Everyman Theatre 2017-18 Season - Baltimore MD EPA
Everyman Theatre
AUDITION DATE
Apr 20, 2017
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm (EDT)
Apr 21, 2017
9:00 am - 5:00 pm (EDT)
lunch 12:30 to 1:30
APPOINTMENTS
Please call 443-615-7055 x7162 to make an audition appointment. The audition line will be open during the following times: Mon 4/17 9:30am to 12:30pm and 1:30pm to 4:30pm. Please do not call any other numbers at the theatre. Equity performers unable to make an appointment will be seen without an appointment during the audition times, time permitting.
CONTRACT
SPT SPT 10; 2017 salary pending, current salary until June 2017: $684/week AEA min
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in the 2017-2018 Season. Some roles have been cast with the Resident Acting Company. Everyman Theatre casts primarily from the Baltimore/Washington, DC/Northern Virginia area.
PREPARATION
Appointments are five minutes in length. Please prepare one monologue or two brief contrasting monologues to total approximately three minutes. There are no musicals in the season; no singing please. Each actor must bring one 8x 10 head shot with a resume attached to the back of the photo.
LOCATION
Everyman Theatre
315 W Fayette St
Baltimore, MD 21201
PERSONNEL
Expected to be in attendance at the EPA:
Noah Himmelstein / Associate Artistic Director
and/or
Kyle Prue, Director of Production / Casting Director
OTHER
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.
BREAKDOWN
M. BUTTERFLY
By David Henry Hwang
Director: Vincent M. Lancisi
First Rehearsal: 8 / 7 / 2017
Opening: 9 / 8 / 2017
Closing: 10 / 8 / 2017
The play reimagines the true story of French diplomat, Bernard Boursicot and Peking opera star, Shi Pei Pu. Fact and fiction marry, but to devastating effects. Here the diplomat is Rene Gallimard and the opera singer, Song Liling. Together they explore the possibility of a life together despite personal and governmental secrets. East meets West in this fantastic tale of mythic proportions.
Character Description: 4 M, 3 F
Song Liling (Male – Asian – 20-35): A Chinese actor who plays the role of the dan (the female) in Chinese opera. He manipulates René's affections for him and acts as a spy for the communist government. After he is denounced in court as a man as well as a spy, Song is rejected by René and is imprisoned.
Comrade Chin / Suzuki / Shu-Fang (Female – Asian – 35-55) Chin is a Chinese Communist Party official who instructs Song to spy; Chin unthinkingly accepts communist doctrine.
This actress also plays Shu-Fang and Suzuki.
Renee / Woman at Party / Girl in Magazine (Female – 20-30): A student from Denmark with whom Gallimard has an affair. She is physically attractive and sexually uninhibited. This actress also plays Woman at Party and Girl in Magazine
M. Toulon / Man # 1 / Judge (Male – 50-70): French ambassador, he is a man of the world who seems impressed when he learns of Gallimard’s affair with Song. He has a paternalistic attitude to his employees. This actor also plays Man #1 and Judge.
THE FOLLOWING ROLES ARE CAST WITH RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY. PERFORMERS WILL BE CONSIDERED AS POSSIBLE REPLACEMENTS SHOULD ANY BECOME NECESSARY:
Helga (Female – 45-60): Gallimard’s wife who remains ignorant of Chinese culture and appears to dislike the Chinese while the couple lives in Beijing. She is concerned that she and her husband seem unable to produce a child.
Rene Gallimard (Male – 45-60): A French diplomat who is on assignment in China. He desires a relationship similar to the one from Madame Butterfly, the cruel white male and the submissive oriental woman. He falls deeply in love with Song's performance of Madame Butterfly whom he fetishizes as his perfect woman despite Song being biologically a man.
Marc / Man # 2 / Consul Sharpless (Male – 35-60): An old school friend of Gallimard’s, and his complete opposite. He represents the Western ideal of masculine sexuality; he urges Gallimard to be aggressive in his pursuit of Song. This actor also plays Man #2 and Consul Sharpless.
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INTIMATE APPAREL
By Lynn Nottage
Director: TBD
First Rehearsal: 9 / 18 / 2017
Opening: 10 / 20 / 2017
Closing: 11 / 19 / 2017
Hidden desires and unspoken dreams are exposed as Esther, an African American seamstress creates beautiful lingerie for her clients. Class and culture collide as characters reckon with passion and prejudice. Esther’s interactions with the Jewish fabric store owner, the Upper East Side wife, the cabaret performer and sometimes prostitute, conjure the collage of Manhattan life in 1905.
Character Description: 2 M, 4 F
Mrs. Dickson (Female – African-American – 55-70): The widowed landlady of the New York rooming house where Esther lives.
Mayme (Female – African-American – 25-35): A prostitute and pianist who lives in Mrs. Dickson’s rooming house, she and Esther are friends in spite of their very different lives and characters. She plays the piano, and ends up accidentally seducing George away from Esther.
George (Male – African-American – 30 - 40): A young man who is working on digging the Panama Canal, he begins a romance with Esther through a series of letters. He moves to New York to marry her, but he is not the man he seemed to be; he ends up leaving her with nothing.
Mr. Marks (Male – 30-45): An orthodox Jew, he owns the fabric store where Esther shops. He has an arranged engagement with a woman in Romania he has never met; he and Esther share an intense mutual attraction.
THE FOLLOWING ROLES ARE CAST WITH RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY. PERFORMERS WILL BE CONSIDERED AS POSSIBLE REPLACEMENTS SHOULD ANY BECOME NECESSARY:
Esther (Female – African-American – 30-45): A single African-American seamstress, she sews intimate apparel for everyone from prostitutes to high-class ladies. Although she cannot read or write, she begins an epistolary romance with George.
