Marin Theatre Company
**CANCELLED**
AUDITION DATE
Thu, Mar 26, 2020
9:00 am - 5:00 pm (PST)
Lunch: 12:30PM - 1:30PM
APPOINTMENTS
EPA rules in effect. In-person sign-up begins at 8:00AM on 3/26/20.
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep Minimum - $717/wk until February 2021, $739/week thereafter
SEEKING
Diverse actors of all ages, ethnicities, gender identities, abilities and types for our upcoming 2020-2021 season.
PREPARATION
Please prepare 1-2 contemporary monologues. Total audition should not exceed three minutes.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity Association LA Audition Center
5636 Tujunga Ave
North Hollywood, CA 91601
PERSONNEL
Trevor Floyd, Artistic Producer
OTHER DATES
See breakdown.
OTHER
www.marintheatre.org
EPA Procedures are in effect for audition.
An Equity monitor will be provided.
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
Please note all dates are subject to change.
Witch by Jen Silverman
First Rehearsal: 9/1/2020
Opening: 9/29/2020
Closing: 10/18/2020
Ext Closing: 10/25/2020
ELIZABETH (f, late 30s-60s range.) Elizabeth is an outsider. She is pragmatic, dry, funny, armored. She deflects with sharp humor. Her loneliness is a wound, but it is deeply buried. When we see glimpses of this wound, it is still raw. She discovers a steel core inside herself by the end of the play – a certainty that is stronger than anything she has ever felt.
SCRATCH (m, 20s-40). Scratch is the quintessential young salesman – charismatic, charming, funny. He could talk anyone into anything, and he usually does. Over the course of the play he falls in love for the first time, and by the end he is questioning everything he’s known about himself, and living in a place of raw despair. Someone who can nail both ends of this arc.
SIR ARTHUR (m, 50s-60s). Authoritative, entitled, kind, used to being obeyed. He misses his dead wife, and the loneliness he feels is an engine propelling him through the play. He is a man who is rooted in tradition, conventionality. He loves his son deeply, but doesn’t understand him.
CUDDY (m, 20s-early 30s). Sir Arthur’s son, painfully shy, a morris-dancer. He is secretly in love with Frank (and also in hate).
FRANK (m, same age-range as Cuddy). Frank was a working-class guy who has lucked his way into a different class bracket, a different kind of access. He is attractive and ambitious, charming but capable of flashes of real ruthlessness. He knows what people want to hear from him, and he doesn’t mind serving it. He knows what it’s like to not have enough, and he has set his sights on a different future. His entire core is built on something that is a mix of ruthlessness and desperation.
WINNIFRED (m, 20s). When we meet her she is hopeful, naïve, but with a dry sense of humor. She loves Frank and she’s still waiting for him to be his best self again. By the end of the play, she has become someone who is coldly pragmatic, stripped of hope, and comfortable with this state of affairs. There should be something eerie or frightening in this steely resolve
Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley by Margot Melcon and Lauren Gunderson
First Rehearsal: 10/20/2020
Opening: 11/24/2020
Closing: 12/13/2020
Ext Closing: 12/20/2020
2nd Ext Closing: 12/27/2020
All characters are young adults in act one. Georgiana, Kitty, Henry, Thomas, Fitzwilliam, and Elizabeth age 20 years in act two; actors playing Lydia, Mary, and Jane play new characters of the same age in act two.
Georgiana Darcy - extraordinarily shy, an accomplished pianist and singer, romantic but super gun shy after her experience with Wickham. She is an introvert, but lives a full life in the letters she writes and the music she plays.
Kitty Bennet - a ray of sunshine, the perfect best friend and wing man, she is supportive, optimistic and a problem solver. Without the influence of Lydia, she is more grounded and generous
Henry Grey - Georgiana's beau - also remarkably shy and an introvert, but of Incredible sincerity and intellect. Henry is unassuming, possibly to a fault, and is unaware that he is the hero of the story.
Thomas O'Brien - his friend, Irish, a little bawdy and a little jolly, says exactly what's on his mind, does not have much time for polite society but is so good natured that everyone kind of loves him
Fitzwilliam Darcy - proud but finding his warmth, does not forgive easily, perhaps slightly over-protective of his little sister
Elizabeth Darcy - loves all of her sisters, but loves Georgiana like a combo of sister and mom, and brings her out in a way that Darcy tends to shut her down
Lydia Wickham - a little extra, but has gained some wisdom. Now that she is suddenly without a husband is looking for a companion again. Also plays Sarah Darcy.
Mary Bennet - smart, uncompromising, recently betrothed. Also plays Emily Grey.
Jane Bingley - just the sweetest, pregnant, warm and unconditionally loving. Also plays Margaret Bingley.
King Hedley II by August Wilson
First Rehearsal: 12/29/2020
Opening: 1/26/2021
Closing: 2/14/2021
Ext Closing: 2/21/2021
KING HEDLEY II: Thirty-six years old, he is the spiritual son of King Hedley from Seven Guitars. He is engaged in life and death struggles with a scar to prove it. The slash down the left side of his face has left him with a glass eye. He looks like a bogeyman at the crossroads. He spent seven years in prison and strives to live by his own moral code. Ambitious and determined, proud and firey. Worn down by life. Quick to anger, with a strong sense of justice. Wants to do right but is caught up in the pain of his past.
