THE STY OF THE BLIND PIG and RED Equity Principal Auditions - TheaterWorks Auditions

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.”