Oregon Shakespeare Festival 2018 Season - Ashland EPA
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
AUDITION DATE
May 17, 2017
9:30 am - 4:30 pm (PDT)
APPOINTMENTS
please email : osflocalauditions@gmail.com please put LOCAL AREA EPA in subject line
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep Minimum - $936/wk
SEEKING
Local Actors
PREPARATION
Please prepare two brief contrasting monologues: one Shakespeare and one contemporary. Those who wish to sing may replace a monologue with a short song. No more than 3 minutes total. If you plan to sing, please bring sheet music--accompanist provided may not transpose. Please bring 2 p&rs stapled.
LOCATION
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
15 S. Pioneer St.
Ashland, OR 97520-0158
Black Swan Theatre. Corner of Main Street and S. Pioneer St. Rehearsal Space. Street Parking available.
PERSONNEL
Joy Dickson: Casting Director: Scott Kaiser: Director of Company Development
OTHER DATES
See breakdown.
OTHER
Darcy Danielson--Accompanist
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
OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL 2018 SEASON EPA
All performers, including performers with disabilities, performers of color, women and seniors are encouraged to audition and will be given full consideration.
Performers unable to attend EPA may send picture/resume to:
Joy Dickson
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
15 S Pioneer Street
Ashland, OR 97520
All roles open unless otherwise noted.
OTHELLO by William Shakespeare
Directed by Bill Rauch
First Rehearsal: 1/3/18 opens: 2/16/18 closes: 10/28/18
All roles will be understudied
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY by Kate Hamill, based on the novel by Jane Austen
Directed by Hana S. Sharif
First rehearsal: 1/3/18 opens 2/17/18 closes 10/28/18
All roles will be understudied
DESTINY OF DESIRE by Karen Zacari?as
Directed by Jose? Luis Valenzuela
First rehearsal: 1/3/18 opens 2/18/18 closes 7/5/18
All roles will be understudied
The standard telenovela genre is supercharged in this smart, sizzling, music-filled romp that follows the adventures of two girls secretly switched at birth one stormy night in small-town Mexico.
HORTENCIA DEL RIO-- 35-45, Female, Latina. A beautiful, promising yet poor mother who due to circumstances becomes a maid to the richest woman in town.
ERNESTO DEL RIO- 35-45, Male, Latino. Her hardworking poor husband who has scars on his face.
VICTORIA MARIA DEL RIO/NURSE—late teens/e 20s, Female, Latina. Their beautiful yet sickly daughter.
ARMANDO CASTILLO-- 50-70, Male, Latino. Owner of The Castillo Casino. The most powerful and richest man in town.
FABIOLA CASTILLO- Late 30s, Female, Latina. The beauty Queen wife of Armando Castillo.
PILAR ESPERANZA CASTILLO/NURSE 2– late teens/e 20s, Female, Latina. Their beautiful daughter.
SEBASTIA?N JOSE CASTILLO/PARAMEDIC 1/ Cop 1 –Mid-Late 30s, Male, Latino. Armando’s estranged son from a former marriage.
DOCTOR JORGE RAMIRO MENDOZA/CASINO DEALER/COP –45-60, Male, Latino. The Head of the Hospital.
DR. DIEGO MENDOZA/PARAMEDIC 2/COP 2-- 30-35, Male, Latino. His kind and handsome estranged son, also a doctor.
SISTER SONIA- 50-60, Female, Latina. A nurse who is a nun.
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA!
Music by Richard Rodgers, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Based on the play Green Grow the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs
Original dances by Agnes de Mille
Directed by Bill Rauch
First rehearsal: 2/27/18 opens 4/18/18 closes 10/27/18
All roles will be understudied
This production of OKLAHOMA! will be set in its historic setting of 1906 Oklahoma territory, but it will reinvent the revolutionary spirit of this 1943 musical by having characters who represent every letter in the LGBTQ community. Genderqueer and non-binary actors encouraged to attend.
Laurey—The character is a cisgender gay female 20s-30s. Any race or ethnicity. Lyric Soprano. Lovely and feisty, a farmer’s daughter in love with Curley. Romantic, confident, independent and strong.