RUBY: King’s mother and blues singer, sixty-one. Warm, wise, doing her best. Loving and generous. Wants to see the best in people. Caring. A former dreamer.
TONYA: King’s girlfriend who is pregnant and wants to have an abortion because she does not want to bring a baby into this corrupt, crazy world, thirty-five. Grounded, a realist. Sturdy and prudent, but generous of heart. no-nonsense.
ELMORE: Sixty-six years old and an old hustler who has been carrying a torch for Ruby for more than 30 years. He exudes an air of elegance and confidence born of his many years wrestling with life. He knows the secret of King's true patrimony. Flashy, charismatic, and smooth.
STOOL PIGEON: A sixty-five year old harmonica player also seen in Seven Guitars. He is now a newspaper-collecting history carrier. Gentle, god-fearing and superstitious. Spiritually on a different plane than the rest of the characters. The keeper of the history.
MISTER: Friendly, upbeat, loyal. A little gullible and not too sharp. Willing to go along with anything. 30s.
Everything That Never Happened by Sarah B. Mantell
First Rehearsal: 2/16/2021
Opening: 3/16/2021
Closing: 4/4/2021
Ext Closing: 4/11/2021
Jessica - W, Jewish, 20s-30s, idealistic but sharp and smart. Dutiful but also restless. Tenderhearted. Actor should have strong grasp of poetic language in the play.
Lorenzo - M, Not Jewish, 20s-30s, charming and charismatic. Romantic. Goyishe. Ignorant but well intended.
Shylock - M, Jewish, mid 40s-mid 60s. Fatherly and loving but firm and stern. Protective. A man of deep faith, weighted down by daily prejudice. Torn between his fear and anger and his leaning toward tenderness.
Gobbo - M, Not Jewish, Sweet. Goofy but in possesion of surprising depth. Love-sick. Loyal. Not Jewish but not Goyishe
The Scarlet Letter by Kate Hamill
First Rehearsal: 4/6/2021
Opening: 5/4/2021
Closing: 5/23/2021
Ext Closing: 5/30/2021
Hester Prynne - W, 20s-30s, Intelligent, strong-willed. A survivor under extreme circumstances. Quite beautiful, which gives her more power (and trouble) than she might otherwise have. Capable of standing up to extreme pressure. Passionate. Nursing a terrible heartache. Not immune to the fears and superstitions of the culture around her. Fears the consequences of her sins. Sometimes unsure of her child’s origins, in a superstitious way. Survives and forgives, ultimately, although she is not without anger. A loving, if sometimes overextended and over-exasperated parent. Eventually learns to overcome the mores of her time, at great personal cost; brave, but not perfect.
Goody Hibbins - W, 30s, The governor’s younger wife. Quite unhappy. Very religious. Fearful of the new country and dark Satanic forces, which she believes are all around her. Bitterly disappointed in life, and clings to dogma as a life raft. Almost Hester’s contemporary. Deeply self-loathing, under everything - which makes her vicious. Desperately wants a child. Tries hard to be Good and Righteous. Quite obsessed with Hester Prynne.
Pearl - W, 4-5, may be played by child, adult, or puppet. An extremely spirited, impish child. Not so much “cute” as a child who takes an almost disturbing, otherwordly level of delight in being bad or disobedient. Half-feral. Dark side. Prone to repeating what she hears. The kind of child who, if you turn your back for half a second, will roll in a mud puddle and herd their siblings into a “prison” with sharpened stick. Not actually malevolent, probably. Precocious. Does like attention.
Reverend Dimmesdale - M, 20s-30s. A man raised to the clergy, who believes deeply in the teachings of the church. Probably quite handsome. Passionate. A powerful and emotional preacher. Worshipped by his congregation. Not particularly good with children. A good man, but up against the forces of his culture and his weaknesses, he sometimes quails (who does not?). Believes that he has sinned irrevocably, and that God will punish those sins. Develops a serious heart condition. Wants to believe. Tortured.
Roger Chillingworth - M, 40s-50s. Deeply, deeply intelligent, with a wicked sense of humor. Has a prominent limp, or profound scoliosis. Dark; often wry. Not unreasonable, in his way. Has dark secrets in his past; has done terrible things. Can be charming. Very good with children. Has a deep psychic wound, which he can find no relief for. Once was very very much in love with Hester, and cannot reconcile his betrayal. A good physician. A very dangerous man.
Governor Hibbins - M, Early 40s-50s. The governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Fond of making speeches. Believes that he has been chosen to rule by God; it is not always pleasant or easy for him. Feels himself obligated by duty to be harsher than he might actually be. Has a weakness for pretty things and little luxuries. Particularly friendly towards men, and tolerant of “good” women. A bit - a lot - frightened of his wife. Fairly clueless, really.
9 Parts of Desire by Heather Raffo
First Rehearsal: 5/25/2021
Opening: 6/22/2021
Closing: 7/11/2021
Ext Closing: 7/18/2021
Actor - Female identifying, Iraqi. Plays several roles including Mullaya, Layal, Amal, Huda, The Doctor, The Iraqi Girl, Umm Gaida, and The American.
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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