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APPOINTMENTS
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CONTRACT
SPT $779 weekly minimum (SPT 9)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in The Public Theatre (ME) 2022-23 Season (see breakdown).
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare a two-minute contemporary monologue.
Deadline: Jul 25, 2022
PERSONNEL
Expected to attend:
Christopher Schario, Executive/Artistic Director
Janet Mitchko, Co-Artistic Director
OTHER DATES
Auditions will take place via Zoom from 9:30pm - 5:30pm, Lunch 1 - 2pm pm ET on July 22, 2022. Please note that audition appointments will be scheduled ONLY for Equity members.
See production dates in breakdown.
OTHER
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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
MORNING AFTER GRACE, by Carey Crim
Director: Janet Mitchko
Dates:
1st rehearsal: 8/29/22
First performance 9/16/22
Closing: 9/25/22
SEEKING:
ANGUS: (CAST) Male 70, charismatic, intelligent, opinionated. Discovering his wife’s affair after her death, he sleeps with a total stranger at her funeral. Anger is easier for him than pain.
ABIGAIL: Female. 62. A grief therapist. Attractive, logical, practical, kind, empathetic. She tries her best not to swear. She is navigating life as a divorcee with rocked confidence having recently been traded in for a younger model.
OLLIE: Male. 68 African American. A successful former major league baseball player. Kind, witty, a self-described “bear”. He is a closeted gay man who hasn’t yet come out to his father. He is in a committed relationship and his ailing father may soon need to move in with them.
VICTORIAN LADIES’ DETECTIVE COLLECTIVE, by Patricia Milton
Director: C. Schario
Dates:
1st rehearsal: 10/17/22
First performance: 11/4/22
Closing: 11/13/22
SEEKING:
LOVEDAY FORTESCUE, 45-60. British dialect. A strong intelligent outspoken feminist. Victorian era expectations of women infuriate her. A former actress, she is still very dramatic at heart.
VALERIA HUNTER, 45-60. British dialect. A stubborn widow, she lives with her sister LOVEDAY running a lodging home for women. Were she still married, she would probably be considered a mad cat lady and locked in an attic. Although she may seem “weak” she is capable of violence. Eager to obtain the latest formula of opium tinctures.
KATHERINE SMALLS, late 20’s-30’s. African American or biracial (white/black). Born in Virginia, she is an American actress now performing on the London stage. A confident badass, she has tremendous spunk.
POLICE CONSTABLE CRANE/JASBRY WARHAM-WYNN/ TODDY, THE CAT'S MEAT MAN: British dialect. 40-60. POLICE CONSTABLE CRANE: a plodding London constable who shows deference but can become hostile if provoked. JASBRY WARHAM-WYNN: an arrogant theatrical producer. A smarmy, upper-class poseur. TODDY, THE CAT'S MEAT MAN: a Cockney lower-class butcher. A misogynist with no filter.
PILGRIMS MUSA AND SHERI IN THE NEW WORLD, by Yussef El Guindi
Director. C Schario
Dates:
1st rehearsal 2/13/23
First performance: 3/3/23
Closing: 3/12/23
SEEKING:
MUSA: mid 20’s/early 30’s. Egyptian dialect. A good-natured Egyptian immigrant working as a cab driver. His heart is torn between following the path his parents laid out for him and marrying his proper Muslim fiancé or following his attraction for a wildly improper and appealing New York waitress.
SHERI: early/mid 30’s. A quirky, chatty, somewhat neurotic but likable blue-collar, white American waitress. No filter on her thoughts, her mouth or her heart.
ABDALLAH: 30’s- 40’s. Sudanese dialect. A Sudanese immigrant. A pilgrim on Hajj. Incredibly grateful for the success America has given him.
TAYYIB: 20’s/early 30’s. Somali dialect. A Somali immigrant. Musa’s friend. Jaded and opportunistic, he has a wise-cracking sense of humor and sells suitcases on the streets of Manhattan.
GAMILA: mid 20’s. Musa’s American-born, Egyptian fiancé. Well educated and raised in the United States, she is a modest and modern Muslim woman. Kind, lovely, practical, honest and down-to-earth.
JEEVES AND WOOSTER IN PERFECT NONSENSE, by The Goodale Brothers
Director: J Mitchko
Dates:
1st rehearsal 4/3/23;
First performance 4/21/23
Closing: 4/30/23
SEEKING:
BERTIE WOOSTER: mid 30’s-early 40’s. A joyful, childlike, exuberant, shallow, narcissistic, bachelor and aristocratic bon-vivant. Lucky he’s from money and has a loyal valet who can bail him out of trouble.
JEEVES/GUSSIE FINK-NOTTLE/STIFFY BYNG/MADELINE BASSETT: JEEVES: 40-60 Valet to Bertie. Unflappable. His job is to keep Bertie on the straight and narrow and knows it is a doomed enterprise. SIR WATKYN BASSETT: an intimidating silver-collector and former magistrate. GUSSIE FINK-NOTTLE: a shy nerdy man who studies newts and is engaged to Madeline. STIFFY BYNG: the scheming female ward of Sir Watkyn. MADELINE BASSETT: Sir Watkyn's excessively sentimental daughter
SEPPINGS/AUNT DAHLIA/RODERICK SPODE/BUTTERFIELD/CONSTABLE OATES/ANTIQUE-SHOP PROPRIETOR:SEPPINGS: mid 30-60, Butler to Aunt Dahlia. AUNT DAHLIA: an overbearing loud woman who employs Seppings. RODERICK SPODE: an intimidating villain who works for Bassett. BUTTERFIELD: a polite butler employed by Bassett. CONSTABLE OATES: a local policeman. ANTIQUE-SHOP PROPRIETOR.
ONE OF THE FOLLOWING PLAYS WILL NOT BE PERFORMED. THE NOTICE WILL BE UPDATED WHEN THIS INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL, adapted by Christopher Schario
Director. C Schario
Dates:
First rehearsal:11/28-
Closing: 12/11/22
Auditioning performers will be considered as possible replacements, if necessary.
SEEKING:
This adaptation features a small cast playing multiple roles. All actors perform narration of Dickens’ text, as well as scene work in both British dialect and Standard American. Requires versatile, playful actors who are good with language.
Fred/Marley (CAST), 30’s, British dialect. Happy, idealistic and indomitably upbeat as Fred. Determined and strong willed as Marley
Mrs Cratchit/Ghost of Christmas Past (CAST) 40’s. British Dialect. A grounded, maternal, loving presence with a sense of humor
SCROOGE (CAST) 40-60, British dialect. Cold, stubborn, intimidating, good with language.
THIS WONDERFUL LIFE, by Steve Murray
Director. J Mitchko
Dates:
First rehearsal: 11/28-
Closing: 12/11/22
SEEKING:
TRACK 1, Male 30s to 50s. This track includes a range of characters in this adaptation of the iconic holiday film.
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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