Public Theatre, The
CONTRACT
SPT $742 weekly minimum + housing and transportation (SPT 9)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in The Public Theatre 2021-22 Season to include SCREWBALL COMEDY, BE HERE NOW, and DANCING LESSONS (see breakdown).
Actors of every race and ethnicity will be equally considered for all roles.
If the role resonates with you, we urge you to submit yourself.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please submit (email is preferred) your picture and resume with a video of a contemporary monologue, 2 minutes or less. Deadline for submissions is November 18, 2021, at 12:00 noon EST.
Deadline: Thu, Nov 18, 2021
SUBMIT TO
auditions@thepublictheatre.org
The Public Theatre
31 Maple St
Lewiston, ME 04240
PERSONNEL
Viewing auditions :
Co-Artistic Directors Janet Mitchko and Christopher Schario
OTHER DATES
See specific production dates in breakdown.
OTHER
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.
BREAKDOWN
CAST BREAKDOWN 2021-22 SEASON
Actors of every race and ethnicity will be equally considered for all roles. If the role resonates with you, we urge you to submit yourself.
BE HERE NOW by Deborah Zoe Laufer
This is a comedy with a serious underbelly.
Contract Dates: January 3, 2022, thru January 30, 2022
Directed by Christopher Schario
BARI: (THIS ROLE IS CAST) female, 40-60 (Or whatever really). An intelligent, deeply cynical New York professor of nihilism with a dark sense of humor who’s never been in love. Hope and joy are alien experiences that leave her skeptical until a dangerous medical condition connects her to others with a sense of wholeheartedness.
PATTY: Same age as Bari. Outspoken, deeply opinionated, and good hearted. Spending time with her is like visiting your lovable and slightly crazy, small-town aunt, that you love but will eventually drive you crazy. Very protective of Luann.
LUANNE: 20. A simple small-town girl. Very sweet, trusting and innocent with an adolescent exuberance. Also, a little boy crazy.
MIKE: 40s or 60s or whatever. Kind. Empathetic. He is emotionally damaged from surviving a tragic accident that killed his wife and family. The accident left him afraid of connecting too much with others for fear of hurting them as well as suffering more loss. His best friend is a wounded crow that he rescued. He currently makes art out of garbage and is considered a creative genius by the art world.
DANCING LESSONS by Mark St. Germain
This is a complex, funny, and poignant romantic comedy
Contract Dates: February 21, 2022, thru March 20, 2022
Directed by Janet Mitchko
SENGA QUINN: (female) 30’s. A passionate, angry, and deeply frustrated professional dancer desperately wanting to recover from a potentially career-ending injury. A dark sense of humor. Her life is and has always been about her dancing. She is unclear how the rest of her life works when she can’t dance.
EVER MONTGOMERY: (male) mid 30’s. Mildly autistic, his high intelligence and autism informs the way he relates to the world. He is a brilliant professor of geosciences in NYC who is socially clueless and awkwardly persistent. He needs to learn how to dance for an award dinner being held in his honor, however the idea of touching or making eye contact with someone is terrifying to him.
SCREWBALL COMEDY by Norm Foster
This show has the comedic style of the Cary Grant/Rosalind Russell film, His Girl Friday.
Contract Dates: April 11, 2022, thru May 8, 2022.
Directed by Christopher Schario
JEFF KINCAID: 30’s. A star reporter coasting on his reputation who thinks he’s God’s gift to pretty much everyone. In a competition with Mary to see who files the best story. Against all instinct and judgement, he falls for Mary.
MARY HAYES: late 20’s -early 30’s, An aspiring journalist. She is sweet, earnest and extremely competitive. Of course, she falls for Jeff, her rival.
TRACK 1: (male) mid 30-40’s, plays multiple (4) comic roles:
Bosco Godfrey : the gruff newspaper editor ala Perry White in Superman.
Peter Terwilliger : The bon vivant fiancé. A Fortune hunter.
Chauncey Diddle : A seemingly dim-witted mama’s boy, ala Buster in Arrested Development.
Reginald : The world’s most passive/aggressive butler.
TRACK 2: (female) mid 30-40’s, plays multiple (3) comic roles:
Jonesy : The wise-cracking secretary. Keeps the trains running her way in the office.
Delores Diddle : Wealthy, overly grand, narcissistic newspaper owner.
Gloria Fontana : Gorgeous, seductive, manipulative, and without scruples.
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.
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