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Seeking
Equity actors, 2 men, 3 women for principal roles.
See breakdown.
Preparation
Please prepare a contemporary dramatic monologue.
Bring picture and resume, stapled together
Other Dates
First Rehearsal: December 29th, 2015
First Performance: January 28th, 2015
Opening Night: February 13th, 2015
Closing Night: April 11th, 2015
Other
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Personnel
Written by: Sheila Callaghan
Directed by: Jessica Kubzansky
Artistic Director: David Van Asselt
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will be provided.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
A World Premiere Co-Production with The Theatre @ Boston Court and Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre
Victor is a ruthless fashion designer in the 1970s at the top of his game. Esme, his glamorous protégé and muse, is pushed aside when an ordinary Southern woman inspires Victor to make his artistry accessible to the masses. A generation later, a woman grappling with a healthy dose of self-loathing must wrestle her own family demons to find her way through the world of fashion that won’t give a woman her size a second look. Skipping back and forth in time, Everything You Touch is a viciously funny look at the struggle to find an identity that's more than skin deep.
SEEKING:
JESS
Female, late 20s – early 30s, all ethnicities. A computer programmer who is physically absolutely not model-sized, someone who could afford to lose 30 -40 pounds, smart, ironic, terribly self-deprecating, self-destructive in her choice of men, charming and flawed and human. Jess is a funny, vulnerable woman with a genius streak who is actually sexy, she just doesn’t know it.
VICTOR:
Male, plays late 20s to late 40s, all ethnicities. Victor is a fashion designer who is a seemingly arrogant, passionate artist with secret terrible insecurities. He is painfully skinny, brilliant, caustic, can be vicious, can be terrifyingly uncertain in his pursuit of his own design, he can be an arrogant baby who actually torments himself with doubts about whether or not elitism or accessibility should be his immortality. He is also charming, funny, narcissistic, really knows how to seduce the ladies even though he may not be very good in bed. Has more passion, compassion and heart than might be immediately apparent from his cutting wit.
ESEM
female, plays late 20s - late 40s, all ethnicities. Victor’s muse, a denizen of the fashion world, former model who was ridiculously beautiful in her 20s, who has her own inspired design ideas which she subsumes to Victor’s genius, only to get shunted aside when Victor falls for the average girl as his next muse. In the later time frame she has gained weight and is bitterly resigned to her far more ordinary existence raising a child.
LOUELLA
Female, late 20s to mid 30s, Caucasian. Louella is from Little Rock, Arkansas (and needs that accent), a “perfectly average woman” whose real common sense and pragmatic, grounded approach to life inspires Victor to fall in love with her as his next muse as he attempts to make his art accessible to the “average woman”. However, Louella has a strong sense of humor, and a strong sense of self, despite her very down-to-earth common sense.
LEWIS
male, late 20s to mid 30s, all ethnicities. Scruffy computer geek and Jess’s co-worker, he has real nerd cred. He’s in love with Jess for all those qualities that make her unique, for her vulgar, unlovely, grounded, snarky self. Compassionate, awkward, nerdily funny, with no game except his own disarming sense of truth and what’s important.
MODEL CHORUS:
Three Women 20s – 30, all ethnicities. These folks need to plausibly be models. They play a variety of characters in the course of the play, a model who commits suicide, models who effect a vicious makeover, runway models, an interviewer, the voice of Jess’s mother, occasionally they “become” the furniture, and otherwise act as model “objects”. These roles are highly physical, and also need an ensemble spirit and the ability to change characters like garments in a fashion show.
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