ALAA: A FAMILY TRILOGY - San Francisco, CA EPA Golden Thread Productions | San Francisco, CA
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Potrero Stage
1695 18th St
San Francisco, CA 94107-2376
Expected to attend:
Sahar Assaf, Executive Artistic Director
Wendy Reyes, Production Associate
Samer Al Saber, Director of Returning to Haifa
Evren Odcikin, Director of ALAA: A Family
Trilogy
ALAA: A FAMILY TRILOGY
Rehearsals: Monday, October 28, 2024
Performances: November 9 and 10, 2024
OTHER
IMPORTANT: Please note that Golden Thread is a fully vaccinated company. Actors will be required to email their proof of vaccination prior to their audition appointment date. Your final dose must be administered at least 2 weeks prior to the first day of in-person auditions.
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.
Friday, February 9, 2024
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM (P)
To set up an audition appointment please go
to:
https://calendly.com/wendy-gtp/goldenthread-auditions-2024?month=2024-02&date=2024-02-07 .
Once you have chosen your time slot, please fill out the following
form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdx6lDBdGfKoFoPp54FqDbyPyj1b3K2Z7FGv9qgaJ8p78PwJg/viewform .
For questions
contact auditions@goldenthread.org .
The deadline to set up an audition appointment is January 30th, 2024.
Bay Area Theatre
$400 weekly minimum (Intro Tier) - 20
hours/week
Equity actors for roles in a workshop production of ALAA: A FAMILY TRILOGY
(See breakdown).
Actors of all ages, races, genders, ability and experience levels are welcome. We are a company focused on the Middle East, so we do have numerous roles in productions and staged readings for actors of Middle Eastern heritage.
Actors looking to showcase physical movement experience, such as clowning; dance; ensemble, devised work; and musicians are encouraged to audition.
Local (Bay Area) actors are encouraged to audition.
Please prepare a two-minute monologue that showcases your vocal, physical, and emotional range. You may also opt to use sides which can be found at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gCiNkOYB0b4s231M5aCQiYQXC_UOZfzd
ALAA: A FAMILY TRILOGY
By Adam Ashraf Elsayigh
Generative Dramaturgy by Salma Zohdi
SYNOPSIS: In 2011, techie Alaa Abd El-Fattah emerged as a leading voice in the Egyptian Revolution through his animated political writings and activism. But Alaa has spent much of the decade since in Cairo Prisons, unlawfully held by a military regime seeking to crush him and the revolutionary movement he belonged to.
Yet, they fail every day.
Weaving writings and personal testimonials from Alaa and his family members, alongside vivid memoryscapes and haunting images, Alaa: A Family Trilogy is an epic dramatization of a single family's unwavering resistance at the heart of a nation's fight for justice.
An ensemble of BIPOC actors of all backgrounds, ethnicities, genders, abilities, ages, etc.: Track 1: 30s, woman, MONA
Track 2: 60s - 70s, woman, LAILA
Track 3: 60s - 70s, woman, AHDAF
Track 4: 8-14 male, child (Neurodivergent actors are particularly encouraged to audition for this track), CHILD ALAA (age 4 to 17), CHILD KHALED, ENSEMBLE CHILD, MICKEY TOY
Track 5: 20s - 30s, man, YOUNG ALAA (age 17 to 33), COUSIN OMAR
Track 6: 50s - 60s, man, OLDER ALAA (age 33 to the Present), SEIF
Track 7: 20s, woman, SANAA, ENSEMBLE MEMBER #1
Track 8: 20s, woman, MANAL, ENSEMBLE MEMBER #3
Track 9: 30s, man, MINA, WARDEN, ENSEMBLE MEMBER #2
Track 10: 60s, man, GENERAL S, OFFICER, ENSEMBLE MEMBER #4
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