THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST – EPAs by Appointment
White Plains Performing Arts Center (White Plains, NY) (LOA Equity Contract - $309/week)
Written by: Oscar Wilde
Producing Artistic Director: Jeremy Quinn
Director: David Murray Jaffe
First Rehearsal: 3/18/13. Rehearses M-F from 4pm-10pm, Saturday 3/23 (10-6 pm).
Tech: 3/30 – 4/4
Runs: 4/5-4/14 (3-4 perfs/week)
Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT:
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at White Plains Performing Arts Center
10 AM – 6 PM 11 City Place, 3rd Floor (City Center)
Lunch from 1:30 – 2:30 pm White Plains, NY 10601
(Right next to the movie theatre. Directions:
www.wppac.com)
For an appointment, e-mail
auditions@wppac.com - or call 914/328-1600, x18 (M-F, 11-5 pm) Include name, phone #, approximate time you’d like to audition, audition date requested, and union status. Equity Members without appointments will be seen throughout the audition days, as time permits. Once you have been given an appointment time, it will be confirmed by email along with very detailed driving and mass transit directions using Metro-North from Grand Central. Please allow at least 48 hours for audition appointment confirmation.
Prepare a 2-minute or less pre-1950 comic monologue with British dialect (Received Pronunciation) that best represents your “type” and/or role(s) you may be right for in the show. See complete character breakdown below for more information on all roles. Something from the play is fine.
Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.
OPEN Auditions (Equity and non-Equity actors) by APPOINTMENT:
Monday, March 4, 2013 at White Plains Performing Arts Center
12 PM – 6 PM 11 City Place, 3rd Floor (City Center)
AND White Plains, NY 10601
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 (Right next to the movie theatre. Directions:
www.wppac.com)
4 PM – 10 PM
For an appointment, e-mail
auditions@wppac.com - or call 914/328-1600, x18 (M-F, 11-5 pm) Include name, phone #, approximate time you’d like to audition, audition date requested, and union status. Equity Members without appointments will be seen throughout the audition days, as time permits. Once you have been given an appointment time, it will be confirmed by email along with very detailed driving and mass transit directions using Metro-North from Grand Central. Please allow at least 48 hours for audition appointment confirmation.
Prepare a 2-minute or less pre-1950 comic monologue with British dialect (Received Pronunciation) that best represents your “type” and/or role(s) you may be right for in the show. See complete character breakdown below for more information on all roles. Something from the play is fine.
Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.
Callbacks: 3/7, 4:00-10:30 PM. Actors will be notified if they are expected to return for callbacks. Sides will be sent as an email attachment with callback confirmation. Be EXTREMELY familiar with the play and ready to make strong, intelligent choices if you are called back.
Seeking: All roles are open/available
Jack Worthing: Mid 20s—mid 30s. Seemingly responsible gentleman who leads a double life. In love with Gwendolen.
Algernon Moncrieff: Mid 20s—mid 30s. Decorative bachelor and friend to Jack. Has a fictional friend named Bunbury who has health problems.
Rev. Chasuble: 50s and up. A Victorian country vicar with eyes for Miss Prism.
Lane/Merriman: 30s—60s. Traditional English menservants, one city, one country. Hoping to cast these two roles with one creative actor.
Lady Bracknell: 50s and up. Imposing dowager and protectress of the Victorian upper class. Aunt to Algernon and mother to Gwendolen. We would carefully consider casting a man in this role but encourage both women and men to audition.
Gwendolen Fairfax: Mid 20s—early 30s. Algernon’s cousin, Lady Bracknell’s only child. In love with Jack, whom she knows as “Ernest,” a name she insists her husband must have. Her mother’s daughter.
Cecily Cardew: Early—mid 20s. Jack’s ward, who lives at his country estate. Vivid imagination, a bit obsessive---yet grounded, at least compared to pretty much everybody else in the play.
Miss Prism: 50s—60s. Cecily’s pedantic governess. Entertains barely hidden romantic feelings for Dr. Chasuble.
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