freeFall Theatre 2023-24 Season - St. Petersburg FL, EPA freeFall Theatre Company | St Petersburg, FL
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
To set up an audition time, email Julia Rifino at: julia@freefalltheatre.com. Indicate your preferred audition date, time frame, your union status (Equity, EMC), your phone number and email address. If unable to email you may call 727-498-5205 ext. 009 and leave a message with your preferred date and time frame (before lunch, after lunch, etc.). Deadline for requesting an audition time is Saturday, Sept 2. If you are unable to attend in person, see breakdown for Video submission instructions.
SPT
$488 weekly minimum (SPT 5)
Equity actors for freeFall Theatre's 2023-24 Season (See breakdown).
FOR PLAYS: Please prepare two contrasting one-minute monologues OR one two-minute monologue. FOR MUSICALS: Please prepare a two-minute music selection in the style of one of our musicals OR two contrasting one minute music cuts OR a one-minute music selection and a one-minute monologue. An accompanist will be provided. Bring sheet music in the correct key. Also, please bring you headshot and resume stapled together.
freeFall Theatre
6099 Central Ave
St. Petersburg, FL 33710
Parking is free.
Expected to attend:
Eric Davis, Artistic Director
Matthew McGee, Director “Miracle On 34th Street”
Michael Raabe, Music Director
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production specific dates.
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freeFall Theatre requires all of its employees and hired artists to be fully vaccinated.
All rehearsals and performances will take place at freeFall Theatre in St. Petersburg, FL.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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 attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
Video Submission Instructions:
Please enter the requested information at: https://bit.ly/freefall23-24seasonsubmissions
Then you can upload your headshot, resume, and video, or link to YouTube or Vimeo. Follow the same preparation guidelines as in person auditions. Previously recorded material is fine.
Use your name as the title of the video – do not use “freeFall” or “freeFall Theatre” in the video title. Also, please make sure the video is set to unlisted or public. You can upload or link to your video(s) in the profile you create as described above.
The deadline for online submissions is Sunday, September 10th at 5:00pm ET.
A comedy by Natalie Symons
Based on an original idea by Matthew McGee
Director: Eric Davis
Rehearses: 9/12/23 - 10/6/23
Runs: 10/6/23 - 11/5/23
SYNOPSIS: When a recently canceled celebrity housewife and her entourage try to escape the media at an Airbnb in The Berkshires, things go terribly and hilariously wrong as the ladies find themselves in the middle of a manhunt for the Berkshire Strangler. The Hollywood elites find themselves triggered by mistaken identities, bad cell service, a set of twins, power outages, a missing alternator, and a
mysterious landlady in this hilarious thriller from the writers that brought you The Buffalo Kings, The People Downstairs, and The Night Before.
The play is contemporary and set in 2023. Only Mrs. Bates has a style that one would consider a delightful throwback to classic horror cinema.
BRITNEY COX - ROLE IS CAST. female (any ethnicity), 45-55. a recently canceled celebrity housewife/reality star. Glamorous, vapid, shameless. Think Jennifer Coolidge or Kristen Wiig.
DALE JAMES - ROLE IS CAST. Black female, 45-55. Britney's bodyguard and confidant. Tough, competent, realistic. Dale does not suffer fools and is the first to become aware that something is off. Think Wanda Sykes or Queen Latifah.
MAUDE BENDER - ROLE IS CAST. female (any ethnicity), 45-55. Britney's mousy and put upon personal assistant. Maude suffers from numerous ailments and is a frequent virtue signaler. A frustrated author. Think Jane Adams or Ellie Kemper.
TAWNY FITZSIMMONS - ROLE IS CAST. female (any ethnicity), 45-55. Britney's effervescent and energetic makeup artist. Married with triplets and a husband named Dick. Tawny is the most physically comedic role in the play. Think Melissa McCarthy.
MRS. BATES - ROLE IS CAST. female (any ethnicity), 60s. An eerie and hilarious figure. Mrs. Bates poses as an operator of a haunted Airbnb, but her motivations are much more sinister. A horror movie cliche in the vein of Ruth Gordon or Colleen Dewhurst.
STEVEN-PAUL - ROLE IS CAST. White male, 40-50. A mystery man, survivalist and inventor. His character is sometimes mysterious and always hilarious. A nerdy misfit. Think Steve Carrell or Zach Galifinakis. Doubles as FRONALD.
Adapted from the 1947 Lux Radio broadcast by Lance Arthur Smith
Original songs and arrangements by Jon Lorenz
Director: Matthew McGee
Music Director: Michael Raabe
Rehearses: 11/7/23 - 11/24/23
Runs: 11/24/23 - 12/24/23
SYNOPSIS: When a department store Santa claims he's the real Kris Kringle, his case gets taken all the way to the Supreme Court, and a little girl's belief makes all the difference. With live Foley effects and a score of beloved holiday carols, Miracle on 34th Street is a holiday classic that will melt even the most cynical of hearts.
