TRIBES – Equity Principal Auditions
Off-Broadway $544/week minimum.
Producers: Scott Morfee, Jean Doumanian, Tom Wirtshafter & Patrick Daly
Dir: David Cromer
Playwright: Nina Raine
GM: Amy Dalba & Michael Page
CD: Pat McCorkle
Casting Assocs: Joe Lopick, Carter Niles
1st reh: 1/17/12. 1st preview: Mid-February. Opens 3/4 for open-ended run at the Barrow Street Theater.
Equity Principal Auditions:
Monday, November 28, 2011 Actors’ Equity Association Audition Center
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM 165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor
Lunch from 1 – 2. New York City
A certified ASL translator will be provided from 2 – 5:30. A reader who is fluent in ASL will be present for the entire day.
Sides will be provided at the auditions. Note that both Billy and Sylvia speak/voice in their sides. Both sides also involve signing (which is welcome at the audition, but not required).
Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.
Seeking (all roles are available):
Billy:
20s. Deaf. Christopher and Beth’s youngest child. Born deaf to a hearing family. Never learned to sign because his family didn't want him to grow up feeling deaf, although by doing this they made him feel like an outcast in his own home. He is strong-willed and confident, yet sensitive. Doesn't consider himself to be disabled, and becomes fluent in ASL over the course of the play. Trying to find where he fits in the world.
Sylvia:
20s. Going deaf. Born hearing to deaf parents. Grew up signing and being a part of the deaf community. Struggling with losing her hearing, she believes that it is much worse to lose your hearing after having it than never having it at all. She is able to hold her own, and doesn't want to lose her ability to connect with the world. Believes that sign language is an extension of who you are as a person.
Christopher:
50s-60s. Billy's father. A charismatic and attractive writer and intellectual who believes he is thinking and living outside and above the box, when in truth he is confined by his own superiority. He believes arguing is effective communication. Never made an effort to learn sign, and feels he doesn't need to. He has a combative, robustly argumentative relationship with his children.
Beth:
50s-60s. Billy’s mother. Incredibly empathetic to everyone around her. Wants to do the best for her children, but sometimes lets her husband’s overbearing nature override her intentions. Writing a “marriage breakdown detective novel”.
Daniel:
Late 20s. Christopher and Beth's oldest child. Angry and argumentative. Wants to show his father that he is his intellectual equal by writing a thesis, but has chosen the wrong way to prove himself. Hears voices in his head, and has to take antidepressants. He feels a strong connection to Billy, and starts to crumble when Billy pulls away from the family.
Ruth:
Mid 20s. Christopher and Beth’s middle child. Feels like she bores her father by having other interests than he does. Pursuing being an opera singer. Argumentative and egotistical, but entertaining.
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