Third Avenue Playhouse 2024 season - Chicago EPA
Third Avenue Playworks | Sturgeon Bay, WI
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (C)
Lunch 12:00 noon-1:00 pm
SPT
$535 weekly minimum (SPT 5)
Equity performers for our upcoming 2024 summer season.
Third Avenue PlayWorks encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
Please prepare two contrasting monologues, or a brief musical selection and a monologue.
Actors' Equity Association - Chicago Member Center
557 W Randolph St
1st Fl
Chicago, IL 60661
Expected to attend:
Jacob Janssen, Artistic Director
Accompanist, Chuck Larkin and Kailey Rockwell
See breakdown for production-specific personnel.
See breakdown for production-specific dates.
If you have any questions, please email submissions@thirdavenueplayworks.org
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EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition. An Equity Monitor will be provided. 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.
by Kate Hamill
directed by Jacob Janssen
1st Reh 4/10/2024
Open 5/3/2024
close 5/19
Newly-acquainted roommates Sherley Holmes & Joan Watson join forces to emerge from pandemic fog as an oddball adventure duo—solving mysteries and kicking butts. An irreverent, darkly comic, modern take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous sleuth and sidekick, this fast-paced romp re- examines the world’s most famous detective story with a bold, fresh feminist lens. Facility with British dialects necessary.
SHERLOCK HOLMES / as cast (30s-40s): female-identifying. A once-in-a-generation genius. Eccentric. Focused, to a fault. Can be less-than-sensitive. Always playing psychological 3-D chess; operating on a totally different level than civilians. Like many geniuses, has a bit of a megalomaniac streak. Gets bored easily; likes applause; sometimes accused of being unfeeling. LOVES costumes and drama.
DR. JOAN WATSON / as cast (30s-40s): female-identifying. American. Formerly type-A high-achiever. Recently divorced; struggling to find herself, feels broken. Reflexively defensive. Once had great bedside manner. Sometimes accused of being a loser; is not a loser. Wry. Smart.
IRENE ADLER / MRS. HUDSON / MRS. DREBBER / as cast (late 20s-40s): female-identifying. Irene Adler – a whipsmart, super-charming sex worker finding success at the highest levels. Always playing psychological 3-D chess; operating on a totally different level than civilians. Has incredible charm, confidence, and wit, and she knows it - uses it without mercy. You may want to be Irene, or you want to be with Irene; but you can’t ignore her. Mrs. Hudson – Holmes & Watson’s long-suffering landlady. Mrs. Drebber- seemingly an ordinary housewife. Somebody you would be very wise not to underestimate.
MORIARTY / LESTRADE / ELLIOT MONK / as cast (30s-50s): male-identifying. Moriarty – a criminal so great you’ve never heard of him. A master blackmailer; knows just when to play his cards. Always playing psychological 3-D chess; operating on a totally different level than civilians. Wears many, many masks. A professional. Amoral, but you’d like him. Lestrade – an inspector new to his position at Scotland Yard. Not very imaginative. Often says the wrong thing. Elliot Monk – an amoral, tech billionaire from Texas.
by Marie Jones
directed by C. Michael Wright
1st Reh 5/22/2024
Open 6/14/2024
Close 6/30/2024
Charlie and Jake are a couple of resourceful Irish lads working as extras on a Hollywood flick being shot in their homeland. Directors, divas, local legends and pub crawlers come and go at breakneck speed as Big-Time Pictures and small town Ireland battle it out for top billing. NOTE: Charlie and Jake play a cross section of characters of varying backgrounds, and ethnicities. Both actors will need strong ears for dialect work and a transformational performance style.
CHARLIE CONLON/As Cast (30s-40s) male-identifying - A local Irish extra on a Hollywood film set. A hangdog who claims to be escaping the aftermath of a failed business venture and has great aspirations to get his own script made into a film. Eager, hapless, colorful, and kind. Working-class.
