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Seeking
TRANS SCRIPTS celebrates the true stories of seven trans women as told in their own words.
Seeking Equity actors for various roles. Transgender, gender nonconforming, and gender queer actors are encouraged to audition.
Preparation
Please prepare one contemporary monologue. Individuals should look towards material from verbatim pieces, but that is not a requirement.
Bring picture and resume
Other Dates
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, December 27
First Preview: Thursday, January 19
Press/Opening: Thursday, January 26
Closing: Sunday, February 5
Other
There will be an NYC EPA held in later April - date still TBD.
This EPA is focused on actors in the greater Boston community.
www.americanrepertorytheater.org
Personnel
Writer: Paul Lucas
Director: Jo Bonney
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
Email for an appointment at transscriptsauditions.art@gmail.com
AEA members without appointments seen as time permits.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
TRANS SCRIPTS celebrates the true stories of seven trans women as told in their own words. Honest, funny, moving, insightful, and inspiring, these stories shed light not on our differences, but on what all people share, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, or physical sex.
Transgender, gender nonconforming, and gender queer actors are encouraged to audition.
seeking:
Eden:
White Intersex Female, 30s/40s, British. Assigned male at birth, her history was concealed from her by her parents. She has a history of both abused and self-harm. Opinionated, mercurial, and funny, she is a substance abuser and a lesbian. Not comfortable presenting as hyper-feminine, she is extremely androgynous.
Josephine:
White Australian Trans Female, mid-50s, lived as a hyper-masculine man for 50 years. Intelligent, emotionally fragile, self-effacing, nervous, depressed, warm. Her dream is to become a “normal girl and disappear into society. She does not feel entitled to take up space, or even the air in the room.
Luna:
African American and Latina Trans Female, 28. Orphaned at 9, she was raised in a series of group homes before transitioning at 17. Outrageous, warm, and funny, she is an expert “code-switcher,” drawing on her extensive vocabulary one minute and on her street cred the next.
Sandra:
White Trans Female, 65. A former garage mechanic with the soul of a French poet, Sandra underwent a well- supervised, expensive transition at 40. Introspective and measured, her soothing, yet artificial dialect lays like a beautiful shawl draped over the tent poles of a Staten Island accent.
Tatiana:
White Trans Female, late 40s/early 50s, transitioned in her 20s. She is simultaneously arch and endearing, like Julie Newmar as Catwoman. Funny, smart, ribald, and frank, she is somewhat skeptical of the political stance of the younger generation of trans women.
Violet:
British gynecologist, living in Australia, 72. She presented as male her entire life in order to have the career she wanted, transitioning at 68. She is loud, funny and pompous. Her experience in the field makes her simultaneously insightful and detached.
Zakia:
African American Trans Female, 30s, began her transition at 21. Social Worker by day and Beauty Pageant Contestant/ Drag Performer by night. Although glamorous, funny, and deeply religious, she doesn’t take any shit. While her choice of words sometimes belies her intelligence, she is a thoughtful, accomplished woman who stands up for herself in a direct way.
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