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SDRep- In the Wake Casting
79 Horton Plaza
San Diego CA 92101
Email
casting@sdrep.org
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Contract
LORT Non-Rep
$566/wk
Seeking
Actors for In the Wake - please see breakdown.
Other Dates
Rehearsals Begin: January 17, 2012
Performance Dates: February 11-March 4, 2012
Performance Space: Lyceum Stage in Horton Plaza
Personnel
By Lisa Kron
Directed by Delicia Turner-Sonnenberg, Artistic Director of Moxie Theatre
Other
Deadline for submission: July 15th
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| Breakdown
Lisa Kron’s new play, The Wake, follows a woman on the edge of a nervous breakdown: Type-A journalist Ellen, whose certainty about politics and love gets blown out of the water. It’s Thanksgiving of 2000 and the presidential election still has not been decided. Ellen insists that her friends and family don’t understand how bad the situation really is. But no one -- not her loving partner, Danny, nor the passionate Amy, nor the brutally pragmatic and world-weary Judy -- can make Ellen see the blind spot at the center of her own politics and emotional life. A funny, passionate, and ultimately searing new play that illuminates assumptions that lie at the heart of the American character - and the blind spots that mask us from ourselves.
We’re currently seeking to cast:
•ELLEN mid 30s, ethnicity 0pen. East Coast political intellectual.
•DANNY mid 30s, caucasian. Irish Catholic. Public school teacher, Ellen’s partner.
•KAYLA mid 30’s, ethnicity open. Irish Catholic. Aspiring writer. Danny’’s sister. Ellen’s best friend. Laurie’s wife.
•LAURIE mid 30’s, Caucasian. Kayla’s wife. Chef and homemaker. Tessa compares her to Ellen Degeneres.
•AMY mid 30s, ethnicity open. Experimental/art film-maker. Warm open heart. Ellen’s lover. Falls in and out of love easily. Ellen is an exception.
•JUDY mid 50s, Caucasian. International aid and human rights worker. Close friend of Ellen. Strong. Broke the negative cycle of her family.
•TESSA 16, mixed A.A/Caucasian. Judy’s niece.
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