INSIGNIFICANCE Equity Principal Auditions - Defibrillator Theatre with the Langham and Hang A Tale Auditions

Call Type
Equity Principal

Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Tuesday December 8, 2015
9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
lunch 1 to 2

Contract
Transition
Level 3; $324/wk

Location
Actors' Equity Association NYC Audition Center
165 West 46th Street
16th Floor
New York, NY 10036

Seeking
Equity actors for 4 available roles: 1 female, 3 male.

See breakdown for info.

To be performend at NYC’s Langham Hotel, and imagines a scenario wherein Einstein, Joe McCarthy, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio all cross paths on one fateful night.

Preparation
Prepare a short contemporary monologue.

Bring picture and resume.

Other Dates
1st rehearsal: 1/25/16
1st performance: 2/18/16
Opens: 2/25/16
Closes: 3/20/16 (poss 1-week extension thru 3/27/16)

Other
Expected to be in attendance at EPA:
Kim Martin-Cotten, Producer
Joseph Gerry, Casting Assistant, Caparelliotis Casting

Personnel
Director: James Hillier
Playwright: Terry Johnson
Casting: Caparelliotis Casting

· 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.

Breakdown

NOTE: This production of Terry Johnson’s INSIGNIFICANCE is the US debut of the UK’s Defribrillator Theatre Co., which Ben Brantley called “ a deeply impressive new theatre company” in his review of their site-specific UK production of Tennessee William’s HOTEL PLAYS. INSIGNIFICANCE will be performed for audiences at NYC’s Langham Hotel, and imagines a scenario wherein Einstein, Joe McCarthy, Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio all cross paths on one fateful night.

Seeking:


PROFESSOR
Male, late 40’s – 70 (character is ‘ageless’.) Albert Einstein. Clever, idiosyncratic, smart. A bright-eyed, extremely sharp and mercurial man of ideas. Looking for inventive actors with strong comic instincts and access to an easy and open emotional truth.

ACTRESS
Female, late 20s- early 30s. Marilyn Monroe. A woman of contradictions; accustomed to the power of her allure and sway over men, she traffics in a fluid sexiness while at the same time is fiercely intelligent, with an air of sadness about her; possesses a languorous wit which can turn to sharp authority; at odds with the pedestal the world has put her on.

BALLPLAYER
Male, mid 40s. Joe DiMaggio. A jock who pops gum and speaks his mind. He is blunt in his approach to people but has a soft caring streak. Physically imposing with an animal-like attractiveness that can turn to big, cute puppy at times. Italian decent.

SENATOR
Male, late 50’s- 70. Joe McCarthy. Snub nosed, outspoken and utterly convinced by his own publicity. If he were a steak meal he would eat himself. He has a strong sense of right and wrong, is loquacious, with an oily charm that in certain circles can go a long way.