FIRE IN DREAMLAND - NYC EPA
New York Shakespeare Festival
AUDITION DATE
Tue, Mar 13, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EST)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
Off Broadway $911/week current min
SEEKING
Equity actors for 3 roles. See breakdown..
About: Breaking the boundaries of time and narrative, FIRE IN DREAMLAND is a vibrant new play that explores the astonishing things we do when faced with devastation. On Coney Island, in the aftermath of 2012’s Superstorm Sandy, a disillusioned do-gooder in her corporate life and charismatic European aspiring film-maker meet and get lost together in the vortex of his visionary schemes to make a film about another disaster that struck Coney Island’s amusement park some hundred years before.
PREPARATION
Please prepare one SHORT (no more than two minutes in length) contemporary monologue. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Writer: Rinne Groff
Director: Marissa Wolf
Casting: Jordan Thaler/Heidi Griffiths
Attended by Public Theater Casting Office (Jordan Thaler, Heidi Griffiths, Kate Murray, Rebecca Feldman, Claire Yenson, and/or Chalin Tulyathan)
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: 5/22/18
First Performance: 6/19/18
Closing: 8/5/18
Poss Extension Close: 8/12/18
THE PUBLIC THEATER
ANSPACHER THEATER
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.
BREAKDOWN
KATE:
Female. Any ethnicity. 30’s. Smart, warm and empathic. Feels stuck and adrift in her own life. Thinks of herself as sensible and practical, but there’s a romantic side to her as well. An enthusiast. She yearns to be a part of something that will have an impact on the world and throws herself wholeheartedly into each job or project she undertakes. Possesses a strong backbone.
JAAP:
Male. Any ethnicity. 40’s. Dutch, AND SPEAKS ENGLISH WITH A DUTCH ACCENT. Handsome, intense, charismatic, extremely charming. Sexy, magnetic and left of center. Deeply passionate about his art and his film, and his excitement is easily contagious. Possesses a frank and straightforward sense of humor. A unique spirit, visionary, impulsive. He’s the kind of guy who easily attracts and is more than happy to benefit from the kindness of strangers.
LANCE:
Male. African American. 20’s. A film student. Modern and trying to figure out his place in the world of now. In some ways smart beyond his years, in other ways more of a kid because he has led a sheltered life. Thoughtful, sensitive and observant, with a slightly nerdy sense of humor. A native New Yorker who comes from a wealthy background and the privilege that money brings.
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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