Call Type
Equity Principal
Date of Audition
7/17/2011
Location
LATC
514 S. Spring St
Los Angeles, CA 90013
eh Rm 4A. Checkin with guard at front door. Public Parking Main St. & 6th.
Time(s)
Sunday, July 17th
10am-5:40pm
Lunch 3-3:40pm
Sign-in begins at 9am
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will be provided.
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Contract
LORT Non-Rep
$566/wk
Seeking
Actors for In the Wake and the world premiere of Tortilla Curtain - please see breakdown.
Preparation
2 Contrasting monologues under 3 min total.
Casting Director: Jessica Bird
Other Dates
Tortilla Curtain
Rehearsals Begin: February 21, 2012
Performance Dates: March 17-April 8
In the Wake
Rehearsals Begin: January 17, 2012
Performance Dates: February 11-March 4
Other
www.sdrep.org
Personnel
Tortilla Curtain
By Matthew Spangler
Directed by Sam Woodhouse
In the Wake
by Lisa Kron
Directed by Delicia Turner-Sonnenberg, Artistic Director of Moxie Theatre
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Tortilla Curtain
About the Play
In the sun-bleached hills outside Los Angeles, the lives of three people are on a collision course. Delaney Mossbacher, nature writer and staunch environmentalist, lives a tidy, comfortable existence with his wife and toddler stepson behind the walls of a gated hilltop community. Cándido and América Rincón, recently arrived undocumented immigrants from Mexico, camp at the bottom of a local canyon, fight the elements, and tirelessly mow lawns and clean houses while they save for an apartment. One summer day, Delaney, driving up the narrow, twisty canyon road as he returns home from his weekly trip to the recycling center, hits Cándido with his car. Their lives will never be the same. Part comic satire and part parable on the price of the American dream, Tortilla Curtain is a fast-paced epic for our times.
In the Wake
About the Play
Lisa Kron’s new play, The Wake, follows a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown: Type-A journalist Ellen, whose certainty about politics and love gets blown out of the water. It’s Thanksgiving of 2000 and the presidential election still has not been decided. Ellen insists that her friends and family don’t understand how bad the situation really is. But no one -- not her loving partner, Danny, nor the passionate Amy, nor the brutally pragmatic and world-weary Judy -- can make Ellen see the blind spot at the center of her own politics and emotional life. A funny, passionate, and ultimately searing new play that illuminates assumptions that lie at the heart of the American character - and the blind spots that mask us from ourselves.
Tortilla Curtain:
DELANEY MOSSBACHER male, Caucasian, late 30s. Nature writer, lives in Arroyo Blanco, a well-off housing development in Topanga Canyon, CA.
CANDIDO RINCON male, Mexican, mid 30s. An undocumented immigrant from Tepoztlan, Mexico that lives in the canyons of Topanga Canyon, CA. He and America have come to California to find a better life. Must be fluent in Mexican Spanish and English.
AMERICA female, Mexican, 17-early 20s. Very pretty. An undocumented immigrant from Tepoztlan, Mexico that lives in the canyons of Topanga Canyon, CA. She is pregnant with Candido’s baby and has run away from her family in Mexico to find a better life in California with Candido. Doubles as Resurrección, Candido’s wife and America’s older sister. Must be fluent in Mexican Spanish and English.
In the Wake:
ELLEN mid 30s, ethnicity 0pen. East Coast political intellectual.
KAYLA mid 30’s, ethnicity open. Irish Catholic. Aspiring writer. Danny’’s sister. Ellen’s best friend. Laurie’
LAURIE mid 30’s, Caucasian. Kayla’s wife. Chef and homemaker. Tessa compares her to Ellen Degeneres.
AMY mid 30s, ethnicity open. Experimental/art film-maker. Warm open heart. Ellen’s lover. Falls in and out of love easily. Ellen is an exception.
JUDY mid 50s, Caucasian. International aid and human rights worker. Close friend of Ellen. Strong. Broke the negative cycle of her family.
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