GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY (tour) - NYC EPA Producing Org TBD | ,
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Friday, May 26, 2023
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Touring Agreement
Salary Pending
Equity actors for roles in GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY (tour) (See breakdown).
Please prepare a brief song of your choice in the style of the show. An accompanist will be provided. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Pearl Studios (500)
500 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6504
Holding room Studio 404
Producer: Tristan Baker of Runaway Entertainment
Director: Conor McPherson
Book: Conor McPherson
Songs by: Bob Dylan
Movement Director: Lucy Hind
Music Director: Wiley DeWeese
General Manager: Foresight Theatrical
Expected to attend:
Casting Director: Duncan Stewart CSA or ARC Casting Associate: Patrick Maravilla of ARC
Rehearsal: on or about Thursday, August 31, 2023 in NYC
Tech Rehearsals: on or about October 1, 2023 in Minneapolis
Preview: on or about Oct 7, 2023 in Minneapolis
Opening: on or about Oct 10, 2023 in Minneapolis
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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.
[NICK LAINE]: 50s. The proprietor of the guesthouse. An unconventional leading man with edge and sexual vitality. A restless man who seems younger than his years and yet he still wears something that is broken. He is all heart, taking in the waifs and strays who knock on his door, but has no head for business. The bank is about to repossess the house, which has been in the family for generations. He takes care of his wife who is slowly succumbing to dementia. Knowing that the world is about to crash down around him he struggles to find security for his family. Open to considering both non-singers and singers.
[ELIZABETH LAINE]: 50s. Nick’s wife. A complicated and contentious woman at the best of times she is now struggling through the haze of progressively worsening dementia. She had, long ago, fallen out of love with her husband but the two are now forever tied together by the needs of her caretaking. She is still more than capable of showing flashes of the woman she used to be. Tough, acerbic and a ferocious defender of her two kids.
[MARIANNE LAINE]: Early 20s. Black. Nick and Elizabeth’s daughter. Abandoned by boarders who left her in a bag at the guesthouse as a baby, she has been raised by Nick and Elizabeth. She is pregnant but who the father of her child is remains a mystery. Her world is small and she yearns to blow it open. She has a lot of her father’s strength as well as his restlessness. A chance encounter with a penniless drifter gives her one shot at getting out and starting a new life.
[GENE LAINE]: 20s. Nick and Elizabeth’s son. Aspires to be a writer, with perhaps the soul of a poet but looks more like a farmhand. Something rough-hewn about him already despite his years. Smart and appealing, he has a way with words. Already something of a lost and yearning soul. He sits in the bars in town in search of inspiration but mostly what he finds is the bottom of the bottle. Alcohol fuels his sense of rage at the disappointments life has already dealt him. If he could only get to New York surely the great American novel would pour out of him.
[KATE DRAPER]: 20s. Gene’s ex-girlfriend. She is beautiful and bright with a life ahead full of possibilities. Unable to embrace Gene’s darkness and complication she has moved on with her own life. In a town this small, she will always be the one who got away.
[MRS. NIELSEN]: 40s. Black. A widow. Nick’s mistress. Attractive. Self-possessed. Equal parts warmth and ballsy poise. You know she is in the room when she enters it. She is living at the boarding house while she waits for her dead husband’s money to come through. Still vibrant and full of life she is yearning for another chance at life and love.
[MR. BURKE]: 50s. A onetime factory owner. A man’s man who relished his power and the fraternal combat involved in business. He now carries an air of defeat, although he doesn’t know it. The combination of his family tribulations and the depression have knocked the wind out of his sails.
[ELIAS BURKE]: Early 30s. His son. A grown man with the developmental capabilities of a four year old child. Although he has a sweet and benign spirit, he has a physical strength that he doesn’t understand or know how to control. Capable of creating an expressive physical life.
[MRS. BURKE]: Late 40s – early 50s. Elias’ mother. She has devoted herself to caring for her son at the expense of her own happiness and fulfillment, with little or no help from her husband. Was attractive and is now trying to hold on to something that is slipping away along with the best years of her life. She numbs the pain with an addiction to morphine. Both dramatic and comedic skills. A strong singer who is more chanteuse than musical theater vocally. PLEASE NOTE: Ability to play a drum kit or have developed percussion skills a plus.
[JOE SCOTT]: Late 20s –Early 30s. Black. A boxer. He is making his way to Chicago where he is looking for a fresh start after serving time. Although prison interrupted a promising career as a fighter he still has the quickness and ferocity that will put him on top in a physical confrontation. He is forthright and piercingly clear about what he wants but there is still something enigmatic about his past. He just might be Marianne’s ticket out of town.
[REV. MARLOWE]: 50s. A bible salesman and a weasel. He hides behind the semi- respectability of selling God’s word but in reality he’ll pull any con to survive.
[MR. PERRY]: 60s. A shoe mender. Although he is over forty years her senior he is Nick’s best bet for a husband for Marianne. He is a decent and kind man with his own business and house. A widower, he is lonely and afraid of his rapidly approaching old age.
[DR. WALKER]: Late 40s – early 60s. A physician. A storyteller. A likeable man with a warm spirit and speaking voice. Although a frequent visitor to Nick’s house, he is something of an outsider amongst the others, a characteristic which suits him perfectly as the narrator of the story. He knows everything
about the intimacies of his patient’s lives but his own life is an enigma to them and perhaps to himself. An acute observer of other people’s pain, he eventually succumbs to the unbearableness of his own loneliness. Actors of color are encouraged to audition for this role.
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