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AUDITIONS
We are looking for a diverse group of actors!
Thursday, April 12, 6-9:30 p.m.
Pless Annex Basement (Drama Therapy Lab), 82 Washington Square E.
Friday, April 13, 4:30-9:30 p.m.
Education Building, room 1101 (11th floor), 35 W. 4th Street
Saturday, April 14, 10 a.m. -2 p.m.
Education Building, room 770 (7th floor), 35 W. 4th Street
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Total audition time is 20-60 minutes, depending on how many sides you read.
If auditioning for the musical, be prepared to sing acapella 16-32 bars of a prepared song.
No financial compensation beyond a 7-day Metrocard is available to actors in the series.
All non-Equity students, non-Equity alumni, and non-Equity actors are invited to audition! (NON-EQUITY except for current NYU students)
When is the 2018 series? - June 3-24
Week 1: 6/3-6/10 Week 2: 6/10-6/17 Week 3: 6/17-6/24
There is a different script each week – details below. You can audition for one, two, or all three scripts. The first week is a musical.
Lucky Petra (musical) with book and lyrics by Carl Miller, music by Christopher Ash. In addition to developing 1491 (2007) and Bud (2009) at NPYA, Miller has also written plays for Unicorn, Belgrade Theatre Coventry, Birmingham Rep and the National Theatre in London. Ash is a founding member of The Showstoppers’ Improvised Musical! and has composed scores for theatre (MAC Birmingham, Belgrade Coventry) and film. He is also an arranger, orchestrater, musical director, sound designer, improviser and workshop leader. Petra has been brought up inside a high tower by her unhappy father. One winter, she escapes – her physical journey also turning into an emotional coming of age. Lucky Petra is a promenade from station to station, moving its audience between a series of environments, driven by a Travelling Band which draws its inspiration from the repertoire of travelling music groups from Balkan Brass Bands to contemporary Roma / punk mashups. The presence of the musicians and what we learn of their journeys juxtaposes Petra’s magical travels with today's tales of migration. A dramatic, musical voyage for all ages inspired by sources from August Strindberg to Lowell Swortzell and beyond. Tony Graham directs. Former Artistic Director for both TAG (Glasgow) and Unicorn (London), where he oversaw the building of a major new children’s theatre, Graham is now an international freelance director regularly directing in Seoul, London and Coventry. Dramaturg Cecily O'Neill has been the series dramaturg for NPYA for the last ten years. 2TimeTheatre, a production and publishing company, is her latest venture. She is also the author of a number of influential books on drama education. Lucky Petra is appropriate for ages 11+. Rehearsed readings are on Saturday, June 9 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, June 10 at 3 pm.
HOW? is by noted author Lois Lowry whose 45 books have been translated into twenty-seven languages, and several have been adapted for film and stage. HOW? is a play that invites the audience as well as the actors to explore together the question of violence in our society. It is a play that incorporates variables, in the same way that the lives of young people do. So it will be different at each performance, and demanding of both the performers and the onlooking participants. It will uncover hidden and uncomfortable things about each character on the stage and might, in doing so, be revelatory to those watching. It might make the audience laugh at times. It might frighten them. It might make them weep. It will certainly provoke thought and discussion. It will raise questions that should leave the audience pondering possible answers. Stan Foote directs. Foote is the proud Artistic Director of Oregon Children’s Theatre and is excited help to bring another Lois Lowry story to life! HOW? is appropriate for ages 13+. Rehearsed readings are on Saturday, June 16 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, June 17 at 3 pm.
Becoming Martin is by noted director, screenwriter, and playwright Kevin Willmott. In addition to many notable film credits, Willmott adapted and directed a stage version of The Watsons Go to Birmingham at NPYA in 2005 and at Kansas City's Coterie Theater. He is a Professor in the Media and Film Studies Department of Kansas University. Becoming Martin explores Martin Luther King, Jr.’s journey to understand his own feelings and beliefs during the time he attended Morehouse College beginning at the young age of fifteen. Through his relationship with Dr. Benjamin Mays, Martin discovers that a minister can also be a modern man debating theology and philosophy while fighting for justice and equality. Kansas-based director and actor Chip Miller directs. Miller is the Assistant Artistic Director at KC Rep and a graduate of NYU. This play is appropriate for ages 11+. Rehearsed readings are on Saturday, June 23 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, June 24 at 3 pm.
All rehearsed readings are in the Provincetown Playhouse. Tickets are FREE.
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Questions? - Contact Teresa Fisher, Producer/Production Manager at taf263@nyu.edu
New Plays for Young Audiences is supported by The Nancy and Lowell Swortzell Permanent Fund in Educational Theatre and with thanks to NYU Steinhardt’s Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions.
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