SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER - University City, MO EPA
Tennessee Williams Festival St Louis | Saint Louis, MO
Wednesday, April 5, 2023
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (C)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
To set up an audition appointment please email Lizi Watt at: lizi@twstl.org. Please indicate which role you would like to audition for.
SPT
$293 weekly minimum (SPT 1)
Equity actors for roles in SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER (See breakdown).
Please prepare the sides for the role you would like to audition for (which will be sent to you once you secure an appointment). Also, bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
COCA - Center of Creative Arts
6880 Washington Ave
University City, MO 63130-4314
Free parking in the lot. THIS SPACE'S VENTILATION HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED BY ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION.
Managing Director: Lizi Watt
Director: Tim Ocel
Producing Artistic Director: Carrie Houk, CSA
First rehearsal: August 15, 2023
Show Opens on September 7, 2023
Closes: September 17, 2023
OTHER
Performance Venue: Catherine Berges Theatre, COCA University City, MO
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.
Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical
mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas
are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the
extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms.
Holding/Audition room information:
The maximum capacity in the holding room is: 30
The maximum capacity in the audition room is: 30
Time: 1935
Place: The Garden District of New Orleans – specifically the mansion of Mrs. Violet Venable and the
prehistoric garden cultivated by her recently deceased son, Sebastian.
Mrs. Violet Venable: Female. Age range: 57 – 65. Regal, well spoken, hard as nails, richer than
Midas; her health is somewhat debilitated from a small stroke that she works hard to cover-up. Small
in stature, but large in personality and strong of conviction. Hard as nails but can be charming when it
suits her, richer than Midas etc. A tyrant. She wishes to have her niece, Catharine, lobotomized. Any
Ethnicity.
Catharine Holly: Female. Age range: 25 – 32. Attractive. Street smart. She witnessed Sebastian’s
horrible death and has now been confined to St. Mary’s psychiatric hospital. Disturbed and haunted by
Sebastian’s death. She can be aggressive and wild because she feels trapped, like an animal in a
cage. She writes her journal in the 3rd person. Any Ethnicity.
Mrs. Holly: Female. Age range: 45 – 60. Catharine’s mother (and sister to Mrs. Venable’s deceased
husband). Williams writes: Mrs. Holly “is a fatuous Southern lady who requires no other description.”
Overly talkative, affected, nervous; she always seems a little breathless. A bit vulgar – and not very
bright. Any Ethnicity.
Sister Felicity: Female. Age Range: 30 – 50. A nun in the nursing order – possibly the Sisters of St.
Joseph. Assigned to St. Mary’s Hospital, she accompanies Catharine as guard and keeper. She is
formidable, strong, and tough. She is a strict observer of the rules. Any Ethnicity.
Miss Foxhill: Female. Age Range: 30 – 50. Mrs. Venable’s personal secretary. A timid, frightened
woman who is cowed by - yet worships - Violet. Efficient, mousey, spinsterish. Serving Violet Venable
is her life’s devotion. Any Ethnicity.
Dr. Cukrowicz: THIS ROLE IS CAST. Male. Age range: 40 – 45. A doctor of psychiatry at Lion’s View
Hospital – where he is making advances in surgical lobotomies. Attractive, well dressed, genuine,
naturally charming, intellectual, always a professional. He is a truth-seeker and asks many questions,
though he mostly keeps his own counsel. Any Ethnicity.
George Holly: Male. Age Range: 23 – 30. Catharine’s younger brother. Good-looking and well built; slim; athletic. Working class but has higher aspirations. Greedy, aggressive, self-centered. Has a bit of
the sadist about him. Any Ethnicity.
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