Milwaukee Chamber Theatre | Milwaukee, WI
Friday, January 31, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (C)
BREAK: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
SPT
$761 weekly minimum (SPT 8)
Equity actors for roles in TOPDOG UNDERDOG (see breakdown).
Sides will be provided on the morning of the audition. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actors' Equity Association - Chicago Member Center
557 W Randolph St
1st Fl
Chicago, IL 60661
Producer/Theatre Company: Josie Trettin / Milwaukee Chamber Theatre
Artistic Director: Brent Hazelton
Director: Gavin Lawrence
Casting Director: Josie Trettin / Milwaukee Chamber Theatre
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Josie Trettin (Artistic Producer)
Gavin Lawrence (Director)
Brent Hazelton (Artistic Director)
Rehearsal Dates: Tuesday, April 1st 2025 - Thursday, April 24th, 2025
Preview Date: April 25th, 2025
Opening Date: April 26th, 2025
Closing Date: May 11, 2025, Possible Extension Date: May 18, 2025
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
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.
SYNOPSIS: A play about family wounds and healing. Brothers Lincoln (oldest) and Booth (youngest) struggle to find fulfillment and meaning in their adult lives, especially in their work. Lincoln, a former three-card monte shark, now works at an arcade as a whiteface Abraham Lincoln impersonator. Booth is not employed but longs to pick up the three-card monte mantle and pick up where Lincoln left off. Together they ponder different paths to success and discuss their family's past - a past involving both parents leaving the family, but not before giving one brother an inheritance of $500.00. Their sibling.
[ LINCOLN ] 35-50s, Black man. Smart, calculating, drinks heavily. His ex-wife has kicked him out of the house and he now lives with his younger brother, Booth, while he tries to get back on his feet. He works at an arcade as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator, but was formerly a skilled three-card monte shark. He quit the scene when one of his partners was killed, fearing he would be next.
[ BOOTH ]: CAST A black man in his early thirties, Booth is the younger of two brothers and the perpetual underdog. He is intensely jealous of his brother, Lincoln, and views his brother as an obstacle to his vision of success.
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