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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT
Saturday, April 9, 2016
9 am – 5 pm
Lunch Break TBD
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Contract
NEAT
Cat. 5, approval pending; $355/week (actors)
Location
Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, Martha’s Vineyard
24 Church Street
Vineyard Haven, MA
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Seeking
Equity actors for various roles in the upcoming 2016 Season.
See breakdown
Preparation
Actors may choose to present one or more scenes from the season and/or choose to present one or more prepared monologues and/or readings from other sources. Sides will also be provided for auditions.
Actors, please bring 2 pictures and resumes stapled together.
Other Dates
The theatre will also be participating in the Stage Source Annual Auditions on 4/11. Visit Stagesource.org/annualauditions for more info and see separate postings on Casting Call.
Other
mvplayhouse.org.
Personnel
Personnel in attendance: MJ Bruder Munafo – Artistic Director and Michele Ortlip – Casting Director
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
AEA members email to: auditions@mvplayhouse.org.
Leave message with name, contact number, Equity status and preferred time.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse 2016 Season
2016 Season: The dates under each show are from first rehearsal through final performance (7 week actor contracts).
HIGH TIME
World Premiere
A New Play by Larry Mollin
Directed by Randal Myler
May 10 - June 25 (1st rehearsal May 10: opening night June 2: closing June 25)
Seeking:
ALLEN GINSBERG
The young poet is 35, scruffy beard and full of spunk and energy.
MARY MEYER
42, Washington D.C socialite and artist; attractive, vivacious, an earth mother type with blue blood breeding
ALAN WATTS
Age 48, an acerbic Englishman, philosopher, writer, Buddhist. He cuts a trim figure in a Van Dyke beard.
ROSEMARY WOODRUFF
21, model, dancer, stunning beauty, an embodiment of 60’s with an adventurous spirit and sense of good.
DR. TIMOTHY LEARY
41, good looking, distinguished researcher. He is part Ivy League academic and part, renegade huckster. A brilliant scientist visionary who was considered the most dangerous man in America by Nixon.
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CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY
by Lynn Nottage
Directed by Adrienne D. Williams
June 14 – July 30 (1st rehearsal June 14: opening July 7, closing July 30)
Seeking:
ERNESTINE CRUMP
Able to play a 17 years old African American young woman, should have strong text training and an excellent storytelling ability. Lead.
GODREY CRUMP
35-40 years old African American man, a grieving man, coming to term with raising teenage daughters and navigating life as a single father in a new city.
LILY ANN GREEN
35-40 years old African American woman; bold, outspoken, charming; fearlessly expresses sexual and political freedom.
GERTE CRUMP
30-35 years old German immigrant, trying to adapt to her new life as a wife, step-mother, and sister in law. Should be comfortable singing.
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RED
By John Logan
Directed by MJ Bruder Munafo
July 21 – September 3 (1st rehearsal July 21: opening August 11, closing September 3)
Seeking:
MARK ROTHKO
American painter, 50s or older (Replacement only)
KEN
His new assistant, 20s
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THE SECOND GIRL
A New Play by Ronan Noone
Directed by MJ Bruder Munafo
August 23 – October 10 (1st rehearsal August 23: opening September 15, closing October 8)
Seeking:
BRIDGET O’SULLIVAN
40 +, Irish; the cook and the First Girl; proud she is surviving in America, but you can’t say she is passionate about her job and she understands she is slipping into spinsterhood here.
CATHLEEN O’LEARY
22, Irish, the Second Girl; she is the buxom girl as described by O’Neill but she is far from stupid and resents anyone talking down to her; she is a proud confident girl, spirited and passionate
JACK SMYTHE
40+, American, a handsome man with a face that has a lived in look; aware of his own shortcomings as well as his virtues. He has had his fair share of disappointments, but he is finding his way back. He has a strong personality
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