THE BEAR Submission - Drama League Director's Project Auditions

THE BEAR – Submit Photo/Resume for NYC Appointments

Drama League Director’s Project (NYC) Equity Showcase; $400 total stipend

Artistic Director: Roger T. Danforth

Director: Desdemona Chiang

Casting: Stephen DeAngelis

Playwright: Anton Chekhov

1^st rehearsal: 12/1/11. Runs: 12/10/11 – 12/13/11, at the Here Arts Center

NYC auditions will be held mid-November, 2011, by appointment only.

For consideration, mail picture and resume to:

Stephen DeAngelis

c/o Grey NYC

200 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor

New York, NY 10010

ATTN: “THE BEAR”

SEEKING:

Elena Ivanova Popova:

Female; mid 20s-mid 30s; young widow; petite; vacillates between utter helplessness and complete bossiness; emotionally fragile; insecure; trying to keep it all together; moves quickly; feisty when provoked.

Gregoril Stepanovich Smirnov:

Male; mid 30s-mid 40s; a middle-aged landowner; boorish; coarse; broad-shouldered; misogynistic and overbearing; frustrated by the unjust lot his life has dealt him; a real brutish jerk when provoked but surprisingly vulnerable underneath the macho.

Luka:

Male; 60s-70s; Popova’s elderly servant/footman; sweet; eager, but at the same time quite hapless; spry; wants to take initiative, but tries his best to stay in his place; think Don Knotts but not quite as bumbling or someone like Mark Rylance plus 25 years