OSF 2017 SEASON Equity Principal Auditions - Oregon Shakespeare Festival Auditions

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OSF 2017 SEASON - Oregon Shakespeare Festival

OSF 2016/2017 Season - Local EPA
Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Ashland, OR

Date of Audition:
5/18/2016


Call Type
Equity Principal

Time(s)
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
9:00AM - 4:00PM

Contract
LORT Rep
LORT B+ Minimum - $936/wk

Location
Black Swan Theatre
Corner of Main and
S. Pioneer Street
Ashland, OR 97520
rehearsal space, street parking


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 that 3 minutes total. If you plan to sing, please bring sheet music--accompanist provided may not transpose. Please bring 2 p&rs stapled.

Other Dates
See breakdown

Other
No stage management positions currently available.

http://www.osfashland.org

Personnel
Joy Dickson: Casting Director:
Scott Kaiser: Director of Company Development:

· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

Appointments
please email:
osflocalauditions@gmail.com please put LOCAL AREA EPA in subject line

Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.

Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.


Breakdown

OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL 2017 SEASON

Performers unable to attend EPA may send picture/resume to:
Joy Dickson
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
15 S Pioneer Street
Ashland, OR 97520

JULIUS CAESAR by William Shakespeare
Directed by Shana Cooper
First Rehearsal: 1/3/17 opens: 2/24/17 closes: 10/29/17
All roles will be understudied

SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE Based on the screenplay by Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard?
Adapted for the stage by Lee Hall?
Directed by Christopher Liam Moore?
First rehearsal: 1/3/17 opens 2/25/17 closes 10/29/17
All roles will be understudied

MOJADA by Luis Alfaro?
Directed by Juliette Carrillo
First rehearsal: 1/3/17 opens 2/26/17 closes 7/6/17
All roles will be understudied

UniSon: A new musical by UNIVERSES ?(Steven Sapp, Mildred Ruiz-Sapp, William Ruiz–a.k.a. Ninja, Gamal Chasten)? with the poetry of August Wilson, in association with Constanza Romero. ?
Directed by Robert O’Hara
World Premiere
First rehearsal: 2/28/17 opens 4/23/17 closes 10/28/17
All roles will be understudied

A high-energy, music-filled exploration of the passing on of legacy and the reconstruction of collective memory, inspired by the poetry of one of our most revered playwrights, August Wilson. Fusing poetry, theatre, movement and original music, UniSon gives audiences the opportunity to see one of America’s leading ensembles of color bring an American master to life through their signature theatrical aesthetic—for a new generation, in a new century, a new millennium.

Poet (Red Tailed Eagle)- CAST

Apprentice (Robin)- African American Female, 18-30

Terror #1 SEAMSTRESS (Crowned Crane)-CAST

Terror #2: BUTCHER (Rooster)- CAST

Terror #3: BOXER (Black Eagle) – African American Male, 40-50

Terror #4 BLACKSMITH (Raven)-CAST

Terror #5 HUNTER (Red Barn Owl) - CAST

Terror as MOMMA #6 (Ornate Hawk Eagle) - African American Female, 30-50

Terror #7 SOLDIER (Bald Eagle)- White male, 20-50

OFF THE RAILS by Randy Reinholz?
Directed by Bill Rauch?
World Premiere ?
First Rehearsal: 5/30/17 opens: 7/30/17 closes: 10/28/17
All roles will be understudied

Adapted from Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure.
Set in the mid 1880’s in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West, “…Blazing Saddles meets Shakespeare—with Native Americans taking the reins.” With healthy doses of humor and music, OFF THE RAILS tackles the controversial and rarely discussed topic of American Indian boarding schools in the late 19th century in the American West.

Madame Overdone: 35-55, Native American (Lakota and French): Keeper of a saloon/brothel. mature woman of considerable charm, personal power and beauty

Isabel: 20s-35. Native American (Pawnee): Momaday’s older sister, attending Normal school to become a teacher. The smartest person in the territory. Men swoon for her.

Momaday: 20-30. Native American male (Pawnee): A 16 year-old, loves Caitlin, married her in the old Pawnee way and she became pregnant. Because the marriage wasn’t Christian, he is sentenced to death.

Alexie: 20s-40. Native American male (Creek): A smooth talking eccentric in dress as well as behavior. A tribal Chairman’s son, `a la “Prince Hal” from Henry IV. Also plays the Preacher.

