American Stage Company 2017-18 Season - St. Petersburg, FL EPA
American Stage Company
AUDITION DATE
Jun 12, 2017
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
APPOINTMENTS
AEA members may request an appointment by emailing preferred time to auditions@americanstage.org. Visit Americanstage.org/auditions for additional information. AEA members without appointments may be seen as time permits on the day of. Non-AEA actors may also be seen as time permits on the day of.
CONTRACT
SPT SPT-7; AEA $490 a Week Minimum
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles in the upcoming season.
Auditions for American Stage in the Park's production of The Producers held at a later date
PREPARATION
Please prepare two contrasting monologues not to exceed two minutes. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
American Stage Company
163 3rd St N
St Petersburg, FL 33701
Please check in at the 2nd floor lobby.
PERSONNEL
Producing Artistic Director Stephanie Gularte
OTHER DATES
The Royale Rehearses 8/29/17-9/20/17. Runs 9/22/17-10/15/17
Much Ado About Nothing Rehearses 10/17/17 -11/8/17. Runs 11/10/17-12/10/17
A Raisin in the Sun Rehearses 1/2/18 -1/24/2018. Runs 1/26/18 - 2/18/18
Marjorie Prime Rehearses 2/13/18 - 3/7/18. Runs 3/9/18 - 4/1/18
Strait of Gibraltar Rehearses 5/1/18 - 5/23/18. Runs 5/25/18 -6/17/18
Bad Jews Rehearses 6/19/18- 7/11/18. Runs 7/13/18-8/5/18.
OTHER
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
American Stage
SPT-7 $490 per week minimum for main stage productions.
LOA LORT $562 per week minimum for American Stage in the Park (auditions for this season will be held at a later date)
Mainstage
The Royale
By Marco Ramirez
Directed by Stephanie Gularte
Runs September 20 – October 15, 2017
Jay:
Male, Late 20’s-Early 30’s, African American. solid/tall/powerful physique of a champion heavyweight boxer. An athlete through-and-through, but one who operates with the swagger of an artist. Cut from the same cloth that made Michael Jordan, Miles Davis, and Kanye West. A loveable bravado. Seemingly impenetrable, until it's not. Stubborn. Kind. Complicated.
Wynton:
Male, 50’s, African American - Role is cast. We will consider actors for possible understudy or replacements. Jay's trainer, a face that's seen a lot. Smart enough to operate in a professional world, scrappy enough to roll up his sleeves and fight in a back alley when necessary. A paternal figure. A former athlete himself, but one born to another era. An August Wilson character in a David Mamet world.
Nina:
Female, 30’s, African American. Jay's fierce older sister, immovable, stern, smart, loving. Born in another era, she might've ended up leading the Black Panthers or running for District Attorney. But given her time and circumstance, she'll settle for raising the children who will.
Fish:
Male, 18-25, African American. An amateur boxer, who becomes Jay's sparring partner. Solid/tall/powerful physique of a heavyweight boxer; sweet, ambitious. An athlete who may be something someday, but doesn't necessarily have the God-given talent to make him a first-round draft pick. That means he works for it. Harder and harder every day. A young man constantly reminded of his status in the world, who has the dignity to fight through it, smartly keeping his head down, waiting for a better day.
Max:
Male,40’s, Caucasian. A fight promoter and referee. In some ways, the inverse of Wynton, a David Mamet character in an August Wilson world. He hitched his wagon to the train in which he saw potential--an African-American boxer named Jay Jackson. He likes making money, but more importantly, he likes the sport of it all. The excitement and sweat and agony and dinner with clients. He believes what they're doing is important - but not in a social sense. He doesn't care that he's arranging a fight that'll break racial boundaries. He cares more for the fact that this'll go down in history. Whether his name is attached to it or not - this fight will be his biggest accomplishment.
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Much Ado About Nothing
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Benjamin Ismail
Runs: November 8 – December 10, 2017
Benedick, A lord and soldier from Padua; companion of Don Pedro
Beatrice, niece of Leonato Role is cast. We will consider actors for possible understudy or replacements.
Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon.
Don John, the Bastard Prince, brother of Don Pedro.
Claudio, of Florence; a count, companion of Don Pedro, friend to Benedick.
Leonato, governor of Messina; Hero's father
Antonio, brother of Leonato.
Balthasar, attendant on Don Pedro, a singer.
Borachio, follower of Don John.
Conrade, follower of Don John.
Innogen, a ghost character in early editions as Leonato's wife
Hero, daughter of Leonato
Margaret, waiting-gentlewoman attendant on Hero.
Ursula, waiting-gentlewoman attendant on Hero.
Dogberry, the constable in charge of Messina's night watch.
Verges, the Headborough, Dogberry's partner
Friar Francis, a priest.
A Sexton, the judge of the trial of Borachio
A Boy, serving Benedick
The Watch, watchmen of Messina
Attendants and Messengers
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A Raisin in the Sun
By Lorraine Hansberry
Directed by L. Peter Callender
Runs January 24 – February 18, 2018
Walter Lee Younger:
Male, 30-40, African American
The protagonist of the play; Walter is a dreamer; he wants to be rich and devises plans to acquire wealth with his friends, particularly Willy Harris; when the play opens, he wants to invest his father’s insurance money in a new liquor store venture; he spends
the rest of the play endlessly preoccupied with discovering a quick solution to his family’s
various problems.