Curly --- The character is a cisgender gay female 20s-30s. Any race or ethnicity. A cowgal with an expansive, charismatic personality and sense of humor. Strong enough to court and win strong-willed farmer’s daughter Laurey.
Will Parker The character is a cisgender gay male, 20s-30s. Bari-tenor, 20s-30s. Any race or ethnicity. A Cowboy. Enthusiastic, strong, looks toward the future. Wins wandering Ado Andy from his rival, Ali Hakim.
Ado Andy Carnes The character is a cisgender gay male, 20s-30s Warm-hearted guy whose romances never give his mother, Judge Carnes, a moment of peace. Falls for the peddler Ali Hakim but ultimately is won by the determined courtship of Will Parker.
Aunt Eller—The character is a transgender woman, late 40s-60s. Any race or ethnicity. Laurey's sensible, earthy aunt. Wise, practical but with a dry sense of humor.
Jud Fry— The character is a cisgender heterosexual male. 40s, Any race or ethnicity. Bass- Baritone. Dark, brooding loner farmhand who longs for Laurey and is enraged that she would choose another woman over him.
Ali Hakim— The character is a cisgender bisexual male. 30s-40. An over-the-top Persian peddler. Big personality. Pursued by Ado Andy; ends up marrying Gertie Cummings.
Judge Carnes. The character is a cisgender heterosexual female. 50s. Any race or ethnicity. Irascible mother of the incorrigibly flirtatious Ado Andy. Most days, she looks at the world down the barrel of her shotgun.
Gertie Cummings. The character is a cisgender bisexual female, 20s-30s. Any race or ethnicity. Soprano. Comic character with a supremely annoying giggle who has set her cap for Curley.
SNOW IN MIDSUMMER by Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig
Director to be announced
U.S. Premiere
First Rehearsal: 6/6/18 opens: 8/2/18 closes: 10/27/18
All roles will be understudied
Snow in Midsummer is a contemporary re-imagining of the 13th-century Chinese Yuan dynasty ghost story by Guan Hanqing called The Injustice to Dou E. Cowhig’s adaptation tells of the spirit of the wrongly executed Dou Yi wreaking havoc on the modern industrial village of New Harmony, bringing catastrophic drought and midsummer snow until her innocence is proclaimed.
Female roles:
DOU YI—e/mid 20s, Female, East Asian. A young widow, daughter os Mother Cai, wrongly convicted of murdering the local factory boss, Master Zhang, and executed. Before being shot by firing squad she says the town will suffer a terrible drought until justice is done and the truth comes out.
TIANYUN LIN—mid-40s, Female, East Asian. A powerful businesswoman new to town who has arrived with her 7 year old daughter Fei-Fei. She is there to buy the town’s ailing factories.
FEI-FEI—7-10 years old, Female, East Asian —daughter of Tianyun.
NURSE WONG. 40-50s, Female, East Asian. The blunt-talking, boisterous bar hostess and former wet nurse to Handsome.
MOTHER CAI / WORKER CHEN— late 40s-50s, Female, East Asian. A blind Masseuse who has lost her son and daughter-in-law because of the Zhang family;
Male roles:
HANDSOME ZHANG— mid-20s/30, Male, East Asian. An entrepreneur who is selling factories in town to Tianyun . A romantic. He plans to marry his beloved, Rocket Wu, and leave New Harmony.
ROCKET WU- mid-20s/30, Male, East Asian. Born w/heart defect but has had successful transplant and plans to travel around the world with Handsome Zhang.
MASTER ZHANG / DOCTOR LU-- mid-30s-40s, Male, East Asian. Rocket’s heart surgeon. Buddhist.
WORKER HUANG / OFFICER #1 / JUDGE WU— mid-20s, Male East Asian, A factory worker; A member of armed police who plays blackjack beneath plastic palm tree; A lecherous judge.
WORKER FANG / OFFICER #2 / HORSE-FACE— 30s, Male, East Asian. A factory worker; A member of the armed police.
WORKER ZHOU / OFFICER #3 / OX-HEAD-- mid-20s, Male, East Asian – A factory worker who just wants a date; An armed police officer open to bribes.
HENRY V by William Shakespeare
Directed by Rosa Joshi
First Rehearsal: 1/3/18 opens: 2/22/18 closes: 10/28/18
All roles will be understudied.
