MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN (Role of Track 4) - submit for NYC Appointments
Cleveland Play House | Cleveland, OH
LORT Non-Rep
$776 weekly minimum (LORT D) - Outcalt Theatre
Equity actors for the role of Track 4 in MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN (See breakdown).
Please mail your headshot and resume for consideration. Please include “Frankenstein” in the subject line. Please note: This is a high-security building and drop-offs will not be accepted.
Deadline: 06/26/2023
Koppel Casting
421 7th Ave., Suite 1011
New York, NY 10001
Written by: David Catlin
Director: Michael Barakiva
Casting Director: Karie Koppel
Audition date: TBD
First Rehearsal: September 26, 2023
Performances: October 21, 2023 – November 12, 2023
OTHER
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 submit.
Track 4 (Lord Byron, Creature, Scottish Sailor, as cast) Male Identifying, mid 20s to early 30s, Any Ethnicity. All the roles in this track have facility with heightened language, dialects, dance/movement ability, and athleticism. BIPOC actors are encouraged to submit for this role.:
LORD BYRON – not just the life of the party, but the actual party. A pansexual, upper class, charismatic, effortlessly intellectual, Dionysian force of pure chaotic energy. The first rockstar.
CREATURE– a compilation of human and animal parts. Reviled for his appearance, making him an outsider. Innocent, but becomes a monster because he is treated like one.
Given the physical demands, moments of intimacy/violence, and how identity-conscious casting may inform the interpersonal dynamics, the theatre will work with the cast to have a support plan in place. Supports for the cast will include, but not be limited to:
• Weekly preventative Physical Therapy
• An in-person Intimacy Director engaged for rehearsals.
• An affinity space.
• Ongoing institutional support from the People & Culture department and/or a cultural liaison identified to have ongoing check-ins and support for all members of the production.
• Open access to ease@work, an employee wellness resource program that offers free and confidential counseling services.
Actors auditioning for this production are advised that this production will include:
∙ discussions/depictions of murder, illness, and death.
∙ discussions/depictions of pregnancy, pregnancy loss, child loss, and child murder.
∙ discussion/depictions of drug use, firearms, and stylized violence/torture.
∙ discussion/depictions of ghosts and supernatural creatures.
∙ graphic discussions/depictions of corpses, decay, dismemberment, grave desecration, blood letting/drinking, and general body horror.
∙ some partial nudity (no genitalia, buttocks, or breasts, but the characters PERCY BYSSHE SHELLY, LORD BYRON, and DR. JOHN POLIDORI may be bare chested in some scenes).
∙ scenes involving intimacy across all genders (including prolonged physical contact, kissing/making out, and full body caressing), and potential scenes of group intimacy.
∙ CREATURE murders ELIZABETH. Note: this scene may potentially depict sexual violence as well as physical violence.
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