Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater 2013 Season
– EPAs by Appointment in MA
Wellfleet MA NEAT (approval/salary level pending; 2013 minimum weekly salaries: $300 - $364, depending on production/stage).
Artistic Dir: Dan Lombardo
Equity Principal Auditions by APPOINTMENT:
Saturday, February 9, 2013 at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater Offices
AND 2357 Route 6
Sunday, February 10, 2013 Wellfleet MA 02667
9 AM – 5 PM each day
Lunch from 1 - 2.
See Theater’s travel instructions below.
For a five-minute appointment, please call the Box Office at (508) 349-9428, x112 M-F, 10-5. Deadline for requesting an appointment is close of business on the day before the audition. Equity Members without appointments will be seen throughout each audition day, as time permits.
Actors may choose to read one or more scenes from the season’s plays, perform one or more monologues of their choice or a combination of scene and monologues. Scripts and a reader will be provided at the auditions. Visually impaired performers may request a copy of the scripts in advance when making an appointment. Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.
All dates below are in 2013. All roles are available unless otherwise specified. (Auditioning performers will be considered as possible replacements for pre-cast roles, should any become necessary.)
Julie Harris Stage:
ALL IN THE TIMING
by David Ives Dir: Stephen Russell
1st Reh: Feb 25; Opens: March 15 Closes: March 31
These are 6 sketches done by 4 actors (2 Male, 2 Female) character ages are 20s – 30s.
UTILITY MONSTER
by Marina Keegan (World Premiere) Dir: Dan Lombardo.
1st Reh: May 1; Previews: May 23, 24; Opens: May 25 Closes: June 22
Claude and Sadie’s young lives are transformed when Claude discovers that an African child’s life can be saved for the mere price of his lunch at Taco Bell. This fable about love, personal sacrifice, and how we value human life won “Best Reading” in The Midtown International Theatre Festival in NYC. The New York Times called it “a meditation on charity and ethics.”
Seeking:
CLAUDE - 15, 9th grade, his father left one year ago
SADIE - 15, 9th grade, her father died five years ago
RUTH - 54, Sadie’s mother, widow of David
ALAN - 55, Ruth’s brother
CALEB - 23
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR
by Luigi Pirandello, adapted by Matt Foss with Dan Lombardo Dir: Dan Lombardo
1st Reh: June 5; Previews: June 27, 28; Opens: June 29 Closes: July 20
Operating under NEAT 5
We take a masterpiece of 20th century theater, which we transformed through the WHAT Lab, and offer our own world premiere production. On stage the audience sees a rehearsal for a play until six actors burst in. They appear to be a family, until “the Father” declares they are unfinished characters in search of an author to finish their story. Their desperate tale of love, poverty, and betrayal begins to unfold. Are they mad? Will we see their story completed before our eyes?
Seeking:
Director – 20s, an actor who steps in for “the play's” director
Father – 50s, educated Sicilian man
Mother – 40s-50s, poor, uneducated Sicilian woman
Stepdaughter – late teens, compassionate
Son – 22, disaffected
Male Stage Manager – 20s - 40s
Actress – 20s – 30s, plays Mae in play-within-a-play
ONE SLIGHT HITCH
by Lewis Black Dir: Joe Grifasi
1st Reh: c.July 10; Previews: July 25, 26; Opens: July 27 Closes: August 24
Operating under NEAT 5
Lewis Black, the popular and prolific political comedian featured on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” brings us the story of the Doc and Delia Coleman family. On the morning they plan to throw their daughter the lavish wedding they never had, ex-boyfriend Ryan drops by unannounced. At first oblivious, Ryan wants to share the enlightenment he experienced on the road as a latter-day Jack Kerouac.
This riotously funny and moving comedy has been called a cross between THE PHILADELPHIA STORY and NOISES OFF.
Seeking:
P.B. Coleman – 16, daughter of Delia and Doc,
Delia Coleman – The mother. In a constant state of panic.
Doc Coleman – The father. A General Practitioner. A charming, eccentric conservative.
Ryan – early 30s. Until nine months ago, he had lived with Courtney for to and a half years
Courtney Coleman – Free-lance writer. Has just published her first novel wuich was almost successful. Engaged to Harper
Melanie Coleman – 20-something daughter. Nurse. Attractive and psychotic.
Harper – early 30s. Logical and Wealthy. Engaged to Courtney.
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
by Tennessee Williams. Dir: Elizabeth Falk
1st reh: August 7. Previews: Aug. 29, 30. Open on the Julie Harris Stage: Aug. 31. Close on the Julie Harris Stage: Sept. 22.
Open at the Tennessee Williams Festival: Sept. 25. Close at the Tennessee Williams Festival: Sept. 28
Operating under NEAT 5
Our production of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF will open at WHAT and move for four final performances to The Tennessee Williams Festival in Provincetown. This Pulitzer Prize-winning gem is an emotionally intense drama that sizzles with passion and greed like you’ve never experienced before.
In the course of one sultry evening, a prominent Southern dynasty is pushed to the brink when tender memories are relived and life altering secrets are revealed. It’s the 65th birthday of wealthy Southern plantation owner Big Daddy and his family has gathered to celebrate, while sparing him the news that he’s dying of cancer. As one son Brick, a hunky former football hero, mysteriously retreats from his desirable but sexually frustrated wife Maggie, his money hungry brother and sister-in-law plot to secure more than their share of the family fortune.
Seeking:
Maggie – tough, lonely, Brick's wife
Brick – son of Big Daddy and Big Mama, former high school athlete
Big Daddy – 65, Southern cotton plantation owner
Big Mama – 60s matriarch of the family
Mae – Gooper's wife
Gooper – Brick's brother
Dr. Baugh
Rev. Tooker
Travel Directions
Julie Harris Stage
2357 State Highway Route 6
Wellfleet, MA 02667
From Hyannis and the Upper Cape:
Take State Highway Route 6 toward Wellfleet.
When you enter Wellfleet, continue for 4.3 miles.
Look for the WHAT sign on the highway.
Take a left onto the driveway leading to the theater.
The theater is next to the Wellfleet Post Office.
From Provincetown and the Lower Cape:
Take State Highway Route 6 south toward Wellfleet.
When you enter Wellfleet, continue for 3.3 miles.
Look for the WHAT sign on the highway.
Take a right onto the driveway leading to the theater.
The theater is next to the Wellfleet Post Office.
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