Portland Center Stage 2018-2019 Season - Portland EPA Days
Portland Center Stage
AUDITION DATES
Mon, Apr 16, 2018
10:00 am - 5:00 pm (PDT)
Lunch: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Tue, Apr 17, 2018
10:00 am - 5:00 pm (PDT)
Lunch: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
APPOINTMENTS
Equity Actors email brandonw@pcs.org for appointments
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep LORT B, D Minimums - $913/wk, $676/wk
SEEKING
Actors, Singers, and Dancers
PREPARATION
Prepare two contrasting monologues and for singers an optional 16 bars of a song, (accompanist will be provided both days). Audition should be no longer than 4 minutes in length.
LOCATION
Portland Center Stage
128 NW 11th Ave
Portland, OR 97209-4160
Julie Vigeland Rehearsal Hall
PERSONNEL
Brandon Woolley and Rose Riordan will be in attendance.
OTHER DATES
See breakdown.
OTHER
No stage management positions are available.
www.pcs.org/casting
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
The Color Purple: Aug 21, 2018 – November 4, 2018 (9 women, 7 men)
Based on the novel by Alice Walker
Book by Marsha Norman
Music and Lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray
Directed by Timothy Douglas
Based on Alice Walker’s groundbreaking, Pulitzer Prize winning novel, and the recent John Doyle-streamlined Broadway revival, the story follows the trials and triumphs of Celie - a quiet woman warrior inside an oppressively male-dominated world. Anchored by of her unshakable devotion to sister Nettie; transformed by her unlikely bond with bluesy chanteuse Shug Avery, and grounded by her unwavering devotion to God, Celie’s is an inspired journey passionately forged by will and faith.
All Characters/ Ensemble Members are African-American, and uninhibited in their soulful expressions of self. These are country folk who shimmer with an eternally earthy and spiritual wisdom.
Celie ... Female. Plays age 14 – 40s. A radiant survivor who triumphantly journeys through a life filled with soul-reckoning challenges and emotional/physical violence. She is buoyed by a rock-solid faith in God, love and devotion for her sister Nettie, as well as the intimacy-awakening bond that she develops with Shug Avery.
Nettie … Female. Plays age 13 – 40s. Celie’s sister, and her rock. Smart, driven, and protected by circumstance. Unwaveringly devoted to her sister, she is nonetheless torn apart from her, and goes on to realize a fulfilled life in Africa, which includes serving as caretaker to Celie’s ‘lost’ children, ultimately reuniting them with their mother.
Pa … Male. Plays age 40s – 50s. A deeply embittered and irredeemable man and violent abuser. He is father to Celie & Nettie, as well as father to Celie’s two children whom he abducts from Celie and gives them away at birth.
Mister … Male. Plays age 30s – 50s … A deeply troubled man, as well as Celie’s husband and abuser. He is also the estranged love interest to Shug Avery for whom he still carries a torch. Eventually he is redeemed by a self-reckoning and atoning for his transgressions.
Harpo … Male. Plays age 18 – 40s. Mister’s hapless son from his first marriage. Well intended, but often falls short due to exceedingly bad parenting by Mister. Falls deeply in love with – and is dominated by his wife Sophia, then later by his girlfriend Squeak. He eventually finds his firm footing and manhood soon after Mister’s transformation and the return of his beloved Sophia.
Sofia … Female. Plays age 20 – 40s. Harpo’s wife and Celie’s friend for life. A full-figured woman who possesses a giant personality, along with an equally expansive lust for life, and a proud sense of justice. A domineering pacifist who suffers no fools.
Shug Avery … Female. Plays age 30s – 40s. A sultry siren and juke-joint performer who has seen better days. A former lover of Mister and a ‘good-time girl’, whose body, soul, and desire to love again is reawakened by Celie and the intimate bond they form with one another.
Darlene / Ensemble … Female. Late teen. Church lady who serves as a Greek/Gospel chorus who comments on the events of Celie’s life throughout the journey.
Doris / Ensemble … Female. Mature. Church lady who serves as a Greek/Gospel chorus who comments on the events of Celie’s life throughout the journey.
Jarene / Ensemble … Female. 30s. Church lady who serves as a Greek/Gospel chorus who comments on the events of Celie’s life throughout the journey.
Squeak /Ensemble … Female. 20s. Harpo’s devoted and fiercely protective girlfriend who serves as his great motivator. She possesses a voice that matches her name with mathematical exactness.
Preacher / Ol’ Mister / Ensemble … Male. 50s/60s. The soul-stirring minister of the church / Mister’s equally misguided and misogynist father.
Bobby/ Guard / Ensemble … Male. 20s. Celie’s handyman in her later life / the arch flunky responsible for tending to Sophia during her jail stay.
Buster / Grady / Ensemble … Male 30s/40s. Sophia’s goodtime man with whom she takes up between her relationship stints with Harpo / Shug Avery’s husband whose love and devotion grounds her life and love.
Adam / Ensemble … Male. 20s. Celie’s son raised by Nettie in Africa and reunited with his mother late in the play.
Olivia / Ensemble … Female 20s. Celie’s daughter raised by Nettie in Africa and reunited with her mother late in the play.
A Life: September 4, 2018 –November 11, 2018 (2 men, 2 women)
By Adam Bock
Directed by Rose Riordan
NATE MARTIN. 54.
