TAMPA AREA UNIFIED AUDITIONS JULY 18 2009
Produced in cooperation between the Tampa area theatre community and the Hillsborough Community College School of Visual and Performing Arts.
Please note: All audition appointments have now been filled.
To be waitlisted for any appointments that become vacant, please call 813-354-0550, leave your name and phone number, and state whether you are an Equity or non-Equity actor. We will call you back when an appointment becomes available.
If you have an audition appointment but will not be able to attend, please call 813-354-0550 at your earliest opportunity to cancel. This will allow someone else to audition in your time slot.
If you are on the wait list but have not received an appointment time before Saturday, you may check in with the Registration Desk on the day of the auditions and wait for last minute cancelations and no-shows. Please bring your headshots and resumes with you and be prepared to wait.
Thank you all for your response to the auditions. We're looking forward to seeing you on the 18th.
Gorilla Theatre, Stageworks, Hat Trick Theatre Productions, Eckerd Theater Company, All Out Rep, Gypsy Productions, Inc., Arts on 9th, SLT Productions and Spanish Lyric Theatre announce Tampa area auditions on Saturday July 18 2009, at the Hillsborough Community College Performing Arts Building at Palm Ave and 14th St in Ybor City.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ACTORS:
Auditions will be held in the Mainstage Theatre in the Performing Arts Building of the HCC Ybor City campus. The Performing Arts Building is on the corner of Palm Ave and 14th Street and is the tallest building on campus.
Directions to the HCC Ybor Campus can be found here: http://www.hccfl.edu/campus-information/ybor-city.aspx
Note that 14th Street is also known as Avenida Republica De Cuba and street signs in Ybor reflect both names. Both Google and MapQuest also recognize Avenida Republica De Cuba.
There is ample free parking in the HCC lots immediately adjacent to the Performing Arts Building (corner of 15th and Palm and corner of 15th and 11th) and on the street (there are no meters).
When you arrive at the Performing Arts Building follow the posted signs to the audition registration table.
YOUR AUDITION
On arrival at the Performing Arts Building, please check in at the registration table and complete all paperwork. Please ensure that the paperwork is completed accurately and legibly — especially phone numbers and email addresses.
Prior to your audition time you will be taken upstairs to the waiting area. There are two rooms in this area — one is for quiet waiting, the other is for vocal and physical warm-ups — so you can prepare in the way that is best for you.
Just before your audition you will be called to the stage.
When it is your turn, you will enter the stage from upstage left.
Stand on the "X" in the middle of the stage and speak your name clearly. Then begin your monologues. Don't introduce the monologues; it's not necessary for the directors to know where the material is from. They just want to see the wonderful person you are!
THEATRE INFORMATION:
GORILLA THEATRE
www.gorillatheatre.com
Casting Equity and Non-Equity for the following productions
The Woman in Black (Oct 8 – Nov 1, 2009), a very scary ghost story — 2 men capable of deft transformation between multiple roles. Director: Ami Sallee Corley
Christmas Trio (Dec 3-20, 2009), a revival of Susan Hussey’s critically-acclaimed 1998 play about family and holidays — one woman capable of playing 14-40, one woman 40-60, one man 50+.
The Drunken City (Jan-Feb 2010), three young women stagger through a fateful night on the town — 3 women, 3 men, 20's. Good realistic comic actors. Director: Karla Hartley
The Lark ( L'Alouette)(Mar-Apr 2010), Jean Anouilh's classic account of Joan of Arc. — 8 men, 1 middle-aged woman. The role of Joan is precast. (note: the Christopher Fry translation will be used). Director: Nancy Cole
Gorilla Reading series — TBA
Young Dramatists' Project (June) — all ages and types
STAGEWORKS
www.stageworkstheatre.org
Casting Equity and Non-Equity for the following productions
To Kill a Mockingbird: (The classic/movie=like version) all ages 9-70; 3 African Americans, 2 adults, 1 female 11-13. Atticus, Mayella, Mr. Ewell & Tom Robinson are pre-cast. Anna Brennen directs.
