Theatre Lab 2017-18 Season - Boca Raton FL OPEN Call by Appointment
Theatre Lab
AUDITION DATE
Jul 17, 2017
10:30 am (EDT)
Lunch 1:30 to 2:30
APPOINTMENTS
Email appointment requests to lpalmieri@fau.edu. No phone calls please.
CONTRACT
Guest Artist Guest Artist Tier 2; $433/week
SEEKING
Equity performers to fill roles for three Mainstage productions and various readings throughout 2017-18.
Theatre Lab is the resident professional company at Florida Atlantic University
PREPARATION
Please prepare 1-2 contemporary monologues totaling no more than 3 minutes. Please provide one headshot & resume.
LOCATION
Florida Atlantic University
777 Glades Rd
Boca Raton, FL 33431-6424
Parliament Hall
PERSONNEL
Louis Tyrrell, Artistic Director
Matt Stabile, Associate Artistic Director
Lauren Palmieri, Company Manager
OTHER
www.fau.edu/theatrelab
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
MOST WANTED
by Peter Sagal
A World Premiere
Dir. Louis Tyrrell
First rehearsal: 11/7/17 Preview: 11/30/17 Run: 12/1/17-12/17/17
FRANK
Male, 70’s, Jewish, a grandfather and a father, likes to tell a joke and misses the good old days when butcher shops sold tongue
AN OLD MAN
Male, 60’s-70’s, multi-track, plays a Motel Clerk, Clyde, a husband who’s wife has lost her memory, Marvin, a retiree looking for love, and Fred, a man who has lost touch with reality while working at Truman’s Little White House
A YOUNG WOMAN
Female, 30’s, multi-track, plays Izzy, daughter of Frank & Doris, as well as several other characters that Frank & Doris meet along their trip.
A YOUNG MAN
Male, 30’s, multi-track, plays Police Detective on trail of Frank & Doris, and Gerard, husband to Izzy
The following roles have been cast. Actors will be considered as a possible replacement or understudy for:
DORIS
Female, 70’s, a mother and grandmother. Driven and decisive.
_________
THE REVOLUTIONISTS
by Lauren Gunderson
Florida Premiere
Dir. Matt Stabile
First rehearsal: 1/16/18 Preview: 2/8/18 Run: 2/9/18-2/25/18
OLYMPE DeGOUGES
Female, 38, badass activist playwright and feminist. Theatre nerd, excitable, passionate, a showman.
CHARLOTTE CORDAY
Female, 25, badass country girl and assassin. Very serious, hardened by righteousness, Never been kissed.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
Female, 38, pretty badass but fascinating former queen of France. Bubbly, graceful, opinionated, totally unaware, unintentionally rude, and oddly prescient. Never had a real friend. Actor may be required to cut hair very short.
MARIANNE ANGELLE
Female, 30’s, a badass black woman in Paris. From the Caribbean, a free woman, a spy working with her husband, tough, classy, vigilant.
__________
BE HERE NOW
by Deborah Zoe Laufer
Florida Premiere
Dir. Deborah Zoe Laufer
First rehearsal: 3/14/18 Preview: 4/5/18 Run: 4/6/18-4/22/18
BARI
Female, 50’s, deeply cynical and depressive, an academic who’s life has taken some strange turns
PATTY
Female, 50’s, loud and controlling and good-hearted
LUANNE
Female, 20’s, very simple and sweet.
The following roles have been cast. Actors will be considered as a possible replacement or understudy for:
MIKE
Male, 50’s, Quirky. Makes art out of garbage.
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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