LORT
WATER BY THE SPOONFUL – Photo / Resume Request
Hartford Stage (Hartford, CT) LORT B; $765/week minimum
Artistic Director: Darko Tresnjak
Associate Artistic Director: Hana Sharif
Director: Davis McCallum
Playwright: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Casting: Stephanie Klapper Casting
1st Rehearsal: 9/24/11. Runs: 10/28/11 – 11/13/11
NYC auditions will be held June 22, 2011, by appointment only.
Seeking submissions from Actors' Equity Members only for these auditions.
For consideration, email picture and resume to:
Klappercasting@gmail.com
Or mail to:
Stephanie Klapper Casting
39 West 19th Street, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10011
Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot, a Puerto Rican veteran has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world again and put aside the demons that haunt him. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts forge an unbreakable bond of support and love. The boundaries of love, family and community are stretched across, time, generations and cyberspace as birth families splinter and online families collide in this captivating new drama. Pulitzer Prize-finalist and Tony Award-winning author of the book for In The Heights as well as the upcoming adaptation of Like Water for Chocolate, Quiara Alegría Hudes was the 2008–2009 Aetna New Voices Fellow at Hartford Stage.
SEEKING:
Elliot:
25. Latino. He is an ex Marine. Big Cheeseburger smile that he can bring out when it suits him. Can put up a tough exterior, but has a huge huge heart.
Odessa:
40s. Latina. She is an ex-addict who runs a website for ex-addicts. A little more “street” than the rest of her family. Funny, thoughtful, with a fierce temper. Grateful to be alive and dedicated to helping one person at a time, one day at a time.
Yazmin:
30s. Latina. She is an assistant professor of Music. Cousin to Elliot. Super-smart, good with words, but not an egg-head. Going through a divorce after ten years of marriage. Her life is at a crossroads. Loves Elliot and they make a great odd-couple -- peanut butter and jelly.
Chutes&Ladders:
50s. African – American. He is an ex-addict who works in a government office. Lives a very straight-arrow life, because at least that way he knows he can stay clean. Sardonic sense of humor, but he loves the people on the site, particularly Odessa and Orangutan.
Fountainhead:
30s. Caucasian. Main Line Philly. He is successful in his career as a entrepreneur. Crack addict. Wife and two kids who don’t know about his addiction. M-A-N with a lot of swagger who can be cocky and off-putting to mask a lot of shame.
Ourangatan:
30s. Japanese. She is a beautiful, independent, strong-willed Japanese-American woman. Has recently gotten clean and moved to Japan to teach English to start a new life, and get far away from old habits. Courageous. Wrestling with something darker.
Professor Aman:
40s. Middle-Eastern. He grew up speaking English in Jordan or Saudi Arabia, son of well-to-do parents, maybe diplomats, who spoke English at home and then went to English-language schools. He probably went to college and grad school in the US. Professor of Arabic at Swarthmore College.
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