Ivoryton Playhouse Foundation, Inc.
Ivoryton, CT

DESCRIPTION

CALL TYPE
EPA

CONTRACT
SPT
$650 weekly minimum (SPT 6)

AUDITION DATE
Monday, May 20, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

LOCATION
Pearl Studios (500)
500 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6504

Holding room - Studio 411

PERSONNEL
Executive Producer: Ben Hope
Managing Director: Krista May

Expected to attend:
Executive/Artistic Director: Jacqueline Hubbard
Director/Associate Artistic Director: Todd Underwood

OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: September 17, 2024
First Performance: October 3, 2024
Close: October 20, 2024

Performance schedule: Wednesdays 2 pm and 7:30 pm, Thursdays 7:30 pm, Fridays and Saturdays 8 pm, and Sundays 2 pm

OTHER
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.

SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in ALABAMA STORY (See breakdown).

Ivoryton Playhouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The Ivoryton Playhouse's goal is to ensure that our productions and production teams reflect a multi-racial society that includes actors and stage managers with disabilities. Our casting process includes a flexible and imaginative casting policy for the purpose of increasing employment for actors and stage managers of color, women, seniors, and actors and stage managers with disabilities.

PREPARATION
Please prepare the sides for the character that you wish to audition for which can be found at: https://www.ivorytonplayhouse.org/alabama-story-audition-info-and-sides . They will also be available at the audition site on the morning of the audition. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

BREAKDOWN

ALABAMA STORY

SEEKING:
GARTH WILLIAMS and OTHERS — 50ish or older, a white writer and illustrator from the East Coast. Frisky, sardonic, dry, funny, deadly serious, and omnipresent when practical. He also assumes the roles of aged, sickly Alabama State Representative BOBBY CRONE; sincere Montgomery newspaper reporter HERSCHEL WEBB; fiery segregationist columnist HENRY BRANCH; a folky RADIO ANNOUNCER; and two silent WHITE PASSERSBY. A charismatic chameleon with range and gravitas.

LILY WHITFIELD — 32, a white woman from small-town Alabama privilege. Genteel Alabama accent. Politically unversed, she is the product of (and enjoys the benefits of) a racist system and has not questioned it. Sheltered, ashamed, loyal, religious, garrulous, charming, unhappily married, sentimental, all façade, ready to blossom.

JOSHUA MOORE — 32, an upwardly mobile middle-class African American man who left Alabama years ago, settling in the north after serving in the Army. Purposely subtle and suppressed Alabama accent, which becomes pronounced when agitated. He is politically active, aspirational, loyal, kind, worldly, happily married, slow to boil, susceptible to nostalgia without getting lost in it, a disciple of Dr. King.

SENATOR E.W. HIGGINS — 50ish or more, a white Alabama State Senator. Pronounced Alabama accent. He is an active racist, a charmer, a bully, a bull, a poisoner, and a politician. Most of what he says is rhetorical or performative. He's not as smart as he thinks he is, but he's influential. He is never sorry—an extrovert.

EMILY WHEELOCK REED — THIS ROLE IS CAST. 50ish or more, a white female librarian, the State Librarian of Alabama, born in North Carolina and raised in Indiana. No Southern accent. She has no sense of humor, she does not suffer fools, and she is all business. When cornered, fallible. When her vulnerability is accessed and her heart unlocked, a person of good character is revealed—an introvert.

THOMAS FRANKLIN — 28, a white male reference librarian, Emily's assistant. Pronounced Alabama accent. Buttoned-up, genteel, educated, officious, efficient, slightly uncomfortable in his own skin. Neutral and objective when conveying information. The kind of man you want as your colleague or your son.

SALARY

SPT $650 weekly minimum (SPT 6)

UNION

AEA