SHOWCASE
THE HOUSE OF MIRTH (1906)
- Submit Photo / Resume for NYC Appointments
Metropolitan Playhouse (NYC) Tiered Showcase Code; $450 total Equity stipend
Artistic Director/Director: Alex Roe
Adapted by Clyde Fitch, from the novel by Edith Wharton
1st Rehearsals: 3/17/12 – 4/19/12. Performances 4/21/12 – 5/20/12
NYC auditions will be held on March 8 and 9, by appointment only.
For consideration, email, mail or drop off picture and resume to:
Metropolitan Playhouse
220 East 4th Street
New York, NY 10009
casting@metropolitanplayhouse.org
Indicate in the subject line or on envelope: “The House of Mirth Audition Submission”
If given an appointment, actors will be given sides for the auditions, which will be made available on the Metropolitan Playhouse website.
(Interested actors who have already submitted through Actors Access need not submit
again.)
The House of Mirth is Edith Wharton’s novel, adapted by the most prominent playwright of the day, Clyde Fitch. Incautious socialite, Lily Bart is self-possessed enough to abjure the attentions of suitors that bore her, but not willing to pursue a life outside of Society. Earning admirers and enemies both, she ultimately finds herself with only one way forward.
Appreciation for the period manner requisite.
Any Principle but Lily may be asked to double in a smaller role as well.
Lily Bart: 29, Independent and intelligent, but careless and even willfully naïve.
Evelyn Van Osburgh: 20s, ambitious and savvy socialite
Gerty Farrish: 20s, too other caring and earnest for the high society company she keeps
Bertha Dorset: Late 30s-early 40s, manipulative and self-serving social leader
Judy Trenor: 40s, at the top of the social ladder, authoritative and secure
Mrs. Wellington Bry: 50s+, wealthy enough to be above the social fray
Housemaid/Caretaker/Landlady: 20s-50s, three non-union roles
Percy Gryce: 20s Wealthy, earnest, somewhat naïve member of Society
Ned Silverton: 20s - 30s, a feckless poet, happily “kept” by one wealthy woman or another
Lawrence Selden: 30s, charming, detached, and critical of the world he’s a part of
Simon Rosedale: 40s, A social aspirant—too wealthy to be shunned; too eager to be accepted by Society
Augustus Trenor: 40s-50s, The top of the ladder, a self-satisfied master of the stock market
George Dorset: 40s-50s, Accommodating husband of his voracious wife. Hapless and increasingly desperate.
Wellington Bry: 50s-60s, Extremely wealthy and above the social fray. (will be casting Non-union for this role).
Barnes/ Steward/Footman: 20s - 50s (will be casting non-union these roles)
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