LUNGS and THE GOLDEN DRAGON Submission - The Studio Theatre Auditions
The Studio Theatre
THE GOLDEN DRAGON– Photo/Resume Request
The Studio Theatre Washington DC SPT (approval/salary level pending; 2010-11 weekly minimum: $571).
Artistic Dir: David Muse
NYC appointment auditions: June 16, 2011, 10 - 3 (DRAGON) and June 23, 2011, 10 - 6 (LUNGS).
FOR THESE AUDITIONS, SEEKING SUBMISSIONS FROM AEA MEMBERS ONLY.
To be considered, send – ASAP – your photo/resume and a brief cover note,
stating the name of the role for which you wish to audition to
Sides for these auditions are at www.studiotheatre
.org/about/opportunities/casting.aspx .
Seeking:
LUNGS by Duncan MacMillan. Dir: Aaron Posner. 1st reh: 8/29/11. Runs 9/28-10/16.
Note from casting personnel: “Both actors need to be courageous, generous, attractive, excellent with language, quite game, and really great memorizers. I mean that... really great memorizers.”
W:
Woman, 30ish. Wicked smart, fast, funny, unedited, dangerous, anxious, impulsive, intense.
M:
Man, 30ish. Concerned, caring, charming, alert, apologetic, adoring, and a very good guy.
THE GOLDEN DRAGON by Roland Schimmelpfennig. Translation: David Tushingham. Dir: Serge Seiden. 1st reh: 10/3/11. Runs 11/2-12/11.
USA premiere. Still relatively unknown in the US, Mr. Schimmelpfennig is renowned in Germany. In 2010, he won the coveted Else-Lasker-Schuler Prize for Dramatic Literature. THE GOLDEN DRAGON was produced by scores of German theatres this year, and won the 2010 Mulheim Prize. It was also chosen as “play of the year” in the 2010 Theater Today Yearbook German critics’ survey. Clip from a production of the play directed by the author at the Burg Theatre in Vienna (in German) can be found at
http://ow.ly/57KLf
Ensemble piece for five actors in which men play women, women play men, young actors play older characters and older actors play younger characters. Theatre states, “We encourage men and women of all ethnicities to audition.” Subtle vocal and physical characterizations will be required, as well as direct-address narration/storytelling. No accents. Standard stage speech is required.
Man Over 60:
Track’s characters include a Female Flight Attendant, a Young Man who discovers his wife is pregnant, and a Cook in an Asian take-out restaurant.
Woman 20-30:
Track’s characters include a Middle-Aged Man whose wife is leaving him, a Young Cook in an Asian take-out restaurant with a toothache, and a flight attendant’s Hunky Boyfriend.
Man 20-30:
Track’s characters include a Grandfather, a Waitress in an Asian take-out restaurant, and a Young Asian Woman being kept as a sex-slave by a shop owner (The Cricket).
Man 43-55:
Track’s characters include a Middle-Aged Woman who is leaving her husband, a lonely Female Flight Attendant, and a Cook in an Asian take-out restaurant.
