Vanguard Arts Fund Developmental Workshops 2023-24 Season Equity Actors - Olney Theatre Corporation Auditions

Vanguard Arts Fund Developmental Workshops 2023-24 Season - Equity video submissions

Olney Theatre Corporation | Olney, MD

Notice: Submission

CONTRACT

COST

$612.75 weekly minimum (Developmental Workshop)

SEEKING

Equity actors for principal roles in Olney Theatre Center's 2023-24 Season (see breakdown).

Olney Theatre Center is committed to hiring actors who reflect the diversity of our world; we are actively seeking actors of all backgrounds, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

See preparation instructions in breakdown. Email your headshot/resume and video submission.

Deadline: 09/04/2023

SUBMIT TO

imartinko@olneytheatre.org

PERSONNEL

Olney Artistic Staff:

Artistic Director: Jason Loewith

Senior Associate Artistic Director: Hallie Gordon

Associate Artistic Director/Director of Music Theater: Christopher Youstra

Casting Consultant: Jenna Place

Director of Curated Programming: Kevin McAllister

Viewing Auditions:

Senior Associate Artistic Director: Hallie Gordon

Casting Director: Irene Martinko

See breakdown for production-specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

www.olneytheatre.org

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 submit.

PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Please prepare one of the following options:

1.) A brief cut of a song (either with the provided accompaniment or of your own choosing) and a 1- minute Monologue

2.) 2 Contrasting 1-Minute Monologues

3.) 2 Contrasting 32-Bar Cuts (either with the provided accompaniment or of your own choosing)

Vanguard Arts Fund Developmental Workshops (Olney Theater Center) EPA - Accompaniment and sheet music links:

HISTORY OF WRONG GUYS Cut Sheet Music:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f-s4XiROMSuZVZqoSbONmPKO-TEuoTcU/view?usp=sharing

HISTORY OF WRONG GUYS Cut Accompaniment Track:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qAJOSE6pXbKEo0ZhsBxvuipRdpuFwGHQ/view?usp=sharing

A CHANGE IN ME Cut Sheet Music:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZC6VRITi6JSzbKcLzwDh47NIaVcih1-W/view?usp=sharing

A CHANGE IN ME Cut Accompaniment Track:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yjrn05eGoyTZUFZgzeQOQuzXvxQI5wYi/view?usp=sharing

SOUL OF A MAN Cut Sheet Music:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mw2sUf0o3BUrJ2L1dDxF1APYFUhPB-M8/view?usp=sharing

SOUL OF A MAN Cut Accompaniment Track:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/11_nf-xUMRLqAp2NidyQlhNI4U7yyuQCp/view?usp=sharing

ME Cut Sheet Music:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ldVXQW-zZ92YcviN0tdnlPRSks-9ibqO/view?usp=sharing

ME Cut Accompaniment Track:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10RkUp5MJg5VDVO_DXHW99sRO_kdYE892/view?usp=sharing

THE GIFTED PRINCE (WORKSHOP)

Book and Lyrics by: Lezlie Wade

Music by: Daniel Green

Director/Choreographer: Darren Lee

Rehearsals: October 9-13, 2023

SYNOPSIS: During a 5-day workshop, we will work on the development of this new musical. Inspired by Chinese folklore and based on Lloyd Alexander’s award-winning novel, The Gifted Prince follows a young Prince’s quest to save his kingdom with the help of a powerful shaman. The musical, starting from western music-theater tradition, quickly morphs into a multi-media, multicultural performance featuring shadow puppets, eastern choreographic forms and cutting-edge projection technology. The workshop, led by director/choreographer Darren Lee, aims to bring together puppets, projections and live performers for the first time in several key musical numbers.

SEEKING:

Performer 1: AAPI, Male-presenting, age is flexible, portrays multiple roles, musically and vocally strong.

Performer 2: AAPI, Female-presenting, age is flexible, portrays multiple roles, musically and vocally strong.

Performer 3: AAPI, Male-presenting, age is flexible, portrays multiple roles, strong mover, familiar with storytelling through movement.

Performer 4: AAPI, Male-presenting, age is flexible, plays multiple roles, strong mover, familiar with storytelling through movement.