Eurydice: 18-75: (Greek myth updated) 3 women, 3 men, Multi-Racial/Cultural. Can move, carry tune. Eurydice and Orpheus are pre-cast. Anna Brennen directs.
Bad Dates: (New single parent comedy) ONE female, 35-50: Rosemary Orlando directs.
Perfect Ganesh (two mothers transform on their trip to India): 1 55-65 female. The other roles are cast. Director: TBA Also casting for two school tours.
ECKERD THEATER COMPANY
www.eckerdtheatercompany.com
Casting Non-Equity only for the following productions
Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe (August — December) (Possible backup — F)
Stone Soup & Dragon Dumplings (rehearse March and tour through May 2010) lead actor (M or F)
Additional local projects TBA.
HAT TRICK THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
www.hattricktheatre.org
Casting Non-Equity only for the following productions
Much Ado About Nothing — 4m, 4f, 3 either
A Completely Inaccurate Chronology of Violence in Entertainment — 1m (The rest are cast)
The Fantasticks — 6m, 2f, 1 either
Neville's Island — 4m
ALL OUT REP
www.alloutrep.org
Casting Non-Equity only for the following productions
All Out Rep is casting for 2 productions. We are looking for alternate cast member for The Agreeable Husband and for the artist collective that will create and perform our newest piece based on addiction, with the current working title, Addiction.
The Agreeable Husband
Compensation — Paid per performance. The new actors will attend minimal pick up rehearsals and it pays per performance for intermittent touring productions throughout Florida and the United States. It will perform in rep with future productions so there is no definite end date.
Addiction
All Out Rep's second show that will run in Tampa and/or tour in rep with The Agreeable Husband. The working title, until it is actually created, is "Addiction" and it deals with the spiritual journey into and out of addiction of any kind. The creation process would be the late summer, fall and winter of 09-10, with the goal of a late spring premiere in 2010. Compensation — Modest stipend for creation process plus per performance compensation.
GYPSY PRODUCTIONS INC.
www.gypsyproductions.org
Casting Non-Equity only for the following productions
Gypsy Productions Inc. will be looking for non-equity actors for its 2010 season of 6 shows plus 2 specialty shows during June and a Holiday show. Show and dates are yet to be determined but the 2010 season will begin in January of 2010 at The Crown Theatre, Club Nautico, 4900 66th Street N.,St. Petersburg, FL 33709. The Mission of Gypsy Productions Inc. is: To enrich and educate the general public through the art of theatre. To present new and provocative pieces of theatre that expose the community to the concepts of equality, acceptance and pure entertainment without discrimination. To encourage all performers to present their craft in a safe liberal environment. Trevor Keller, Founding Artistic Director 727-644-7077
THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MYSTERY PLAY
Casting Equity and Non-Equity for a one-time staged reading
The authors of the "21st Century Mystery Play" will be attending the auditions to cast all types for a PAID staged reading (one performance only) at USF August 30. Rehearsals are Aug 23-30.
ARTS ON 9TH
www.artson9th.org
Casting Non-Equity only for the following productions
An evening of Edgar Allen Poe — October — Need both male and female actors.
Additional local projects TBA.
SLT PRODUCTIONS
http://spanishlyrictheatre.com/
Casting Non-Equity, Singers and Dancers for the following productions
"Anything Goes" — Cole Porter musical. October 10th at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Jan 7th at Sun City Center. Other local tour shows may be added. Need strong singers, all part are open. Need dancers who tap well.
"Viva Mexico" March, 2010 at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Mexican songs and traditional dancing show. Need bi-lingual performers and specialty dancers.
"Knight Music" — May, 2010 Maestro's at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. An afternoon musical featuring songs from "Knighted" composers and musicians including Sir Elton John, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. Singers only.
Additional local projects TBA.
