Martha's Vineyard Playhouse 2024 Season - Vineyard Haven, MA EPA
Martha's Vineyard Playhouse | Vineyard Haven, MA
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Please contact auditions@mvplayhouse.org for an appointment slot.
Actors who are unable to attend the in-person EPAs, may e-mail resumes / video auditions to auditions@mvplayhouse.org
NEAT
$550 weekly minimum (cat. 5)
Equity actors for roles in Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse 2024 Season (see breakdown).
Please prepare a short monologue (2 minutes) from a contemporary play. For Billy Baloo, also prepare a folk / country song. An accompanist will be provided. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Martha's Vineyard Playhouse
24 Church St
Vineyard Haven, MA 02568
The holding room can accommodate no more than 30 individuals at a time.
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
MJ Bruder Munafo, Artistic Director Bill Peek, Musical Director
Michele Ortlip, Casting Director
See breakdown for production-specific dates.
OTHER
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.
MARTHA'S VINEYARD PLAYHOUSE 2024 SEASON
A world premiere, by Kathleen McGhee-Anderson / Directed by MJ Bruder Munafo
June 24 – August 10 (1st rehearsal June 25, performances from July 12 – August 10). 7-week contract.
Miss Maybelline: 100 years old, Black, ancient, spry, a griot/storyteller.
Trey: 18+ to play 14, Black, to play a sweet 14-year-old autistic teenager who is whip smart, talkative, and a bird watcher. NOTE: neurodivergent actors are encouraged to audition.
Greta: mid-30’s - early 40’s, Black, Trey’s mother, hard-working, single mom / Miss Maybelline’s mother in a flight of fancy.
Walter Bly: 50’s, Black, their neighbor, a former band musician, steady, good natured (hiding disappointment).
Elaine: 40’s -60’s, White, energetic, optimistic, island resident / local bus driver.
A second production of a world premiere musical tale of love, gold and beavers! By Michael Mason, Willy Mason & Jemima James. Directed by MJ Bruder Munafo / Musical direction by Bill Peek
July 29 – September 14 (1st rehearsal August 1, performances from August 22 – September 14). 7- week contract.
SYNOPSIS: BILLY BALOO takes place in 1880’s Solderville, the highest town on the highest mountain in the Colorado Rockies.
Billy Baloo: CAST 30s, A mining camp “floater” and a misfit.
Ada Evans: CAST 25 – 30, Educated in the east, an enterprising young woman who returns home after her mother’s death to run The Perfection General Store.
Mil: 50s - 60s, a prospector and resident of Solderville.
Lee: CAST 50s – 60s, a prospector and resident of Solderville.
Doug: CAST 50s – 60s. a prospector and resident of Solderville.
Laura Lindsay: 20s – 30s, A young woman, far from home, searching for a new life. Takes on odd jobs in Solderville, working at the general store and singing in the Elysium Saloon.
Kevin Kelly: 20s – 30s, A first generation Irish immigrant, hardworking silver miner, and labor organizer
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