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INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAKING AN APPOINTMENT:
AEA contact Stephanie LeBolt at 617-273-1543 or casting@huntingtontheatre.bu.edu. Leave a message with your name, primary contact number, and your preferred audition hour.
AEA walk-ins welcome and will be seen from 10am - 12pm
ADDITIONAL SALARY AND CONTRACT INFO:
The Huntington Theatre Company produces shows in the Boston University Theatre (LORT B+; $909/WEEK MIN), the Virginia Wimberly Theatre (LORT C; $776/WEEK MIN), and the Nancy and Edward Roberts Studio Theatre (LORT D; $618/WEEK MIN)
2015-2016 SEASON
CHOICE
A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
MILK LIKE SUGAR
CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?
I WAS MOST ALIVE WITH YOU
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CHOICE
BY Winnie Holzman
Dir: Sheryl Kaller
Virginia Wimberly Theatre, LORT C
1st reh: 9/22/15. Runs: 10/16- 11/15/15 (possible extension to 11/21)
Time: Now
Place: Near and In New York City
Seeking:
ZIPPORAH (ZIPPY) ZUNDER
50s. A successful journalist. Intelligent, personable, quick. Entering a new chapter of her life with some trepidation. A bit forgetful and technology challenged.
CLARK PLUMLY
70s+. Zippy’s husband. Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist. Honest, straightforward, and incredibly perceptive. Often mishears words and phrases. Acknowledging the realities of old age, he tries to prepare Zippy for a life without him.
ERICA TEMPLE
50s. Zippy's best friend. Journalism teacher. Supportive friend but often second fiddle. Passionate and deeply restless. Less known in the field.
ZOE ZUNDER PLUMLY
23. Clark and Zippy's daughter. Recent Bennington College graduate with a major in philosophy and a concentration in yarn. Currently living in her parents’ home in Westchester while contemplating a leap into adulthood. Smart, quick, protective of her mother. - Also plays: LEAH OR LENA: 20s. Russian, an esthetician. Storyteller and people person. Blunt and hypnotic.
HUNTER RUSH
27. An aspiring journalist. Attractive, odd, fiercely determined to please. Although he has a murky past, he is personable and helpful in person. -- Also plays: WAITER
MARK
50s. Erica’s current flame. Divorced. Home security system salesman. Vulnerable and tries a bit too hard. Also plays: THE OTHER MARK: 50s. Zippy's one time boyfriend. Recently had a stroke; now walks with a cane and speaks with an Austrian accent.
NOTE: The actor who plays Mark also plays The Other Mark. The actress who plays Zoe also plays Leah or Lena. The actor who plays Hunter also plays Waiter.
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A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher, from the novel by John Kennedy Toole
Dir: David Esbjornson
Venue: Boston University Theatre – Mainstage, LORT B+
1st reh: 10/13/15. Runs: 11/11 – 12/13/15 (possible extension to 12/20)
Time: Early 1960s
Place: New Orleans
Note: For any role CAST, actors will be considered for possible replacements.
Seeking:
IGANTIUS REILLY
(Role CAST) 30. A complex and contradictory character driven by insecurity and a profound need to be accepted on his own terms. He has an eccentric and somewhat baffling approach to fashion. Self-aggrandizing and aggressive in his world-view. His ego often spins out of control. Loves words and the sound of his own voice.
MRS. IRENE REILLY
60s. Ignatius’ mother. Widowed. Long suffering and patient. She has greatly sacrificed the little she has to indulge her “stay-at-home” son’s existence. Optimistic, despite arthritis and other ailments of age. Loves her son deeply and sees the best in people. She has a spirited and generous energy coupled with a somewhat frail spirit and a robust physicality that suggests a dormant sexual energy.
BURMA JONES
20s – 40s. African American. A cocky, funny, and raging hustler with a subjective and astute sense of racial and political injustice, he is often vagrant and in trouble. Uses his sharp wit and perceptions to survive both jail and the street. Requires an irreverent sensibility and a quick, sharp delivery.
CLAUDE
60s – 70s. Working class with conventional and conservative political beliefs. Retired with a pension and the love of his family, but is looking for female companionship. A former railroad worker. Speaks and carries himself like a gallant, old world Southern gentleman.
PATROLMAN MANCUSO
20s – 30s. A dedicated but frustrated undercover cop with a beat-cop’s mentality. Passionate, earnest, and prepared to pay his dues. Acts tough, but sweet at heart. Dons a variety of bad disguises in an attempt to remove the unsavory collection of New Orleans criminals from the street. Requires convincing Italian background and ability to role-play in numerous dialects.
