TucsonStage Blog: ATC Auditions open through August 14th, 2020

From: China Young <cyoung@arizonatheatre.org>
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2020 4:01 PM
Subject: ATC Auditions open through August 14th, 2020 - Immediate Release

Arizona Theatre Company

General Local Auditions/EPAs

2020/2021 Season

Arizona Theatre Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to non-traditional and multi-cultural casting. Artists of all ethnicities, genders, and abilities are encouraged to audition.

Due to the current Coronavirus and the need to take safety precautions, we are holding this year’s auditions through VIDEO SUBMISSIONS ONLY.

We will be accepting submissions from Arizona Artists from Saturday, August 1^st – Friday, August 14^th (11:59pm PST).

To submit your audition, fill out and upload your video using this form.

NO SUBMISSIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED OUTSIDE OF THESE DATES.

Additional Audition Submission Requirements:

Upload audition video into online forms that are linked above
Prepare one monologue and one song, or two contrasting monologues totaling no more than three minutes combined.

The three minutes begins with the first word of your first piece

Formatting

Please record/export in an mp4 or mov format
Please record both selections in a single tape, as though you are in the room with us.

Please upload a current headshot and resume to your audition form

Auditions are limited to actors above the age of 18.

If necessary, callbacks for specific productions will be held at later dates throughout the season.

Artists of all ethnicities, genders, and abilities are encouraged to audition.

We will be considering actors for the following productions and roles:

Pru Payne by Steven Drukman; Directed by Sean Daniels *World Premiere

Spring 2021 (5 Principles)

PRU PAYNE, late 60s Public Intellectual, good breeding. Exacting, charming, charismatic, intimidating. A WASP and, at times, waspish.

THOMAS PAYNE, early 30s Budding novelist, smart, reticent, sensitive. Shares his mother’s measured (if not patrician) manner of speaking. Casting note: he is ½ African-American.

GUS CUDAHY, ate 60s Custodial Engineer, thick Massachusetts accent. Prideful, jocular, handy, unschooled, intuitive. Laconic New Englander but jovial.

ART CUDAHY, early 30s Chip off the ol’ block, same accent. Tough jock-type but lovable with a latent poetic side.

THE DOCTOR, 40. Aims for scientific detachment but has an emotional intelligence that makes them well-rounded. Casting Note: Any race/gender.

NINA SIMONE: FOUR WOMEN by Christina Hamm; Directed by Tiffany Nicole Greene

Spring 2021 (5 Principles)

NINA SIMONE (30)

A.K.A. “Peaches”. Timeless. A woman of dark skin and temperament that cloaks wounds

both present and historical. Bach and the Blues infuse her life. She is a tornado…of

vulnerability. Complexity is her complexion and resistance and rebellion her anthem.

She should boast the agility of improvisation on the keys and the polyvocality of a herald.

She should be able to hear a song only once and be able to not only perform it, but to lift

the song to another level of being. She lives hard and loves the same. She has a high

school education, but possesses well-rounded music training both self-taught and by

private music teachers. Whatever her mood swings they should never be so pronounced

to upstage her accomplishments. She should possess the attributes of a modern-day

prophet.

SARAH (40s)

A.K.A. “Auntie”. Also of dark skin. Her hands are rough. Molded from years of working in

the white folks home since she was yea high. Groomed to put others before herself. This

type of welding has created the invisible woman that she has become. Her smile is

inviting never letting on that trouble lives on her horizon. Her dark skin has determined

how she will be treated by the outside world. Her life has been defined by black and its

volatile relationship to white. She has a remedial education at best as she comes from a

large family where everyone had to work and carry their weight. She possesses the

tender shoulder you can cry on and a honeysuckled voice of pain. She doesn’t sing the

blues, but has lived it.

SEPHRONIA (30s-40s)

Her skin is yellow. She is of a softer disposition because that is what her hair type and

skin color warrant. She’s never been dark enough to cause offense, but she’s just light

enough to offend herself at times. She’s the painful reminder that she is a child of

violence. She’s not light enough to be white nor dark enough to be black leading to an

inescapable purgatory. She’s joined the Civil Rights Movement hoping this will make her

black enough and create an acceptance. Her mother doesn’t understand her and her

father’s disowned her. Her mother holds her accountable for why she wasn’t able to find

a man of her own. She’s opened her heart to many men who’ve made her empty

promises. She is a D minor key, the saddest of them all.

