GEE’S BEND - Arkansas Repertory Theatre Auditions

Arkansas Repertory Theatre (Little Rock, AR)                            LORT D; $566/week minimum + housing/trans.

Company Manager: Peter Mensky

By Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder

Director: Gilbert McCauley

1st rehearsal in Little Rock: 1/1/13.  Runs: 1/25/13 – 2/10/13.

NYC auditions will be held on October 18 and 19, by appointment only.

For consideration, mail picture and resume to:

Peter Mensky, Company Manager/Casting Associate

Arkansas Repertory Theatre

PO BOX 110

Little Rock, AR 72203

ATTN:  Gee’s Bend Casting.

Please indicate your AEA status in your submission

The play takes place in Gee’s Bend, Alabama in 1939, 1965, and 2002.

Note:  All characters are African-American

Seeking:

Sadie:

Actor should read 20s-30s. Character ages from 15-79 during the course of the play. Alice’s daughter, Nella’s sister, Macon’s wife. Ambitious, literate, intelligent, focused, an independent dreamer.

Macon:

Actor should read 20s-40s. Character ages from 25-51 during the course of the play. Sadie’s husband. A dreamer and show-off who increasingly loses hope as

economic depression and ill health set in. Takes his frustrations out on Sadie physically.

Nella

Actor should read 20s-30s. Character ages from 17-81 during the course of the play. Alice’s daughter, Sadie’s sister. Perpetually single, dreams big, but has little to show for it. Relies on Sadie for many things, economically and socially.

Alice

Actor should read 30s to 50s. Character ages 34-61 during the course of the play. Sadie and Nella’s mother. Independent, wise, grounded.  Also plays Asia Sadie’s daughter. Practical, loving, and changing with a modern world.