THE MAD MAD SCIENTIST PLAY - NYC Appointments
The Gnome Haus
AUDITION DATE
Mon, Apr 02, 2018
2:00 pm (EDT)
By appointment only.
APPOINTMENTS
For an appointment slot, contact Josh@GnomeHaus.org with your headshot and resume. If you cannot make the audition times, we will accept a short video submission with your email.
CONTRACT
Showcase-NY Basic Showcase code, approval pending. Transportation stipend
SEEKING
Actors for 5 roles (4 male, 1 female). The Mad Mad Scientist Play is Ron Mallet’s descent into obsession as he races against the clock to build a time machine. He risks his professional reputation, the chance at real relationships, and almost his life, just to go back into the past and change his “what ifs.”
PREPARATION
Please have prepared a short contemporary monologue of your choice.
We may also ask some actors to prepare a side from the play, which we will email.
LOCATION
Alchemical Theatre Lab
104 W 14th St
New York, NY 10011
Studio B
PERSONNEL
Written by E. E. Wade
Directed by Josh FS Moser
OTHER DATES
Rehearsals: April 21st - 11 - 2, April 22nd - 11 - 2, April 28th & 29th -11 - 1, April 30th - 6 - 9, May 5th & 6th - 11 - 2, May 7th - 6 - 9, May 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, & 18th - 6 - 9.
Tech May 22nd and 23rd 6 - 10.
Opening May 24th, Closing June 10th
OTHER
https://www.gnomehaus.org/
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
Dr. Ronald (Ron) Mallet: 30s, black man, and a physics professor at The University of Michigan. He’s a graduate of Harvard and Yale. He began working as a teaching assistant and eventually a professor at Yale, but was terminated for “unethical” practices in and out the classroom. There were rumors he’d begun a secret affair with one of his grad students. Ron grew up in Detroit Michigan, and commutes from Detroit to Ann Arbor for work.
Dr. LaVeada Butler: 30s, black woman, and the associate chair of the physics department at The University of Michigan. She attended Michigan for her undergraduate studies, then left for Yale for graduate and doctorate. She returned to her alma mater and worked her way up to associate chair of the physics department. She is originally from a well to do community in Ann Arbor. She and Ron have a lot of tension built up as they dated at Yale, and she saved him once he was fired by allowing him to come on board at Michigan.
Bus Driver: mature, black man, and a bus driver of 30 years. He followed his father into the profession, and just never had the ambition to leave. He’s a little antiquated in thinking, but is open to learning from his passengers. He most times serves as a therapist to folks who wouldn’t ever go see a real one.
Charles: 30s, white man, and a figment of Ron’s imagination. He started as Ron’s imaginary friend, but grew into a “white Ron” fantasy for all the “what ifs” Ron felt held him back in life. Charles pushes Ron to build the time machine for his own sets of selfish reasons. None of them have Ron’s best interest or wellbeing in mind.
The Time Machine: mature, man. Time Machine is the object of Ron’s obsession, and sometimes, abuse. The stronger Time Machine grows, the more independent he becomes. He’s more like an AI than a robot, and because of this, he and Ron frequently disagree.
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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