RECENT ALIEN ABDUCTIONS - NYC EPA
Play Company, The
AUDITION DATE
Thu, Oct 04, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
LOA-NYC $542/week
SEEKING
Equity actor for various roles. See breakdown.
Also Seeking a Production Stage Manager and Assistant Stage Manager. SMs may attend the EPA (personnel authorized to hire SMs will be in attendance) or they may submit resume to: Melissa Hardy at: jobs@playco.org, or mail to: The Play Company, 321 West 44th St., Suite 802, New York, NY 10036.
Note: submission info is only for Stage Managers. Actors do NOT submit.
PREPARATION
Audition sides will be provided at the audition. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
PLAYWRIGHT: Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas
DIRECTOR: Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas (Attending EPAs)
CASTING: Henry Russell Bergstein, CSA
FOUNDING PRODUCER: Kate Loewald
MANAGING DIRECTOR: Robert Bradshaw
DIRECTOR OF PRODUCING & ARTISTIC PLANNING: Melissa Hardy (attending EPAs)
OTHER DATES
REHEARSAL: o/a January 22, 2019
TECH.: o/a February 15, 2019
1st PREVIEW: o/a February 20, 2019
OPEN: o/a March 3, 2019
MAX. RUN THROUGH: March 31, 2019
OTHER
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
In this darkly, compelling allegory that examines Puerto Rico's current political status, Álvaro recalls a lost episode of The X-Files that he swears has been mysteriously altered since its original broadcast, but nobody believes him. Could the missing episode be proof of a larger conspiracy? Years later, when a friend arrives in Puerto Rico hoping to preserve Álvaro’s plays, she must face the family from whom he vanished long ago. A play about the danger of having no one to trust—and how families, and nations, keep circling the places that haunt them.
SEEKING
Álvaro – a middle aged, mid 30s to 50s, Puerto Rican man living in New York. Intelligent, haunted, exiled, world-weary. Must be able to handle moments of wry comedy and the heart breaking sincerity. Alvaro opens the play with a 15-minute monologue so we’re looking for an actor who is able to work with complex text. An accent will not be requested.
Ana – 20s to 40s, Puerto Rican woman living in Puerto Rico. Judgmental, takes her own counsel, quietly Machiavellian. Difference makes her impatient. An accent will not be requested.
Néstor – Mid 40s to mid 50s, Puerto Rican man living in Puerto Rico. A bear of a man. Emotionally volatile with quick shifts in affect. Boyish and charming in moments, blank and unreachable in others. Prone to displays of sincere sentiment and equally sincere outbursts of violence. The violence is sudden, unpredictable to strangers and terrifying because he is not in control of it. Ideally able to lift another actor. An accent will not be requested.
Olga – An elderly woman with Alzheimer's living in Puerto Rico. Also plays a younger version of herself, before her dementia. Before her dementia, Olga was a mother who happened to believe that a person who notices a problem is tantamount to being the person who created the problem. An accent will not be requested.
Beba – mid 30s to mid 60s woman living in Puerto Rico. The neighbor who walks in and out of the house without knocking. Smokes menthols, is a salsera, heart on her sleeve. Speaks her mind and devoid of neurosis. An accent will not be requested.
Patria – 20s to mid-40s. Lesbian. Nuyorican. Sincere, ethical but also scrappy and strategic when she needs to be. An accent will not be requested.
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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