Chautauqua Institution
Chautauqua, NY
US

DESCRIPTION

AUDITION DATE

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)

BREAK: 1:30PM - 2:30PM

CONTRACT

URTA

$708 weekly minimum (Tier 1)

$927 weekly minimum (Tier 3)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Chautauqua Theater Company's 2024 Season (see breakdown).

Chautauqua Theater Company/Chautauqua Institution is an equal opportunity employer committed to equitable and inclusive hiring practices and applicants will not be discriminated against based on any status protected under federal, state, or local law.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a 1-2 minute contemporary monologue. Selection could be from BIRTHDAY CANDLES or FABULATION, or any published Kate Hamill play, but not required.

LOCATION

Actors' Equity New York Audition Center

165 W 46th St

16th Fl

New York, NY 10036

PERSONNEL

Emily Glinick, General Manager

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:

Jade King Carroll, Producing Artistic Director

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production-specific dates.

OTHER

theater.chq.org

NOTE: PLAY WORKSHOPS #2, AND #3 WILL HAVE INFORMATION UPDATED BY FRIDAY APRIL 26TH

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.

BREAKDOWN

CHAUTAUQUA THEATER COMPANY 2024 SEASON

BIRTHDAY CANDLES

Tier 3

1st Rehearsal: June 18

Tech/Previews: July 2-9

Opening: July 9

Closing: July 21

SEEKING:

ERNESTINE ASHWORTH: Travels from age 7 to 107. In that time, she will be a daughter, a girlfriend, a wife, a mother, a friend, an aunt, a mother-in-law, a widow, a second wife, a grandmother, a great grandmother, and a great-great grandmother.

MATT: Chiseled jawline. A middle linebacker on the high school football team. Ernestine’s boyfriend then husband.

KENNETH: Ernestine’s awkward and annoying next-door neighbor.

FABULATION

Tier 3

1st Rehearsal: July 9

Tech/Previews: July 24-30

Opening: July 30

Closing: Aug 4

SEEKING:

Undine: thirty-seven, a smartly dressed African American woman

Doctor Khdair/Grandma/Inmate #1/Case Worker

Allison/Mother/Rosa/Inmate #2/Addict

Ensemble/Applicant Babalawo/Father/Gregory/Applicant

THE LIGHT AND THE DARK

Tier 3

1st Rehearsal: July 16

Tech: Aug 7-14

Opening: Aug 14

Closing: Aug 23

NOTE: THIS PRODUCTION INCLUDES NUDITY.

SEEKING:

ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI: any age. Female-identifying. Deeply intelligent. Passionate. Determined. A fire within her. Plays Artemisia at every age. NOTE: This role requires nudity.

MARIA / TUZIA / MATTEO: Female-identifying. MARIA, 20s-30s. A sex worker and art model. Deeply intelligent. Sees more than most. Doubles with TUZIA, 30s-40s. An impoverished widow seeking to come up in the world - resentful of the trials she's been through, and resentful of those who break the rules she's always had to follow. Doubles with MATTEO, a ten year-old boy. Serious. Wants to become a great artist. Not popular with his peers. Wants to do the right thing. NOTE: This role requires nudity

ORAZIO GENTILESCHI: Male-identifying. 50s+. A painter from a long line of painters, with talent. Wants to be one of the great masters. Very politick and cognizant of how he must not burn bridges in his small community of artists. Extremely fond of his daughter.

AGOSTINO TASSI: 30s-40s. Charming and determined to succeed, with a storied past. Confident. Handsome. Truly believes he is the hero of the story. Truly believes he is the victim, when he is no longer the hero.

COSIMO / DEPUTY: Male-identifying. 50s+. COSIMO: A short-tempered, opinionated, grandiloquent man, with great appetites. An expert appraiser of art. Bit of a pedant. Doubles with DEPUTY: An officer of the court.

JUDGE: Male-identifying. 50s+. The richest person in the play - a nobleman, a man who truly believes he is both fair and godly.

TELL ME YOU'RE DYING

Tier 1

1st Rehearsal: June 25

Presentations (3 total): June 28, 29, 30

SEEKING:

EMMANUELLE: a woman of color in her early 30s

MILLICENT: a biracial Black woman in her 40s

CALEB: a Black man in his late 30s

TORI: a Black girl in her late teens

JOHN: a white man in his 60s

NOTE: PLAY WORKSHOPS #2, AND #3 WILL HAVE INFORMATION UPDATED BY FRIDAY APRIL 26TH

NEW PLAY WORKSHOP #2 (title TBD)

Tier 1

1st Rehearsal: July 15

Presentations (3 total): July 18, 19, 20

NEW PLAY WORKSHOP #3 (title TBD)

Tier 1

1st Rehearsal: August 13

Presentations (2 total): August 16 & 17

SALARY

URTA (See above)

UNION

AEA