F3-C5)
CHARLI (Female) (20-35) Painter from Biloxi, Mississippi (Southern accent), who has Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS) and other mixed connective tissue diseases. Affinity towards French language and cooking. (F3-C5). Always has her walls up.
BRANDON (Male) (18-25) Singer-Songwriter from Wichita, Kansas, who has depression, anxiety and PTSD, from the loss of his twin brother. (G#2-B4). Plays guitar.
ENSEMBLE: Ensemble of multiple genders, ethnicities, abilities, Deaf/Hard of hearing, and hearing actors needed.
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