HUMBLE BOY Submission - The Public Theatre Auditions
The Public Theatre
HUMBLE BOY – Photo / Resume Request
The Public Theatre (Lewiston, ME) SPT Category 8; $465/week (incl. Housing, transportation)
Artistic/Stage Director: Christopher Schario
Associate Artistic Director: Janet Mitchko
Contract dates: 2/27 – 3/28/11
NYC auditions will be held in December 2010, by appointment only.
For consideration, mail picture and resume to:
The Public Theatre
31 Maple Street
Lewiston, ME, 04240
Attn: HUMBLE BOY – NYC auditions
No email submissions, please
Actors will read from the script at the auditions.
Deadline for submissions: November 29, 2010
Both characters have a British Dialect. Think Ayckbourn meets Stoppard
Felix:
Early/mid 30s. British Dialect. Preferably a little pudgy. He is a highly intelligent, socially inept astrophysicist. Imagine a British Philip Seymour Hoffman. Emotionally complex, (with a nervous stutter), he has an ironic, self-deprecating and biting sense of humor about himself and his family. His quality is similar to Hamlet’s, as he is struggling to come to terms with the death of his father and marriage of his mother. Imagine Hamlet cast as a character actor or off-beat leading man.
Mercy:
48-55. British Dialect. She is a timid, mousey English spinster who lacks confidence and often apologizes for her presence. She is secretly in love with a man who has no interest in her. She tries her hardest and her efforts are usually judged inadequate.
All ethnicities encouraged to submit.