JAKE QUINN/As Cast (30s-40s) male-identifying - A local Irish extra on a Hollywood film set. Handsome and charismatic. A guy’s guy who exudes sexuality. Recently returned from America and is enthralled by the movie’s beautiful leading lady until it becomes clear that she only wants to use him to appropriate his accent. Deeply rooted in the community and passionate about the lives of his compatriots. Working-class.
by Margaret Raether
directed by Karen Estrada
1st Reh 6/26/2024
Open 7/19/2024
Close 8/18/2024
The lovably loopy Bertie Wooster finds himself suffering the slings and arrows of misfortune at the hands of his relatives, caught between the masterful machinations of his fierce Aunt Agatha and the plaintive pleadings of his cousin Egbert. This propels poor Bertie into yet another socially precarious predicament that cannot be overcome! Will the ever-faithful manservant Jeeves be able to rescue the bumbling Bertie from himself?
NOTE: All actors will need to have a decent handle on standard British dialects.
BERTIE WOOSTER (late 20s- early 40s) male-identifying - A wealthy, amiable man of the leisure class who always finds his way into alarming predicaments.
JEEVES (40s-50s) male-identifying - A gentleman’s gentleman, and Bertie’s valet. The consummate problem solver, always a step ahead of trouble. Never at a loss when it comes to extracting Bertie from a dilemma.
AUNT AGATHA (60s-70s) female-identifying - The most fearsome of Bertie’s gaggle of aunts, she is often described as “the nephew crusher.” She is said to wear barbed wire next to her skin. Agatha is determined to see Bertie suitably wed. And soon.
EGBERT BAKEWELL (late 20s- early 40s) male-identifying - Good old “Eggs and Bacon” is Bertie’s feckless cousin, who shares the Wooster talent for disaster. Eggy is perennially hard up for funds, yet eternally optimistic. He’s the sort of chap who picks daisies by the tracks, never noticing the express train barreling down on him.
RED HOT MAISIE DAWSON (20s-30s) female-identifying - The featured jazz singer in the floor show at a nearby resort hotel. Egbert is smitten. She is emphatically not. This does not discourage Eggy in the least. Somehow this evolves into a problem for Bertie. She is, however, quite taken with Jeeves. Has a great singing voice.
SIRE RODERICK GLOSSOP (50s-60s) male-identifying - A celebrated nerve specialist, he is a fussy, humorless dyspeptic man. His daughter, Honoria, is (for the moment) engaged to marry Bertie. But Sir Roderick is highly dubious about the Wooster clan in general, and Bertie in particular.
by Erica German
directed by Mallory Metoxen
1st Reh 9/4/2024
Open 9/27/2024
Close 10/13/2024
With determination (and a bullhorn), elderly Peter Michaels is on a mission to save the loons of Lake Winnipesaukee, who are dying in record numbers. His summer expectations are thwarted by Sarah, a townie teenager hired to clean the house next door. While the two initially grate on each other, they slowly forge a unique intergenerational bond, opening up one tentative moment at a time.
PETER MICHAELS (70s) Peter is educated, passionate, and in mourning. He owns a brownstone in Boston, and a lake-house in New Hampshire. He is a committed environmentalist, and a rule follower. Beneath his prickly exterior is a generous soul.
SARAH JONES (early 20s) Practical, blunt, and hard working. Sarah is a ‘townie’, born and raised in a tourist destination. She makes a living cleaning summer homes for big city folks. She is strong, smart, and pushes back when shoved.
by James DeVita and Josh Schmidt
directed by Jacob Janssen
1st Reh 11/20/2024
Open 12/13/2024
Close 12/29/2024
With full hearts and empty pockets, newlyweds Jim and Della seek the perfect gift for one another, only to find they already have all they need. It’s hard to imagine a more idyllic holiday escape than James DeVita and Josh Schmidt’s original musical, inspired by O’Henry’s classic tale of love and generosity.
JIM - (20s) male-identifying. Married to Della, Jim is a tailor by trade. He sells his prize possession, his grandfather’s watch to buy the perfect present for Della. He has a big heart and a generous spirit. C3 > G4 (tenor)
DELLA - (20s) female-identifying. Married to Jim. Della has gorgeous hair, it is her prize possession. When she needs to get Jim a gift, she cuts to to buy him a gift. She is hard working, meticulous, and thoughtful. G3 > D5 (mezzo)
O. HENRY (AS CAST) - (50s) male-identifying. The narrator and author of the story. A warm, and joyous man. Also plays several other characters in the world of the show. A3 > E4 (baritone)
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