WAITING FOR LEFTY - EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS
Quintessence Theatre Group
CONTRACT
SPT
$549 weekly minimum (SPT 6)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in WAITING FOR LEFTY (see breakdown).
Local actors encouraged to submit.
Quintessence is committed to diversity in all hiring and will carefully consider all applicants. Applicants from under-represented populations are encouraged to apply.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare one of the sides at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qd0PPBMZRNiK_xbSETHR8zV6xVhW4Wmv/ . Email your video submission along with your headshot/resume, using the subject Waiting for Lefty.
Deadline: Mon, Aug 15, 2022
SUBMIT TO
Artistic@QuintessenceTheatre.org
PERSONNEL
Viewing auditions:
Director: Kyle Haden
Producing Artistic Director: Alex Burns
Creative Manager: Lee Cortopassi
Office Manager: Emily Cross
OTHER DATES
First rehearsal - 1/24/2023
Opening - 3/4/2023
Closing - 3/26/2023
Possible extension - 4/2/2023
BREAKDOWN
Seeking:
Harry Fatt - A corrupt union leader, driven by a ruthless greed and a hunger for power. Unmoved by the desperate poverty of the workers he claims to serve.
Gunman - Harry Fatt's muscle and enforcer. A sinister figure, a constant menace.
Joe – A working-class taxi driver and member of the union committee, the first to rise and speak in Lefty’s place. Has greater hope for the future despite his current poverty, thanks largely to his wife, Edna.
Edna – Joe's wife, passionate and angry. Pulls her own domestic strike, threatening to leave Joe for a man with a better income. Urges unity above all else among the taxi drivers.
Miller – An idealistic lab assistant and a principled pacifist.
Fayette – the head of a large industrial corporation, an industrialist. Charismatic but untroubled by ethics. The enemy of the working class.
Sid – A taxi driver who seems to have lost hope. Has dreams but does not believe he can attain them. Feels he cannot live up to being a man in the world.
Florence – Sid's girlfriend, tending to her sick mother. Knows that despite her love for Sid, he cannot provide for her. A dreamer despite her circumstances.
Irv – Florence's brother. Stern, paternal, realistic.
Tom Clayton – A labor spy, who poses as a brother cabbie from Philadelphia. Actually a strikebreaker named Clancy.
Clear Voice (Clancy's sibling) - Emerges from the crowd to denounce Tom Clayton as a labor spy. Their commitment to the working class far outweighs the bonds of family.
Dr. Barnes – An elderly doctor, upset over the way the government controls the hospital. Angry over Dr. Benjamin's firing, he finds his lost idealism.
Dr. Benjamin – A young Jewish doctor and also a committee member of the taxi drivers' union. Enraged over the classism and nepotism of the government. Fired from the hospital, he adopts the radical ideas he had previously rejected.
Agate – An agitator” who stirs up the taxi drivers to go on strike. Defiant against the union leadership, desperate, resolute.
OTHER
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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.
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