Role of HENRY V is cast
Role of Duke of Bedford is cast
Role of Hostess Quickly is cast
Role of Ancient Pistol is cast
MANAHATTA by Mary Kathryn Nagle
Directed by Laurie Woolery
World Premiere
First Rehearsal: 2/22/18 opens: 3/28/18 closes: 10/28/18
All roles will be understudied
Manahatta tells the story of Jane Snake, a brilliant young Native Lenape woman with a Stanford MBA. Jane reconnects with her ancestral homeland, known as Manahatta, when she moves from her home with the Delaware Nation in Anadarko, Oklahoma to New York for a job at a major investment bank just before the financial crisis of 2008. Jane’s struggle to reconcile her new life with the expectations and traditions of the family she left behind is powerfully interwoven with the heartbreaking history of how the Lenape were forced from their land. Both old and new Manahatta converge in a brutal lesson about the dangers of living in a society where there’s no such thing as enough.
Jane /Le-le-wa’-you —Native American, Female, 20s or very early 30s. JANE: A modern day Lenape woman, a citizen of the Delaware Nation in Anadarko, Oklahoma. She leaves her home in Oklahoma to become a trader on Wall Street. Fiercely intelligent, brilliant in math. She’s a workaholic which affects her relationship with her family in Oklahoma.
Doubles as LE-LE-WA-YOU: A young Lenape woman living in Manahatta in the 1600’s. Outspoken and independent.
Debra /Toosh-ki-pa-kwis-i —Native American. Female. Late 20s – to late 30s. DEBRA: A modern day Lenape woman, a citizen of the Delaware Nation in Anadarko, Oklahoma. Jane’s older sister. She has moved in with her father, Robert, after their mother’s death and is trying to start a program to keep the Lenape language alive. Down-to-earth. Doubles as TOOSH-KI-PA-KWIS-I: A Lenape woman living in Manahatta in the 1600’s. Le-le-wa-you’s older sister.
Robert / Tamanend —Native American, Male, 50s – 60s. ROBERT: A Delaware Lenape elder. Jane and Debra's father. Proud, stubborn, set in his ways.
Doubles with TAMANEND: A Lenape elder, living in Manahatta in the 1600’s. Not yet corrupted by colonization.
Se-ket-tu-may-qua—Native American, Male—20s – 30s. A Lenape man in Manahatta in the 1600’s who engages in trade with the Dutch —Smart and selfless.
Peter Minuit / Peter Stuyvesant / Dick—50s/60. Caucasian, Male.
PETER MINUIT: The Director of the Dutch colony of New Netherland who purchased the island of Manahatta. Powerful, brusque. Also plays PETER STUYVESANT: Pioneered the expansion of New Amsterdam and drove the Native Americans off the island by force. Authoritative, unsentimental. Also plays DICK: Present day CEO of a powerful Wall Street investment bank and Jane’s boss.
Jakob / Joe-- Late 30s – 40s. Male. Caucasian. JAKOB: Works with Peter Minuet and Peter Stuyvesant. Ambitious, eager, loyal to the company. Doubles with JOE: the CFO of Wall Street investment bank where Jane works, and Jane’s mentor. Blunt. Dedicated, willing to sacrifice anything for the good of the firm.
Michael / Jonas Michaelius 40s – 50s. Male. Caucasian. MICHAEL: Present day banker and local choir leader at the church in Anadarko, Oklahoma. JONAS MICHAELIUS: A missionary sent by the Dutch West India Company to start a church in the New World. Humble, kind, and devout.
THE WAY THE MOUNTAIN MOVED by Idris Goodwin
Directed by May Adrales
World Premiere/American Revolutions
First Rehearsal: 5/22/18 opens: 7/10/18 closes: 10/28/18
In the haunting and haunted wilderness setting of the play, African-American Mormons, Department of War surveyors, pioneer women and a Mexican-American war veteran lose their way and find each other in the starkly beautiful, pre-railroad American West. They are unknowingly watched by Native Americans who argue whether to befriend, fight, or flee the newcomers. In a nation still taking shape, built mostly of dreams and ideas, which version of America will prevail?
