|
Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Thursday, October 15, 2015
9:30 am-5:30 pm
(lunch 1:00-2:00 pm)
|
Contract
Showcase-NY
Seasonal showcase - Stipend pending
Location
Actors' Equity Association NYC Audition Center
165 West 46th Street
16th Floor
New York, NY 10036
|
|
Seeking
Seeking Equity actors across the full spectrum of human diversity to join Phoenix Theatre Ensemble’s company of passionate dedicated storytellers for a wide variety of productions and readings for our 2015-16 season. See breakdown.
Preparation
Please prepare a 2-3 minute monologue that shows us your love of language and storytelling.
Bring a photo and resume, stapled together.
Other Dates
Private Lives, The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Son of Arlecchino, dates TBD.
The Gambler by Glyn Maxwell, January 21 - February 14 2016.
New Works series, dates TBA.
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been by Eric Bentley May 2016.
Personnel
Craig Smith, Producing Artistic Director
Elise Stone, Artistic Director
Clara Pagone, Artistic Associate
· 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
Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been by Eric Bentley
Following the infamous HUAC hearings in the 1950's, in which figures from the world of show business were subpoenaed to testify as to their loyalty as Americans and asked to name any and all communists or suspected communists in their industry. Assembled directly from the transcripts of the hearings, the play uses the actual words spoken by the likes of Lionel Stander, Abe Burrows, Larry Parks, Elia Kazan, Jerome Robbins and Jose Ferrer, Paul Robeson. Equally revealing are the questions asked by the committee members.
Seeking versatile actors to play multiple roles including:
Committee Members
Witness
Chairman
Narrator
Gregory Peck
Sam G. Wood
Ivestigator
Edward Dymtryk
Ring Lardner Jr.
Arthur Rankin
Richard Milhous Nixon
Larry Parks
Louis Mandel
Sterling Hayden
Abe Burrows
Elia Kazan
Jerome Robbins
Martin Berkley
Lionel Stander
Arthur Miller
Paul Robeson
The Son of Arlecchino by Leon Katz
Commedia dell'arte, comes to hilarious life in the farce of Arlecchino being tricked into supposing that he's personally given birth to a son. Almost all the classic characters of commedia farce are here, playing their traditional roles in a wild, bawdy farce-comedy of all-around trickery;each one bent on fooling everybody else, and all—almost all—getting rewarded for their cunning.
Pantalone
Isabella, his wife
Dottore
Arlecchino, his servant
Franceschina, A Bawd
Columbina, her servant
Leandro, a novice
Private Lives by Noel Coward
Amanda and Elyot can’t live together and they can’t live apart. When they discover they are honey- mooning in the same hotel with their new spouses, they not only fall in love all over again, they learn to hate each other all over again.
Elyot - Sophisticated, witty, mercurial.
Amanda - Sophisticated, mercurial.
Victor - Proper gentleman - unable to process Elyot and Amanda’s way of thinking.
Sybil - Pleased with her new marriage, stubborn, petulant
Louise - French maid - speaks French
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
John Worthing, man about town, regularly escapes to a life in the city by assuming a false name, Ernest. Meeting with his love at the house of his friend Algernon he re-solves to put an end to this double life by “killing off” his alter ego and marrying Gwendolen. Algernon and his aunt, Lady Bracknell, however, have other plans …
John “Jack” Worthing - Man about town, dapper. In love with Gwendylon.
Algernon Moncrieff - Jack’s best friend.
Gwendylon Fairfax - Daughter of Lady Bracknell, brought up with her mother’s preju-dice and pretensions.
Cecily Cardew - John’s ward, living in his country house, appears a bit naive
Rev Canon Chasuable - self declared celibate desperately in love with Miss Prism
Miss Prism - Tutor and chaperone to Cecily. A secret romantic.
Lane / Merriman - servants to Jack and Algernon
Lady Bracknelll - Gatekeeper to Gwenddolen’s hand in marriage.
The Gambler by Fyodor Ilyich Dostoyevsky, adapted by Glyn Maxwell
Alexei Ivanovich, secretary to the General
General Zagorski, a retired soldier from St Petersburg
De Grieux, the General’s business partner, a French aristocrat
Astley, an English businessman
Polina Alexandrovna, the General’s niece and ward
Blanche de Cominges, a ‘countess’
‘Granny’, Antonida Tsareyevitch Vassilyevna, the General’s aunt
A Croupier, A Maitre D’, A Station Porter, and Marfa, Polina’s maid
New Works in development These plays have not yet been written - they will be developed with an eye to suit the ensemble.
|
