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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT (2 days)
Monday, June 13, 2016
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
10 AM to 6 PM each day
Lunch 1 to 2
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Contract
LOA
ref. to LORT, approval/salary pending
Location
Virginia Stage Company Offices
201 Granby Street
Suite #206
Norfolk, VA 23510
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Seeking
Equity actors and actor/singers for various roles in the upcoming 2016-17 season.
See breakdown
Preparation
Prepare a brief monologue, or a brief song, or a one-minute monologue with 16 bars of a song. An accompanist will be provided. Bring picture and resume, stapled together.
Other Dates
See breakdown for season dates.
Other
AEA members without appointments seen as time permits.
Personnel
Artistic Director: Patrick Mullins
A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
AEA members Please contact mdummerth@vastage.com to make an appointment.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
VIRGINIA STAGE 2016-17 SEASON
I SING THE RISING SEA
By: Eric Schorr
Director: Chris Hanna
1st rehearsal: August 23, 2016. First Performance: September 13, 2016. Closing: October 9, 2016
This musical by the coauthor of Frog Kiss tells a sweeping story that flows through generations and across continents—from the shores of Virginia to Japan and Antarctica. Scientists, soldiers, poets, and lovers strive to understand and master the power of the oceans that connect us all. In collaboration with ODURep, this newest installment of the American Soil Series is an original and timely work for musical theater that captures the urgency of one of humanity's most overwhelming challenges—to survive the rising sea.
Seeking:
GRANBY JR.
African-American male, 30- 40. Emotionally shut down biologist with strong passion for scientific discovery and a charmingly off beat sense of humor. Gorgeous as his glasses come off, he accidentally turns into the romantic least when his nerd shows up.
MISAKI
Asian-American female, mid 30s. Driven climate scientist who is more comfortable in the isolated reaches Antarctica than in human company. She learns to accommodate intimacy over the course of the action - and enjoys it. Actress also plays KIMIE, a 25 yr old professional escort in Japan during 1940s flashback scenes.
RUTH
Caucasian woman, 25-35. Fiercely intelligent and brazenly independent with a stubborn drive to correct the world as she sees it. The character ages through the action from 20 year old boardwalk sexpot (circa 1930s) to a wise old woman on the Upper West Side who remembers her career as a nationally prominent architect.
GRANBY SR.
African-American male, 30-40. A top ocean scientist who leaves the Jim Crow South as a young man to travel the world but returns in later life to embrace the shore of his childhood. Intelligent, sensitive seeker whose life we follow from college student to the end of his life.
HIRO
Japanese male, 40-50. Emperor of Japan who learns to enjoy a peaceful life chronicling sea creatures after Hiroshima. He also plays an elderly GRANDFATHER and SENATOR JOSEPH McCARTHY in small scenes.
LANGSTON
African American male, 45- 55. Actor needs to bring artistic soul and combative spirit of poet Langston Hughes to life without falling into impersonation. The play follows Hughes from his glory in 1940s Harlem through his last days. Actor also briefly plays onstage 1940s announcer.
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OLIVER TWIST
By: Charles Dickens, adapted by Patrick Mullins with music by Jake Hull. Director: Patrick Mullins
1st rehearsal: October 11, 2016. 1st performance: October 28, 2016. Closing: November 15, 2015
This music-driven adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic takes us on a gritty journey of hope and the search for identity while exploring what it means to be born into a certain class. Told through an American lens in collaboration with The Governor's School for the Arts, Twist's yearning for a better life still resonates.
Seeking: Fagin, Nancy, Mr. Brownlow, Bill Sikes, Mr Bumble, Agnes Fleming
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
By Charles Dickens, adapted by Patrick Mullins. Director: Patrick Mullins
1st rehearsal: November 15, 2016. 1st performance: December 6, 2016. Closing: December 24, 2016.
Ebenezer Scrooge and his travels with the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future reawaken the spirit of Christmas in all of us accompanied by period music and instruments. This timeless tale is a heartwarming tradition for many Hampton Roads families.
Seeking: Christmas Past, Christmas Present, Marley, Bob Cratchit
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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
By: Tennessee Williams. Director: Chris Hanna
1st rehearsal: December 27, 2016. 1st performance: January 17, 2017 Closing: February 5, 2017
No show could be more perfect for the Grand Reopening of the Wells Theatre. The building's magnificent architecture and Williams' towering masterpiece represent the best in American creative achievement. Brought to life with fresh staging and talent, Chris Hanna's direction of Streetcar will capture the yearning and humanity that has gripped audiences since Stanley Kowalski first cried out into the New Orleans night.
Seeking: Blanche DuBois, Stella Kowalski, Stanley Kowalski, Harold Mitchell
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VENUS IN FUR
By David Ives
1st rehearsal: February 7, 2017. 1st performance: February 28, 2017. Closing: March 19th, 2017
One of America's greatest living comedy writers, Ives has crafted a cheeky, sometimes sultry, and always enticing play within a play. The character of Thomas Novacheck has searched high and low for a woman fit for the lead role in the play he has written. As the audition unfolds on stage, we begin to question who is really auditioning whom?
Seeking: Vanda, Thomas
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THE WIZ
Book by William F. Brown. Music and Lyrics by Charlie Smalls. CoDirectors: Patrick Mullins and Anthony Stockard
1st rehearsal: March 21, 2017 First Performance: April 11, 2017. Final Performance: April 30. 2017.
This multiple Tony Award-winning musical adventure, adapted from L. Frank Baum's classic children's novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, has received critical acclaim for film, television, and Broadway productions for more than 40 years. Our production will feature cast members from New York as well as Norfolk State University and promises to be one of our biggest spectacles since My Fair Lady.
Seeking: Aunt Em, Scarecrow, Lion, Tin Man, The Wiz
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