Veterans Repertory Theater's Staged Reading 2024 Season - Cornwall, NY EPA
Veterans Repertory Theater | Cornwall, NY
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Thursday, June 20, 2024
11:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
The audition will be run on a 1st come, 1st served basis on the day of the audition. Sign ups will begin just before 11am.
SPT
$155 weekly minimum
Equity actors for roles in Veterans Repertory Theater's Staged Reading 2024 Season (See breakdown).
Staged readings take place one day per week for each show for 4 consecutive weeks.
Please prepare a comedic monologue. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
The Parlor on Quaker Ave
16 Quaker Ave
Cornwall, NY 12518
Park in Strip mall across the street (former DeCicco’s Parking lot).
Expected to attend:
Christopher Paul Meyer - Artistic Director Jenn Haltman - Casting Director
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production specific dates.
Rehearsal begins at 12:30 every Saturday Performances Saturday at 7pm
OTHER
Pick up at Garrison Train Station- Metro North Line
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.
First Rehearsal June 29
Performances- June 29 July 13, 20, 27
Justin: 25-60 years old, CIA Agent
TSA: Any age/any gender – Monotone, bored with job.
Bella: Any age/female – Speaks Spanish
Announcements: Any age/any gender – Articulate and consistent in delivery Transition from English to Spanish is smooth
Justin: 25-60 years old, CIA Agent
Penny: Any Age, French Operative, excited to help in anyway possible, fiscally sensitive. Yuri: Any age/male – speaks English with a Russian accent
Conductor: Speaks English, but with a French accent, doesn’t speak French.
Lauren, 40ish, female. Dressed in the stylish, well-curated manner of a career politician. Jessica, 40ish, female. Dressed for tea at a nice hotel, but not as put-together as Lauren.
JAIME: Of working age, gender neutral
JOE: Of working age, gender neutral
Mary: twenties, a bank robber, dumb by nature
Patsy: twenties, a bank robber, even dumber by nature
Wilma: thirties, a bank robber, smarter only in comparison
MACHINE IN THE GHOST by Mark Antony Rossi
Julian, bookstore manager---age 32
Solange, international peace activist---age 33
Miles, bookstore owner, writer---age 33
WILLA Struggling to break free from old ideas and decisions to find confidence in her work as a writer.
CHLOE An attractive young French woman from post-WWII Paris. She is a character in one of Willa’s stories.
MARK A somewhat unlikeable villain in a story idea discarded by Willa. He is a little bitter about it. HANNAH Willa’s therapist.
First Rehearsal September 7
Performances September 7,14,21,28
Ranzo – Male, 30s
Megor – Female, 30s
Prag – Male, any age
Folt – Male, any age
First Rehearsal October 5
Performances October 5, 12, 19, 26
GEORGIE: Female-identifying, late 20s-30s, any ethnicity. She comes from a working-class background and is currently working as a legal secretary. She is confident, sex-positive and doesn't suffer fools. She is the Eliza Doolittle in this modern take on Pygmalion.
ANDREW: Male-identifying, 30s, any ethnicity. Georgie's neighbor and mentor. Connects her to the secretary job working for his friend Edward. A political philosophy professor at a small college and engaged to Lydia. A nice guy.
EDWARD: Male-identifying, 30s, any ethnicity. Georgie's boss and Andrew's friend. He's a fast and smooth talker. A defense lawyer who argues for fun and doesn't like to take no for an answer.
LYDIA: Female-identifying, 30, white. Andrew's fiancée. She is the definition of a WASP and on the surface is the complete opposite to Georgie
First Rehearsal November 2
Performances November 2, 16, 23 and December 7, 14
JAKE MCNALLY 30 years old, a Marine veteran with a prosthetic right leg (below the knee) SAM SUMMERS 30 years old, a Marine veteran, Jake’s ex-wife
CHRIS: An adult
PAT: Another adult
ALEX: Yet another adult
Fisherman One - An obtuse man in his mid-thirties.
Fisherman Two - An introspective man in his early sixties.
BRIDE - a young woman celebrating the most beautiful and anticipated day of her life; she is older than she appears.
MAN - her biological father; he is younger than he appears.
KAIYA - Late 20s
TOPHER - Early 30s
JIMMY Male, 21, any ethnicity. Danny’s older brother.
DANNY Male, 20, any ethnicity. Jimmy’s younger brother.
Hank, 60s a struggling old writer in Hollywood
Maggie, 18 – 25, a young girl from the Ozarks, trailer park white trash type, fresh off the bus in Hollywood, trying to make it in the movies.
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