Beneatha Younger:
Female, 19-25, African American
Lena’s daughter and Walter’s sister; Beneatha is an intellectual; twenty years old, she attends college and is better educated than the rest of the Younger family; some of her personal beliefs and views have distanced her from conservative Mama; she dreams of being a doctor and struggles to determine her identity as a well-educated black woman.
Lena ‘Mama’ Younger:
Female, 55-65, African American
Walter and Beneatha’s mother; the matriarch of the family, Mama is religious, moral, and maternal; she wants to use her husband’s insurance money as a down payment on a house with a backyard to fulfill her dream for her family to move up in the world.
Ruth Younger:
Female, 29-37, African American
Walter’s wife and Travis’s mother; Ruth takes care of the Youngers’ small apartment; her marriage to Walter has problems, but she hopes to rekindle their love; she is about thirty, but her weariness makes her seem older; constantly fighting poverty and domestic troubles, she continues to be an emotionally strong woman; her almost pessimistic pragmatism helps her to survive.
Travis Younger:
Male, 9-12, African American
Walter and Ruth’s sheltered young son; Travis earns some money by carrying grocery bags and likes to play outside with other neighborhood children, but he has no bedroom and sleeps on the living-room sofa.
Joseph Asagai:
Male, 24-34, African American
A Nigerian student in love with Beneatha; Asagai, as he is often called, is very proud of his African heritage, and Beneatha hopes to learn about her African heritage from him; he eventually proposes marriage to Beneatha and hopes she will return to Nigeria with him.
George Murchison:
Male, 29-36, African American
A wealthy, African-American man who courts Beneatha; the Youngers approve of George, but Beneatha dislikes his willingness to submit to white culture and forget his African heritage; he challenges the thoughts and feelings of other black people through his arrogance and flair for intellectual competition.
Mr. Karl Lindner:
35-50, Caucasian
The only white character in the play; Mr. Lindner arrives at the Youngers’ apartment from the Clybourne Park Improvement Association; he offers the Youngers a deal to reconsider moving into his (all-white) neighborhood.
Bobo:
Male, 30-40, African American
One of Walter’s partners in the liquor-store plan; Bobo appears to be as mentally slow as
his name indicates.
Mrs. Johnson:
Female, 40-60, African American
The Youngers’ neighbor; Mrs. Johnson takes advantage of the Youngers’ hospitality and warns them about moving into a predominately white neighborhood; nice cameo role.
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Marjorie Prime
By Jordan Harrison
Directed by Stephanie Gularte
Co-Production with Capital Stage, Sacramento, CA
Runs March 7 – April 1, 2018
MARJORIE
Female, 85, Role is cast. We will consider actors for possible understudy or replacements.
WALTER
Male, early 30s, Marjorie’s handsome companion
TESS
Female, 55. Marjorie's daughter. Role is cast. We will consider actors for possible understudy or replacements.
JON
Male, 55. Marjorie's son-in-law.
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Strait of Gibraltar
By Andrea Lepcio
Directed by Jim Sorensen
Runs May 23 – June 17, 2018
Miriam Rosenberg
20’s Female. A lovely 20-something Jewish Woman.
Zameer Fakhoury
Non-White 20’s Male. A handsome 20-something Moroccan Man.
ACTOR 3
20’s Male. Tripp Bacon a 20-something lawyer friend, Prosecutor, Waiter, Cop, Guard.
ACTOR 4
Non-White 20’s Female. Asra Fakhoury Zameer’s sister, Prosecutor, Waiter, Cop, Guard.
ACTOR 5
40+ Female. Selma Sassman Miriam’s Mother, Announcer, Cop, Guard.
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Bad Jews
By Joshua Harmon
Director TBA
Runs July 11- August 5, 2018
DAPHNA FEYGENBAUM
22, Liam & Jonah's first cousin. 2/3 body, 1/3 hair. Thick, intense, curly, frizzy, long brown hair. Hair that clogs a drain after one shower. Hair you find on pillows and in corners of the room and in your refrigerator six months after the head from which it grew last visited. Hair that could not be straightened even if you had four hours and three hairdressers double-fisting blow driers. Hair that screams: Jew.
LIAM HABER
25. Daphna's cousin: his mother is the sister of Daphna's father. Wire-rim glasses. U of Chicago Asian studies Ph.D. student. Former Fulbright scholar in Japan. Has as much of a sense of humor as an overdue library book. Role is cast. We will consider actors for possible understudy or replacements.
JONAH HABER
21, Liam's younger brother. Sometime-UVM sophomore. Less lanky than his brother. Less brainy. More brawn. More heart.
MELODY
24, Liam's girlfriend. Short, stick-straight blonde hair. Which she wears with a barrette. To be extra cute. Mousy. She looks like someone who would have been abducted when she was nine but returned to her parents unharmed. Works for a non-profit.
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American Stage in the Park. Auditions for THE PRODUCERS will be held at a later date TBA.
By Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks
Director TBA
Runs April 17th-May 13th
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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