CHAUTAUQUA THEATER COMPANY 2012 SEASON Equity Principal Auditions - Chautauqua Theater Company Auditions

Chautauqua Theater Company 2012

– Equity Principal Auditions

Chautauqua, NY U/RTA $758/week minimum.

Artistic Director: Vivienne Benesch

Casting Consultant: Jack Doulin

Equity Principal Auditions:

Thursday, April 12, 2012 Actors' Equity Association Audition Center

9:30 AM – 5:30 PM 165 West 46th Street 2nd floor

Lunch from 1 – 2. New York City

Prepare a monologue (2 minutes or less) from post-1900 material. Have a second, contrasting piece available. Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.

The following available roles in the 2012 season are being considered for Equity contracts. They are the only roles for which actors are sought at this time:

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY by Philip Barrow. Director: Andrew Borba.

1st rehearsal: June 11, 2012. Runs July 29 – July 8.

Margaret Lord: Matriarch of the family, a young and smart 47. She is the perfect high society wife, caring mother, under the strain of a philandering husband.

Uncle Willie Tracy: 62, the happy Bon-vivant, always happy to be out from under his wife’s thumb having a drink elsewhere.

Seth: Tall, handsome, suave & fifty, the absent father figure to this well-bred family and the source of tabloid scandal.

FIFTY WAYS by Kate Fodor. Director: Ethan McSweeny

1st rehearsal: July 3, 2012. Runs July 20 - 29

Adam: Early 50s, successful, popular fiction writer. Funny, mercurial, considers himself a ladies man.

Kevin: 40s, a recently divorced hired carpenter with a passion for his own creative work.

AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare. Director: TBA

1st rehearsal: July 19, 2011. Runs August 10-17

Duke Fredrick and Duke Senior: (50-60) One a usurper living at court, the other in banishment, living in the forest and in a state of contemplation.

Adam: (65+) longtime, faithful servant to Sir Rowland De Boys and his sons. The spirit is willing where the body is ailing...

Theatre’s statement: “Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to attend.”

If unable to attend, send pictures and resumes to Chautauqua Theater Company, Chautauqua Institution, PO Box 1098, Chautauqua, NY 14722.