Undermain 2019-2020 Season - Dallas EPA Days
Undermain Theatre
AUDITION DATES
Tue, Apr 16, 2019
10:00 am - 5:00 pm (CDT)
Wed, Apr 17, 2019
10:00 am - 5:00 pm (CDT)
APPOINTMENTS
Contact Casting Assistant Parker Gray at opsmanager@undermain.org or call 214 747-1424 during business hours
CONTRACT
SPT Minimum - $288/wk
SEEKING
Equity actors - men and women, for the 2018-2019 Season. See Breakdown below for more details. Local hires preferred.
PREPARATION
Auditions will consist of one prepared contemporary or classical monologue not
exceeding 3 minutes in length. Bring picture and resume stapled together as well as your Equity Membership Card.
LOCATION
Undermain Theatre
3200 Main St
Dallas, TX 75226-1562
Undermain Basement space
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director Katherine Owens
Executive Producer Bruce DuBose
Casting Assistant Parker Gray
OTHER DATES
See breakdown.
OTHER
www.undermain.org
Performers of all ethnic and racial backgrounds are encouraged to attend
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of 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
Red Chariot – by Gordon Dahlquist
What if Tarot Cards could actually affect your future? And you could use that Tarot Deck to control other's destinies as well? And what if the Internet created that Tarot Deck? Red Chariot is a world premiere Science-Fiction thriller set amid the downfall of civilization after the Internet has created a mysterious Tarot Deck, that when read, can actually affect the past, present, and future. Gordon Dahlquist (Tomorrow Come Today) takes us on a journey though time as we explore the chaotic effects of new technological advancements and the role humans have, or haven’t, played in stopping that chaos.
Director TBA
A World Premiere
Rehearsals: 8/20/19 – 9/10/19
Preview Performances: 9/11, 9/12 and 9/13
Performances: 9/11/19 – 10/6/19 (Wed. through Sat. at 7:30 pm and Sun. matinees
at 2pm.)
Characters:
SARAH – A woman in her 20s.
BLACK – A woman in her 30s.
WHITE – A man in his 30s.
PATTERN – A man in his 30s.
PIERSON – A man in his 50s.
ELLEN – A woman in her 20s.
JOHN – A man in his 30s.
MARPESSA – A woman in her 30s.
HENRIK – A man in his 30s.
The Thanksgiving Play – by Larissa FastHorse
Good intentions collide with absurd assumptions in Larissa FastHorse’s wickedly funny satire, as a troupe of terminally “woke” teaching artists scrambles to create a pageant that somehow manages to celebrate both Turkey Day and Native American Heritage Month. A brilliant take on the modern American cultural dilemma.
Director TBA
A Dallas Premiere
Rehearsals: 10/22/19 – 11/05/19
Preview Performances: 11/6, 11/7 and 11/8
Performances: 11/6/18 – 12/1/19 (Wed. through Sat. at 7:30 pm and Sun. matinees
at 2pm.)
There will be no performance on Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 28.
Characters:
LOGAN – Female, Caucasian looking, the high school drama teacher that's always pushing the envelope in potentially inappropriate ways. Earnest about theater and proving herself.
JAXTON – Male, Caucasian looking, yoga practitioner/actor. Politically correct to a fault, a big one. He's that confident guy everyone loves, but his logical PC thinking takes weird turns.
ALICIA – Female, brunette Caucasian looking but has looks that would have been cast as ethnic in 1950's movies. Without guile. Sexy and hot, but not bright.
CADEN – Male, Caucasian looking, the academic. Awkward elementary school history teacher with dramatic aspirations but no experience.
Madame Bovary – by Adrienne Kennedy
Madame Bovary is the tragic, yet scintillating story of a woman who longed for a life she could never fully achieve. Emma Bovary is a woman who desires the illustrious and romantic world she has only read about in books or observed from afar. As this desire grows, Emma must seek to fulfill it, whatever the cost, in an ultimate quest to become the Madame Bovary of her wildest and most passionate dreams. Telling Emma's story through the eyes of her own daughter, Adrienne Kennedy brings a fresh and exciting approach to this classic novel.
An adaption of Gustave Flaubert’s classic novel
Director TBA
Premiering Regionally
Rehearsals: 1/14/20 – 2/11/20
Preview Performances: 2/12, 2/13 and 2/14
Performances: 2/12/20 – 3/15/20 (Wed. through Sat. at 7:30 pm and Sun. matinees
at 2pm.)
Characters:
EMMA BOVARY – A provincial woman with romantic aspirations, 25 – 35.
CHARLES BOVARY – EMMA’s husband and local Doctor.
BERTHE – EMMA and CHARLES’ daughter.
LEON – A young man – lover to EMMA.
RODOLPHE – Lover to EMMA.
HOMAIS – Owner of the local Pharmacy.
MADAME HOMAIS – Wife to HOMAIS.
MADAME LEFRANCOIS – Mistress of the Golden Lion Inn.
FELICITE – EMMA’s maid.
ENSEMBLE – Various Speaking and Non-Speaking roles.
Roles open to all ethnicities
(The role of LHEUREUX has been cast)
Whither Goest Thou America: A Festival of New American Play Readings
Undermain presents its third series of readings of new American plays examining the American Landscape. Each week of the series will focus on a different playwright and play with staged readings by an ensemble cast. Audiences will have the opportunity to return each week of the series to experience a new work examining the American experience and asking the question, “Where are we going?”
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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