James McDonald: 35-55. Native American (Choctaw): Mixed heritage, Princeton educated, and proper, a counselor to General Gatt and a former soldier. Looks out for those people less fortunate than himself

Grandfather: 50s+. Native American (Pawnee): Traditional keep of the stories, songs and dance.

General Gatt: 30s-50s. Any ethnicity. Winking at Richard Henry Pratt who coined the term, “Kill the Indian, Save the Man”--an amalgamation of frontier opportunists and politicians, a Brigadier General and Mayor of Genoa. Also plays Elbow: a deputy, a sober DOGBERRY from Much Ado About Nothing. Also plays B’Stard Abhorson: a wild-looking executioner with a strong French Accent

Angelo: 20s-30s. Any ethnicity. A captain in the Army, treaty scholar, and superintendent of the boarding School. He rules Genoa during Gatt’s absence.

Pryor: 20s-50s. Any ethnicity. A fast-talking clown and a wild-west character. The funniest person in town. A bartender and tapster for Madame Overdone.

Cowboy: 20s-40. African American. a la Cowboy Curtis from Pee wee’s Playhouse, a campy cowboy. Also plays Sheriff: a good-hearted person in a bad job

Mariana: 20s. Any ethnicity. A dance hall girl, the jilted fiance?e of Angelo, whose family died in the Indian wars. Must be able to sing.

Caitlin: 20s. An Irish girl whose father died in the Indian wars and her mother
died in childbirth. An orphan, familiar with the boarding school, she fell in love with
Momaday. She will sing part of a traditional Irish Gaelic lament for her husband,
LCaoineadh na dTrí Muire (The Lament of the Three Marys)

HENRY IV PART 1 by William Shakespeare
Directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz
First Rehearsal: 1/3/17 opens: 2/25/17 closes: 10/28/17
All roles will be understudied

HANNAH AND THE DREAD GAZEBO by Jiehae Park
Directed by Chay Yew
World Premiere
First Rehearsal: 2/22/17 opens: 4/2/17 closes: 10/28/17
All roles will be understudied

Hannah is two weeks away from becoming a board-certified neurologist when a mysterious package arrives from her Korean grandmother-- who may, or may not have, just ended her life in a most flamboyant fashion. The package leads Hannah and her family on a surreal, comedic, heartbreaking adventure to the Sunrise Dewdrop Apartment City for Senior Living on the south side of the Demilitarized Zone (and beyond), with guest appearances from the Ghost of Kim Jong Il, a mythological tiger, and other mischievous fragments of the family's past.

HANNAH–Asian (Korean) mid-30s. A doctor, about to become a board-certified pediatric neurologist. Control freak.

FATHER—Asian (Korean) 50s. Must speak Korean. A professor. Keeps it together for the family. Emotionally clueless.

MOTHER –Asian (Korean) 50s. In a deep depression. Gardening fanatic and HGTV addict.

MRS. LEE/OLD MAN IN COAT/OFFICIAL/NURSE/MR. KWON/KIM JONG IL/ GRANDMOTHER TIGER/ VOICE/GRANDMOTHER—Asian (Korean) Male or Female. Must speak Korean. Transformational.

DANG—Asian (Korean), 20s. A recent graduate and professional slacker. He has-a-band-sort-of. Good kid.

GIRL—Asian, (Korean) 20s. An activist in search of a cause. Used-to-have-a-band-sort-of. Blunt.

HENRY IV PART 2 by William Shakespeare
Directed by Carl Cofield
First Rehearsal: 5/16/17 opens: 7/8/17 closes: 10/29/17
All roles will be understudied

THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR by William Shakespeare
Directed by Dawn Monique Williams
First Rehearsal: 4/4/17 opens: 6/16/17 closes: 10/13/17
All roles will be understudied

Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Music by Alan Menken
Lyrics by Howard Ashman & Tim Rice
Book by Linda Woolverton
Directed by Eric Tucker
First Rehearsal: 4/4/17 opens: 6/17/17 closes: 10/14/17
All roles will be understudied

THE ODYSSEY by Homer
Adapted and directed by Mary Zimmerman,
from the translation by Robert Fitzgerald
First Rehearsal: 4/4/17 opens: 6/18/17 closes: 10/15/17
All roles will be understudied

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