POSSESSING HARRIET - NYC Appointments
Syracuse Stage
APPOINTMENTS
NYC Auditions: 04/09/18 - 04/10/18 by APPOINTMENT ONLY.
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep LORT D; $676/WEEK MIN
SEEKING
Equity actors for 4 roles in this World Premiere. See breakdown.
INSTRUCTIONS
Email (preferred) or mail picture and resume ASAP.
SUBMIT TO
Harriet Bass Casting
RE: Possessing Harriet
135 West 36th Street, 13th FL
New York, NY 10018
PERSONNEL
Director: Tazewell Thompson
Playwright: Kyle E. Bass
Casting: Harriet Bass Casting
Casting Director: Harriet Bass
Casting Assistant: Gama Valle and Brandy Zarle
OTHER DATES
Callback: 04/11/18
First rehearsal: 09/25/18
Opening: 10/19/18
Closing: 11/4/18
OTHER
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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
SYNOPSIS:
In 1839, Harriet Powell, a young, mixed race, enslaved woman who, with the aid of a
mysterious free black man named Thomas Leonard slips away from a hotel in Syracuse, New York, and from the Southern family who owns her, finds temporary safety in an attic room in the home of impassioned abolitionist Gerrit Smith. In the company of Smith’s cousin Elizabeth Cady, an outspoken advocate for women’s equality, Harriet awaits her nighttime departure on the dangerous journey to Canada. Confronted with new and difficult ideas about race, identity, equality, the cost of freedom, and with the slave catchers in pursuit, confusion, fear, and desperation multiply forcing Harriet to the precipice of radical self-re-imagination.
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HARRIET POWELL– Female, African American or Afro-Latina “quadroon” with a very light complexion, early to late 20’s, could pass as Caucasian at first glance. A fugitive enslaved woman. Uneducated; beautiful; unsure; fierce when cornered.
GERRIT SMITH– Male, Caucasian, 45-55, a wealthy, deeply committed abolitionist, Underground Railroad stationmaster. Educated; deeply principled, good-natured; kind with an edge; passionate; charming; carries grief within; complicated: if he were not a philanthropic humanist, he would be a romantic turned pessimist or even a misanthrope.
ELIZABETH CADY (Stanton)– Female, Caucasian, early to late 20’s; young cousin of Smith; a budding social reformist, feminist. Educated; questioning; strong-willed; young yet; has racist blind spots.
TOM LEONARD– Male, African-American, 35-45; a fugitive enslaved man living as “free”. A hotel worker and Underground Railroad conductor. Reserved; tender and a bit fierce; has presence: a kind of grace with suppressed rage around the edges.
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 submit
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