SPANISH LYRIC THEATRE
www.SpanishLyricTheatre.com
Casting Non-Equity, Singers and Dancers for future Bi-lingual productions
"Caribe Café" — Nightly shows (6,7 & 8pm) from February 4 through 15 at the Florida State Fair (dancers needed)
"Arriverderci Roma" — Afternoon cabaret highlighting the "pop" songs of Italy at the Italian Club in Ybor City — November, 2009 (singers needed)
"Cafe Cuple" — "music-hall" type songs from Spain and will be held at the Centro Asturiano (Singers Needed)
ALSO — IN THE LOBBY:
Film maker Chris Jackson and Vertine Productions will be looking to cast two female roles for the upcoming feature film "Past the Fields".
Jasmine Parish — 18-20 years old, white, 5'8” – 6'0", proportionate build. Artist, romantic, sweet and polite but has spunk to her. Jasmine's story revolves around her pregnancy and the loss of her child. She develops an overwhelming desire to have a child.
June Parish — 36-40 years old, white, natural beauty. Jasmine's mom — warm and inviting, calmly deals with Jasmine's pregnancy. Both roles are paid.
Please bring an additional headshot/resume if you wish to be considered for "Past the Fields" casting.
Produced in cooperation between the Tampa area theatre community and the Hillsborough Community College School of Visual and Performing Arts.Please note: All audition appointments have now been filled.
To be waitlisted for any appointments that become vacant, please call 813-354-0550, leave your name and phone number, and state whether you are an Equity or non-Equity actor. We will call you back when an appointment becomes available.
If you have an audition appointment but will not be able to attend, please call 813-354-0550 at your earliest opportunity to cancel. This will allow someone else to audition in your time slot.
If you are on the wait list but have not received an appointment time before Saturday, you may check in with the Registration Desk on the day of the auditions and wait for last minute cancelations and no-shows. Please bring your headshots and resumes with you and be prepared to wait.
Thank you all for your response to the auditions. We're looking forward to seeing you on the 18th.
Gorilla Theatre, Stageworks, Hat Trick Theatre Productions, Eckerd Theater Company, All Out Rep, Gypsy Productions, Inc., Arts on 9th, SLT Productions and Spanish Lyric Theatre announce Tampa area auditions on Saturday July 18 2009, at the Hillsborough Community College Performing Arts Building at Palm Ave and 14th St in Ybor City.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR ACTORS:
- Please read the instructions on this page carefully, and then call 813-354-0550 to make an audition appointment. Be sure to leave a working phone number so that we can call you back, and speak and spell your name clearly.
- Please prepare two contrasting monologues of no more than one minute each. One of your monologues should be contemporary and one classical. Choose monologues that show us who you are and what you can do well.
- IMPORTANT — Please check in at least thirty (30) minutes before your audition time so that you have time to complete paperwork and prepare for your audition. Pleasant waiting and warm-up areas will be provided.
- Non-Equity actors, please bring nine (9) headshots and resumes with you to the audition.
- Equity actors, please bring three (3) headshots and resumes with you to the audition.
- Please bring your diary and be prepared to list known scheduling conflicts.
- If you would like to be considered for singing roles, please indicate this, together with your vocal range, on the audition form.
- For consideration as a part of All Out Rep’s artist collective, please be prepared to include the following information on your audition form: writing (plays, spoken word, poetry), music composition, instruments played, dance, martial arts, staged combat, stage design, visual art, film editing.
- Several of the auditioning directors will be holding callbacks immediately following the general auditions. Please be prepared to be available if called, and ensure that your working cell phone number is on your resume. A list of actors to be called back will be posted, together with room numbers, at the box office window near the registration desk at 10:45, 12:30, 2:15 and 4:15.
- Please note that if you are not called back on July 18th, this does not exclude the possibility of your being called back at a later date. The directors who are calling actors on the 18th are concentrating mainly on actors and combinations of actors they do not already know.
