Potomac Theatre Project
CONTRACT
LOA $350 weekly minimum (LOA ref LORT)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Potomac Theatre Project's 2022 Season (see breakdown).
Actors of all ethnicities encouraged to submit.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare a contemporary piece, some vulnerability, somewhat heightened language preferred 2-3 minutes in length. Email your submission. Videos will be accepted only from 9:00 am ET on March 16 until 8:00 pm ET on March 18.
Deadline: Fri, Mar 18, 2022
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Lunch by Steven Berkoff
Directed by Richard Romagnoli
Dog Plays by Robert Chesley
Directed by Jim Petosa
Here We Go and Hot Fudge by Caryl Churchill
Directed by Cheryl Faraone
OTHER DATES
First rehearsal: June 14
Opening: July 5
Closing: August 7, 2022
OTHER
ptpnyc.org
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
FOR DOG PLAYS:
DOG - a San Francisco gay man - leather/levi community of the 1980s - 30 something. A likeable guy...but an overall sadness to him. Role available. Will ‘age’ to as ‘Old Dog’ in one piece.
BUCK - a little older than DOG - rough edged. Might be thought dangerous. a ghost.
FIDO - 30s/40s/ --an effortlessly sweet gay man -- not particularly sexual....mild mannered, controlled, but yearning.
FOR LUNCH:
All roles have been cast. Seeking understudies or possible replacements only.
Man: a salesman, fast talking, can be charming 30’s to 40’s.
Woman: subdued, watchful, but intrigued roughly the same age.
FOR HERE WE GO
by Caryl Churchill
All roles have been cast. Seeking understudies or possible replacements only.
5 Actor Tracks: In Here We Go Churchill gives no specific role descriptions, nor gender breakdown. Dialogue indicates 6 characters range in age from 30 to 70. ALL CHARACTERS ARE CLEARLY MIDDLE OR UPPER CLASS BRITS, EDUCATED, INTELLIGENT, INCREASINGLY CONFRONTING THEIR OWN MORTALITY
FOR HOT FUDGE
by Caryl Churchill
All roles have been cast. Seeking understudies or possible replacements only
June/Lena: June is mid-40’s, north of England. A cheerful grifter. Lena, in a later scene, is the bitter ex-wife of Colin
Charlie/Hugh: June’s husband is Charlie; gruff and suspicious of any scam that does not involve actual merchandise. Hugh is a middle class
Ruby: June’s daughter, 20’s also a grifter, but seeking a way out of the life.
Colin: 30’s divorced and attempting, with little success, to pull his life together
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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