Also seeking:
SERGEANT / GUS LEVY / FRIEDA
MR. WATSON / MR. CLYDE
DORIAN GREENE / MR. GONZALEZ
LANA LEE / MYRNA 1 / LIZ / MYRNA MINKOFF
MRS. LEVY / MYRNA 2 / GEORGE / BETTY
DARLENE / MYRNA 3
MISS TRIXIE
SANTA BATTAGLIA / BARTENDER
SANTA BATTAGLIA: 40s – 60s. A new and colorful friend of Irene’s. Generous, fun loving, vulgar, and over-bearing. Fiercely protective of Irene. Requires a bold and confident presence.
MYRNA MINKOFF: Late 20s – 30s. New York Jewish lefty with a myriad of social causes and opinions on almost everything, including her former boyfriend Ignatius. A force of nature. Very intelligent but full of paranoid and implausible fantasies. Requires a spirited, no-nonsense, tough-love quality with a heart of gold.
LANA LEE: 30s. Attractive, hardened club owner and leader of a pornography ring. She attempts to scrape together a living by running her two businesses from the same location. Sexy and tough demeanor. Requires poise and command.
DARLENE: 20s. A B-girl working in Lana’s club. She parades a sexy innocence and aspires to becoming a stripper with her own act involving her pet cockatoo. She is open and kind and therefore quite exploitable. Requires a lack of modesty and a keen sense of irony.
GEORGE: Teen – early 20s. A hyped up street kid. He functions as Lana’s porn runner and lackey. High-strung, slight, impatient, and lacking good judgment. Requires a quirky, caffeinated physicality and quick tongue.
GUS LEVY:40s – 50s. The often absent owner of Levy Pants Company, a factory operation inherited from his father. He so loathes Levy pants that comes to work only to collect his mail. He is a seething vat of irritation always ready to blow. Intelligent and well-meaning but his imagination has been clipped by his tyrant father and hectoring wife.
MRS. LEVY:30s – 40s. Spoiled, pampered wife of Mr. Levy. High-strung and intolerant when it comes to her husband but has a self-flattering interest in social causes and in particular, those employees she feels are ignored and exploited by the factory her husband fails to run effectively. Requires a strong, sharp quality.
MR. GONZALES: 30s – 40s. Beleaguered Hispanic manager of the day-to-day operations at Levy Pants. Striving and fussy, he struggles to function in the wake of Mr. Levy’s neglect, a failing infrastructure, and incompetent employees. Requires a Latino accent.
MISS TRIXIE: 60+. One of the incompetent employees at Levy Pants. Addled, loopy, and sometimes hostile. A victim of Mrs. Levy’s social experiment, forced to stay at the factory for her “own good.” Requires an aggressive and comedic approach to old age.
MR. WATSON:20s – 30s. African American. Somewhat dubious and disgruntled factory worker. Does not stretch his working class mind very far but has a few strong opinions to share.
SERGEANT: 30s – 50s. Patrolman Mancuso’s supervisor. Direct, harsh, and authoritative.
DORIAN GREENE: 20s – 30s. Flamboyant and highly perceptive. New Orleans queen who prefers to cruise and party his way through life.
FRIEDA, BETTY, LIZ: A trio of colorful, butch lesbians with loud mouths and rigid attitudes.
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MILK LIKE SUGAR
By: Kirsten Greenidge
Director: M. Bevin O’Gara
Venue: Nancy and Edward Roberts Studio Theatre, LORT D
1st reh: 1/5/16. Runs: 1/29 – 2/28/16 (possible extension to 3/5/16)
Place: A small city in the Northeast
Seeking:
ANNIE:
16. African American. Naturally independent and intelligent but sensitive to peer pressure. Interested in education and learning about the larger world. Filled with false bravado. Not one to start an argument, but not one to back away either. Desperate for connection, warmth, and belonging. Wants more from life, without any avenue to get it. Stuck in a vicious cycle.
TALISHA:
16. Ethnicity unspecified. Derisive, abrasive ringleader of clique of girls. Tough as nails. Appears confident and knowledgeable. Uses people to get what she wants. Scared of being left all alone.
MARGIE:
16. Ethnicity unspecified. The follower and the gossip. Fiercely loyal, but not very bright. Invested in a very narrow, naïve idea of the future. Finds comfort in material goods.
ANTWOINE:
23. African American. Aspiring tattoo artist and current grocery store bagger. Introspective and poetic, but mocked by peers for his sensitivity. Looking for a chance to be heard and make a connection.
