TRAVESTIES Equity Principal Audition - Roundabout Theatre Company Auditions

TRAVESTIES - NYC EPA

Roundabout Theatre Company

AUDITION DATE

Wed, Sep 13, 2017

10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)

Lunch 1:30 to 2:30

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep LORT A+. $1520/week

SEEKING

Equity actors for 2 available roles and also understudies.

PREPARATION

Sides from the play will be provided at the audition. Refer to the character descriptions in breakdown for appropriate Dialects. Bring picture and resume.

LOCATION

Ripley-Grier Studios (520)

520 8th Ave

New York, NY 10018-6507

16th floor

PERSONNEL

Tom Stoppard, playwright; Patrick Marber, director; Jim Carnahan, casting

One of the following Casting Directors will be in attendance: Jillian Cimini, Peter Van Dam, Mike Miller

OTHER DATES

First Rehearsal 2/27/18; First Performance 3/29/18; Opening 4/24/18; Max Run 7/1/18. American Airlines Theatre

OTHER

EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.

An Equity monitor will be provided.

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 attend every audition.

Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.

BREAKDOWN

The following roles have been CAST
HENRY CARR – Tom Hollander
JAMES JOYCE – TBA
TRISTAN TZARA – TBA
LENIN – TBA
CECILY – TBA
GWENDOLEN – TBA

SEEKING THE FOLLOWING:
All character are of any ethnicity

BENNETT
40’s – 50’s. Henry Carr’s well informed longtime butler. Should have a strong presence. English accent.

NADYA
50’s – Early 60’s. Lenin’s wife. She is agitated by the news of the impending Russian revolution. Character speaks predominantly in Russian. When speaking English she uses an American accent.

ONE MAN to COVER the following
(male, late 40s-50s)

• HENRY CARR: The central character and narrator of the play, a British consulate officer who disjointedly reminisces his experiences living in Zurich during the First World War. Plays both the present day version of himself, an elderly, fuddled man, and the younger version in his elegant and dapper youth. English accent.

ONE MAN to COVER the following:
(early 30s-early 40s)

• TRISTAN TZARA: A charming, flamboyant, Romanian poet and artist. One of the leaders of the Dada movement. English accent.
• JAMES JOYCE: An Irish modernist writer at work on his novel Ulysses. Incredibly intellectual and prudent. Excellent Irish accent and some singing and dancing required.

ONE MAN to COVER the following
(40’s –50’s)

• LENIN: The Russian communist revolutionary just before the revolution. At the time of this play he is writing his book on Imperialism, in Zurich. Impassioned, dynamic, and described by Carr as having “a complex personality, enigmatic, magnetic.” American accent.
• BENNETT (see above description)

ONE WOMAN to COVER
(30s)

• CECILY: An attractive young librarian in Zurich with a revolutionary attitude toward politics and art. She marries Henry Carr and also appears as her eighty-year-old self. Singing required. English accent.
• GWENDOLYN: Henry Carr’s younger sister and James Joyce’s secretary. Attractive and smart, with a personality to be reckoned with. Singing required. English accent.
• NADYA: (see above description)

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 audition.