Undermain Theatre 2018-2019 Season - Dallas EPA Day
Undermain Theatre
AUDITION DATES
Tue, May 08, 2018
1:00 pm - 8:00 pm (CDT)
Wed, May 09, 2018
1:00 pm - 8:00 pm (CDT)
APPOINTMENTS
Contact Casting Assistant Parker Gray at opsmanager@undermain.org or call 214 747-1424 during business hours
CONTRACT
SPT Minimum - $245/wk
SEEKING
Equity actors - men and women, for the 2018-2019 Season. See Breakdown for details
Local hires preferred..
PREPARATION
Auditions will consist of one prepared contemporary or classical monologue not exceeding 3 minutes in length.
Bring picture and resume stapled together as well as your Equity Membership Card.
LOCATION
Undermain Theatre
3200 Main St
Dallas, TX 75226-1562
Undermain Basement space
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director Katherine Owens
Executive Producer Bruce DuBose
Casting Assistant Parker Gray
OTHER DATES
See breakdown.
OTHER
www.undermain.org
Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to attend
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
How is it That We Live or Shakey Jake + Alice- by Len Jenkin
Directed by Undermain Artistic Director Katherine Owens
A World Premiere
Rehearsal 8/13/18 – 9/12
In Performance 9/13/18-10/7/18, Wed. through Sat. evenings at 7:30 and Sun. matinees at 2.
Preview Performances 9/13, and 9/14
Opening Night Saturday 9/15/18
Synopsis:
How is it That We Live or Shakey Jake + Alice traces the arc of the lives of two lovers through the years, from the first kiss to the last goodbye and everything in between. On the road, in an indelible American landscape, Shakey Jake + Alice launch themselves on a poetic quest as they dance to the end of love. Longtime Undermain collaborator Len Jenkin explores the psyches of life-long partners to answer the question, “How is it that we live?”
Characters:
Shakey Jake – Male, any ethnicity, age range 30 – 55, he ages from scene to scene from young to late middle age.
Alice – Female, any ethnicity, age range 30 – 55, she ages from scene to scene from young to late middle age.
Cripple Clarence Nightingale – male, any ethnicity, age range 45-65.
Sweet Lucy – female, any ethnicity, age range 18 – 30.
The Lady From the Sea by Henrik Ibsen
Directed by Undermain Company Member Blake Hackler
A Dallas Premiere
Rehearsal 10/8/18 – 11/7In Performance 11/8/18 – 12/2/18, Wed. through Sat. evenings at 7:30 and Sun. matinees at 2. Preview Performances 11/8, and 11/9
Opening Night Saturday, 11/10/18
Synopsis:
Ellida, a lighthouse-keeper's daughter, is trapped on an island in her marriage and longs for the sea. The conflict in the mermaid-like Ellida Wangel is between her duty to her devoted husband and her attraction to a mysterious, seagoing stranger from her past. Her duty to convention takes second place to an otherworldly awareness of more mystical bonds challenging her wedding vows.
Characters:
Ellida Wangel - Any ethnicity, age range 30 – 40, a woman dominated by the sea. She feels stifled in her new home and strangely drawn to a sailor who had known and loved her years earlier.
Dr. Wangel -Any ethnicity, age range 50 – 65, Ellida’s husband, a physician.
Boletta - Any ethnicity, age range 20 – 30 Dr. Wangel’s daughters by his first wife. Find her stepmother a difficult person with whom to make friends.
Hilda Wangel - Any ethnicity, age range 16 – 25, Dr. Wangel’s daughters by his first wife. Find her stepmother a difficult person with whom to make friends.
Arnholm – Any ethnicity, age range 35 to 50 Boletta’s former tutor and another early sweetheart of Ellida. He is a suitor to Boletta
The stranger – Any ethnicity, age range 30 – 45. A sailor who has a powerful psychological hold over Ellida. A fugitive from justice.
Lyngstrand - Any ethnicity, age range 25 – 35. a traveling sculptor who stops at the Wangels’ house. He is a suitor to Hilda.
Ballestead – Any ethnicity, age range 45 – 65. A painter, dance instructor, barber and autodidact. He is painting an ocean scape with a mermaid and offering guided tours to tourists.
So Go the Ghosts of México, part three by Matthew Paul Olmos
Directed by Undermain Artistic Director Katherine Owens
A World Premiere
Rehearsal 3/11/19 – 4/11/19
In Performance 4/12- 5/5/19
Preview Performance Friday, 4/12
Opening Night Saturday, 4/13
Synopsis:
The final installment in this three-play cycle exploring the U.S./México drug wars. A young Méxican get caught up in the web of the drug trade between the two countries, changing their lives forever. But is their ordeal what it seems or a mirage of disinformation created by unseen forces? Somewhere between truth and illusion a mother from México searches for her missing daughter. The third part of Matthew Paul Olmos’s daring and poetic trilogy explores the human struggle of the US/México drug wars and the shadowy forces which create the market and distribution system shaping the world on both sides of the border.
Characters:
a Good Woman – Latina, Age range 45 – 65. Lila’s mother, a mature woman from Mexico.
the Sales Lady – Caucasian, age range – ageless 25 – 70. An American who entices and manipulates with marketing and propaganda.
Lila – Latina, age range 18 –a young woman from Mexico.
Boyfriend – Latino, age range 25 – 40. A young man from Mexico.
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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