THE WAKE - NYC EPA
Premiere Stages at Kean University
AUDITION DATE
Fri, Apr 26, 2019
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
LOA Salary: LOA referenced to LORT pending: $464 per week plus $136 weekly transportation stipend ($600 total).
SEEKING
Premiere Stages, the professional Equity theatre in residence at Kean University, is seeking Equity actors for its production of The Wake by Tammy Ryan, winner of the 2019 Premiere Play Festival. Directed by John J. Wooten.
SM info tbd
PREPARATION
Actors will read from sides, provided at the EPA. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
John J. Wooten, Producing Artistic Director
Carol Hanzel, Casting Director
OTHER DATES
Rehearsal: June 18-July 10
Performance: July 11-28
OTHER
Premiere Stages is located in Union, NJ, 45 minutes from Manhattan. There is a train that stops at the Kean University campus (from Penn Station via NJ Transit).
EPA Procedures are in effect for 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
In life, Colleen was a force of nature. Six months after her death, her sisters Maggie and Rosemary rent a beach house in Florida to scatter her ashes, only to find themselves and their respective partners staring down a hurricane. As the strong winds and rain bands begin, strange encounters with wildlife signal something more is going on. Filled with humor and heart, The Wake explores grief, family, and America’s shifting cultural and environmental climates.
Seeking:
MAGGIE early 40s, female, American with Irish heritage. New Yorker now living in Florida, baby of the family, customer service representative for a coffee maker company. A little adrift, Maggie makes do, her pets are healthy and she’s paying her rent. She’s been around the block a few times, but in moments can be cute and cuddly as a raccoon.
DOYLE 40s-60s, male, any ethnicity. Born & raised in the less traveled parts of Florida. Maggie’s latest stray. He is shrewd, strongly built, and wears an eye patch and a long braid down his back. Looks like he’s often slept outdoors. Maybe reminiscent of an alligator.
ROSEMARY almost 50, female, American with Irish heritage. Maggie’s oldest sister, living in the suburban northeast, a wife and helicopter mother of two children. A worrier, a control freak, she has lost her way, but with the blind instinct of a sea turtle, she is trying to find her way back to shore.
ED late 40s, male, any ethnicity. Rosemary’s husband, mostly easy going. Mostly living under the surface, a jellyfish floating through this life until he stings you. Devoted father, everybody’s nice guy, an accountant for a fracking company, where he has done something he’s not proud of.
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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