BUILT FOR THIS (workshop)

Music and Lyrics by: Kira Stone

Book by Lauren Gunderson

Director: TBD

Rehearsals: March of 2024, dates TBD

SYNOPSIS: In a workshop that is up to 6 days in total, we will work on the development of this new musical. The fierce world of competitive gymnastics is not for the faint of heart, and young people on the path to the Olympics face a level of pressure that many would not be able to endure. Set just months before Olympic doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse was exposed to the world, this feminist pop musical features five young gymnasts who must navigate their youth, ambition, athleticism, and

the people who would try to take advantage of them. Conceived from interviews with gymnast survivors, non-profits, lawyers, and the judge who tried the case, this show offers these young gymnasts a platform to speak their truth as they stand up to a man and a system seemingly determined to own them. Up until now, the development of this musical has been entirely virtual and long-distance, and the Vanguard Arts Fund workshop will mark the first time that the team is able to collaborate in person.

SEEKING:

QUEEN - 20, the oldest, most experienced, but also the oldest isn’t necessarily the best. She’s aging out of the sport already. Too many injuries. Never yet achieved what she wants to, Queen used to be the bright star, sees herself in her

BRIGHT STAR - 14 youngest and most determined, idolizes her older teammates but also wants to topple them and be the best. Ambitious, limitless, only child syndrome, type A, high achiever, internally: I WILL win, I have to, and I’m going to make it look easy, need for praise and affirmation and validation, with the recognition of abuse, the accepting of imperfection. Also harboring a secret eating disorder and suffers massive body dysmorphia.

STEEL - 17, Doesn’t talk much but is fierce AF. Gets shit done mentality, very “middle child” energy. Family has put everything into her career (w/ less resources). They are depending on her. Her sister is in the Army, misses her, massive external pressure.

TIGER - 17 Goofy as shit. Teases, cheers, pumps everyone up. Of course, her charm is covering deep fear and anxiety. She won big once but not since, no inhibitions, unguarded, PUMP IT UP girl, a GREAT performer, humor/self-deprecation as deflection and coping with trauma, anxiety of under achieving, getting by off of charm, unspoken w/ her sexuality but she is gay, or bi/wrestling with her sexuality, focused on the SPORT, sexual assault impacting her sense of herself and how she is navigating her sexuality.

RIVER - 16, Pushed by her very “stage mom” mother. Dad is gone (left them both, the asshole), and mom has put everything into River. They don’t talk about anything but gymnastics. Still, when she is flipping and flying, she feels nothing but free, a little more cynical, almost jaded, weird family shit, straight shooter, blunt, apprehensive to trust, dark sense of humor.

SONG OF EXILE (workshop)

By: Seema Sueko

Adapted from the novel by: Kiana Davenport

Director: TBD

Rehearsals: TBD 2024

SYNOPSIS: Based on the 1999 novel of the same name by Kiana Davenport, this jazz-filled epic brings us on an Odysseus-like journey of love, separation, and transformation over the course of 17 years. Beginning in a nightclub in Honolulu in 1935 and carrying us through the turmoil of World War II, Song of the Exile is a fascinating cultural collaboration bringing to light the plight of the Japanese Army’s “comfort women” in Prisoner of War camps. This workshop will be used to explore the way that music is used to tell this powerful story, further the narrative, and enhance the artistry of the piece.

SEEKING:

OOGH: Half-Chinese, half-Hawaiian, any age, male. Plays `ukulele and piano. Our clairvoyant guide through the story. A trickster. Plays other characters and speaks in many dialects: Hawaiian pidgin, Filipino, standard north American English, Japanese.

KEO MEAHUNA: Hawaiian male, starts the play in his 20s, ends in his 50s. Trumpet player. Falls in love with jazz and Sunny Sung.

SUNNY SUNG: Half-Korean, half-Hawaiian, female. Starts the play in her 20s, ends in her 50s, but looks to be in her 70s. Art student at the start of the play and a survivor of the Imperial Japanese Army’s POW/Comfort Women camps by the end, she falls in love with Keo Meahuna and is constantly searching for her half-sister. Despite the violence in her life, she holds a wonderment and curiosity about the world. A survivor.

DEW BAPTISTE: African American, male, 20s-40s. From New Orleans. Saxophone player in the 1930s segregated military band in Honolulu at the start of the play. Coaches Keo on trumpet. Also doubles as CHORUS and other roles.

WOMAN: Asian, Filipina, Guamanian, Romani, or mixed ethnicity female. Portrays females who range in appearance from age 16 to 70, including MAMA, WAITRESS, ROMANI WOMAN, APRIL BAO, KIM, and WOMAN WHO LOOKS LIKE SUNNY. Also doubles as CHORUS and may play an instrument in the jazz band.