BLACK NATIVITY Equity Principal Actors - Intiman Theatre Company Auditions

BLACK NATIVITY - Seattle, WA EPA
Intiman Theatre Company | Seattle, WA

AUDITION DATE

Saturday, June 15, 2024
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM (P)
Lunch 1:00-2:00 pm

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment Contact: Kiefer Harrington, (425) 298-3898,
casting@intiman.org, Tuesday - Thursday, 10 am-4 pm PT.

If you are unable to attend in person, please see breakdown for video audition submission instructions.

CONTRACT

SPT
$587 weekly minimum (SPT 6)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in BLACK NATIVITY by Langston Hughes (see breakdown).

Local Seattle and King County actors are encouraged to audition.

PREPARATION

Prepare one of two sides provided at: Side A:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/toaizipjmpkyq4h/BN%20SIDE%20A.PDF?dl=0; Side B:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yhk04xd5ifc178s/BN%20SIDE%20B.PDF?dl=0.

LOCATION

Seattle Central College - Fine Arts Building
801 E. Pine St
Seattle, WA 98122

Door is west of SIFF Cinema Egyptian entrance. Someone will be posted at the door.

PERSONNEL

Marcos Everstijn - Production Director
Kiefer Harrington - Company Manager

Expected to attend:
Jennifer Zeyl - Artistic Director, Scenic Designer
Valerie Curtis-Newton - Director

OTHER DATES

First Rehearsal: November 12, 2024
Performance Schedule: December 4-8, 11-15,
17-22, 26-29, 2024
Previews: December 4, 5, 2024
Opening Performance: December 6, 2024
Closing Performance: December 29, 2024

OTHER

intiman.org

An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this 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

Video Submission Instructions:

If you are unable to attend the audition in person you may submit a video audition.
Please submit your headshot, resume and audition video via the following dropbox link:
https://www.dropbox.com/request/Kac82lAq3fNBNXUNTtkS /> Please prepare a reading of one of two sides provided below. In addition, you may submit a song (under 32-measures) or a monologue (maximum 2-minutes please) that captures the play’s moods of reverence, awe, joy, and jubilation.
Side A:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/toaizipjmpkyq4h/BN%20SIDE%20A.PDF?dl=0 /> Side B:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/yhk04xd5ifc178s/BN%20SIDE%20B.PDF?dl=0 /> Naming format of files submitted should be “LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_TYPE” (type specifying Resume/Headshot/Audition)
The video submissions deadline is the end of the day on June 14, 2024.

SYNOPSIS: “The Christmas story in dialogue, narrative, pantomime, gospel song and folk spirituals–the unique creation of the poet and playwright Langston Hughes... ‘His tone has that intimate, elusive, near-tragic, near-comic sound of the Negro blues, and is equally defiant of analysis’ is how a critic described this work by Langston Hughes, who mentions Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman as his main literary influences. As a young man, Hughes participated enthusiastically in the activities of the Karamu Players in Cleveland, and later he was to found Negro theater [in] Harlem, Los Angeles and Chicago. He wrote a number of plays and musicals and then came to his own special creation which calls ‘the Gospel Song-Play’... which is Black Nativity.”
Source: Dramatic Publishing

SEEKING:

Narrator/Joseph/Man/Shepard: Ensemble Member. Tenor

CAST ROLES:

Narrator: Ensemble Member. Alto
Narrator/Elder/Shepard: Ensemble Member. Bass
Narrator/Old Woman: Ensemble Member. Alto
Narrator/Mary/Woman: Ensemble Member. Soprano