THE AMATEURS - NYC EPA
Vineyard Theatre
AUDITION DATE
Tue, Aug 08, 2017
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
1:30-2:30 pm
CONTRACT
Off Broadway
$613 weekly minimum
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in THE AMATEURS (see breakdown).
PREPARATION
Please prepare a contemporary comedic monologue. Please bring a picture and resume.
LOCATION
Vineyard Theatre
108 E 15th St
New York, NY 10003-2102
PERSONNEL
Playwright: Jordan Harrison
Director: Oliver Butler
Artistic Directors: Sarah Stern/Douglas Aibel
Casting Director: Henry Russell Bergstein (expected to attend)
OTHER DATES
1st Rehearsal: Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
Tech: February 3rd – Wednesday February 7th, 2018
1st Preview: Thursday, February 8th, 2018
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 The Amateurs, a scrappy troupe of pageant players races across 14th-century Europe, struggling to outrun the Black Death—and medieval subscribers. The arrival of a mysterious new actor sends Hollis, the leading lady, in search of answers that can only be found off-script...and soon one century’s plague begins to look a lot like another, more recent, one.
SEEKING:
LARKING: Male, Late 30s-late 40s. The domineering, blustering, egotistical leader of this band of players. He loves the sound of his own voice. Puffs his chest out. Ostensibly an alpha male but with a hidden center of laboriously disguised self-doubt. In the play within the play, he also plays LECHERY and GOD.
RONA. Female, 30s. Attractive in a brittle, poisonous way. A bit of a trouble-maker. Sour, deadpan, blunt, funny. She uses her beauty and looks to get what she wants. In the play within a play, she also plays GLUTTONY, SHEM, and SHEM’S WIFE.
BROM: Male, 30s. Stoic, principled, soulful. On the surface, he’s more mild-mannered and drama-free than the rest of the players. But it’s deceptive, because he harbors the biggest secrets. Handsome, leading man looks. In the play within a play, he also plays PRIDE and NOAH. Also plays the MAJOR-DOMO.
THE PHYSIC: Male, 30s-early 40s. The driest among a bunch of dryly comic characters. A somewhat opaque, mysterious presence. Not unfriendly or brooding necessarily – he just has his cards very close to his chest. He’s a mystical doctor. He’s trying to start his life over again and running away from a secret. He is tall and attractive—a worthy romantic partner—but not in a matinee idol way, but rather in a damaged, handsome way. In the play within a play, he also plays ENVY, COVETOUSNESS, and NOAH (in Act III). Also plays HENRY’S APPARITION.
GREGORY/PLAYWRIGHT: Male, late 20s-30s. In the 1st and 3rd acts, he plays a kind of idiot savant, an ingenious amateur set designer in the 14th century. Used to getting kicked around and abused by the troupe’s leader, Larking. In fact, he is probably not an idiot savant at all, simply a savant. If he lived in a different time period, he might be more like… the Playwright who he plays in Act 2. A neurotic, sensitive, somewhat egotistical, gay contemporary playwright who wants to keep the audience from bailing on this journey he’s taking them on.
HOLLIS/HEIDI: Female, 40s. A sensitive, inquisitive amateur actress who has just lost her brother. She has a good deal of grit and fighting spirit. Used to living without much, used to waking up in a different place every morning, used to burying people. Like Brom, her acting as Noah’s Wife is a bit closer to our contemporary idea of “good acting”, and she becomes more natural as the play progresses.
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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