THE STY OF THE BLIND PIG and RED
- Equity Principal Auditions in CT
TheaterWorks Hartford CT SPT $588/week minimum.
Artistic Dir: Steve Campo
Stage Dir (both productions): Tazewell Thompson
CD: Pat McCorkle
Casting Assocs: Joe Lopick, Carter Niles
Equity Principal Auditions:
Thursday, December 1, 2011
11 AM – 3 PM
TheaterWorks
and 233 Pearl Street, 3rd Floor
Hartford, CT 06103
Friday, December 2, 2011
10 AM – 2 PM
No appointment necessary. The producer will run all aspects of this call. Equity audition procedures will NOT be in effect, and no Equity Monitor will be provided.
Sides will be provided at the audition (actors are strongly advised to read the play prior to auditions). Sides will also be posted at
http://www.theaterworkshartford.org/auditions.html. Visually-impaired performers with no Internet access may request an advance copy of sides by calling 860/527-7838.
Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.
THE STY OF THE BLIND PIG by Philip Hayes Dean. 1st reh: 12/27/11. Runs 1/20-2/26.
Set in South Side Chicago, 1955, in a building about to be condemned.
Alberta:
AVAILABLE ROLE. African American, 30s. A spinster. Moody. Lonely. World-weary. Touchy. A biting sense of humor. Opinionated and self-possessed. Attractive and elegant. Sweet. A great talent for writing funeral sermons.
Weedy:
AVAILABLE ROLE. African American woman, 70s. Highly, overbearingly religious. Salty-tongued. Irascible. Manipulative and argumentative.
Doc:
AVAILABLE ROLE. African American man, 50s-60s. A dandy. Sharp dresser of another era. A numbers-playing gambler. Smooth. Manipulative. Weedy’s brother.
Blind Jordan:
CAST. Auditioning performers will be considered as possible (emergency) replacements, should any become necessary. African American man, 30s. Blind. Plays guitar. A street singer. Mysterious visitor. Secretive. Nurturing and strong-willed.
RED by John Logan. 1st reh: 2/28/12. Runs 3/23-5/13.
Set in NYC, in the Bowery studio of Mark Rothko, 1960.
Rothko:
AVAILABLE ROLE. Man, 40s-50s. Abstract expressionist painter. Intense. Brilliant mind. Genius. Self-destructive. Fiercely opinionated. Egotistical. Anguished. Angry.
Ken:
Caucasian, 20s. Protégé and assistant of Rothko. Cool. Subtle. Bright. Ambitious. Smart.
Theatre’s statement: “We consider actors of all races and ethnicities.”
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