Washington Stage Guild
CONTRACT
SPT $465 weekly minimum (SPT 5)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Washington Stage Guild's 2022-23 Season (see breakdown).
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare up to two brief monologues, showing verbal/mental dexterity. Email a link of your audition (Vimeo or unlisted YouTube), along with your headshot and resume with the subject line LAST NAME, FIRST NAME - VIDEO SUBMISSION.
Deadline: Fri, Aug 5, 2022
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Viewing auditions:
Bill Largess, Artistic Director
Steven Carpenter, Associate Artistic Director
Laura Giannarelli, Director - The Good Doctor
Alan Wade, Director - Endgame
Kasi Campbell, Director - Ben Butler
OTHER DATES
See production dates in breakdown.
OTHER
www.stageguild.org
Shows will be performed at The Undercroft Theatre, Mt. Vernon Square in Washington, DC. All shows will be rehearsed and performed indoors and in-person. WSG will be operating on Equity’s 'fully vaccinated workplace' track for the foreseeable future. If you have any questions please reach out to us at wsgauditions@gmail.com .
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.
BREAKDOWN
THE GOOD DOCTOR, by Neil Simon
Dates:
1st Rehearsal: Sept. 6, 2022
Tech: Sept. 23-25, 2022
Previews: Sept. 29 – Oct. 1, 2022
Opening: Oct. 2, 2022
Closing: Oct. 23, 2022
Possible Extension thru Oct. 30, 2022
Seeking:
Track 1 – Male presenting. 40s/early 50s. “The Writer”, Simon’s version of Chekhov; also plays a master seducer of other men’s wives, an inept dentist, and others.
Track 2 – Female presenting. 40s to 60s. Plays the “Defenseless Creature” (who is anything but), an exacting mistress, and an old woman in a poignant encounter (sings), among others. ROLE CAST (We will consider submissions for replacement/understudy)
Track 3 – Male presenting. 40s/early 70s. Plays a sneezed-upon general, a priest with a toothache, and an old man in a poignant encounter with an old woman (sings), among others.
Track 4 – Female presenting. 20s/30s. Plays a put-upon governess, a tolerant streetwalker, the wife of an oblivious husband, and an actress auditioning for THE THREE SISTERS, among others.
Track 5 – Male presenting. 20s/30s. Plays a man who sneezes on a general, a lad whose father arranges his first sexual encounter, and a tramp who offers to drown himself for money, among others.
MAJOR BARBARA, by George Bernard Shaw
Dates:
1st rehearsal: week of Oct. 24, 2022
Tech: Nov. 11-13, 2022
Previews: Nov. 17-19, 2022
Opening: Nov. 20, 2022
Closing: Dec. 11, 2022
Possible Extension thru Dec. 18, 2022
Seeking:
Andrew Undershaft – male presenting; 50s-60s; a billionaire captain of the weapons industry; shrewd, somewhat jaded, hardly sentimental.
Lady Britomart Undershaft/Rummy Mitchens/Mrs. Baines – female presenting; 50s-60s; Undershaft matron/a poor women with a kind heart/a S.A. Commissioner with an appealing manner. ROLE CAST.
Barbara Undershaft – female presenting; 20s-30s; the eldest Undershaft child; idealistic, big-hearted, kind, whip-smart.
Adolphus Cusins – male presenting; 20s-30s; a Greek scholar, engaged to Barbara; witty, likeable, a realist.
And an ensemble of four actors to play:
Sarah Undershaft – female presenting; 20s; the second Undershaft daughter; a “bored, and mundane society girl.
Charles Lomax – male presenting; 20s-30s; a frivolous dolt, engaged to Sarah.
Stephen Undershaft – male presenting; 20s; the Undershaft son; a “gravely correct young man.”
Morrison – the Undershafts’ servant; loyal, proper.
Snobby Price – male presenting; 20s-30s; an opportunistic poser.
Peter Shirley – male presenting; 40s-60s; a down-on-their-luck laborer
Bill Walker – male presenting; 20s-30s; a menacing tough, quickly cowed when emotionally/intellectually challenged.
Jenny Hill – female presenting; 20s; an earnest, innocent, well-meaning Salvation army lass.
Bilton – a worker at the munitions factory; no-nonsense, good-natured.
ENDGAME, by Samuel Beckett
Dates:
1st rehearsal: week of Jan. 2, 2023
Tech: Jan. 20-22, 2023
Previews: Jan. 26-28, 2023
Opening: Jan. 29, 2023
Closing: Feb. 19, 2023
Possible Extension thru Feb. 26, 2023
Seeking:
Hamm: 70-80. Self-dramatizing. Shakespearean proportions. Blind. Unable to stand. Underneath a surface bravura is an anxious and fearful persona. A symbiotic relationship with Clov, whom they absolutely depend on. CAST (We will consider submissions for replacement/understudy)
Clov: 40s. In servitude to Hamm, but not servile. Gives as good as they get. Desperate to leave Hamm but cannot. Stiff legged—cannot sit. A symbiotic relationship with Hamm.
Nagg: 90-100+; Hamm’s father. A block off the old chip. Cannot move (lost legs in bicycle accident). Confined to a trash bin. A raconteur. Capable of multiple English dialects.
Nell: 90-100+. Hamm’s mother. Cannot move (lost legs in bicycle accident). Confined to a trash bin. Prone to nostalgia without any specific memory of her past.
BEN BUTLER, by Richard Strand
Dates:
1st rehearsal: week of Feb. 27, 2023
Tech: March 17-19, 2023
Previews: March 23-25, 2023
Opening: March 26, 2023
Closing: April 16, 2023
Possible Extension thru April 23, 2023
Seeking:
Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler of the Union Army – male presenting, white, 40s-50s. Until four weeks ago he was a lawyer –now he’s a general with no military deportment, but an outsized ego
Lieut. Kelley of the Union Army – male presenting, white, late 20s-30s. A young West Point graduate/careerist who is all military.
Shepard Mallory – male presenting, black, 20s-30s – a runaway slave who is both charismatic and quirky/irritating to the army officers.
Major Cary of the Confederate Army – male presenting, white, 40s-50s—a pompous, condescending “gentleman.” ROLE CAST (We will consider submissions for replacement/understudy).
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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