ALTERNATING CURRENTS - NYC EPA **Updated Personnel**
Working Theater Company, Inc.
AUDITION DATE
Tue, Feb 20, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EST)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
LOA-NYC $420/week, approval pending
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles. NOTE: All actors should have facility with playing comedy and heightened language. See breakdown.
PREPARATION
Please prepare a 1- 2 minute dramatic or comedic contemporary monologue. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Director: Kareem Fahmy
Expected to attend for at least part of the day
are:
Mark Plesent, Producing Artistic Director,
Working Theater
Laura Monarque, Managing Director, Working
Theater
Adam Kraar, Playwright
Geoff Josselson, Casting Director
OTHER DATES
REH: 4/2/18
PREVIEW: 4/26/18
OPEN: 5/8/18
CLOSE: 5/27/18
Please note: Alternating Currents will run for 2 ½ weeks at Urban Stages in Manhattan then spend 2 ½ weeks touring to venues in each of the other boroughs of NYC as part of Working Theater’s Five Boroughs/One City Initiative. All rehearsals will be held at 520 8th Avenue.
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity monitor will be provided.
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
ELENA STEIN
30, a white woman. A soulful odd bird. Verve, heart and a vulnerability that she often covers with wit. A secular Jew who’s grown up in many different cities, she’s lived in her native NYC long enough that we recognize it in her speech and energy.
LUKE CAMPBELL
28, an African-American man. A passionate strong teddy-bear of a man; freedom loving, curious, and honest. While he is usually in control of himself, he’s capable of losing his temper.
JERRY
A youngish white man. He is our Guide and the “Stage Manager” of this play. Idealistic, funny and eloquent, we like and trust him. A good sense of comedy and poetry. This actor must be able to play a wide variety of roles, ages, types, and accents and quickly transform in and out of them.
SAL
50s, white. Sal is an Italian-American New Yorker; outgoing, a performer, appetitive. He is aware of his power in the union, and confident in his belief that he wields his power for the common good. This actor will also briefly play a couple of other roles, from a grizzled electrician in his late 60s to a little boy.
SWING WOMAN ONE
A young black woman. Also plays a wide variety of roles, from a teenaged male hip hop dancer to a young Latina to a little boy. Must be able to play a wide variety of ages, types, and accents, and quickly transform in and out of them.
SWING WOMAN TWO
A middle aged woman (white or Latina). Plays roles ranging from a white homemaker to a middle-aged Latina to a late middle aged man. Must be able to play a wide variety of ages, types, and accents, and quickly transform in and out of them.
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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