The Frog Prince or "The Iron Henry" Devised Project - Calling Queer Devisers/Performers
CATEGORY: Performer
Floorwork Arts Collective
Brooklyn, NY
US
Job Details
DESCRIPTION
Casting Call!
Calling all queer devisers, actors, movers, writers, and theatermakers! We are creating a full length (50-70min) devised piece and we need YOU and your CREATIVE and COLLABORATIVE SPIRIT. We will be exploring the original Brothers Grimm’s version of “The Frog Prince: Or Iron Heinrich” in a fully collaboratively devised project. We're looking for about 4 or 5 people to join our team as deviser-performers. Our focus will be through the lens of queerness and exploring gender, sexuality, and love based on themes found in the story. We will be particularly focusing on the character of Henry (Heinrich), his exclusion from future versions of the story, and the iron bands he puts around his heart. We intend to draw character inspiration from the Princess, Prince, Iron Henry, King, and potentially a few others. We'll be using movement, writing our own text, and everyone will likely play multiple characters.
How will rehearsals work?
Our goal is to create a circular leadership structure in the room. Lila and Anna are our facilitators and will guide the rehearsal process. Our first couple of weeks of rehearsal will be centered entirely around exploration, and anyone in the room will be invited to bring in and lead different exercises and ideas. After these explorative eight rehearsals, we will define the specific direction of the story and the form we are using as a group. After this point, the facilitators, Lila and Anna, will create a detailed rehearsal structure that moves us forward in creating the piece, as well as creating a written script from material created in the room, and stepping into a directorial 'outside eye' role.
We are aiming for a non-hierarchical, or at least less-hierarchical, process. We will value collaboration and feedback throughout.
Dates:
We will be rehearsing March 23rd - end of April. Our tech and performances will be in the first 2 weeks of May. We're still nailing down exact performance dates, but we are planning to have 6 shows.
Our Mission:
We will celebrate, uplift, and center queer voices and queer stories in defiance of a country with leadership that strives to do the opposite. By recreating and retelling this (we believe inherently queer) fairy tale with a group of queer artists today, we will be queering the cannon. This piece is a celebration that queer people have always been here, as well as a reckoning with the queer experience today, and the universal experiences of heartbreak, the boundaries of identity, and assumed responsibility.
Our devisers will receive a $200 stipend for participating.
DURATION
Mar 23, 2026 - May 12, 2026
SALARY
$200.00 – $200.00 per gig