New York Casting Notices – Theatre

The Actor’s Project NYC (TAPNYC), a unique theatre company that assists its members in landing agents and getting work through industry showcases and plays, is casting City of Actors, a full-length theatrical showcase of music, scenes, monologues, and sketch comedy, all original works by TAPNYC company writers. The company is also casting three other industry shows (Tears of Laughter, Edge of Comedy, Faces of Theatre) and a new, original play. Past productions have been attended by producers (Broadway, Off-Broadway & off-off-Broadway, film, and TV), agents (commercial and legit), managers, and casting directors. Bobby Holder, prod.-dir. Performs Summer/Fall 2010 in NYC.

Seeking-Actors: male and female, 18+, all ethnicities.

Auditions/interviews will be held by appt. only in NYC.
To schedule an audition/interview, email pix & résumés to auditions@theactorsprojectnyc.com.
Please write "TAPNYC AUDITIONS" in the subject line.

For more info, visit www.theactorsprojectnyc.com. Membership dues are $250 per season (averages less than $65 a month) and include agent coaching, résumé workshops, bio workshops, branding yourself workshops, and writing workshops; after three seasons actors have the option to become lifetime members, who are not required to pay dues. Possible pay provided; actors cast in company plays share 60 percent of the profits (you must be an accepted member to participate).

Panoptic Theatre, in association with Manhattan Repertory Theatre Summerfest 2010, presents THE SESSIONS.

http://panoptictheatre.com/home.html

http://www.manhattanrep.com/page42/page42.html

THE SESSIONS arouses the question: What’s going on in your bedroom?! Four couples expose themselves, body and soul, in this voyeuristic look at relationships. Watch what happens when the sex ends and the conversation begins.

This is a serio-comedic play about sex and relationships with adult content and language. All actors MUST be comfortable performing in very little clothing and simulating sex on stage.

Rehearsals will begin the week of Sunday, July 18th. Weeknight rehearsals will be scheduled between 7 & 11pm (3 hours), and weekend rehearsals will be scheduled between 12 & 4pm (3 hours). Each act (4 in total) will be rehearsed once each week, and then the entire play will be rehearsed once each week. Actors will only need to be available for two rehearsals each week, with the exception of one male actor who will appear in two acts, and MUST be available for three rehearsals each week. All actors MUST be available for all rehearsals the week before the show, the tech and dress rehearsals, and all performances.

Auditions by appointment only: Saturday, July 10th, 12-2:30pm

Open auditions: Saturday, July 10th, 2:30-4pm

Callback: Saturday, July 17th, 12-3pm

Read-thru: Saturday, July 18th, 12-3pm
Rehearsals begin week of Sunday, July 19th

Tech Rehearsal: Monday, August 23rd, 8:30-10:55pm
Dress Rehearsal: Tuesday, August 24th, 8:30-10:55pm (performance will be videotaped)

Performances:
Wednesday, August 25th @ 9pm, 7:30pm call
Thursday, August 26th @ 9pm, 8pm call
Friday, August 27th @ 9pm, 8pm call

All actors MUST be available for the callback. Sides will be provided at the audition only. For those actors who schedule an appointment, you will be notified of the location via text/email the week of the audition. For those interested in the open call, we will indicate the location on our website the day before the audition. It is strongly recommended that you schedule your audition, as a larger than expected turn out may not allow us to see everyone.

Session 1: Young, married
Jane: wife, 20’s/30’s, any ethnicity, average build
John: husband, 20’s/30’s, any ethnicity, average build
Dick: stripper, 20’s, any ethnicity, very attractive, athletic build (Daniel in Session 3)

Session 2: Down-low (MUST not read effeminate)
David: Clean-cut/corporate, African-American, 30’s, average build
Michael: Thug/homeboy, African-American, 20’s, athletic build

Session 3: Casually dating (part of female lead already cast)
Daniel: 20’s, any ethnicity, very attractive, athletic build (Dick in Session 1)

Session 4: Middle-aged, married
Mary: wife, 40’s/50’s, any ethnicity, average build
Joseph: husband, 40’s/50’s, any ethnicity, average build

Agamemnon is the first play of Oresteia that details the homecoming of Agamemnon, King of Argos, from the Trojan War. Waiting at home for him is his wife, Clytemnestra, who has been planning his murder, partly as revenge for the sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, and partly because in the ten years of Agamemnon’s absence Clytemnestra has entered into an adulterous relationship with Aegisthus, Agamemnon’s cousin and the sole survivor of a dispossessed branch of the family, who is determined to regain the throne he believes should rightfully belong to him

The Libation Bearers (Greek: Choēphoroi) is the second play of the Oresteia. It deals with the reunion of Agamemnon’s children, Electra and Orestes, and their revenge. Clytemnestra is killed by her son Orestes because he is avenging the death of Agamemnon, Orestes’ father.

The Eumenides (also known as The Furies) is the final play of the Oresteia, in which Orestes, Apollo, and the Erinyes go before Athena and a jury consisting of the Athenians at the Areopagus (Rock of Ares, a flat rocky hill by the Athenian agora where the homicide court of Athens held its sessions), to decide whether Orestes’ murder of his mother, Clytemnestra, makes him worthy of the torment they have inflicted upon him.