GRANT & TWAIN - NYC EPA
Side Car Productions, LLC
AUDITION DATE
Mon, Jul 09, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1:30 to 2:30
CONTRACT
SPT SPT Category 5 // $425/week + housing/transportation + pension/health
SEEKING
Equity actors for 3 roles. See breakdown.
PREPARATION
Actors will be asked to read a monologue, provided at the audition. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Pearl Studios NYC (500)
500 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6504
Studio 1205, holding room | Studio 1203, audition room
PERSONNEL
Director: Regge Life (expected at the EPA)
Playwright: Elizabeth Diggs (expected at the EPA)
Casting: Stephanie Klapper Casting
OTHER DATES
1st Rehearsal: Sept 11, 2018
Opening: Sept 27, 2018
Closing: Sept 30, 2018
Venue: PS21 Black Box Theater, Chatham NY
Performance Schedule: Thursday – Friday 8pm; Saturday 2pm & 8pm; Sunday 2pm
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
GRANT & TWAIN tells the story of a remarkable friendship.
20 years after the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain were the two most famous men in America — the rock stars of the Gilded Age. They were opposites in temperament, but the bond they shared was deep -- both grew up poor, challenged to test their courage by the mighty Mississippi River. When they went East, they were shunned as crude Westerners, but they knew their powers. They were audacious and original. Twain was twelve years younger than Grant. He idolized the heroic Commanding General, and proudly called himself “a Grant-intoxicated man.”
At age 62, Ulysses Grant was bankrupted in a Wall Street swindle. His only hope to restore his honor and save his family was an offer to write his memoirs of the war. Twain was infuriated by the terms offered by the prestigious publisher. He made an audacious proposal: he would publish Grant’s book and make it the biggest best-seller in American history. When Grant finally agreed to Twain’s offer, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and wrote in a race with death. A play about shame, fear and redemption.
SEEKING:
ULYSSES S. GRANT
(Male, early 60s) The Commanding General of the Union Army that won the Civil War, 2-term President of the U.S. A man who never aspired to greatness and yet achieved it as the most brilliant military strategist since Caesar A person of complete integrity whose one flaw is that he fails to see dishonesty in others. He is a man of action, who keeps his own counsel. He never wavers in his determination to achieve the goal in spite of the jealous attacks of enemy press in both South and North. He adores his wife and family. His friend from West Point, but his enemy in the war, Confederate General James Longstreet says when he dies, “The bravest man that ever lived.”
MARK TWAIN
(Male, late 40s) The most famous writer in the country, a man of intense energy and ego. He loves his own fame and glory and basks in the limelight. Prone to wild mood swings, with an explosive temper and irreverent humor. He idolizes Grant for his courage, proudly calls himself “a Grant-intoxicated man: and says of him, “How and where General Grant was so much larger than other men I had ever met I cannot describe.”
This is not the Twain of Hal Holbrook, Twain is not yet created persona in the white suit. He was unconventional in dress and manner, liked to shock people with mis-matched tweeds or an embroidered vest. His hair is still mostly red. He is at the height of his fame and glory, about to publish Huckleberry Finn, and before he loses money in several misguided investments. He idolizes Grant.
WILLIAM PERKINS INGERSOLL
(Male, 20s) He is an iconic Union Soldier, brash and cocky, a patriot who thinks he knows it all. The son of a lawyer from Illinois.
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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