The Playhouse Black Box Series will hold auditions for its entire 2015-16 Black Box Season on August 10th and 11th from 7-10pm in the Stonzek Studio Theatre at the Lake Worth Playhouse, 713 Lake Avenue, Lake Worth FL, 33460.
Anyone auditioning should prepare a one-minute monologue from a contemporary play. All roles are non-paid.
Director Daniel Eilola will be looking to cast the following roles:
Marty (50-55) - Free spirited and supportive, she is the head of the Shirley Community Center and is the teacher of the adult Creative Drama Class. She is married to James, who is also participating in the class.
James (55-60) - Quiet and genial, he is married to Marty. He has a daughter from a previous marriage who is closer to Marty and this upsets him.
Schultz (40-45) - A recently divorced and vulnerable man who is attracted to Theresa. He is a carpenter who seems to exude loneliness.
Theresa (30-35) - An earnest and vibrant former actress. She recently went through a bad break up with her boyfriend, and moved to Vermont from New York receive a certificate in acupressure. She seems to exude confidence.
Lauren (16) - A high school student who is thinking of studying acting in college and pursuing it as a career. She is the most self-conscious of the group.
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Reckless by Craig Lucas
Production Dates: Jan 21st - Jan 31st
Director Richard Iverson will be looking to cast the following roles.
Rachel - (30-40) Optimistic and adventurous, makes due with any situation.
Tom - (30-40) Rachel's Husband, emotional and untrustworthy, an opportunist.
Lloyd - (35-45) caring but dense, oddly mysterious.
Pooty - (40 - 70) the apple of Lloyds eye. Pooty has a secret.
Also Need 3-4 other versatile actors, male and female in a similar age range playing various roles: Doctors, Game Show Host, Talk Show host, Announcers, Office workers, Derelicts, and more.
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A Kid Like Jake by Daniel Pearle
Production Dates: Apr 21st - May 1st
Director Trish-Weaver Rhodes will be looking to cast the following roles:
Alex: (35-40) a former lawyer, now a full-time mother, smart, passionate, funny, volatile at times, loving, insecure, cares deeply about her husband and her son.
Greg: (35-40) therapist, introspective, intelligent, rational, loving, never played sports growing up.
Judy: (40-60) director of a progressive nursery school in Manhattan, extroverted, smart, funny, fast-talking, enjoys being the expert in her field and the center of attention, compassionate and well-intentioned, but with limited capacity for introspection.
Nurse: (25-30) intuitive, sensitive, mysterious, unafraid of silence, slightly other-worldly, the kind of stranger who shows up in your dreams.
ABOUT LAKE WORTH PLAYHOUSE
Lake Worth Playhouse is a non-profit community theatre with a diverse array of offerings, including award-winning dramas, comedies, musicals, area premieres, Broadway favorites, children's shows, ballets and operas on film, live concerts, improv comedy and alternative programming. In addition to its main stage theatrical fare, the Playhouse presents year-round independent and foreign films in the Stonzek Theatre, an intimate black-box style theatre equipped with a large viewing screen and high-definition projection. The Playhouse is proud to offer a variety of educational programs for adults and children, as well as community outreach initiatives that bring cultural programs into the neighborhoods of underserved youth and also make theatre available free of charge for disadvantaged citizens in the community.
ABOUT THE PLAYHOUSE BLACK BOX SERIES:
Re-imagined and rebooted in 2012 by Playhouse Artistic Director Jodie Dixon-Mears and Series Director Daniel Eilola, the Playhouse Black Box Series offers a unique selection of plays featuring the works of nationally and internationally established playwrights whose subjects or themes are both thought provoking and relevant to today's world. All works
selected and presented in the series make perfect use of the Playhouse's 70 seat Stonzek Studio Theater, an intimate setting which provides the audience with a personal and visceral theatre going experience. The focus of the series is on the story, writing and acting of a chosen work with very basic technical arrangements.