Mrs. Van Buren (Female – 30-45): A rich woman who lives on Fifth Avenue, she is respected in society but has an empty life and loveless marriage.
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THE REVOLUTIONISTS
By Lauren Gunderson
Director: TBD
First Rehearsal: 10 / 30 / 2017
Opening: 12 / 8 / 2017
Closing: 1 / 7 / 2018
A brutal comedic quartet about four very real women who lived boldly in France during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, feminism and terrorism, art and how we actually go about changing the world.
Character Description: 4 F
Charlotte Corday (Female – 25-35): Badass country girl and assassin, she is very serious and hardened by righteousness. She has never been kissed.
THE FOLLOWING ROLE IS CAST WITH RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY. PERFORMERS WILL BE CONSIDERED AS POSSIBLE REPLACEMENT SHOULD ANY BECOME NECESSARY:
Olympe de Gouges (Female – 30-45): Badass activist playwright and feminist, she is an excitable, passionate theatre nerd, and a showman. Widowed, she never re-married to ensure her personal freedom.
Marianne Angelle (Female – African-American – 30-45): Badass black woman in Paris, She is from San Domingue in the Caribbean. She is a free woman - tough, classy, vigilant, and the sanest one of them all.
Marie Antoinette (Female – 30-45): Less badass, but she is the fascinating former queen of France. She is sugary, graceful, totally unaware, unintentionally rude, and oddly prescient.
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LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
By Eugene O’Neill
Director: Donald Hicken
First Rehearsal: 1 / 2 / 2018
Opening: 2 / 2 / 2018
Closing: 3 / 4 / 2018
A single day can upend everything you know. What begins as a typical day in the Tyrone Connecticut home morphs into a night filled with drink-laced demons where long buried secrets are revealed, and once exposed cannot be ignored. Eugene O’Neill’s semi-autobiographical masterpiece lays bare what we all know to be true: the ardor of familial love cannot always protect you.
Character Description: 3 M, 2 F
James Tyrone (Male – 55-70): Sixty-five years old, he looks ten years younger. His speech and movement are those of a classical actor with a studied technique, but he is unpretentious and not temperamental. He has been a healthy man his entire life and is free of hang ups and anxieties except for fear of dying in the poorhouse and obsession with having money.
Cathleen (Female – 20-30): The second girl, she is the summer maid who is amiable, ignorant, and clumsy.
THE FOLLOWING ROLES ARE CAST WITH RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY. PERFORMERS WILL BE CONSIDERED AS POSSIBLE REPLACEMENTS SHOULD ANY BECOME NECESSARY:
Mary Tyrone (Female – 45-60): The wife and mother of the family, she lapses between self-delusion and the haze of her morphine addiction.
James Tyrone, Jr. (Male – 35-45) The older son, he has a habitual expression of cynicism. He is attractive to women and popular with men; he is an actor like his father, but he has difficulty finding work due to a reputation for being an irresponsible, womanizing alcoholic.
Edmund Tyrone (Male – 30-40) The younger and more intellectually and poetically inclined son who, like his mother, is extremely nervous. He is in bad health and his cheeks are sunken. He is politically inclined to have socialist leanings.
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THE BOOK OF JOSEPH
By Karen Hartman
Director: Noah Himmelstein
First Rehearsal: 4 / 9 / 2018
Opening: 5 / 11 / 2018
Closing: 6 / 10 / 2018
The true story of how Baltimore’s own Richard Hollander discovers his family’s legacy. Richard has kept his father’s suitcase locked and sealed, but soon Nazi occupied Poland comes crashing into his Baltimore home. We journey in and out of time and place patching together a story and making sense of a history. Three generations converge to remind us that when so much is lost, we must fight to remember.
Character Description: 4 M, 5 F
Berta / Miss Blaustein (Female – 60-70): The warm and funny matriarch of the family who remains in Krakow with her 3 daughters despite the insistence of her youngest son for them all to leave. This actress also plays Miss Blaustein, the androgynous sister-in-law of Dola.
Mania / Court Interpreter / Iris (Female – 45-60): Berta’s eldest daughter who is married to Salo. She has a sardonic side. This actress also plays Iris, who is Elderly Arnold’s wife, and a Court Interpreter.
Craig (Male – 20-30) Richard’s son – a tender smart ass who challenges his father to separate fact from fiction in the family’s story.
THE FOLLOWING ROLES ARE CAST WITH RESIDENT ACTING COMPANY. PERFORMERS WILL BE CONSIDERED AS POSSIBLE REPLACEMENTS SHOULD ANY BECOME NECESSARY:
Klara / Felicja (Female – 35-45): Berta’s middle daughter, she is quite religious. This actress also plays Felicja, the very posh first wife of Joseph who is used to and expects a certain kind of lifestyle that is stripped away.
Dola / Vita (Female – 30-40): Berta’s youngest daughter, she is romantic and dramatic and writes cryptic letters to Joseph during the war. This actress also plays Vita, a warm American with whom Joseph falls in love.
Salo / Court Officer / Stanley Diana / Elderly Arnold (Male – 55-75): Mania’s husband. This actor also plays a Court Officer, the immigration judge Stanley Diana, and Arnold as an elderly man with whom Richard reconnects.
Richard (Male – 50-60): Grown son of Joseph – a storyteller with a great sense of humor. Published author and journalist, he is a Jewish American man from Baltimore. He has a complicated relationship with his son, Craig. Richard speaks directly to the audience via a book-talk using correspondence, transcripts and evidence about the life of the Hollander family life during the Second World War.
Joseph (Male – 30-40): Richard’s father and the subject of the story. He is Berta’s youngest child – a lawyer who is a leading man type. He is married to Felicja, then later to Vita. He appears in the past – 1939-1945.
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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