CYMBELINE Equity Principal Auditions - The Fiasco Theatre Company Auditions

The Fiasco Theatre Company's CYMBELINE

– Equity Principal Auditions / Understudies

Off-Broadway $539/week minimum.

Producers: Jeffrey Horowitz, Scott Morfee, Tom Wirtshafter and Jean Doumanian

Author: Shakespeare

Co-Dirs: Ben Steinfeld and Noah Brody

CD: Deborah Brown

1st reh: 8/8/11. 1st preview: 8/27. Opens at the Barrow Street Theatre 9/8. Open-ended.

Equity Principal Auditions:

Wednesday, August 3, 2011 Actors' Equity Association Audition Center

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM 165 West 46th Street, 2nd Floor

Lunch from 1 - 2. New York City

Please prepare a 1-minute comedic Shakespeare monologue and 1-minute of music (women: sing a song a cappella; men: sing a song while accompanying yourself on guitar, banjo, ukulele or cello.)

Please bring a picture & resume, stapled back-to-back.

Critically acclaimed production has a vigorous physical life, as well as live instrumental and vocal

music performed by a cast of six.

Seeking:

Note from casting personnel: “Actors must be generous, open, playful, and ensemble-minded. We are looking for dynamic actors with fantastic language/text skills, the ability to play multiple characters, and a great commitment to storytelling. All actors in the production must be comfortable with group singing.”

Note: This version was produced recently under the LORT Agreement by Theatre for a New Audience. All onstage roles are cast. The following understudy positions are available:

Female Understudy:

AVAILABLE POSITION. Track age: 20s-30s. Seeking an actress of any ethnicity to cover Imogen and Queen/Belaria/Frenchman.

Male Understudy:

AVAILABLE POSITION. Track age: 20s-30s. Seeking an actor of any ethnicity to cover Cymbeline/Cloten/Cornelius, Posthumus/Captain, Pisanio/Philario/Caius Lucius/Guiderius and Iachimo/Arviragus. Male understudy should be able to play one of the following: guitar, banjo, ukulele or cello.