PLAYING HOT - NYC EPA
Pipeline Theatre Company
AUDITION DATE
Mon, Nov 26, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EST)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
Transition $375 p/w + pension & health
SEEKING
Equity actor/singers for various roles. Ability to play a brass band instrument a plus. Also seeking an actor/singer/Trumpet Player for the role of BUDDY
See breakdown.
Stage Management Positions: Production Stage Manager, Assistant Stage Manager - both positions already filled. SMs may submit resumes for future consideration (see separate SM notice on Casting Call for info)
PREPARATION
Prepare a contemporary monologue under 2 minutes. If you play an instrument, especially a brass band instrument, please bring your instrument and be prepared to play 16 bars of a song.
LOCATION
Ripley-Grier Studios (305)
305 W 38th St
New York, NY 10018-2902
2nd Floor Holding Room: 203 Audition Room: 207
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Ari Schrier
Producing Artistic Director: Natalie Gershtein
Playwright: Kevin Armento
Director: Jaki Bradley
Casting Directors: Stephanie Yankwitt & Margaret Dunn, TBD Casting
Casting Assistant: Mary Baynard
In attendance at the audition:
Stephanie Yankwitt and Margaret Dunn, Casting Directors
OTHER DATES
1st Rehearsal: March 25th, 2019
1st Preview: April 26th, 2019
Opening: May 5th, 2019
Closing: May 25th, 2019
There will also be a 29-hour reading in January
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for this 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
PLAYING HOT, presented as part of Pipeline Theatre Company’s 10th anniversary season, is set within a brassy dance hall and deconstructs the incredible story of the birth of jazz in New Orleans. Retracing the rise and fall of Buddy Bolden, the little-known trumpeter who pioneered the radical sound that would become America’s Art Form, the show is neither biography nor period piece, neither play nor musical, but an explosive and innovative theatrical event in the style of jazz.
BUDDY BOLDEN
Male, African American, mid 20’s - mid 30’s. A virtuosic trumpet player, charismatic, moody and obsessive all at once. Seeking actors with strong musicianship for this role. Ideally with a traditional/New Orleans-style jazz background. SEEKING WELL SEASONED TRUMPET PLAYERS ONLY.
ACTOR 1
Ensemble member who will play multiple characters and dance. Please indicate if you can sing in a jazz style. Ability to play a brass band instrument is a plus. Male or Female Identifying, 20 - 35, any ethnicity. ACTORS OF COLOR STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO AUDITION
ACTOR 2
Ensemble member who will play multiple characters and dance. Please indicate if you can sing in a jazz style. Ability to play a brass band instrument is a plus. Male or Female Identifying, 20 - 35, any ethnicity. ACTORS OF COLOR STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO AUDITION
ACTOR 3
Ensemble member who will play multiple characters and dance. Please indicate if you can sing in a jazz style. Ability to play a brass band instrument is a plus. Male or Female Identifying, 20 - 35, any ethnicity. ACTORS OF COLOR STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO AUDITION
ACTOR 4
Ensemble member who will play multiple characters and dance. Please indicate if you can sing in a jazz style. Ability to play a brass band instrument is a plus. Male or Female Identifying, 20 - 35, any ethnicity. ACTORS OF COLOR STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO AUDITION
Ensemble member who will play multiple characters and dance. Please indicate if you can sing in a jazz style. Ability to play a brass band instrument is a plus. Male or Female Identifying, 20 - 35, any ethnicity. ACTORS OF COLOR STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO AUDITION
ACTOR 6
Ensemble member who will play multiple characters and dance. Please indicate if you can sing in a jazz style. Ability to play a brass band instrument is a plus. Male or Female Identifying, 20 - 35, any ethnicity. ACTORS OF COLOR STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO AUDITION
ACTOR 7
Ensemble member who will play multiple characters and dance. Please indicate if you can sing in a jazz style. Ability to play a brass band instrument is a plus. Male or Female Identifying, 20 - 35, any ethnicity. ACTORS OF COLOR STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO 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 audition.
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