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PORTLAND CENTER STAGE 2018-19 SEASON Equity Principal Auditions - Portland Center Stage Auditions

Posted June 4, 2018
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PORTLAND CENTER STAGE 2018-19 SEASON - Portland Center Stage

Portland Stage Co. 2018-19 Season - NYC EPA

Portland Stage Company


AUDITION DATE

Mon, Jul 09, 2018

10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)

Lunch 1:30 to 3:30

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep LORT D; $676.00/week

SEEKING

Equity actors for various roles in the upcoming season. See breakdown.

PREPARATION

Prepare a monologue of your choice not to exceed 2 minutes. Bring picture and resume.

LOCATION

Ripley-Grier Studios (520)

520 8th Ave

New York, NY 10018-6507

16th Floor - Room 16I and 16J

PERSONNEL

Anita Stewart - Executive and Artistic Director - present at all auditions

OTHER

portlandstage.org

EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.

An Equity monitor will be provided.

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

2018-19 Season - ***none of the roles have understudies***

BEN BUTER
by Richard Strand Director: TBD
1st Rehearsal: 9/4/18 Opening: 9/29/18 Closing: 10/21/18

MAJOR GENERAL BENJAMIN BUTLER of the Union Army, 40s-50s (white)

LIEUTENANT KELLY of the Union Army, 30s (white)

SHEPARD MALLORY escaped enslaved man, 20s-30s (black)

MAJOR CARY of the Confederate Army, 40s-50s (white)
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REFUGE *MALJA* ????
A New Play by Bess Welden with Arabic Translations by Ali Al Mshakheel Director: Kareem Fahmy
1st Rehearsal: 10/9/18 Opening: 11/2/18 Closing: 11/18/18

JAMIE WINTER - Jewish American photojournalist, 30s-40s (white)

IBRAHIM MALOUF - Palestinian citizen of Israel radio journalist, 30s-40s (Arab/Middle Eastern, must speak/read Arabic)

MOTHER - Multiple roles as Jamie/Ibrahim/Waleed's mother as well as an aid worker, 60s (plays roles of eastern European and middle eastern descent)
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
by Charles Dickens Director: Anita Stewart
1st Rehearsal: 11/6/18 Opening: 12/1/18 Closing: 12/24/18
*all characters any ethnicity*

SCROOGE: Male identifying, 50s or older

BOB CRACHIT: Male identifying, 30s-50s

MRS. CRACHIT: Female identifying, 30s - 50s

GHOST: Female identifying, Any age

BELLE: Female identifying, 20s - 30s

NEPHEW FRED: Male identifying, 20s-30s

MARLEY: Male identifying, 50s or older
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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
by Oscar Wilde Director: Christopher Grabowski
1st Rehearsal: 12/31/18 Opening: 1/25/19 Closing: 2/17/19
*all characters any ethnicity* *all actors must be able to do British dialects*

ALGERNON MONCRIEFF: male identifying, 20s-30s

JACK WORTHING: male identifying, 20s-30s

GWENDOLEN FAIRFAX: female identifying, 20s-30s

CECILY CARDEW: female identifying, 20s-30s

LADY BRACKNELL: female identifying, 40-60s

MISS PRISM: female identifying, 30s-50s

REVEREND CHASUBLE: male identifying, 30s-50s

LANE: male identifying, 30s-60s

MERRIMAN: male identifying, 30s-60s
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THE HALF LIGHT
A New Play by Monica Wood Director: Sally Wood
1st Rehearsal: 1/29/19 Opening: 3/1/19 Closing: 3/24/19
*all characters any ethnicity*

IRIS: secretary of the English Department, bright but modest, hasn’t a self-important bone in her body, 30s

ANDREW: a professor in the English Department, a man who lets book speak for him when he cannot speak for himself, 40s

HELEN: secretary of the Community Ed Department, congenially motherly, 50s

TERESA: Helen’s daughter, a “rough customer” chain smoker, she looks worn and unclean, 20s
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SKELETON CREW
by Dominique Morisseau Director: Jade King Carrol
1st Rehearsal: 3/12/19 Opening: 4/5/19 Closing: 4/21/19

FAYE - Black woman, mid-late 50’s, Working class woman. Tough and a lifetime of dirt beneath her nails. Somewhere, deep compassion.

DEZ- Black man, mid-late 20’s, Working class man. Young hustler, playful, street-savy, and flirtatious.. Somewhere, deeply sensitive.

SHANITA- Black woman, mid-late 20’s, Working class young woman. Pretty but not ruled by it. Hard-working. By-the-books. Believes in the work she does. Also, pregnant. Somewhere, a beautiful dreamer.

REGGIE- Black man, late 30’s. White collar man. Studious. Dedicated. Compassionate. The Foreman. Somewhere, a fire brims.


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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