SWEET THING (Late 20s)

Her skin is tan. She’s enticing whether she wants to be or whether she’s paid to be.

She’s been tossed to and fro by life and the blows that its delivered by the men that have

come and gone from her life. She’s lived on the streets for quite some time and been in

and out of trouble most of her life. She’s a pistol, but has still never gotten what she

really wants—love. She is the kind of woman that will steal your man when you’re not

looking. Her looks have been the bane of her existence since she was a little girl.

SAM WAYMON (20s)

Nina’s younger brother. Plays piano, Hammond B-3 Organ, and tambourine. Stays out of

her way.

WOMEN IN JEOPARDY by Wendy MacLeod; Directed by Sean Daniels

Summer 2021 (6 principals - considering understudies only)

MARY - 40’s, divorced, a librarian, “still” pretty, motherly

JO - 40’s, divorced, her best friend, a publicist, sardonic

LIZ - 40’s divorced, Mary’s other best friend, boy-crazy, a bit of a drama queen

AMANDA - 19, Liz’s daughter, an exceptionally pretty college student who’s SAT’s were in the single digits (the exceptional breasts can be accomplished by costume)

TRENNER - 19, a snowboarder, sweet but not too bright

JACKSON - 40’s, a dentist, Liz’s new boyfriend, creepy, given to strange pronouncements about death and disease, he may or may not look like Christopher Walken or another appropriately creepy celebrity)

SGT. KIRK SPONSÜLLAR (SAME ACTOR AS JACKSON) - 40’s, a police

sergeant, a John Wayne type, courtly, a man of few or entirely obfuscated words

how to make an American Son by christopher oscar peña; Directed by Kimberly Senior

Summer 2021 (6 Principles)

mando

Honduran immigrant in his late forties / early fifties “the father”

orlando

American born Honduran – reeks of privilege “the son”

mercedes

American born Mexican woman in her thirties “the help”

rafael

a newly arrived Mexican immigrant “the refugee”

sean

American born white boy who thinks he’s hot shit “the dream”

dick

straight white guy in his early forties “the enemy”

THE LEGEND OF GEORGIA McBRIDE by Matthew Lopez; Directed by Meredith McDonough

Fall 2021 (5 principals – considering understudies only)

CASEY – 20’s, white, becomes a drag queen

JO – 20’s, Black, Casey’s girlfriend

MISS TRACY MILLS – 40’s/50’s, any ethnicity, drag queen

REXY/JASON – 20’s/30’s, any ethnicity, drag queen

EDDIE – 50’s/60’s, any ethnicity, bar manager

MISS BENNET: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY by Lauren Gunderson; Directed by Melissa Crespo

Fall 2021 (8 Principles)

MARY BENNET—20; any ethnicity. Finally coming in to her own, she is no longer

the plain, boring girl she once was. She has a fire in her now. She is

intelligent, curious, and lively, but her family only sees her as a future

spinster. She does not suffer fools. She wants to live.

ARTHUR de BOURGH—25; any ethnicity. A studious, unsociable only child who

has never been around women or large families. He is a loner who

prefers books to people. He has recently inherited a large estate and

has no idea what to do next.

ELIZABETH DARCY—22; any ethnicity, married to Mr. Darcy. Confident,

charming, and witty. She makes a fun and surprising lady of the

house. She is best friends with her sister Jane.

FITZWILLIAM DARCY—30; any ethnicity. A loving, generous, and smart (if

slightly stiff) husband. He is quiet and vigilant and thus sees what

others often miss. He knows what being lovelorn is like.

JANE BINGLEY—24, any ethnicity. Married to Mr. Bingley. She is seven months

pregnant with her first child and is sweet and optimistic as ever.

The kindest heart in the house.

CHARLES BINGLEY—25; any ethnicity. Gracious, happy, and ever focused on

the love of his life, Jane. A good friend and always ready with a

smile.

LYDIA WICKHAM—17; any ethnicity. Flirtatious, youthful, self-centered. Her

marriage to Mr. Wickham is a sham but she will not admit this. She

is the person you want to have at your party: energetic, engaging,

unstoppable.

ANNE de BOURGH—20s; any ethnicity. Only daughter of the late Lady Catherine

de Bourgh. Lived in her mother’s very large shadow, never having

to ask for anything or speak for herself her entire life. Judgmental

and impatient, just like her mother.

China Young, MFA (She/Her)

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