Round House Theatre 2018-19 Season - Silver Spring MD EPA
Round House Theatre
**Revised Breakdown**
AUDITION DATE
Thu, Feb 08, 2018
9:30 am - 5:00 pm (EST)
Lunch 12:30 to 1
Fri, Feb 09, 2018
9:30 am - 5:00 pm (EST)
Lunch 12:30 to 1
APPOINTMENTS
Please email Susannah Eig at artistic@roundhousetheatre.org to schedule an appointment. AEA members without appointments will be seen as time permits.
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep LORT D & LORT C; $676 & $873
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles in the upcoming 2018-19 Season. See breakdown.
PREPARATION
Please bring a picture and resume. Prepare one monologue. Total time should not exceed 2 minutes.
LOCATION
Round House Theatre Administrative Office
1 Veteran’s Pl
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Silver Spring Civic Center, Please ring the bell to be let in the building.
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Ryan Rilette
Casting Assistant: Susannah Eig (attending the EPA)
OTHER
www.roundhousetheatre.org
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
Roles will not be understudied.
First Show announced:
SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS
Directed by Ryan Rilette
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 31, 2018
First Preview: Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Opening: Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Closing: Sunday, September 23, 2018
JOAN
female, late 40s, therapist and sex educator; very angry; JUDY’s partner
JUDY
female, maybe 50, top editor at O Magazine; likes control; recently diagnosed with Ovarian cancer; JOAN’s partner
ALICIA
female, around 30, strawberry blonde from Southern California; the kind of person who manages to make a lot of noise even when she’s “in silence”
NED
male, 39, Jewish guy from Great Neck who works for a non-profit called Earthwatch and has had a severe run of bad luck worse than the worst country western song.
RODNEY
male, mid-30s, ageless, fit, maybe Asian or Southeast Asian, gorgeous, grew up in the Pacific Northwest, teaches yoga in New York and the Hamptons
JAN
male, 50-ish, from a small town in Finland; does not speak much English; is pale and sweet, with a wide-eyed continually curious air about him
TEACHER
a disembodied, androgynous voice with a strange, slightly accented way of talking
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HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE
by Paula Vogel, directed by Amber Paige McGinnis
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, September 11, 2018
First Preview: Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Opening: Monday, October 15, 2018
Closing: Sunday, November 4, 2018
performed at Round House Theatre in Bethesda under a LORT D contract.
LI'L BIT
25-40, female, any race, ages forty-something to 11 years-old
PECK
40s, male, any race, married to Aunt Mary, attractive
FEMALE ENSEMBLE
30-50, female, any race, plays Mother, Aunt Mary, High School Girls
MALE ENSEMBLE
30-50, male, any race, plays Grandfather, Waiter, High School Boys
TEENAGE CHORUS
21-25, female, any race, plays Grandmother, High School Girls and the Voice 11-yr-old Li'l Bit
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GEM OF THE OCEAN
by August Wilson, directed by Timothy Douglas
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, October 30, 2018
First Preview: Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Opening: Monday, December 3, 2018
Closing: Sunday, December 23, 2018
Possible Extension: Sunday, December 30, 2018
performed at Round House Theatre in Bethesda under a LORT D contract.
SOLLY TWO KINGS
67, male, black; suitor to Aunt Ester, former Underground Railroad conductor
RUTHERFORD SELIG
male, white; a traveling peddler who is a frequent visitor of Aunt Ester's house
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OSLO
by J.T. Rogers, directed by Ryan Rilette
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, March 19, 2018
First Preview: Wednesday, April 24, 2018
Opening: Monday, April 29, 2018
Closing: Sunday, May 19, 2019
performed at the Lansburgh Theatre in Washington, DC under LORT C contracts.
URI SAVIR
30s, male, Israeli, Director-General of the Foreign Ministry
AHMED QUREI
50s, male, Palestinian, Finance Minister for the Palestine Liberation Organization
YOSSI BEILIN
40s, male, Israeli, Deputy Foreign Minister
MONA JUUL
30s, female, Norwegian, Official in the Foreign Ministry; reports to Jan; married to Terje
JAN EGELAND
30s, male, Norwegian, Deputy Foreign Minister / RON PUNDAK - 30s, male, Israeli, Junior professor of Economics at the University of Haifa
HASSAN ASFOUR
40s, male, Palestinian, Official PLO liaison with Palestinian Delegation at multilateral US-sponsored talks
GERMAN HUSBAND/TROND GUNDERSEN
30-50, male, Norwegian, officer with the Police Intelligence Service
TERJE ROD-LARSEN
40s, male, Norwegian, Director of the Fafo Institute for Applied Social Sciences; married to Mona
AMERICAN DIPLOMAT/THOR BJORNEVOG
30-50, male, Norwegian, senior officer with the Police Intelligence Service
YAIR HIRSCHFELD
40s, male, Israeli, senior professor of Economics at the University of Haifa / SHIMON
PERES
70, male, Israeli, Foreign Minister
GERMAN WIFE/SWEDISH HOSTESS
20-40, female
MARIANNE HEIBERG
40s, female, Norwegian, Executive with the Fafo Institute; works for Terje; married to Johan / TORIL GRANDAL - 50s, female, Norwegian, housekeeper and cook at the Borregaard estate; married to Finn
JOEL SINGER
40s, male, Israeli, legal advisor to the Foreign Ministry; senior law partner for a Washington DC firm
JOHAN JORGEN HOLST
50s, male, Norwegian, foreign minister, married to Marianne / FINN GRANDAL - 50s, male, Norwegian, groundsman at the Borregaard estate, married to Toril
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DOLL'S HOUSE, PART 2
by Lucas Hnath
Director: TBD
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, May 7, 2018
First Preview: Wednesday, June 5, 2018
Opening: Monday, June 10, 2018
Closing: Sunday, June 30, 2018
performed at the Lansburgh Theatre in Washington, DC under LORT C contracts.
NORA
40-50, female, any race, Torvald's wife
TORVALD
40-60, male, any race, Nora's husband
EMMY
late teens, female, any race, Nora and Torvald's daughter
ANNE MARIE
50-70, female, any race, Torvald's housekeeper
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Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to audition.
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