MALIK:
16. African American. A teenager forced into the parent role by necessity. Smart, earnest, wily, and determined. Caring and sensitive, but willing to do whatever it takes to get out of the neighborhood.
MYRNA:
35 – 45. African American. Annie’s mother. Stoutly convinced of the correctness of her view of the world. Unable to resist the siren song of white collar comfort, despite her lack of a basic education to set her on the path to advancement. Wrapped up in the idea of glamorous writers and movies. Has her head in the clouds at her daughter’s expense.
KEERA:
16. African American. The new girl at school. A tractable, evangelical outsider. Zealous and highly vocal in spreading The Word. Looking for a crumb of acceptance and inclusion.
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CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?
By: Gina Gionfriddo
Director: Peter DuBois
Venue: Virginia Wimberly Theatre, LORT C
1st reh: 3/1/16. Runs: 3/25 – 4/24/16 (possible extension to 4/30)
Time: Present Day, Halloween Night
Place: Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Seeking:
GRAHAM:
40. The guy who gets the party started, but can’t go home. A child of divorce. Recently lost his mother and is unable to either come to terms with her legacy or move on. Anti-confrontational, easily malleable. Loves the anesthetized life, but not sure how to grow up. A moth drawn to flame. Tanya’s boyfriend.
TANYA:
27. Single mother. Career bartender attending accounting night school. Her natural optimism has led her down a few wrong roads with the wrong type of guy. Committed to making a better future for her child. Has developed a life plan and wants others to adhere to it, but still a romantic at heart. Graham’s girlfriend.
MIRANDA:
28. The obvious kind of hot. Uses people to get what she wants. Not a lot of personal boundaries. Jealous, passionate, willful, blunt, and unpredictable. Caught in a vicious cycle of debt and aspiration, compounded by guilt. Not willing to make lifestyle sacrifices to change. Educated and intellectual. Has a long-standing, paid, sexual arrangement with David.
DAVID:
early 50s. Plastic surgeon. Rich but frugal. Emotionally stunted but loves to save the day. Socially awkward but trying. Sees the world in strict black and white. Deeply caring despite an inability to show it. Miranda’s sugar daddy.
SATEESH:
24. South Asian origin. Nerdy kid on a temporary work visa. Pursuing his version of the American dream: girls and cash. Cares a lot about how he is perceived by the outside world, and willing to spend to keep up appearances. Miranda’s platonic consort.
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I WAS MOST ALIVE WITH YOU
By: Craig Lucas
Director: Craig Lucas
Venue: Virginia Wimberly Theatre, LORT C
1st reh: 4/26/16. Runs: 6/1 – 7/3/16 (possible extension to 7/10)
Note: All characters sign at some point in the play. Actors with some knowledge of ASL encouraged.
KNOX:
early 30s. Adopted son of Ash and Pleasant; Deaf, signs fluently, speaks and reads lips well; does not have an implant. Lives in constant contact with many different individuals within the Deaf community and the hearing world; he’s learned the hard way what works for him in life; works as an ASL educator and loves it.
FARHAD:
early – mid 20s. Iranian. Deaf; reads lips well, speaks (if infrequently) but seldom signs, though he certainly knows how to; has a cochlear implant, but seldom uses it; has quite a few tattoos, maybe some piercings; if you boil things down, you might say he has equal contempt for the hearing and Deaf communities: an equal opportunity offender; he’s quite a looker – both men and women find him hot – and that has been his primary source of power.
ASH:
50s. Hearing, signs quite well for a hearing person (rarely needs to revert to spoken English; recovering alcoholic and addict; TV writer, born into Hollywood royalty; Knox’s adopted father.
PLEASANT:
50s. Ash’s wife; knows very little sign; in certain ways she is the hearing equivalent of Farhad – doesn’t like any kind of Group-think – actively dislikes religion, AA, middle-class values among the hearing and Deaf community equally; has always been a loner.
ASTRID:
40s/50s. Ash’s writing partner, hearing, knows quite a bit of sign from both spending time with Ash and Knox and from study; her tendency is to flip in and out of ASL and back into spoken English when she reaches something she doesn’t know how to sign; she knows that both Knox and Farhad read lips well; has had to learn how to fight for what she wants; this has talen her a long time and she is not about to give up any of what she’s won; wit and tenacity have gotten her through most of life’s scrapes. Atheist.
CARLA:
70s/80s. Ash’s mother, widowed; a hearing person, knows some sign; graceful, cultured, appropriate, no bullshit; raised Christian, converted to Judaism when she married Ash’s father.
MARIAMA:
50s. Hearing, fluent in ASL as taught to her by the Jehovah’s Witness; a former addict, a private person.
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