Rivendell Theatre Ensemble - 2019 Season - Chicago EPA
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
AUDITION DATE
Wed, Oct 17, 2018
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (CDT)
Lunch from 1:30 - 2:30 pm
APPOINTMENTS
AEA Members may sign up for an audition slot beginning at noon on 10/10/2018.
CONTRACT
CAT CAT I $253/week minimum
SEEKING
Actors for the upcoming 2019 season. See Breakdown for details.
PREPARATION
Please prepare 2 short, contrasting contemporary monologues - one comedic and one dramatic. (or you may choose to do one slightly longer monolgue). Audition should not exceed three minutes total. Scripts will be available for perusal at AEA and at the auditions.
LOCATION
Rivendell Theatre Ensemble
1711 W Belle Plaine Ave Apt 3B
Chicago, IL 60613-1852
Closest EL is Bryn Mawr / Street parking available on Glenwood
PERSONNEL
Casting Director: Ashley Neal
Artistic Director: Tara Mallen
Casting Assistant: Jessica Ervin
Director: Jessica Fisch
Director: Lauren Shouse
OTHER DATES
The Midwest Premiere of I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart
February 14 – March 23, 2019
The Midwest Premiere of Something Clean
June 16 - July 21, 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
The Midwest Premiere of I Wanna Fucking Tear You Apart
Written by Morgan Gould and Directed by Jessica Fisch
February 14 – March 23, 2019
Samantha and Leo are a team—best friends and roommates, fat girl and gay guy against the world—until a new friend upends their cozy co-dependent diet of mutual self-loathing and Grey’s Anatomy marathons. An ode to the complications of friendship in its many f***ed-up forms, with a special nod to a kind of love that sometimes looks a lot like rage.
Samantha: (Female, 29-35, White) Novelist. Best-friends/roommates/co-dependent with Leo. Blunt, funny, successful, casual. Keen observer of the world and others. Knows how to land a one liner. From the playwright: “She’s fat-fat, not just TV fat.” This is very important for the storytelling.
Leo: (Male, 29-35, Person of Color) Identifies as LGBT, poet/short story writer struggling to find the discipline to work. Best-friends/roommates/co-dependent with Sam. Funny, very sensitive, social butterfly. He makes friends easily and can adapt to different situations. From the playwright: “For what it’s worth, he knows every single word to the theme song for The Golden Girls.” C
hloe: (Female, 26, White) Cute, thin, millenial. Leo's work wife who begins to drive a wedge between Leo and Samantha. Despite her basic appearance and personality, she may be capable of sabotaging Samantha's career
The Midwest Premiere of Something Clean
Written by Selina Fillinger and Directed by Lauren Shouse
A co-production with Sideshow Theatre at Victory Gardens Richard Christiansen Theater
June 16 - July 21, 2019
Charlotte has been a mother for nineteen years, a wife for three decades and a respectable community member her entire life. But when her son is incarcerated for sexual assault, Charlotte is forced to reckon with a brand new identity, both public and private. Desperate to find a way back to who she was, she seeks out work at a sexual assault crisis center and meets Joey, a volunteer coordinator and a survivor of assault himself, who allows her a glimpse of who she might be able to become.
Charlotte: (50's. White) A suburban housewife whose individual needs and personality were eclipsed long ago, buried beneath the roles of mother, wife, caretaker. Insecure, soft-spoken, often overlooked, and, up until recently, certain she was content. Searching for answers.
Doug: (50's, White) College athlete turned corporate businessman. A good-humored, gregarious family man who has only ever known the world to be a certain way and, therefore, cannot conceive of an alternative. A fixer. Desperate to connect, but lacking the language.
Joey: (24, Person of Color) Self-made, self-educated, deeply sensitive and improbably enthusiastic. A young man robbed of his youth and now compulsively driven to save others; simultaneously wise beyond his years, as well as developmentally stunted. A survivor, in every sense.
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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