UPRISING Equity Principal Auditions - Horizon Theatre Company Auditions

Call Type
Equity Principal

Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT
Monday April 13, 2015
10 AM to 6 PM

Contract
SPT
Tier6; $430/week AEA min

Location
Horizon Theatre Company
1083 Austin Avenue NE
Atlanta, GA 30307

Seeking
AEA Actors for this world premiere. Particularly interested in seeing AEA actors who are new to Atlanta or who have Atlanta housing and are able to work as local jobbers. Horizon does not have access to housing for out of town actors.

see breakdown.

Preparation
Sides will be provided. If you have not been seen at Horizon before, please also prepare a contemporary dramatic monologue.

Please bring TWO photos and resumes.

Other Dates
1st rehearsal June 15th , opens July 17th, closes August 23rd, 2015
Performs at Horizon Theatre July 17-August 23, 2015

Other
www.horizontheatre.com

Personnel
Writer: Gabrielle Fulton

Producer: Lisa Adler
Director: Thomas W. Jones II
Set Design: Isabel and Moriah Curley-Clay
Lighting Design: Mary Parker

· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

Appointments
AEA members email kelly@horizontheatre.com (preferred method). If no email access, call 404-523-1477 x113

Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.

Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.

Breakdown

When Sal discovers a hypnotic revolutionary hiding in the brush, her life is turned upside down by his strong affection and the trouble on his tracks. Set during the aftermath of John Brown’s Raid, UPRISING is a historical drama that challenges our notion of freedom. By chronicling African Americans in Pre-Civil War/Secession Era America as they struggle to express freedom this play explores the human drama of self interest that undermines freedom and the responsibility (real or imagined) that comes with the lived experience of this right.

Seeking

OSSIE:
African American male, 30s. Charming with an intellectual swagger, he is a fugitive participant in John Brown's Raid. Born free in Pennsylvania.

CHARLIE PICK:
African American male, 50s- 60s. A respected barber for the white community, he's a wearied voice of reason and a founder of this free black community.

LOTTIE:
African American female, 50s, and heavily burdened by the shroud of fear when it comes to decision-making. She is the senior citizen of the community whose freedom was purchased by her father fifteen years ago.
Doubles with MISS ELLEN MARY: a Philadelphia innkeeper and Underground Railroad station agent.

WHISTLE:
White American male, 40s. He works for the Jamieson's as the sharecropping community's overseer.
Doubles with HOPPER: a venerable, Philadelphia lawyer and abolitionist.

The roles of SAL and BO-JACK have been cast:

SAL: ROLE CAST African American female, early 30s, uneducated; though, certainly nobody's fool. Born into slavery, three years emancipated. (ALREADY CAST)

BO-JACK: ROLE CASE. African American male, mid 20s. Virile, big mouthed and benignly cocky. Born into slavery, recently manumitted at the age of 25 through the 1804 Gradual Emancipation Act. (ALREADY CAST)