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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT
Friday, June 19, 2015
10 AM to 6:30 PM
lunch 12:30 to 1
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Contract
LOA
$588.00 /week
Location
Triad Stage
232 South Elm Street
Greensboro, NC 27401
Sloan Rehearsal Hall- Located on the 3rd floor.
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Seeking
Equity actors for various roles.
see breakdown
Preparation
Actors will be given sides to prepare.
Bring picture and resume
Other Dates
First Rehearsal: September 4, 2015
First Preview: September 30, 2015
Opening: October 3, 2015
Closing: October 8, 2015
Other
www.triadstage.org
Personnel
Artistic Director: Preston Lane
Playwright: Margaret Edson
Director: Dani Keil
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
AEA members call Audition hotline 336/274-0067 x215, bryan@triadstage.org.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
Seeking:
HARVEY KELEKIAN/MR. BEARING
(Open Ethnicity, 50) Dr. Harvey Kelekian is the chief of medical oncology at a university hospital. As a doctor and as a teacher he is meticulous, yet he tempers his demanding attention to details with a hopeful benevolence. He is pragmatic, authoritative, and methodical. While this is an intimidating combination, he is approachable and at times is fatherly. A man of great standing, he possesses the wisdom that this work is one of slow progress. He wants to progress the field of oncology by contributing solid research and developing compassionate young doctors. Mr. Bearing, Vivian’s father, tolerates his five year old daughter’s curiosity and nurtures her desire to learn all the while remaining focused on his own work. He is intelligent, sensible, and straightforward who treats his young daughter as one with those same capacities.
JASON POSNER
(Open Ethnicity, 28) Dr. Jason Posner is an ambitious clinical fellow. He is young, sharp, quick, eager, and intense. He takes great pride in his ability to tackle any intellectual challenge, including having earned an A- in Dr. Vivian Bearing’s notoriously difficult poetry class. Now treating his former professor, he sees this clinical fellowship as just one more hoop he has to jump through on his way to running his own cancer research lab. Jason struggles with his bedside manner, nervously dealing with his patients and preferring the intellectual and emotional distance that laboratory research allows. He covers up his inadequacies in patient care with his boastful nature. He possesses a confidence that he will succeed since he is the smartest, fastest and hardest working person in the room. Jason is unexpectedly and emotionally swept up in Vivian’s case, inspired by her tenacity to receive the full dosage of treatment but unable to accept the defeat and finality of death.
SUSIE MONAHAN
(Open Ethnicity, late 20s-early 30s) Susie Monahan is a primary nurse in the cancer center. She is nurturing, kind, and loving; a genuinely sunny disposition who is in the medical field to help and care for people. Susie believes Vivian’s experimental treatment to be too aggressive and inhumane, and contrary to the doctors, student and technicians who surround her, she is unassuming and interested in mitigating the suffering of her patients not gains made in the research. Her heart and emotional capacities surpass the other characters’ intellectual exceptionalities. Susie advises Vivian on difficult medical decisions, simplifying the choices and presenting the humane options in a nonjudgmental way. Susie advocates for compassionate and dignified care for her patient, offering a voice of moderation in the competitive medical research world.
E.M. ASHFORD
(Open Ethnicity, 60s-80s) Dr. Ashford holds a PhD in English literature. She appears at age 52 as Vivian’s professor and then later at 80, a professor emerita. As Vivian’s professor, she tempers her stern adherence to scholarly demands with compassionate mentorship. She is frank, composed, polished, reserved, and graceful. Ashford possesses an astute wisdom and attention to subtlety. She wants Vivian to find a balance between the intellectual and the emotional. She speaks with a standard British dialect.
The following role had been CAST. Actors will be considered as possible replacements:
* VIVIAN BEARING
CAST. (Open Ethnicity, 50) Dr. Vivian Bearing is a demanding professor of seventeenth century poetry. She is tall, thin, intimidating, sharp featured, and bald from cancer treatment. Her life is intensely focused on her work and her research specializes in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne. She considers herself an expert on all things life and death, but her research has comfortably afforded her an intellectual distance. Now undergoing experimental chemotherapy for advanced metastatic ovarian cancer, Vivian’s toughness continues but her intellectual distance cannot. She is sardonic, dry and uncompromising, coping with her physical and mental downfall by lecturing the audience through her paradoxical journey to death. Vivian wants nothing more than to pursue the knowledge of life and death with dignity but discovers the spiritual and emotional human connection this pursuit demands. This role requires full nudity.
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