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Long Wharf Theatre 2011-2012 Season
- EPAs by APPOINTMENT in CT
(New Haven, CT) Equity B & D, $765 & $566/week minimum
Artistic Director: Gordon Edelstein
Associate Artistic Director: Eric Ting, Attending Auditions
Casting Director: Calleri Casting
Equity Principal Auditions by APPIONTMENT
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 at the Long Wharf Theatre
11 AM – 7 PM 222 Sargent Drive
Lunch from 2:30 – 3:30. New Haven, CT
Prepare one classical and one contemporary monologue, not to exceed three (3) minutes total. If you are interested in being considered for the musicals, prepare one monologue (classical or contemporary) and 16 bars of a song from standard or contemporary musical theatre. Bring sheet music in correct key; accompanist provided but may not transpose.
For an appointment, call 203-787-4282, between 10 – 5. If you plan to sing, please inform the theatre when making an appointment. AEA members without appointments will be seen as time permits. AEA members must bring membership card to the audition.
Bring picture and resume, stapled together.
NOTE: Because the theatre will be holding NYC auditions on 6/9/11 (see separate notice), the theatre is especially seeking local New Haven area performers at these auditions.
2011-12 Season includes:
AIN’T MISBEHAVIN’.
Book: Murray Horowitz and Richard Maltby Jr.
Music: Thomas Wright “Fats” Waller
Director: Richard Maltby Jr.
1st rehearsal: October 11, 2011. Runs October 26, 2011-November 20, 2011
Seeking:
Andre, Armelia. Charlaine, Ken, Nell
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE – A LIVE RADIO PLAY.
By Joe Landry
Director: Eric Ting
1st rehearsal: November 8, 2011. Runs: December 7, 2011 - December 30, 2011
A 1940s period radio drama.
Seeking:
Actor 1: Male
Actor 2: Female
Actor 3: Male
Actor 4: Male
Actor 5: Female
All ethnicities and ages encouraged.
MACBETH.
By William Shakespeare. Conceived and Adapted by Eric Ting
Director: Eric Ting
1st rehearsal: December 20, 2011. Runs: January 18, 2012 – February 12, 2012
Seeking:
Soldier 1: Early-mid 30s, Male
Soldier 2: Late 20s, Male
Nurse 1: Early 40s, Female
Nurse 2: Early 30s, Female
Nurse 3: Early 20s, Female
Lieutenant/Radio: 50s, Male
All ethnicities and ages encouraged.
FEBRUARY HOUSE.
Songs and Lyrics by Gabriel Kahane.
Libretto by Seth Bockley.
Director: Davis McCallum
1st rehearsal: January 10, 2012. Runs: February 15, 2012-March 18, 2012
George Davis: 34, a radiant, slightly overweight, New York Personality.
Carson McCullers: 23, a precocious Southern novelist.
Wysten Hugh Auden: 33, the British poet. Tall, lithe, schoolmasterly.
Chester Kallman: 19, a Jewish-American student from Brooklyn.
Benjamin Britten: 27, a British composer and musician.
Peter Pears: 30, Britten’s partner- a rather broad-shouldered British tenor.
Reeves McCullers: 27, Carson’s husband.
Erika Mann: 34, a refugee intellectual and cabaret artist from Germany.
Gypsy Rose Lee: 29, the celebrity stripper at the height of her powers.
*Casting by Heidi Griffiths and Jordan Thaler
BELL, BOOK & CANDLE. By John Van Druten. Director: Darko Tresjnak
1st rehearsal: February 7, 2012. Runs: March 7, 2012 – April 1, 2012
Seeking:
Gillian Holroyd: 20-35, Female, a modern witch.
Shepherd Henderson: 25-40, Male, Gillian’s love interest.
Aunt Queenie Holroyd: 40-70, Female, Gillian’s aunt.
Nicky Holroyd: 20-35, Male, Gillian’s brother.
Sidney Redlitch: 35+, Male, an author.
SOPHIE’S CHOICE.
By David Rintels. Based on the novel by William Styron.
Director: Gordon Edelstein
1st rehearsal: April 2, 2012. Runs: April 25, 2012 – May 20, 2012
Seeking:
Von Niemand: Male, 30-45.
Rudolph Hoess: Male, 35-50.
Coney Island Barker: Male, 30-50.
Juggler: Male, 30-50.
Larry Landau: Male, 40-50.
Youngstein: Male, 35-50.
Nathan Landau: Male, 30-40.
Yetta: Female, 50-70.
Sholom Weiss: Male 40-60.
Sophie’s Father: Male, 55-70.
Morris Fink: Male, 35-50.
Casimir: Male, 35-50.
Stingo: Male, 20-30.
Long Wharf Theatre as an Equal Opportunity Employer recognizes the need for expanding the participation of ethnic minorities (African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American and Native American), women Actors and Actors with disabilities in their artistic process and will make an effort to cast these individuals in roles where race, ethnicity, gender, or the presence or absence of a disability is not germane.
Long Wharf Theatre as a general rule does not employ understudies.
Theatre address: 222 Sargent Drive, New Haven, CT 06511
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