- July 18 callbacks will include the following:
- The Woman in Black — 4:30 pm — HCC
- The Drunken City — 4:30 pm — HCC
- The Lark — 5:30 pm — HCC
Auditions will be held in the Mainstage Theatre in the Performing Arts Building of the HCC Ybor City campus. The Performing Arts Building is on the corner of Palm Ave and 14th Street and is the tallest building on campus.
Directions to the HCC Ybor Campus can be found here: http://www.hccfl.edu/campus-information/ybor-city.aspx
Note that 14th Street is also known as Avenida Republica De Cuba and street signs in Ybor reflect both names. Both Google and MapQuest also recognize Avenida Republica De Cuba.
There is ample free parking in the HCC lots immediately adjacent to the Performing Arts Building (corner of 15th and Palm and corner of 15th and 11th) and on the street (there are no meters).
When you arrive at the Performing Arts Building follow the posted signs to the audition registration table.
YOUR AUDITION
On arrival at the Performing Arts Building, please check in at the registration table and complete all paperwork. Please ensure that the paperwork is completed accurately and legibly — especially phone numbers and email addresses.
Prior to your audition time you will be taken upstairs to the waiting area. There are two rooms in this area — one is for quiet waiting, the other is for vocal and physical warm-ups — so you can prepare in the way that is best for you.
Just before your audition you will be called to the stage.
When it is your turn, you will enter the stage from upstage left.
Stand on the "X" in the middle of the stage and speak your name clearly. Then begin your monologues. Don't introduce the monologues; it's not necessary for the directors to know where the material is from. They just want to see the wonderful person you are!
THEATRE INFORMATION:
GORILLA THEATRE
www.gorillatheatre.com
Casting Equity and Non-Equity for the following productions
The Woman in Black (Oct 8 – Nov 1, 2009), a very scary ghost story — 2 men capable of deft transformation between multiple roles. Director: Ami Sallee Corley
Christmas Trio (Dec 3-20, 2009), a revival of Susan Hussey’s critically-acclaimed 1998 play about family and holidays — one woman capable of playing 14-40, one woman 40-60, one man 50+.
The Drunken City (Jan-Feb 2010), three young women stagger through a fateful night on the town — 3 women, 3 men, 20's. Good realistic comic actors. Director: Karla Hartley
The Lark ( L'Alouette)(Mar-Apr 2010), Jean Anouilh's classic account of Joan of Arc. — 8 men, 1 middle-aged woman. The role of Joan is precast. (note: the Christopher Fry translation will be used). Director: Nancy Cole
Gorilla Reading series — TBA
Young Dramatists' Project (June) — all ages and types
STAGEWORKS
www.stageworkstheatre.org
Casting Equity and Non-Equity for the following productions
To Kill a Mockingbird: (The classic/movie=like version) all ages 9-70; 3 African Americans, 2 adults, 1 female 11-13. Atticus, Mayella, Mr. Ewell & Tom Robinson are pre-cast. Anna Brennen directs.
Eurydice: 18-75: (Greek myth updated) 3 women, 3 men, Multi-Racial/Cultural. Can move, carry tune. Eurydice and Orpheus are pre-cast. Anna Brennen directs.
Bad Dates: (New single parent comedy) ONE female, 35-50: Rosemary Orlando directs.
Perfect Ganesh (two mothers transform on their trip to India): 1 55-65 female. The other roles are cast. Director: TBA Also casting for two school tours.
ECKERD THEATER COMPANY
www.eckerdtheatercompany.com
Casting Non-Equity only for the following productions
Nightfall with Edgar Allan Poe (August — December) (Possible backup — F)
Stone Soup & Dragon Dumplings (rehearse March and tour through May 2010) lead actor (M or F)
Additional local projects TBA.
HAT TRICK THEATRE PRODUCTIONS
www.hattricktheatre.org
Casting Non-Equity only for the following productions
Much Ado About Nothing — 4m, 4f, 3 either
A Completely Inaccurate Chronology of Violence in Entertainment — 1m (The rest are cast)
The Fantasticks — 6m, 2f, 1 either
Neville's Island — 4m
ALL OUT REP
www.alloutrep.org
Casting Non-Equity only for the following productions
All Out Rep is casting for 2 productions. We are looking for alternate cast member for The Agreeable Husband and for the artist collective that will create and perform our newest piece based on addiction, with the current working title, Addiction.