CURTIS, mid-forties, and the BOYFRIEND
Actress #1 plays THE MEDICAL EXAMINER, THE MORTICIAN, NATE’S SISTER
Actress #2 plays ELLEN,THE OTHER MEDICAL EXAMINER, THE ASSISTANT
Winter Song and A Christmas Memory: November 13, 2018 - December 30, 2018 (CAST)
A Christmas Memory
By Truman Capote
Winter Song
Created by Merideth Kaye Clark and Brandon Woolley
Directed by Brandon Woolley
Twist Your Dickens: November 20, 2018 –December 23, 2018 (CAST)
By Peter Gwinn and Bobby Mort
Directed by Ron West
Sense and Sensibility: Dec 18, 2018 – February 10, 2019 (3 roles CAST, 4 women and 3 men available)
By Kate Hamill
Based on the novel by Jane Austen
Directed by Eric Tucker
FANNY DASHWOOD: Female. 20s-30s. This role doubles with LUCY STEELE/LUCY STEELE: Female. 20s-30s. This role doubles with FANNY DASHWOOD.
MARIANNE DASHWOOD: Female. 20s.
ELINOR DASHWOOD: Female. 20s-30s.
JOHN WILLOUGHBY: Male. This role doubles with JOHN DASHWOOD/JOHN DASHWOOD: Male. This role doubles with JOHN WILLOUGHBY.
MRS. DASHWOOD: Female. This role doubles with ANNE STEELE/ANNE STEELE: Female. This role doubles with MRS. DASHWOOD.
MRS. JENNINGS: Female or Male.
SIR JOHN MIDDLETON: Male.
Buyer and Cellar: January 2, 2019 – March 3, 2019 (CAST)
By Jonathan Tolins
Directed by Brandon Woolley
Tiny Beautiful Things: January 29, 2019–March 31, 2019 (2 women, 2 men)
Based on the book by Cheryl Strayed
Adapted by Nia Vardalos
Co-conceived by Marshall Heyman, Thomas Kail and Nia Vardalos
Directed by Rose Riordan
Sugar – Female. Age is 37 years of age and up. Age, ethnicity and gender are open. She is a writer, a married mother of two children.
Letter Writer #1: Male. Age is over 40 years of age, approximately. Age, ethnicity and gender are open. This person first appears when he emails Sugar with the offer of the job as an online advice columnist, and later appears as several Letter Writers, including women. Most notably he plays someone who repeatedly trolls Sugar online by signing off as WTF, and a father who has lost his 22 year old son in a car accident.
Letter Writer #2: Female. Age is approximately 28 years. Age, ethnicity and gender are open. This person plays a variety of Letter Writers of many ages, including an assortment of men. Most notably, she plays a woman dealing with the after effects of a miscarriage, plus Sugar’s mother who appears in flashbacks.
Letter Writer #3: Male. Age is approximately 26 years. Age, ethnicity, and gender are open. This person plays a variety of roles, including women. Most notably he plays a transgender person in search of an answer about family, plus someone who is unsure about maintaining a relationship with a narcissist father.
Until The Flood: March 5, 2019–April 21, 2019 (CAST)
By Dael Orlandersmith
Directed by Neel Keller
Crossing Mnisose: March 19, 2019 – May 5, 2019 (3 roles CAST, 2 men and 1 woman role available)
By Mary Kathryn Nagle
Directed by Molly Smith
WORLD PREMIERE
Sacajawea/Carey:
Sacajawea: Shoshone, teenage girl who, with her baby boy Jean-Baptiste, guided Lewis & Clark on their “exploration” of the territory along the Missouri and Columbia Rivers to the Pacific Ocean, a route that took them past hundreds of Tribal Nations who had called this area home forthousands of years before Lewis & Clark’s arrival. Married to CHARBONNEAU.
Carey: Shoshone & Hidatsa, 18 year old sister to ROSE.
Coyote/Travis:
Coyote: Dakota man, in his 20s. He is the son of a spiritual leader. His parents were wiped out by disease and he travels up and down the Missouri trading with the Mandan and other Indian Nations.
Travis: Standing Rock Sioux, late teens. Born and raised, and still lives, in Cannonball, North Dakota on the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s reservation.
Captain Clark/Patrick Morgan:
William Clark: 30s, Caucasian and one of LEWIS’s best friends. He is selected by LEWIS to accompany him on the journey westward.
Patrick Morgan: 40s, Caucasian. Rancher who runs a herd of buffalo on his land that he owns just 1.75 miles north of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s reservation, west of Highway 1806 along the Missouri River. Extremely conflicted.
The Breath of Life: April 9, 2019 – June 16, 2019 (CAST)
By David Hare
Directed by TBA
Native Gardens: April 23, 2019- June 16, 2019 (2 men, 2 women, and 2 additional actors)
By Karen Zacarías
Directed by TBA
Tania Del Valle – 29 year old – smart, likeable, positive, passionate, fit and highly energized pregnant PhD candidate and gardener
Pablo Del Valle – 31 year old – smart, likeable, ambitious, savvy young attorney.
Virginia Butley – 55 to 65 year old – smart, likeable, assertive, direct, no-nonsense engineer
Frank Butley – 55 to 65 year old – smart, likeable, exciteable, caring, detail-oriented Federal employee and gardener.
The play will also feature 2 actors to play the silent roles of surveyor, landscaper, building examiner.
Crazy Enough: June 11, 2019 – June 30, 2019 (CAST)
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 audition.
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