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Breakdown
All ages and types. Minorities encouraged. Three festivals and various readings for the 2015 season.
Various roles for 3 festivals and other play readings throughout the year. Roles for Bay Area Playwrights Festival, In The Rough Series, and The 10 Minute Play Festival , plus in house reading for visiting writers.
Please only Bay Area Local Actors. Cannot provide housing.
The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson
Director: Elenor Eldridge
Dramaturg: Karen Piemme
All are French women, All are beautiful, All are about to be beheaded
OLYMPE De Gouges – badass activist playwright and feminist. Theatre nerd, excitable, passionate, a showman.Widowed and never marriedTo ensure her personal freedom. 38
CHARLOTTE Corday – badass country girl and assassin.Very serious, hardened by righteousness,Never been kissed. 25 Also plays FRATERNITE in a mask.
MARIE Antoinette – less badass but fascinating former queen of France. Sweet, graceful, polite,Totally unaware, unintentionally rude. Never had a real friend, 38.Also plays FRATERNITE in a mask.
MARIANNE Angelle– A badass black woman in Paris.She is from the Caribbean, a free woman,Tough, classy, vigilant, the sanest one of them all.She sings. 30sAlso plays FRATERNITE in a mask.
Welcome To Fear City by Kara Lee Corthon
Director: Gamal Chasten
Dramaturg: Christina NR
E – male,18, African American
CHEKY – male18 or 19, African American
NEESY – mid 20s, African American
WANDA – 40, African American
JACQUES – upper teens/early 20s & VAGRANT/ BENJI African American
MISS GERALDINE – 60s at least, African American
BOSS / MAN/ RAT/VOICE, African American
RANDOMITES, African American
Galilee by Christine Evans
Director: Rebecca Novick
Dramaturg: Jayne Wenger
CAROL 21, marine biology major, loves the Great Barrier Reef and the sea. Has taken a year off her studies and moved back home to help her parents out. Works at the Starfish Bar. A restless, quicksilver person who’s in a moment of crisis about her life direction.
MARDY Carol’s mother. Late 40s or early 50s. Runs Hairum Scarem, a hairdresser’s shop—she grew up in Galilee. A generous creative soul who’s struggling financially.
[The actor playing MARDY also plays JEMIMA] JEMIMA A strong, tough-minded fisherwoman. Skipper of her own boat.
JIMMY 45-65 [who really knows?], ex-diver, fish visionary, old-timer in town. An energetic, leathery guy, the kind with skinny legs and outdoor skin who’s sort of freeze-dried at a certain age. Should be on disability but is on the dole [unemployment] instead.
HARRY BLACK A smooth young business man with shark-like attributes. The actor playing HARRY BLACK also plays DENNIS [Carol’s dad, Mardy’s husband]—who has one or two lines from offstage.]
Hooded by Terrance A. Chrisholm
Director: TBC
Dramaturg: Lisa Marie Rollins
Cast Requirements:
Play requires 8 actors (3 Black Male, 2 White Male, 3 White Female) with the following suggested casting:
MARQUIS (14, black, m) / NEW BLACK KID (14, black, m)
TRU (14, black, m)
OFFICER BORZOI (black, m )/ APOLLO (black m)
CLEMENTINE (14, white, f )
PRAIRIE (14, white, f )/ DEBRA (Marquis’ mother, white f )
MEADOW (, 14, white, f )
HUNTER (, 14, white, m )/ HEADMASTER BURNS (white, m)
FIELDER (14, white, m )/ DIONYSUS (white, m )/ CONCERNED CITIZEN (white, m)
#julys by Sam Lahne
Director: Brian Katz
Dramaturg: Christina Nabokov-Ritchey / Dori Jacobs
#CHORUS5 & AVRAM STEINER – m., 16, adopted
#CHORUS1 & CHRISTINA JOHNSON – f., early 40s, Avram’s mother
#CHORUS2 & ANONCORE & LEAH – f., 16, Avram’s classmate
#CHORUS3 & DOUG – m., 30s, Christina’s coworker
#CHORUS4 & CASEY AGENT – m., late 20s - 30s, dumb attractive, FBI Agent
Read to Me by Brendan Pelsue
Director: Christine Young
Dramaturg: Doyle Ott
Tony Hotchkiss, 8. Canny, except about what he does not know––which is lots. Does not have to be played by a male or by an eight year old.
Sam Hotchkiss, 40s. Tony’s father. Not the best man, but a good-enough man, which is the best man anyone can ask for. A coward.
Lawrence, early 20s. A lost young man with a bicycle.
Elmo the Shaman, Over 40. We all know better shamans. We may not know better dreamers.
Nurse. Over 35. She knows the drill. She is also, briefly, “the Voice.”
Abigail Brightman, the oldest woman in Alaska; Alaskan in her isolation and her grandeur.
On a Wonderverse by Greetha Reddy
Director: Jessica Heidt
Dramaturg: Laura Brueckner
Dr. Alpheratz Schen PhD, or Alph, Woman 30, Chinese-American particle physicist. People really want to believe she has Aspergers. But she doesn't.
Dr. Wolfgang Leue PhD, Man 55, German theoretical physicist. Perfect English. Light accent. Political Patronizing [pronounced Loy-uh]
Gilles Bedel, Man 30ish, French computer programmer. Okay English. Immature
Doctor, miscellaneous.
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