Connecticut Repertory Theatre 2017-18 Season - NYC EPA
University of Connecticut
**Revised Breakdown**
AUDITION DATE
Jul 20, 2017
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
URTA URTA Tier II; $629/week
SEEKING
Actors for various roles in the upcoming 17-18 Season.
PREPARATION
Brief monologue, or brief contrasting monologues. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Pearl Studios NYC (500)
500 8th Avenue
New York, NY 10018-6504
12th floor
PERSONNEL
McCorkle Casting (Attending Auditions), Artistic Director: Michael Bradford (not attending auditions). Directors (not attending auditions): Jean Randich, Michael Bradford, Paul Mullins, Kristin Wold
OTHER
www.crt.uconn.edu
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
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
R 8/28 O 10/6 C 10/15
Seeking
LADY BRACKNELL
(50’s – 60’s) A gorgon of disapproval whom the next generation must get around. Bracknell exercises extreme force in navigating the young towards financially remunerative matches. She is the fount of all British upper crust values: status, privilege, old wealth, land, and respectability. She arranges the marriages in the play much like Wilde’s mother arranged his own. May be played by either a woman or a man, and by any race or ethnicity. Speaks aristocratic British English with sophistication, relishing her elite status. Physically agile and highly performative, has the Irish mischief in her blood. She can devastate you with a glance, a bon mot, a deft aside. Lady Bracknell is based on a fictional character as well as Lady Queensberry, Lord Alfred Douglas’s mother, and Oscar Wilde’s own mother, Lady Jane Wilde, a revolutionary writer and Irish patriot
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OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD
by Timberlake Wertenbaker
R 10/17 O 12/1 C 12/09
Seeking:
Major Ross / Ketch Freeman - 30-50, male. The actor will double in these roles. Major Ross is male, age range 30-50, a vile, power obsessed man, who intimidates the convicts and believes that the convicts’ punishments should be severe. He is completely against the play “The Recruiting Officer” being put on and constantly ridicules Clark for it. Ketch Freeman is a convict, transported for the killing of a sailor. He is made the hangman of the colony, and is despised by other convicts for being a hangman and struggles to be accepted.
Harry Brewer / Captain Campbell. Age 25-35, male.The actor will double in these roles. Campbell, male, is a follower of Ross, he is often inebriated and copies Ross’s views on everything, though he finds himself amused at the idea of the convicts performing a play. Harry Brewer is male, and is the lowest ranking of the soldier and struggles to find his place. He is tormented by the ghost of a man he hanged. A jealous man in a relationship with the convict Duckling Smith.
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THE CRUCIBLE
by Arthur Miller
R 1/15 O 2/23 C 3/4
2 AEA contracts to be cast among the available roles below:
Judge Danforth, male, 50-60s. Deputy Governor of Massachusetts, who is called to preside as judge over the witchcraft trials. A commanding presence. Convinced he is doing the right thing in rooting out witchcraft.
Giles Corey, male, 60s-70s. An elderly but feisty farmer in Salem, famous for his tendency to file lawsuits.
Rebecca Nurse: female, 60s. A wise, sensible, woman held in tremendous regard by most of the Salem community. She falls victim to the hysteria and refuses to confess to witchcraft.
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AS YOU LIKE IT
by William Shakespeare
R 3/6 O 4/20 C 4/29
2 AEA contracts to be cast among the available roles below
Duke Senior - One actor may play both Duke Senior and Duke Frederick. Men and women will be considered for this/these roles/s. Character is 50+ years old. The rightful duke, banished from court after being deposed by a usurping brother. Living in exile in the Forest of Arden. A kind, generous and forgiving person.
Duke Frederick - One actor may play both Duke Senior and Duke Frederick - men and women will be considered for this/these role/s. Characters are 50+ years old. Frederick: The usurping Duke. Impulsive and vengeful. A powerful presence.
Jacques - 40 years plus. Women and men will be considered for this role. Attending the banished Duke Senior in the Forest of Arden. Contemplative, articulate, witty, a keen mind, melancholy.
Touchstone - 40 years plus. A Fool at the Duke's court. Exceedingly bright, quick-witted. A role for a master comedian with strong classical language skills. Accompanies the banished Rosalind and her cousin Celia into the Forest. Marries Audrey, a goat-herd.
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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