HOW TO USE A KNIFE - Atlanta GA EPA
Horizon Theatre Company
AUDITION DATE
Apr 10, 2017
12:00 pm - 11:00 pm (EDT)
break between 4pm to 7pm
APPOINTMENTS
Preferred contact: Amelia@horizontheatre.com; If no email access, call 404-523-1477 x113
CONTRACT
SPT SPT 6; Equity Minimum: $430 /week
SEEKING
Actors for 2017 Horizon production of How to Use a Knife. Particularly interested in seeing Equity actors who are new to Atlanta or who have Atlanta housing and are able to work as local jobbers. Horizon has limited access to housing for out of town actors and generally casts out-of-town artists only in roles that cannot be filled with Atlanta-based talent.
PREPARATION
Sides will be provided. If you have not been seen at Horizon before, please also prepare two contrasting contemporary monologues. Please bring TWO (2) photos and resumes.
LOCATION
Horizon Theatre
1083 Austin Ave NE
Atlanta, GA 30307-1940
PERSONNEL
Director: Carolyn Cook
Artistic Director: Lisa Adler
Set Design: Isabel and Moriah Curley-Clay
Lighting Design: Mary Parker
Writer: Will Snider
OTHER DATES
1st rehearsal April 17, begins previews May 16, opens May 26 closes June 25, 2017
OTHER
Synopsis: It isn’t easy running a busy restaurant kitchen in New York City, but it may be the last chance Chef George gets to turn his life around. Behind the scenes, the kitchen sizzles with two rowdy Guatemalan line cooks, an entitled young busboy, and an eerily quiet African dishwasher. When secrets from the past bubble to the surface, Chef George discovers he holds more than his own life in his hands.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
Note: All ff the actors should have strong comedic abilities and be quick speakers. Restaurant Experience is a plus.
STEVE
Early 50s, Rwandan, born in Uganda, black. Speaks with an East African accent. He is the dishwasher in the restaurant, was well educated at home, is carefully spoken, wise, carries himself with dignity. He’s reserved and rather elegant but with strong opinions. Has sadness, but the sadness is deep. He controls it. He is tactical. He has a sense of humor and deadpan. Hides his pain with a smile. Slow to anger. Any anger he has is tactical. He doesn’t yell.
GEORGE
Late 40s/early 50s. American, a New Yorker, half-Irish, half-Puerto Rican. A trained chef, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict picking up his first job since getting sober. Manic, cynical, sarcastic, patronizing, intelligent, blustery, angry, self?hating – a bull in a china shop, and liable to move from casual shit talking to screaming to apologizing all in the same breath. A natural leader and knows it, as do the employees. Overweight and tall, is a strong presence in his kitchen who takes pleasure in yelling.
MICHAEL
Late 30s, American, white. A hustler. owns The restaurant and is a self-?made man. A ball of energy, has great attack, very fast talking, blunt, rude, funny, pompous, foul-?mouthed. A mover and a shaker. He Is of a new generation of cooks who think they’re rock stars. Not a frat boy. Would pick a nice bottle of wine and is maybe okay yes fine, is sexy.
CARLOS
Early 30s, Guatemalan, speaks fairly good English with an accent and must speak Spanish as well. Cook at the restaurant. Intelligent and circumspect, keeps the more volatile Miguel under control. Very much in control of his job and himself, walks a fine line between impudence and respect concerning his employers. A good manipulator. Keeps his place but is very good at veiled sarcasm. He’s playing the long game.
MIGUEL
30, Guatemalan, Speaks only Spanish for much of the play. The other cook. Fast-talking and sarcastic, even insulting, though his barbs are all in Spanish so he is saying pretty much whatever he wants. Sharp sense of humor and appreciates his own cleverness. The holy fool of the kitchen. Others think he’s crazy. He’s not.
JACK
Mid 20s, American, white. A nice white kid just graduated from a good college. Not traditionally handsome, short maybe or with some acne scars, shouldn’t look like a damn Kennedy. The busboy and runner of food. Wants to be a writer but doesn’t know what to write about. Bides his time with this lousy job. Sincere and open to direction. Wants to be cool. Wants to joke around.
KIM
Mid 30s, American, any ethnicity. Immigration investigator. Self?assured and crisp. Cuts to the chase and is efficient in her job. Nothing soft about her. She’s the one you send if you want the job done quickly. She is attractive, even though dressed no-nonsense for work. Michael assumes she can be his if he wants her - he's wrong.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to audition.
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