Upcoming Auditions in Nashville (3/1/16): M*A*S*H, PICASSO and More

Directors and producers throughout Middle Tennessee are seeking actors for upcoming productions of God of Carnage (at Nashville's 4th Story Theatre) and Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapine Agile (directed by Jonah Jackson for Towne Centre Theatre) and Metro Parks and the Music City Theatre Collective team up for a series of special classes, including an audition workshop, for this spring, and just added to the calendar: Auditions for the latest from Verge Theatre Company. We've gathered the details together here to make your planning easier. So now you have no excuse: go follow your dream!

March 5 and 6

Towne Centre Theatre holds auditions for Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapine Agile, directed by Jonah Jackson.

Auditions are Saturday, March 5, from 1 to 4 p.m. and Sunday, March 6 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Towne Centre Theatre, 136 Frierson Street, in Brentwood.

Roles are available for seven men and four women, ages 18-65. Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script. Please bring a headshot and resume, if possible, as well as a listing of all rehearsal conflicts.

Productions dates April 22-May 7

Questions? Email director Jonah Jackson at jmjackson3@mail.lipscomb.edu

March 5-7

The 4th Story Theater announces auditions for God of Carnage, a play by Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton, directed by John O. McGuire, Jr.

Auditions are March 5, from 1 to 3 p.m.; March 6, from 1 to 3 p.m.; and March 7, from 6 to 8 p.m. God of Carnage is described as "a comedy of manners...without the manners" and was winner of the 2009 Tony and Olivier Awards for Best Play. To reserve your audition time, contact Martha Ann Pilcher at maspilcher@gmail.com.

Production Dates: May 4-15 (the play runs 90 minutes, with no intermission); Rehearsals begin March 7, and will be two to three nights per week (or as needed) from 7:30 to 10 p.m.

Roles Available for (2) Adult Women and (2) Adult Men in their late 30s to mid-40s who have 11 year-old boys.

March 6-8

Encore Theatre Company hosts auditions for M*A*S*H, the stage comedy based on the award-winning film and television series. Michael Rex directs.

Auditions are Sunday, March 6 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.; Monday, March 7 and Tuesday, March 8, from 6 to 8 p.m. at 6978 Lebanon Road, Mt. Juliet.

Roles Available for up to 15 men and 15 women (some roles will be double cast)

About the show: M*A*S*H stands for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and joining it are two unpredictable madcaps, Hawkeye and Duke (two of the best chest surgeons in South Korea) who decide to wage a campaign to get a young Korean to the United States and entered in a good school! There's a jolly encounter with the baby-talking Bonwit sisters, the worst tap-dancing act the U.S.O. ever sent overseas. O'Reilly, a soldier with incredible hearing anticipates things before they happen! It's all here, including a little romance mixed with dramatic moments and a genuine love of life. Oh, yes, the Korean boy does get his education in the United States!

Production dates: April 22-May 1

Questions? Email Mic - athulf36@gmail.com

Metro Parks' Theatre Program will host several classes and workshops for interested students ages 9 to 17 this spring, leading up to this summer's co-production with Music City Theatre Collective of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! at the Centennial Park band shell.

• Workshop Wednesdays: The Audition Series Preparatory workshops for our summer musical! For those interested in auditioning for our summer musical production of Oklahoma!, or auditioning for anything really, you'll want to come to all four of our auditioning workshops. Each one is designed to prepare students for an audition in acting, singing and dance. The final workshop is a mock audition process where you'll do all three! This is a great way to practice auditioning (and to get your nerves out) before you audition for real. Auditions for Oklahoma! are April 3 and 4; for more information, contact rachel.hamilton@nashville.gov.

