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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Monday, March 2, 2015
10 AM to 6 PM
lunch 1:30 to 2:30
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Contract
Off Broadway
$577/week
Location
Playwright's Horizons
416 West 42nd Street
New York, NY
5th floor audition room - holding area in 1st floor lobby
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Seeking
Equity actors for 4 available roles.
see breakdown.
Preparation
Actors will read from sides, provided at the auditions.
Bring picture and resume.
Other Dates
1st Rehearsal: 9/22/15. Performs: 10/16/15- 1/3/16
Other
www.playwrightshorizons.org
Personnel
The following people will be in attendance at the EPA:
Alaine Alldaffer- Casting Director
Lisa Donadio- Associate Casting Director
Bailey Jordan Koch- Casting Assistant
· 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
Seeking:
MAX CONNOR:
18+ to play 17. Transgender masculine child of Paige and Arnold. Sibling to Isaac. Max is now homeschooled by Paige and is extremely isolated in this suburban town. Max wants to escape hir hometown and forge a life in a more progressive environment. Max attempts to stand up to Arnold, a formerly abusive father who sent Max to the emergency room three times. Max does this through intellectual means and (for the most part) following Paige’s anti-orthodox rules. The actor playing Max should be someone who was born a biological female and now identifies as transgender or gender-queer.
ISAAC CONNOR:
22. Cisgender* son of Paige and Arnold. Brother to Max. Neither popular nor a complete outcast in high school, Isaac could not find a job or afford to go to college after graduating. Isaac has just returned from two years in the Afghan war, where he worked in Mortuary Affairs caring for the body parts of marines killed in combat. He was dishonorably discharged after getting caught using a methamphetamine. Isaac seeks to reassert his father’s values of order and cleanliness, despite Paige’s wishes. He’s overwhelmed by Max’s transition, but does his best to understand. He was looking forward to coming home to his family, but home is not at all as he left it.
PAIGE CONNOR:
55. Cisgender* mother to Max and Isaac. Wife to Arnold. After years of suffering abuse from her husband Arnold, Paige revels in the liberation from her oppressive marriage and housekeeping obligations after Arnold’s stroke. She sees freedom in losing the label of “wife”, and enforces house rules that are the direct opposite of Arnold’s (he demanded order, she thrives on mess). She dresses Arnold in old nightgowns and puts heavy make up on him every day to fully assert her dominance. She perceives herself as hip (she’s not), and truly attempts to understand and also to co-opt Max’s transition to forge her own ideals for the future.
ARNOLD CONNOR:
58. Cisgender* father to Isaac and Max and husband to Paige. Arnold was an angry and violent man, but has had a stroke, which has affected his ability to communicate verbally and care for himself. His home used to run entirely by his iron fist, but now he is dependent on Paige and Max to care for him and they don’t. He often tries to escape from the house, but never succeeds. When he feels something, he feels it with no censor. Like a young child, he easily switches from complete joy to complete sorrow and back again within the course of a brief moment.
*Cisgender simply means identifying as your biological gender. You are biologically female or male, and this feels correct to you.
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