Shakespeare Theatre Company 2018-19 Season - DC EPA
Shakespeare Theatre Company
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AUDITION DATES
Thu, Mar 01, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EST)
Lunch 1:30 to 2:30
Fri, Mar 02, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EST)
Lunch 1:30 to 2:30
APPOINTMENTS
EMAIL FOR AN APPOINTMENT CastingShakespeare@shakespearetheatre.org. AEA members without appointments seen as time permits.
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep Lansburgh Theatre, Lort B (Minimum, $914) Harman Center, Lort B+ (Minimum, $993)
SEEKING
Equity actors for the upcoming 2018-19 Season. See breakdown.
The Shakespeare Theatre Company specializes in classic plays. The theatre is always seeking new classical actors of all age ranges and types to add to its files.
PREPARATION
Prepare one (1) classical monologue, preferably Shakespeare not to exceed 3 minutes total. Bring a headshot and resume stapled together.
LOCATION
Shakespeare Theatre Company Administrative Offices
516 8th St SE
Washington, DC 20003-2834
PERSONNEL
Resident Casting Director Carter C. Wooddell will be in attendance.
Michael Kahn, Artistic Director
OTHER
The Shakespeare Theatre Company is a strong proponent of Non-Traditional Casting and actively encourages actors of color, seniors, women and performers with disabilities to attend its auditions.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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
ROMEO AND JULIET (Free For All)
By William Shakespeare
Directed by: Alan Paul
Performs at Sidney Harman Hall
1st Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 31, 2018; Opening: Wednesday, August 22, 2018; Closes: Sunday, September 2, 2018
ROLES OPEN: Escalus, Paris, Capulet, Romeo, Mercutio, Benvolio, Tybalt, Friar Lawrence, Lady Capulet, Juliet, Nurse, Friar John, Balthasar, Peter, Apothecary, Gregory
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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS
By William Shakespeare
Directed by: Alan Paul
Performs at the Lansburgh Theatre
1st Rehearsal: Tuesday, August 21, 2018; Opening: Monday, October 1, 2018; Closes: Sunday, October 28, 2018; Poss Ext: Sunday, November 4, 2018
ROLES OPEN: Antipholus of Syracuse, Antipholus of Ephesus, Dromio of Syracuse, Dromio of Ephesus, Adriana, Luciana, Egeon, Solunus, Nell, Luce, Balthasar, Angelo, Courtesan, Officer, Dr. Pinch, Male Servant 1, Male Servant 2
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The Panties, The Partner and The Profit; Scenes From the Heroic Life of The Middle Class
By: David Ives
Directed by: Michael Kahn
Performs at the Lansburgh Theatre
1st Rehearsal: Monday, October 29, 2018; Opening: Monday, December 10, 2018; Closes: Sunday, January 6, 2019; Poss Ext: Sunday, January 20, 2019
Each of the six actors plays three different parts over the course of this evening of three separate but related plays about a family over three generations that goes from Boston in 1950 to New York in the 1980’s to Malibu today. This means that each actor must have the necessary range and character skill. Comedy and comic experience a must.
MALE ONE
30ish. Plays Joseph Mask (a man in his late 20’s), then the same character 35 years later, then plays his own grandson in the world of today. In the first case he is an overbearing lower-middle-class sanitation worker in the mold of Ralph Kramden; in the second case the 60-ish version of that; in the third case he is a gender-fluid spoiled rich young man in his late 20’s living in California. Perhaps a man of some physical size.
FEMALE ONE
30ish. Plays Louise Mask (a woman in her late 20’s), then the same character 35 years later, then plays a rich citizen of Malibu in her late 20’s. In the first case she is a rather drab and unhappy lower-middle-class wife; in the second case she is that same woman 35 years later, grown a bit dotty; in the third case she is a wealthy, idle, single, not very bright or informed, very self-involved Malibu beach-house owner of today.
(MALE ONE and FEMALE ONE have to carry the first play, as they are at its center.)
MALE TWO
35. Plays Benjamin Mandelstam, a shy, rather nerdy Jewish barber; then plays Christian Mask, a New York Wall Street climber of the go-go years of the 1980’s; then plays Rabbi Mandelstam, a loosey-goosey California rabbi of today. Appealingly geekish, earnest quality. Needs an absentmindedness necessary for the first play. (ACTOR TWO has to carry the second play as an ambitious young stockbroker.)
FEMALE TWO
Late 30’s. Plays Trudi Reezner, a sex-starved lower-middle-class single woman with romantic fantasies; then plays Sybil Rittenhouse, a sexed-up but very Waspish upper-class woman of the same age; then plays Sophie Mask, the fabulously rich CEO of a global industrial-technological-and-communications empire in the world of today. This part requires a comic actress of great range and self-possession. (ACTRESS TWO has major work in the first two plays but has to carry the third play.)
