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The Gallery Players in Park Slope is seeking submissions for its upcoming non-equity Black Box New Play Festival which runs from January 15th-25th. Co-producers: Sue Glausen, Alex Rogals and Dominic Cuskern

We want as diverse a cast as possible so all races, ethnicities and orientations are strongly encouraged to submit.

The festival will feature the following plays:

DESERT ANIMALS by Stephen Dierkes. Director, Miranda Simon. Seeking:

MITCH, DAN, LINDA, LOUIS, REV. HAAK, PENNY, BRIAN, NORA, NANC These characters can be of any race and any adult age.

FOUR WHITE CHAIRS by William C. Woxlin. Director, Mark Harborth. Seeking:

MILLICENT Davies: the supervisor, female, 30’s-40’s

LAWRENCE Russell: male, the rookie, 30’s-40’s

AUTUMN Hazel: female, 20’s-30’s

DREW McKenzie: male, 30’s-40’s

HILARY Foot: the courier, any age, any gender

THE WATERFALL SCENE by James Nelson. Director, Felisha Heng. Seeking:

ANNALISE: a writer, over 30

BERTH over 30, her fired

STEVENSENSON: male, over 30, a publisher

ELLIE: female, 20’s, writer

TELL ME WHEN IT’S HIGH NOON by Mark Eisman. Director, Mark Gallagher. Seeking:

LARRY: 33,

KEITH: 35,

PATRICIA: 34,

GARY: 33

POTENTIALLY OFFENSIVE by Tom Rowan. Director, Jordan Westfall. Seeking:

MARGARET CURTIS CAMPBELL: 63

KIPP CAMPBELL: 33, her son

JOANIE CAMPBELL: 29, her daughter

FELIX ALTMAN: 36, an editor

GENETIC FUNK by Constance Humphrey Egan. Director, Jon Gellert. Seeking:

JENNIE: mother, late 40’s, wicked sense of humor, battling Huntingdon’s disease

SOPHIE: her daughter, 20’s

TRACY: Jennie’s elder sister, financial advisor, no-nonsense

CONFIDENCE COURSE by Evan Manning. Director, Graydon Gund. Seeking:

JAY: 29, introverted, has psychological scars from a harrowing event

GRAHAM: 29, spirited, flippant, barely holds his self-destructive tendencies at bay

DEREK: 29, tech consultant turned local politician

ADRIAN: 29, firefighter, daredevil whose easygoing demeanor hides a deep insecurity

The festival takes place over two weekends.  The performances for the first weekend are January 15th-18th. Tech for that weekend starts on Sunday, January 11th and continues on the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in the evenings.  

The second weekend performs January 22nd-25th. Tech starts on Sunday evening, January 18th and continues on the following Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.

Each director will see actor submissions and will contact actors for callbacks.  It may be that several directors will want to see you.  Callbacks will be held on Sunday, November 9th during the day except for The Waterfall Scene which will be held on Sunday, November 2nd.

There is a one-time stipend of $50.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Please email a taped one-minute monologue (either comic or dramatic) to: dominic@galleryplayers.com

Include a resume and a headshot.

Submissions must be received by 11.59PM on Monday, October 27th.