Theatre For A New Audience | New York, NY
Thursday, October 31, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
LORT Non-Rep
$1011 weekly minimum (LORT C)
Equity actors for roles in HENRY IV (See breakdown).
There will be no understudies.
Please prepare one Shakespeare monologue of your choice and bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Dodger Atelier
311 W 43rd St Ste 603
New York, NY 10036-6017
Text: William Shakespeare
Adapted by: Dakin Matthews
Director: Eric Tucker
Expected to attend:
Jack Doulin, Casting Director
First Rehearsal Monday December 9, 2024
Tech: January 21, 2025
Open: Thursday February 6, 2025
Close: Sunday March 2, 2025
NOTES: There will be an unpaid week off from Monday December 23 through Saturday December 28. There will be no rehearsal on January 1.
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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.
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Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
This is an ensemble-based production running 3:45 minutes with two intermissions. Fifteen actors will play over thirty characters. In addition to performing roles, the ensemble will participate in singing, live music, and stage fighting. The production will be directed by Eric Tucker and produced by Theatre for a New Audience.
Actors are encouraged to audition for whatever role(s) they wish.
The roles of Falstaff and Lady Percy are not available. Roles will double as indicated. We will not be auditioning separately for various SERVANTS, SOLDIERS, MESSENGERS, RECRUITS, COURTIERS, or TAVERN HABITUES, but these roles will all be doubles.
PRINCE HAL: 20s-30s. Son of the king and heir apparent to the English throne. Has awareness of his personal political power and at the same time is rebellious and transgresses boundaries of class and law. Comfortable in both comic and dramatic situations. Witty, charismatic, playful, self-confident, inventive, capable of gravitas, and an excellent fighter.
KING HENRY: 50s-70s. Strong but ailing. Able to wield political power. Quick tempered, canny, guilt-ridden at the assassination of Richard II. Henry is frustrated, conniving, determined to hold onto power and loves his son Hal. May double into small cameos.
HOTSPUR: 20s-40s. Hal’s chief rival - a soldier and charismatic leader of the rebellion. Strong sense of justice; hotheaded and not always in control of his speech. Attractive and admired, a great fighter and deeply in love with his wife. Will double into other roles, as yet to be decided.
NORTHUMBERLAND: 50s-70s, Hotspur’s father, nominal head of the Percy clan, but somewhat vacillating and outshone by his aggressive younger brother Worcester. Grows weaker over the course of the play. Will double with smaller parts.
WORCESTER: 40s-60s Hotspur’s uncle, and the chief manager of the conspiracy. Smart, duplicitous, ambitious, manipulative. Will double into other roles.
WARWICK/LORD CHIEF JUSTICE: 50s-70s. The King’s chief domestic adviser and confidant. The voice of reason and the avatar of law. A moderating influence and rival of Falstaff. Will double into smaller roles.
WESTMORELAND: 40s-60s. A career soldier and King Henry’s chief military adviser. Eloquent, bluff, occasionally sarcastic, confident. Allies himself with Prince John. Will double into other roles.
POINS: 20s-40s. Prince Hal’s confidant and confederate. Not lower class, but well-born and educated. Clever, witty, easy going, not without ambition, but knows how to be subordinate to the Prince. Will double into other roles.
MISTRESS QUICKLY: 40s-60s, the hostess of the tavern and an ex- or current madam. Canny but uses malaprops. Knowingly conned by Falstaff, but still craves his affection. Will play other roles, including LADY NORTHUMBERLAND.
LADY NORTHUMBERLAND: 40s-60s, Wife of Northumberland. Mourns the loss of her son Hotspur and determined to keep her ailing husband alive and away from the wars.
DOLLTEARSHEET: 30s-40s. Tavern wench and prostitute. With Falstaff. Sharp-tongued and also accommodating. Will double into other roles.
LADY MORTIMER: 20s-30s, Welsh-speaking daughter of Glendower and wife of Edmund Mortimer. She sings.
GLENDOWER: 50-70s. Eccentric; short-tempered; can be self-important and thinks of himself as a magician. Bilingual and speaks Welsh and English. A general in the rebellion. Will be doubled with other roles.
PISTOL: 30s-60s. Eccentric companion to Falstaff, Braggart, self-important, thinks of himself as a warrior and given to snatches of incomprehensible rhetoric. Will double.
BARDOLPH: 30s-60s, Drunken, hanger-on to Falstaff. Undependable, but endearing. Will double with other roles.
SHALLOW: 60s-80s, Emaciated, elderly, wealthy rural Justice of the Peace who both shares memories of his youth when he knew a young Falstaff and discusses facing death with his laconic brother SILENCE. Will double into other roles, probably including NYM, another member of Falstaff’s crew.
FRANCIS: 15-25. Not tall. A tavern boy who later becomes Falstaff’s page. Will double.
PRINCE JOHN: 20s-30s. Hal’s younger brother. Waiting in the wings; cold-blooded and manipulative. Takes after his father, whom he tries to please. Will double and play other roles.
HASTINGS, VERNON, DOUGLAS, MORTIMER, and THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK: (30s-50s) are all first-and-second-wave conspirators against the throne. They will all be doubled by principal.
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