MALE THREE
40-50, handsome leading-man type. Plays Jock Revere, an upper-class-Boston ladies’ man who is sure of his looks and his charm and who speaks in sweeping narcissistic comic arias; then plays William Jefferson Adams Hamilton III, the patrician, aggressively traditional head of an old and traditional patrician Wall Street firm; then in the world of today plays Jack Revere, a knock-out California furniture mover who again breaks into rather high-flying mystical arias.
FEMALE THREE
20’s. Plays a prudish young scientist looking for lodgings; then plays the spoiled, rich, not-very-bright daughter of an old and respected American family; then plays a young and rather loony California psychologist.
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RICHARD III
By William Shakespeare
Directed by: David Muse
Performs at Sidney Harman Hall
1st Rehearsal: Monday, December 31, 2018; Opening: Monday, February 11, 2019; Closes: Sunday, March 10, 2019; Poss Ext: Sunday, March 24, 2019
ROLES OPEN (ALL):
RICHARD, DUKE OF GLOUCESTER
LADY ANNE
KING EDWARD IV
QUEEN ELIZABETH
PRINCE EDWARD
RICHARD, DUKE OF YORK
GEORGE, DUKE OF CLARENCE
DUCHESS OF YORK
QUEEN MARGARET
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
WILLIAM, LORD HASINGS
LORD STANLEY
EARL RIVERS
LORD GREY
MARQUESS OF DORSET
SIR THOMAS VAUGHAN
SIR WILLIAM CATESBY
SIR RICHARD RATCLIFFE
LORD LOVELL
DUKE OF NORFOLK
EARL OF SURREY
EARL OF RICHMOND
EARL OF OXFORD
SIR JAMES BLUNT
SIR WALTER HERBERT
SIR WILLIAM BRANDON
SIR CHROSTOPHER
ARCHBISHOP
CARDINAL
JOHN MORTON, BISHOP OF ELY
SIR ROBERT BRAKENBURY
JAMES TYREL
LORD MAYOR OF LONDON
PURSUIVANT
SCRIVENER
SIR JOHN
SHERIFF
PAGE
GENTLEMAN
MURDERERS
*Full tracking and doubling for the production is TBD
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VANITY FAIR
By: Kate Hamill
Directed by:
Performs at Lansburgh Theatre
1st Rehearsal: Tuesday, January 22, 2019; Opening: Monday, March 4, 2019; Closes: Sunday, March 31, 2019
ROLES OPEN (All):
Men:
ACTOR 1 (m) - Manager / Miss Matilda Crawley / Lord Steyne
ACTOR 2 (m) - Rawdon / Mr. Sedley / Fairgoer/Coachman / General Tufto / German Fairgoer 1
ACTOR 3 (m) - Dobbin / Miss Pinkerton/ Rose Crawley / Gentleman 1 / Servant 2/ Servant 3
ACTOR 4 (m) - George / Lesser Pitt/ Miss Briggs / Lady Bareacres / Servant 1 / / Landlord / German Fairgoer 2 / Gentleman 2 / Sheriff
ACTOR 5 (m/f) - Jos / Sir Pitt / Mr. Osborne / Miss Jemima / Lady Chesterton / Auctioneer / King *
Women:
ACTRESS 1 (f) - Amelia Sedley; 20s-30s. Goes from 18 to early 30s during course of play. Bit of a sap, really.
ACTRESS 2 (f) - Becky Sharp; 20s-30s. Goes from 18 to early 30s during course of play. Bit of a brat, really.
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THE ORESTEIA
By: Ellen McLaughlin
Directed by: Michael Kahn
Performs at Sidney Harman Hall
1st Rehearsal: Monday, March 11, 2019; Opening: Monday, May 6, 2019; Closes: Sunday, June 2, 2019; Poss Ext: Sunday, June 9, 2019
ROLES OPEN (All):
Clytemnestra – A queen. 30’s-40’s
Agamemnon – A king. Perhaps a bit older than Clytemnestra
Orestes – A prince. 20’s
Cassandra: a former Princess of Troy who is still an unwilling priestess of Apollo and a prophetess. 20’s to 30’s
CHORUS:
An androgynous and diverse group.
CHORUS A/WATCHMAN earthy, folk wise,
CHORUS B/APOLLO cool, slightly malicious, otherworldly
CHORUS C/ATHENA reasoned, questioning, just
CHORUS D fierce, frightening, decisive
CHORUS E/ELECTRA creature energy, watching, wary, sly
CHORUS F / NURSE older, ironic, cool
CHORUS G motherly, capable, warm
CHORUS H unpredictable, ancient soul, powerful
CHORUS I young, questioning, impulsive
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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