The Survey Team now scattered
Mariano Arista, 30, Latino – The Rifleman. A handsome Mexican solider with a strong sense of pride and faith. Intense and comfortable with the trigger, a Ronin searching for a new master
George Harris, late 30s, Caucasian – The Scientist. Curious, intellectual, proud of his standing/position with the Government, A bit disheveled, and easily rattled, Abhors violence
Jonathan Handle, e 20s, any race or ethnicity– The Artist, young man about 20, mute, adventurous, a romantic
Lieutenant Gerald D Smith, early 30s, Caucasian – A New England raised career soldier raised to serve, likely hysterical due to his injury
Shippah – Their native guide, a Goshute man, early 30s, Conflicted, fearless
Those no longer in servitude
Orson – Black man, early 30s, Strong but not large, spiritual, poetic, hopeful, knows hard work
Martha – Black woman, late 20s, Passionate, a fighter, protective, knows hard work
The Emigrants now stranded
Phyllis Cooke – Caucasian, A Mother, a trailblazer, mid-to-late 30s, Lean, tough, neurotic
Helen Cooke – Her daughter, Caucasian, a singer, 14, Midwestern, angsty, an artist
The Latter Day Bandits
Lucy – A bandit – Caucasian, Mormon, Morally questionable
Martin – A bandit, Caucasian, Mormon, Morally questionable
Members of the Paiute tribe
Older Sister, Native American, mid 20s : Capable, A widow, A loner, a dreamer
Younger Sister, Native American, early 20s : Optimistic, a family woman
ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare
Directed by Da?maso Rodri?guez
First Rehearsal: 4/3/18 opens: 6/5/18 closes: 10/12/18
All roles will be understudied
THE BOOK OF WILL by Lauren Gunderson June
Directed by Christopher Liam Moore
First Rehearsal: 4/3/18 opens: 6/6/18 closes: 10/13/1
All roles will be understudied
Henry Condell – 40s, a feisty, hopeful friend and actor in The King’s Men. Any race or ethnicity.
John Heminges - 50, reasonable friend and financial manager of The King’s Men, owner of the Globe Tap House, a good man, a gentleman, if serious. Any race or ethnicity.
Richard Burbage - 50s, seasoned lion of the stage, famous across England, loud and proud // Ben Jonson-- poet laureate of England, friend/rival of Shakespeare. Amazing drunk. A bear of a man. Surprisingly weepy // Horatio—actor who plays the role. Any race or ethnicity.
Elizabeth Condell –Mid-late 40s, Henry’s wife, savvy and fun // Emila Bassano Lanier - 50, fiery Italian feminist and poet, independent woman, lover of life (and of Shakespeare) // Fruit Seller. Any race or ethnicity.
Alice Heminges - 35, John’s daughter and alewife, knows everyone and hangs with the boys // Susannah Shakespeare - 30, good girl and daughter of Shakespeare. Any race or ethnicity.
Rebecca Heminges – John’s wife, a good wife. Strong, busy with their grocery business, a woman who had weathered much but loves her husband and sons and God // Anne Hathaway Shakespeare - 60, Shakespeare’s now ailing wife. Strong-willed, a classy lady, a survivor. Any race or ethnicity.
Ralph Crane - humble scrivener of The King’s Men. Quick, sure, quiet// Barman – ruffian // Compositor - works for Jaggard, young // Francisco—actor playing the role. Any race or ethnicity.
William Jaggard – 60. successful if shady publisher of book, plays and playbills. He is confident in his ability to get what he wants. Very experienced, very connected, willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done. An ass // Barman 2 – drunk // Sir Edward Dering – 60, book and theatre lover. Any race or ethnicity.
Ed Knight – “stage manager” for The King’s Men, self-serious and particular // Isaac Jaggard – William’s son, will inherit the business. Sensitive, an artist at heart. Any race or ethnicity.
Marcus - 20, printer’s apprentice at the Jaggard print house, nosy but honest // Boy Hamlet - young actor // Crier – newsboy // Bernardo--actor playing the role. Any race or ethnicity.
LOVES LABOR’S LOST by William Shakespeare
Directed by Amanda Dehnert
First Rehearsal: 4/3/18 opens: 6/7/18 closes: 10/14/18
All roles will be understudied
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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