AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE - NYC Appointments
Guthrie Theater Foundation
APPOINTMENTS
NYC auditions to be held 12/12/2017, 12/13/2017 by APPOINTMENT ONLY.
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep LORT B; $887/week
SEEKING
Equity actors for 4 male roles.
Seeking submissions from AEA members. AEA members must submit themselves directly in order to be considered via this posting (no agent or third-party submissions).
INSTRUCTIONS
For consideration, email picture and resume by December 11th.
Deadline: Mon, Dec 11, 2017
SUBMIT TO
SUBMISSION.MCCORKLECASTING@GMAIL.COM
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Joseph Haj
Director: Lydsey Turner
By: Henrik Ibsen
Casting Assistant: Tracy Kaczorowski
Casting Director: Pat McCorkle. Katja Zarolinski
OTHER DATES
Callback Date(s): 12/14/2017
Rehearsal Date(s): 03/27/2018
Preview Date(s): 04/28/2018
Opening Date(s): 05/04/2018
Closing Date(s): 06/03/2018
OTHER
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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
Seeking:
TOM STOCKMAN
Male. Mid 40s. Complicated fellow: torn between a desire to do the right thing and a healthy ego. Outwardly looks as if he has it all, has rather sailed through life up to this point. A liberal who becomes a kind of fanatic. The kind of person you’d find at the centre of a Scandinavian drama series about the complexity of contemporary life. Charismatic, persuasive, innocent in his own way.
Tom is a scientist specialising in [to be settled on] but has done some public consultancy work across disciplines. He is of note because of his high profile brother, the mayor, who has made a point of appointing Tom to various boards and panels. They are both young and successful, and working as part of a team has attracted considerable attention. The Messenger has recently run a feature profile on him. Tom can be gregarious and sociable but it doesn’t come as easily to him as it does for his brother. He is emotionally intelligent but he worries that this has meant that he spends too long trying to get others to like him. He cares too much about status and would say that his ego is his greatest flaw. He is an avid bird-watcher.
PETER STOCKMAN
Male. Mid 40s. Tom’s brother. Politician. Not remotely ‘the baddie’ that he is in the other versions of the play. There’s real affection between the brothers, but Peter lives in the real world. Like a politician from a Danish TV drama. Complicated. Dominating intellect, talks fast and precisely. Wants to be a decent guy but ultimately chooses the world we live in over the world of some liberal fantasy. Has teeth but rarely shows them.
Mayor of the town and one of the rising stars of Norwegian politics. Peter excelled at school, though while it would absolutely fly in the face of his public, popular, man of the people image, Peter sees his work as oratory and a kind of curation. He is a chameleon, he can be comfortable in any room he finds himself in. The younger Peter might have seen himself more of a liberal, more of the left, but his formative years in the political system has shifted him closer to the centre and even right. Peter is a man who knows the value of stability and security, how much the status quo costs, and the effort it takes to maintain it.
MORTEN
Male. Mid 40s. Extremely canny operator. Is intimidating and knows it. Doesn’t have to work terribly hard to enact his power, as it’s inherent in his manner. Very often the cleverest person in a room. Watchful, ruthlessly pragmatic. Absolutely loves his sister, slightly suspicious of her husband. Dark sense of humour. Finds himself amused by other people’s inability to play the game as well as he can.
Morten is Kate’s brother and a local businessman. He always sees the compromise in people, and tries to hide his own. He is useless at personal relationships but his ferocious appetite for work has meant that he is very successful. Everything is a competition and often finds himself in imaginary races driving around the town. He believes himself to be apolitical in the way that a lot of right wing people say they are. He thinks Tom and Kate are wet but has the same kind of admiration for Peter as one does a cowboy car salesman. If something cannot be measured, he considers it optional.
BILLING
Male. Late 20s-30s. Novelist. His debut novel, released when he was twenty, was a hit in Norway. It propelled him to literary stardom that burned brightly. The success and his reaction to it caused him to lose every significant personal relationship in his life. Since giving up alcohol and cocaine, he is now trying to write his second novel. He is signed to Kate’s company and is a year late on his first manuscript. He is staying in the Stockmanns’ summer house while he finishes it. The book will be about the gospel according to Mark.
STORYLINE:
An Enemy of the People follows Dr. Stockmann who aims to expose dangerous water pollution in a Norwegian spa town’s public baths. At first he’s seen as a hero, but gradually the whistleblower comes under fire for publicizing a problem that could destroy the town’s economy and reputation. With ripped-from-the-headlines relevance, this high-intensity drama reveals the dangers a single person may face in a quest for truth
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 submit.
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