KRISTOFER VAN LISBERG as KRIS KRINGLE - Male Radio star. Santa Claus. Singing optional, F3 -E4
CORDELIA RAGSDALE as DORIS WALKER - Female Radio star. Macy’s public relations expert. Alto/mezzo-soprano C4-C#5. (Doubles as Mother, Girl, and Others.) Able to sing tight jazz harmonies.
GRACIE DEMARCO as SUSAN WALKER - Female Age 8 Radio star. Her precocious daughter (Age 8). C4-C5
GRADY WILLIAMS as FRED GAILEY - Male Radio star. Lawyer, looking for love and a miracle. Baritone/tenor Bb3-G4. (Doubles as Alfred and Others.) Able to sing tight jazz harmonies.
WALLACE AINSLEY as MALE CHARACTER ACTOR - Male Radio star. Versatile. Baritone B3-E4. (Doubles as Drunken Santa, Shellhammer, Dr. Sawyer, Gimbel, R.H. Macy, Thomas Mara, Others.) Able to sing tight jazz harmonies.
OLIVIA GLATT as FEMALE CHARACTER ACTOR - Female Radio star. Versatile. Soprano C4-E5. (Doubles as Mortimer, 2nd Mother, Miss Prong, Dr. Pierce, Nurse, Charley, Mrs. Mara, Tommy, Others.) Able to sing tight jazz harmonies.
ALEX MIALDO as ANNOUNCER, FOLEY ARTIST and JUDGE - ROLE IS CAST. Male Plays keyboard. Bass/baritone F2-E4
Book and lyrics by Howard Ashman
Music by Alan Menken
Additional lyrics by Dennis Green
Director: Eric Davis
Music Director: Michael Raabe
Rehearses: 1/16/24 - 2/9/24
Runs: 2/9/24 - 3/10/24
SYNOPSIS: Experience an outrageously funny fantasy about people, their pleasures and pains, a penetrating satire on insanity – a millionaire's private lunacy. Featuring an infectious score by the Oscar-winning team of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Little Shop of Horrors) God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is a legendary collaboration between one of America's greatest novelists and the songwriting team behind some of the greatest hits of all time.
ELIOT ROSEWATER - Male, 35-45 (vocal range G2-F4) A tall, bulky, slightly unkempt, often distracted sweetheart of a man. Heir to Rosewater fortune, and President of the Rosewater Foundation. Optimistic, quixotic, a bit insane - troubled by darker past.
SYLVIA ROSEWATER - Female, 35-45 (vocal range F3-B4) Eliot Rosewater's wife. Nervous, attractive, well-bred and well-intentioned.
Also seeking an ENSEMBLE OF 5 ACTORS to play the following roles:
SENATOR ROSEWATER, MR. MCALLISTER, NORMAN MUSHARI, MARY MOODY, DAWN LEONARD, DIANA MOON GLAMPERS, CHARLEY WARMERGRAM, DELBERT PEACH, NOYES FINNERTY, JEROME HAYES, PSYCHIATRIST, KILGORE TROUT and various other roles.
By Jocelyn Bioh
Director: TBD
Rehearses: 3/26/24 - 4/12/24
Runs: 4/12/24 - 5/12/24
SYNOPSIS: It’s the nineties in Lagos, Nigeria, and the Nollywood film industry is exploding as the second-highest producing film industry in the world. This laugh-out-loud romantic comedy follows the story of Ayamma, a young woman who works with her sister at their parent's travel agency, who dreams of leaving her job and becoming a star. When she auditions for a new film by Nigeria's hottest director, tension flares with his former leading lady, and sparks fly with Nollywood's biggest heartthrob.
All characters are of West African descent.
AYAMMA OKAFOR - Female, 20s/early 30s. Aspiring Nigerian film actress but isn't very good. Works as a travel agent/secretary at her parents' office. She is a big dreamer and hopes for a better life for herself as a famous actress.
DEDE OKAFOR - Female, 20s/30s. Ayamma's older sister. She works (lazily) at her parents' travel agency. She loves all things pop culture: talk shows, soap operas, and celebrities, she loves it all. Close with Ayamma but also serves as Ayamma's truth serum when need be.
GBENGA EZIE - Male, 30s. Rising Nigerian film director. Is known to be rich and has studied in America but harbors dangerous secrets to his success.
WALE OWUSU - Male, 20s/30s. Nigeria's hottest rising star. He is half Ghanaian and half Nigerian. He is constantly being hit on by women, but they rarely ever get to know him or his story. Quietly confident.
FAYOLA OGUNLEYE - Female, 20s/30s. Wildly referred to as The Nigerian Halle Berry with Tina Turner Legs as she is very beautiful and very sexy. She is pompous and arrogant and will say anything to get her way regardless of how it makes her look. She views Ayamma as her prime competition.
ADENIKEH - Female - late 30s/Early 40s - The Nigerian Oprah Winfrey”
TELEVISION ANNOUNCER/MOVIE TRAILER VOICE - 20s and/or older; male - is the voice behind the television and on the movie trailer for The Comfort Zone.
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