Depot Theatre 2023 Season - Plattsburgh, NY EPA Depot Theatre | Westport, NY
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Sunday, April 30, 2023
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Equity members can sign up on a first come, first served basis starting at 9am on the morning of the audition. If you are unable to attend this audition, you may submit a video audition for casting or call back consideration. Please see breakdown for further details.
SPT
$375 weekly minimum (SPT 3)
Equity actors for roles in Depot Theatre's 2023 Season (See breakdown).
For WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME, please prepare a monologue in the style of the show/character of interest. If you’re auditioning for the role of the Young Debate Student, you are welcome to present “The Preamble” of The Constitution (See breakdown) in the style of speech and debate. The total audition should not exceed 3 minutes. For THE FANTASTICKS, please prepare 16-32 bars of a song and a short monologue in the style of the show/character of interest. Please take note of the casting breakdown noted for this production when considering your interest in which roles. Actively seeking actors across the gender spectrum and actors of color.
Strand Center for the Arts
23 Brinkerhoff Street
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
THIS SPACE'S VENTILATION HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED BY ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION.
Julie Lucido, Director - WHAT THE
CONSTTITUTION MEANS TO ME
Kelsey Leigh Ervi, Director - THE
FANTASTICKS
Expected to attend:
Michael Glavan - Artistic Production Manager, Depot Theatre; Associate Director, WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME,
CHESAPEAKE, THE FANTASTICKS. Kim Rielly, Executive Director, Depot Theatre
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME First Rehearsal: June 19
Opening: June 29th
Closing: July 16th
CHESAPEAKE:
First rehearsal: July 10th
Opening: July 20th
Closing: August 6th
THE FANTASTICKS
First Rehearsal: July 31st
Opening: August 10th
Closing: August 27th
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.
Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms.
Holding/Audition room information:
The maximum capacity in the holding room is: 80
The maximum capacity in the audition room is: 52
Video Submissions Instructions:
Please submit all submission materials to auditions@depottheatre.org by April 23, 2023.
Please submit a headshot, a resume, an unlisted youtube video link containing your audition, and your availability for a callback on April 28 in NYC or on April 30 at the Strand in Plattsburgh, NY.
If you’re auditioning for WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME, please prepare two contrasting monologues in the style of the show/character of interest. If you’re auditioning for the role of the Young Debate Student, you are welcome to present “The Preamble” of The Constitution in the style of speech and debate in addition to a monologue.
If you’re auditioning for THE FANTASTICKS!, please prepare two contrasting musical selections of 16- 32 bars and a short monologue in the style of the show/character of interest. Please take note of the casting breakdown noted for this production when considering your interest in which roles. Actively seeking actors across the gender spectrum and actors of color.
Director: Julie Lucido
Performer / Heidi - Female, White, 40s - 50s. Based on Heidi Schreck; a former debate champion who traveled the country in her teens giving speeches about the Constitution at American legion halls for prize money. Engaging, dynamic, smart, passionate, sunny disposition, fierce and witty. Alternates from adulthood to her 15 year old self throughout the play. Improv skills a plus
Legionnaire / Mike - Open gender, but male-presenting, 40s-50s. Heidi’s friend; first appears as an assertive American Legionnaire monitoring the speech and debate, and a stickler for the rules/law with a sweet side. He later takes off his Legionnaire uniform turning into Heidi’s ally and assistant; Mike is gay and a self-declared nerd.
Teen Debate Student - female-presenting, young person of color, teens-early 20s. (She/her or they/them); This character appears in Act 2; Looking for a student or recent graduate with experience on the forensic circuit/speech and debate, and would be willing to share a bit of their own life and history onstage. Acting, improvisation, and/or debate experience preferred but not required. Charisma, competitive nature, and passion for knowledge.
Audition option - Preamble: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
By Lee Blessing
Director: Craig Joseph
Kerr: a performance artist seeking revenge on a Southern tea-party politician for slandering his work, but before he is able to enact a nefarious plot to steal the senator’s dog, he is mystically reincarnated into the senator’s dog.
THIS SHOW IS ALREADY CAST
Director: Kelsey Leigh Ervi
Music Director: TBA
The conceit for this production embraces the universality and sense of allegory in the telling of this musical. This is a play about love. That’s for everyone. We are actively seeking to cast across the gender spectrum for any and all roles. We are enthusiastically casting against traditional and historical “types” for the roles listed below. That includes age, gender expression, race, physical ability, and sexual orientation. Our aim is to bring together an ensemble from which the actors are able to step into these roles fully, employing and manifesting imagination in the execution of these roles.
To be clear, the characters themselves will retain their assigned gender as detailed by the play. The actors themselves who portray these gendered roles, will not be bound to the strictures of gendered traditionalism. The same is true for age. The characters will maintain their ages, however the creative team is open to any of the characters being portrayed by actors of any age.
MATT: a lover. Charming, endearing, honest. Sings low A - high G
LUISA: a lover. Tender, sincere, enchanting. Sings low B - high B
EL GALLO: A bandit, a leader, and our narrator. Sings low Ab - high G
THE MUTE: A speechless and “invisible” narrator of everything else.
HENRY: The aging, seasoned actor who (mostly) recalls Shakespeare and revels in the magic of theatre.
MORTIMER: A generous scene partner to Henry, known for his elaborate death scenes.
HUCKLEBEE: A parent. Sings low A - high F#
BELLOMY: A parent. Sings low A - high F#
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