• Musical Theater Intensive Workshops Get geared up for our summer musical auditions on April 3 & 4, or just hone your craft with our musical theater intensive workshops, for ages 9-17, on Wednesday afternoons from 4:30-7:30 p.m. at the Centennial Performing Arts Studios. Register for one or all of them! Get your groove on:
• ?March 16: DANCE Intensive Workshop Taught by Music City Theatre Collective partner Curtis Reed, our Dance Intensive Workshop will gear you up for learning choreography combinations quickly in an audition setting. The basics of Dance Technique will help as long as easy memorization tools you can use so that you feel prepared during a dance audition. Oddly enough, Choreographers aren't always looking for who can do the dance perfect, but who can "sell" the dance and make it interesting to watch!
• February 17: ACTING Intensive Workshop Taught by Music City Theatre Collective partner Martha Wilkinson, our Acting Intensive Workshop will help you prepare a one-minute monologue for auditioning. The guidance and individual feedback will help give you the confidence and skills you can use so that you feel prepared during an audition.
• March 2: VOICE Intensive Workshop Taught by Music City Theatre Collective partner Jenny Norris Light, our Voice Intensive Workshop is designed to perfect the 16-32 bar audition cut. Learn how to utilize your voice in new ways to best show your full vocal capabilities within the cut, explore stylistic techniques to communicate emotional intent and, most importantly, sell it to get the part!

Cost for the classes is $15 per student, per class.

March 15 and 19

Verge Theater Company seeks actors for principal and understudy roles in the regional premiere of Skinless by Johnna Adams, directed by David Ian Lee.

Roles are available for six female principal performers and six understudy performers; local university students will be given first consideration for understudy positions. Actors of all races and ethnicities are strongly encouraged to audition.

Rehearsals: April 18-May 12, daytime and evenings depending on actor availability.

Performances and possible extensions: May 13, 14, 15, 19 (US), 20, 21, 23, 26, and 29 (US).

Compensation: Principle cast: $150, understudies $50

Auditions & Submission Information Auditions will be held by appointment on March 15 at the University Theater on Lipscomb University campus from 6 to 10 pm.m and March 19 from 6:30 to 10 p.m. at Belmont University's Black Box Theater and will consist of readings from the text.

Callbacks will be held on March 20th from 6:30-10:00 at Belmont University's Black Box Theater.

To be considered please e-mail your headshot and resume to nettiemaeusa@yahoo.com. Provide your availability and any conflicts for the evenings of March 15th, 19th, and 20th and indicate the role(s) for which you wish to be considered.

Breakdown & Production Info: In Johnna Adams' gothic-thriller Skinless, legends of skinless people who roam the woods of rural Georgia may prove more fact than fiction. Emmi Falco is a PhD candidate obsessed with forgotten pulp-horror writer Zinnia Wells, whose belief in the Skinless hid secrets even more haunting. Set both in the halls of present-day academia and on the Wells' remote farm more than a half-century in the past, Skinless winds an intelligent, wrought, and wicked tale that is equal-parts Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and Sam Shepard's Buried Child.

EMMI FALCO - 30s - a PhD candidate. Brilliant, articulate, and idealistic. Emmi has lionized Professor Diaz; she seeks her mentor's respect while also fighting to come into her own as a researcher and a scholar.

SYLVIA DIAZ - 50s - Emmi's professor. Confident, strong, and battle-hardened. Sylvia views the role of the academic akin to that of the combatant in an arena. Archytype: Cherry Jones in "Transparent" or Allison Janney in "The West Wing."

ZINNIA WELLS - 30s - a writer. Lyric, yearning and bruised. Zinnia often runs into the woods, desperate to find the hidden Skinless. Her short stories serve as respite from a terrible secret; she reads several passages from her novel during the course of the play, and the actor cast in the role will have a capacity for poetic and heightened language.

MARIGOLD WELLS - 40s - Zinnia's sister, manages their small farm. Stoic, pragmatic, and grounded. Marigold serves as the "matriarch" of the family, caring not only for her sisters but also for their aged mother. Marigold has survived through a combination of the enforced optimism of Betty Draper and the determination of Rosie the Riveter.

CHYRSSIE WELLS - 20s - another sister, mostly mute. She can talk, but mostly uses gestures and expressions to communicate. Soulful and observant. Though Chyrssie rarely speaks, she is ferociously present; she wrestles with a secret that left her traumatized at a young age.

BLUEBELL WELLS - 18, the youngest sister - Wistful, wide-eyed, and without irony or guile. Bluebell is poised and eager to discover a world beyond her family farm; she is a child on the edge of adulthood and awareness. She worships Zinnia and adores hearing her sister's stories.

Notes: Actors asked to read for the Wells sisters are encouraged to attempt a North Georgia (Southern Appalachian) dialect.

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