UPSTREAM Equity Principal Actors - Mixed Blood Theatre Company Auditions

UPSTREAM - Minneapolis, MN EPA

Mixed Blood Theatre Company | Minneapolis, MN

AUDITION DATE

Friday, December 20, 2024
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM (C)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment please fill out the following form:
https://forms.gle/CMa72Mo17oaar7GE8. 15-minute time slots.

CONTRACT

SPT
$670 weekly minimum (SPT 7)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in UPSTREAM (See breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please prepare a 1-minute monologue, appropriate for middle school aged audiences (10-14 years old) along with a simple game you can teach and play in under 5-minutes. Because UPSTREAM requires performers to improvise with an audience in character, we will ask you to teach and play a simple game with us. It could be a card game, hand game, music game, summer camp game, theatre warmup game, anything that you can teach and play in under 5-minutes that gives us a sense of you as a facilitator and teaching artist.

LOCATION

Mixed Blood Theatre
1501 S 4th St
Minneapolis, MN 55454-1106
We'll be upstairs in the Mixed Blood rehearsal room. Please enter from the purple door at the back, facing the parking lot, up the wooden ramp. There is street parking as well as an open air, paid parking lot.

PERSONNEL

Artistic Director: Mark Valdez
Written by Saymoukda Duangphouxay Vongsay, Ryan Hill, Blossom Johnson, Johanna Keller Flores
Directed by Alejandro Tey, with Alyssa Vera Ramos and Rebekah Rentzel
Expected to attend:
Director/Associate Artistic Director: Alejandro Tey

OTHER DATES

1st Rehearsal: March 17, 2025
Tech Week: March 31st - April 10th, 2025
Opening: April 11, 2025
Closing: April 26, 2025
Wed-Friday school matinees.
Public performances: Friday evenings, Saturday matinees.

OTHER

mixedblood.com
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

BREAKDOWN

UPSTREAM - Minneapolis, MN

UPSTREAM

This play is co-created with the students of the OWL Community school and will be performed day times for school groups, with as many as 6 public performances. The rest will be school performances.

SYNOPSIS: The River’s Daughter has gone missing, and it is up to the audience, led by fantastical guides, to find her and bring her home. Ultimately, the audience will have to determine what they will do to steward a better world into existence. This immersive and participatory play about climate resilience is being developed with the students of OWL and a number of community partners working in the fields of climate resilience and climate justice.

As the play is still in development, we expect this character list to change from now until first rehearsal (and potentially through rehearsals as well).

SEEKING:

The play will be performed by 4 adult performers alongside an ensemble of student performers cast from Open World Learning Community School. Performers will take on multiple roles from among the following:

• Whispers - a chorus of lapping waves that carry the river's stories
• River Mother - Our host and quest-giver. Searching for her daughter. By turns calm, healing, raging, sorrowful. Her age gives her gravitas, wisdom, and a longer view of events than humans can fathom.
• Mantis Priestess - Speaker for the River. Emcee and connection to the earth. Mistrusts our human audience.
• Isla - Teen, lil activist. Needs help confronting her father.
• Eradicator - Isla’s father. Runs a factory that is a source of environmental calamity.
• Fox - Nervous energy, skittish, sweet. Has a good nose. Our guide to understanding food systems.
• Whole Foods Employee - throws away food.
• Stream - a vision of the River's daughter.
• Pisces - Rebel android with an eyepatch and metal arm. Here to blow up the system.
• Siete - one of Pisces' fellow rebels.
• Acanthus Maria Justinian Wandersome - ambitious young adventurer trying to make a name for herself.
• Hercule P. Trundlemore - world-renowned hunter of antiquities and rare animals. Anachronistic colonial adventurer. Pith helmet, mustache, the whole schtick.
• Trashbird - a phoenix made of trash. Puppet.
• Koda - a scavenger from the future.