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Seeking
Actors and understudies age 18 or over, with good comic timing, all ethnicities encouraged. See specific breakdown, please
Preparation
Please prepare a short comic monologue, not to exceed 2 minutes, and bring picture/resume stapled together.
Other Dates
The Mystery of Irma Vep 9/17/13-11/17/13.
Bunny Bunny 1/2/14-3/2/14
The Last Act of Lilka Kadison 2/18/14-4/19/14, with a possibility to extend.
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Other
No health wks. Producer pays pension & workers comp. Understudies paid 20 hrs of reh. time and $46/perf whenever they go on, they do not need to be present at performances.
Personnel
Producer, Sherry Greczmiel
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will be provided.
Appointments
EPA rules in effect. Sign in begins at 9:00 AM.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
Shows run 5 weeks of 5 performance per week: Wed-Sat nights at 8pm and Sun. at 4pm.
Seeking actors and understudies for the following 3 season plays:
The Mystery of Irma Vep: first rehearsal 9/17/13, first performance 10/16/13, closes11/17/13.
The Mystery of Irma Vep, A Penny Dreadful by Charles Ludlam, directed by Jenny Sullivan, is a hilarious quick-change spoof that begins on a dark and stormy night at a haunted estate on the heath at the turn of the century, as Lord Hillcrest and his new bride uncover werewolves, vampires, and even a mummy in Egypt (two actors play all roles).
The Mystery of Irma Vep:
Lord Edgar/Jane Twisden/An Intruder/Irma: male, 35-45, with quick comic timing and the ability to transform from Lord of the manor, to maidservant, to a mysterious intruder.
Lady Enid/Nicodemus/Alcazar/Pev Amri: male, 35-45, with quick comic timing and the ability to transform from Lady to limping servant to Egyptian guide.
Bunny Bunny: first rehearsal 1/2/14, first performance 1/29/14, closes 3/2/14
Bunny Bunny: Gilda Radner: A Sort of Romantic Comedy by Alan Zweibel follows the 14 year friendship of writer Zwiebel and Radner from their first meeting for Saturday Night Live until her untimely death--a hilarious and heartbreaking tribute.
Bunny Bunny
Gilda Radner: female, 30-40, the gifted comedienne made famous on Saturday Night Live, sincere, engaging, clever wit.
Alan Zweibel: male, 30-40, comedy writer, from middle-class Jewish family on Long Island, quick-witted with great comic timing.
Everyone Else: male, 30-40, briefly plays 25 different people, male and female, from waiter to fishmonger to girl friend to movie director
The Last Act of Lilka Kadison: first rehearsal 2/18/14, first performance 3/19/14, closes4/19/14, with a possibility to extend.
The Last Act of Lilka Kadison is a humorous and touching memory play about grace in the face of loss, as Lilith wrestles with ghosts of her past and present, 70 years after she fled Poland on the eve of WWII at the age of 17. Written by Nicola Behrman, David Kersnar, Abbie Phillips, Heidi Stillman, and Andy White, directed by Dan Bonnell, and produced by the Falcon Theatre with Abbie Philips and Jan Kallish in association with Lookingglass Theatre Company
The Last Act of Lilka Kadison
Lilith Fisher: female, 87, Jewish grandmother of Polish descent, currently (2009) living in North Hollywood and battling to keep her independence, onstage the entire play--it is her memory we are exploring.
Menelik Khan: male, 33, of Pakistani descent, Jewish Family Services care worker in present day, mildy depressed, mildly belligerent.
Ben Ari Adler: male, 21, Polish traveling theater performer, living in the 1930's, a modernist Bundist, pro-culture, anti-religion, a little sassy, super smart.
Lilka Kadison, female, seeking actress 18 or over to play 17, beautiful, traditional young Jewess and budding writer living in a small Polish village in the 1930's, pulled between the deep yearnings of an excellent brain and the responsibilites of being a young Jewish woman.
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