CASTING CALL NON-EQUITY AUDITIONS FOR THE LEAD ROLE OF DORIS 40-65,
“EDITH BUNKER” TYPE FOR THE MASHER AT THE HOLLYWOOD FRINGE FESTIVAL
The Masher Auditions—Character Breakdown
Doris McDonald: 45 to 60 to play 55-65. Conservative, working class, salt-of-the-earth woman. She is unknowingly backwards, doesn’t realize she is low-grade bigoted and lazy in her thoughts about other people, and at the same time, actually means well. Think Edith Bunker type. We all know this woman, she is the family member or in-law we put up with and love but want to get her to see what she is doing unconsciously. One of the three leads, this actress will need to feel comfortable with long monologues. This is a plum role for a great actress with high energy who can deliver comedic lines with true believability. This is a very three-dimensional character with a well-defined arc who, in the end, transforms and works with someone she has grown to understands and care about to avenge their friend.
The Masher, a new play by Grace Jasmine, is being produced at the Hollywood Fringe Festival, June 2019 at Theatre Asylum’s Studio C Theatre on Theatre Row. Rehearsals begin mid-April through May with an Early June opening for 5 performances.
http://www.hollywoodfringe.org/projects/5726
THERE IS A PAID STIPEND FOR ALL ROLES
Please send picture and resume to Grace Jasmine, Grace Jasmine Productions at
gracejasmineproductions@gmail.com and indicate which part you are interested in.
Auditions are Friday, March 15th at New Musicals, Inc. at 5628 Vineland Avenue
North Hollywood, CA 91601, 5:30-9:30, Callbacks on Monday, March 18, 6:00-10:00
Synopsis:
The Masher is a disturbing and often hysterically funny #MeToo allegory. Three women of wildly different backgrounds find themselves linked together in a minimum wage factory job where they have little more to do than push a button. The work is boring and underpaid, but what they don’t realize is their work is sinister. That button they are pushing is actually the “go” switch for something horrifying. But why? The story watches these women become aware of their place in this diabolical history, their chance to change it and finally in a macabre twist, their chance to avenge their cohort and friend. Like Hand to God, The Masher should make audiences both deeply emotional and laugh with a “What the hell was that?” response.
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