TheatreWorks New Milford will be holding an OPEN AUDITION for Dorothy Lyman's play, UPSTATE. They are seeking three women and two men, ages 20 to 60. Auditions will be held on Sunday March 16th from 4:00 to 6:00 pm and Monday March 17th from 6:00 to 9:00pm at TheatreWorks (use GPS address - 20 Elm Street Ext, New Milford, CT.)
UPSTATE follows three generations of women who meet on their family dairy farm in Upstate New York to decide the fate of their recently widowed matriarch. It will be directed by Dorothy Lyman.
Dorothy Lyman is a two-time Emmy© Award-winner for her work as Opal Gardner on “All My Children” and is widely known for her co-starring role on “Mama’s Family,” alongside Vicki Lawrence and Carol Burnett. In addition to her numerous film and television appearances, Ms. Lyman also directed 75 episodes of Fran Drescher’s sitcom “The Nanny.” Her other plays are Enemy (an adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People), A Rage in Tenure and Soft Landing (directed by John Tillinger) were all developed and produced by Players Workshop in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Upstate was produced in New York City and Westchester in 2019. We Have To Hurry, starring Elliott Gould, Kathleen Chalfant and Alfred Molina was produced on ZOOM during the pandemic.
Ms. Lyman’s directing career began in 1980 when she produced and directed the original off-Broadway production of A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking starring Susan Sarandon and Eileen Brennan, and the subsequent national tour starring Elizabeth Ashley and Susan Anton. Her feature film The Northern Kingdom is available on Netflix.
She lives in Washington Depot, Connecticut and New York City. Violet And Me A Mama-logue Ms. Lyman’s one-person play premiered in August 2023 at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her first one-person play, My Kitchen Wars, adapted from the book of the same name by Betty Fussell was produced in New York City and Los Angeles.
If you have any questions about auditions or this production, please contact Keli Solomon at
mail2solomon@gmail.com or 203-417-0076.
Character descriptions and sides can be found at
https://theatreworks.us/for-actors/open-calls/. All roles are available, and both professionals and amateurs are welcome however please note that there is no pay or housing available. Rehearsals will begin mid-March and the production runs weekends from May 2nd through May 24th.
TheatreWorks New Milford is a multiple-award-winning, non-Equity theater company, named Best Small Theater and Best Community Theater in Connecticut by Connecticut Magazine and voted #1 Cultural Arts Organization in Northwest CT 2017. The theater is located at 20 Elm Street Ext, New Milford, CT. , just off Route 202 (next to the CVS), in New Milford , CT. Parking is located behind the Catherine E. Lillis Administration Building at 50 East Street, New Milford.
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