The Agreeable Husband
Compensation — Paid per performance. The new actors will attend minimal pick up rehearsals and it pays per performance for intermittent touring productions throughout Florida and the United States. It will perform in rep with future productions so there is no definite end date.
Addiction
All Out Rep's second show that will run in Tampa and/or tour in rep with The Agreeable Husband. The working title, until it is actually created, is "Addiction" and it deals with the spiritual journey into and out of addiction of any kind. The creation process would be the late summer, fall and winter of 09-10, with the goal of a late spring premiere in 2010. Compensation — Modest stipend for creation process plus per performance compensation.
GYPSY PRODUCTIONS INC.
www.gypsyproductions.org
Casting Non-Equity only for the following productions
Gypsy Productions Inc. will be looking for non-equity actors for its 2010 season of 6 shows plus 2 specialty shows during June and a Holiday show. Show and dates are yet to be determined but the 2010 season will begin in January of 2010 at The Crown Theatre, Club Nautico, 4900 66th Street N.,St. Petersburg, FL 33709. The Mission of Gypsy Productions Inc. is: To enrich and educate the general public through the art of theatre. To present new and provocative pieces of theatre that expose the community to the concepts of equality, acceptance and pure entertainment without discrimination. To encourage all performers to present their craft in a safe liberal environment. Trevor Keller, Founding Artistic Director 727-644-7077
THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MYSTERY PLAY
Casting Equity and Non-Equity for a one-time staged reading
The authors of the "21st Century Mystery Play" will be attending the auditions to cast all types for a PAID staged reading (one performance only) at USF August 30. Rehearsals are Aug 23-30.
ARTS ON 9TH
www.artson9th.org
Casting Non-Equity only for the following productions
An evening of Edgar Allen Poe — October — Need both male and female actors.
Additional local projects TBA.
SLT PRODUCTIONS
http://spanishlyrictheatre.com/
Casting Non-Equity, Singers and Dancers for the following productions
"Anything Goes" — Cole Porter musical. October 10th at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Jan 7th at Sun City Center. Other local tour shows may be added. Need strong singers, all part are open. Need dancers who tap well.
"Viva Mexico" March, 2010 at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Mexican songs and traditional dancing show. Need bi-lingual performers and specialty dancers.
"Knight Music" — May, 2010 Maestro's at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. An afternoon musical featuring songs from "Knighted" composers and musicians including Sir Elton John, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. Singers only.
Additional local projects TBA.
SPANISH LYRIC THEATRE
www.SpanishLyricTheatre.com
Casting Non-Equity, Singers and Dancers for future Bi-lingual productions
"Caribe Café" — Nightly shows (6,7 & 8pm) from February 4 through 15 at the Florida State Fair (dancers needed)
"Arriverderci Roma" — Afternoon cabaret highlighting the "pop" songs of Italy at the Italian Club in Ybor City — November, 2009 (singers needed)
"Cafe Cuple" — "music-hall" type songs from Spain and will be held at the Centro Asturiano (Singers Needed)
ALSO — IN THE LOBBY:
Film maker Chris Jackson and Vertine Productions will be looking to cast two female roles for the upcoming feature film "Past the Fields".
Jasmine Parish — 18-20 years old, white, 5'8” – 6'0", proportionate build. Artist, romantic, sweet and polite but has spunk to her. Jasmine's story revolves around her pregnancy and the loss of her child. She develops an overwhelming desire to have a child.
June Parish — 36-40 years old, white, natural beauty. Jasmine's mom — warm and inviting, calmly deals with Jasmine's pregnancy. Both roles are paid.
Please bring an additional headshot/resume if you wish to be considered for "Past the Fields" casting.
