BUILDING THE WALL - Miami EPA
City Theatre Inc.
AUDITION DATE
Jul 16, 2017
2:00 pm - 8:00 pm (EDT)
Jul 17, 2017
10:00 am - 2:00 pm (EDT)
Callbacks will follow, starting at 3:30 pm.
APPOINTMENTS
Contact Amy Coker at amy@citytheatre.com.
CONTRACT
LOA $465 weekly minimum (LOA referencing LORT )
SEEKING
Show description: It's the very near future and the administration has carried out its promise to round up and detain millions of immigrants. With martial law declared and increased ICE and Homeland Security arrests, rapid expansions in the private detention system are quickly overwhelmed with detainees awaiting deportation. Rick, a detention center supervisor abandoned by his supervisors as the situation deteriorated into chaos and death, is being interviewed by Gloria, a historian curious to understand his side of the story, while they await his sentencing for carrying out the federal policy that escalated into the unimaginable.
GLORIA is an African-American woman in her 40s. Intelligent. Warm. University Professor. Historian
RICK is a white man in his 40s, Texan, former military, former detention center supervisor, inmate at federal prison.
PREPARATION
1 monologue not exceeding 1 1/2 minute.
LOCATION
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
Knight Concert Hall
1300 Biscayne BlvdMiami, FL 33132-1608
ALL MUST enter on NE 14th St, on Valet Ramp between Biscayne and Bayshore
PERSONNEL
Margaret M Ledford, Artistic Director City Theatre, director of Building the Wall
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: September 5
Preview: September 21, 22 Opening: September 23
Closing: October 8
OTHER
City Theatre is producing this as part of National New Paly Network's Rolling World Premiere of Building the Wall – the newest play by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan (The Kentucky Cycle, All the Way, Hacksaw Ridge).
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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