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In the Wake
By Lisa Kron
Directed by Delicia Turner-Sonnenberg, Artistic Director of Moxie Theatre
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.
Rehearsals Begin: January 17, 2012
Performance Dates: February 11-March 4, 2012
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.
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Music and Lyrics by David Nehls
Book by Betsy Kelso
Directed by Sam Woodhouse, Choreography by Javier Velasco
Rehearsals Begin: October 10, 2011
Performance Dates: November 5 – December 4
Last Day of Possible Extension: December 18th, 2011
All actors must be strong actors/singers with skilled comedic timing and country/rock style vocals.
JEANNIE GARSTECKI 35-45, Belt and Legit Mezzo. Jeannie has lived in a trailer at Armadillo Acres for 20 years with her husband and high-school sweetheart, Norbert. She was 17 when she was married, 18 when her son was born, and 23 when he was kidnapped. This traumatic event turned her into an agoraphobic, and she hasn’t left her trailer since, and the man she loves is drifting further and further away.
NORBERT GARSTECKI 35-45, High Baritone. Norbert is Jeannie’s husband and collets tolls for a living. He tried to be as good a husband as one can be to an agoraphobic. He is a former high-school football star whose rugged good looks are marred by fatigue and the stress of his difficult marriage. He is a simple man who desperately wishes his wife could get out of the trailer but is not equipped with the emotional or intellectual tools to help her do it. Instead he ends up doing something he’s never done before, sleeping with another woman who happens to be a professional stripper.
PIPPI 28-35, Large Belt. Pippi is a striking beauty with a great body and a taste for clothing that shows it off. She is a professional stripper who has gotten by on her looks and talents for dancing and petty theft. She means no harm and is ready to stop making bad choices and start making changes. She leaves her boyfriend and moves to the small town of Armadillo Acres to start over.
DUKE 20s, Rock Tenor. Duke is Pippi’s obsessive, possessive, and excessive Magic-Marker-sniffing boyfriend; “ex”-boyfriend according to Pippi. Not so, according to Duke.
BETTY 30s-50s, Rough Belt. One of “The Girls.” Betty attended high school with Norbert and Jeannie Garstecki and has lived in Armadillo Acres for just as long. She now runs the leasing office and makes it her business to know everything about everybody who passes through the trailer park. Betty is the mother hen to the denizens of the trailer park. Of all of “The Girls,” Betty is the most grounded, earthy and dry.
LINOLEUM “LIN” 30s, Belt. One of “The Girls.” So-named because her mother gave birth to her on the kitchen floor, Linoleum has a husband on death row at the Florida State Prison. His fate is an electric chair that doesn’t work properly unless most of the town’s electricity is turned off. So Lin watches everyone’s lights and appliances very closely in the hopes that she can keep the chair on the fritz. Sometimes self-absorbed and sometimes has a smart mouth, she hints at a wild, rock-and-roll past and is the fiercest of “The Girls.”
DONNA “PICKLES” late teens-early 20s, Belt. One of “The Girls.” A newlywed, Donna is called “Pickles” because she is perpetually hysterically pregnant—that is, she’s so convinced she should be pregnant she’s exhibiting symptoms. Her husband is a lot fancier than she is, as he is from the big city of Jacksonville. His parents haven’t been very supportive of his marital choice, so Pickles is desperate to give her husband a family of his own—even if she has to fake it. The dimmest of “The Girls,” Pickles is airy, sweet, and blissfully ignorant.
Tortilla Curtain
By Matthew Spangler
Directed by Sam Woodhouse
In the sun-bleached hills outside Los Angeles, Tortilla Curtain is a fast-paced epic for our times.
Rehearsals Begin: February 21, 2012
Performance Dates: March 17-April 8, 2012
We’re currently seeking to cast:
DELANEY MOSSBACHER male, Caucasian, late 30s. Nature writer, lives in Arroyo Blanco, a well-off housing development in Topanga Canyon, CA.
CANDIDO RINCON male, Mexican, mid 30s. An undocumented immigrant from Tepoztlan, Mexico that lives in the canyons of Topanga Canyon, CA. He and America have come to California to find a better life. Must be fluent in Mexican Spanish and English.
AMERICA female, Mexican, 17-early 20s. Very pretty. An undocumented immigrant from Tepoztlan, Mexico that lives in the canyons of Topanga Canyon, CA. She is pregnant with Candido’s baby and has run away from her family in Mexico to find a better life in California with Candido. Doubles as Resurrección, Candido’s wife and America’s older sister. Must be fluent in Mexican Spanish and English.
KYRA female, Caucasian, late 30s. Delaney’s second wife and a successful real estate agent. Strong, opinionated, type-A woman. Plays multiple characters throughout play: Female Tourist, Jack Jr.’s Friend, Community Member #1, Tough Girl, Jerk #1, Mrs. Grantham, Checkout Girl, Partygoer #1, Cop, Ensemble
JOSE NAVIDAD male, half Mexican and half Caucasian, 20s. Sleazy illegal who hits on America though he knows she is not single. Plays multiple characters throughout play: Sancho, Community Member #2, Man #2, Carlos, Partygoer #2, TV Anchor, Firefighter #1, Ensemble.
JACK SR male, Caucasian, mid 50s. Attorney. Delaney’s friend and neighbor in Arroyo Blanco, a well-off housing development in Topanga Canyon, CA. Plays multiple characters throughout play: Male Tourist, Man #3, Cowboy, Jerk #2, Partygoer #3, TV Anchor, Firefighter #3, Ensemble
JACK JR male, Caucasian, 20s. Jack Sr.’s son. Spoiled, privileged, ignorant, and a bit punk. Lives in Arroyo Blanco, a well-off housing development in Topanga Canyon, CA. Plays multiple characters throughout play: Dominick Flood, Community Member #3, Man #1, Jerk #1, Acura, Salesman, Firefighter #2, Ensemble
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