Dogteam Theatre Project
Middlebury, VT

DESCRIPTION

CALL TYPE
EPA

CONTRACT
LOA
$360 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT)

AUDITION DATE
Friday, April 26, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

LOCATION
Seeler Studio Theatre
Middlebury College Center for the arts
Mahaney Arts Center
72 Porter Field Rd
Middlebury, VT 05753

Parking available at the location. Theatre is on the second floor.

PERSONNEL
Expected to attend:
LA VIUDA translation by Olga Sanchez Saltveit
Co-Artistic Director: Alex Draper

OTHER DATES
First rehearsal: June 18, 2024
First preview: July 9, 2024
Closing: August 4, 2024

OTHER
https://www.middlebury.edu/col...

Performance Venue: Atlantic Stage 2 in NYC.

An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

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.

SEEKING
Equity actors for Dogteam Theatre Project's Summer 2024 Season (See breakdown).

PREPARATION
Please prepare a 90-second monologue, ideally featuring heightened language. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

BREAKDOWN

Dogteam Theatre Project Summer 2024 Season
The two shows are performed in repertory.

A HUNDRED CIRCLING CAMPS by Sam Collier (World premiere)

SYNOPSIS: During the summer of 1932, over 20,000 people hopped trains to Washington D.C. and camped out to demand fair pay for veterans of the World War. The legacy of the Bonus Army is written into our laws and culture, but the march has been largely forgotten. As America protests and forgets and protests and forgets, what is carried forward? Touching on the Poor People’s Campaign, Occupy Wall Street and Standing Rock protests, A Hundred Circling Camps explores what it means to live in public as an act of resistance.

LA VIUDA by María Irene Fornés (World premiere of translation by Olga Sanchez Saltveit )

SYNOPSIS: In the late 19th century, the Spanish American War that supported Cuba’s liberation from Spain also disrupted Cuban society as the US sought to claim the nation as a territory. In La Viuda, a Cuban woman living in Spain, estranged for decades from her husband, writes letters to her lawyer in Cuba seeking the protection of her island property. Memories of her deceased husband, her child, and other influential figures in her life fill the stage as she argues for her rights. Fornés’ first play, written in 1961, was drawn from letters written to her great-grandfather, and reflects her uniquely avant-garde style.

SEEKING:
TRACK 1: 70s, Latina/e/x. ANGELA, energetic woman, elegant, born in the mid-19th century to a wealthy Cuban family, living in Spain since the Cuban 10 Years War. This role has a heavy line load, lightly stylized (La Viuda).
OR
TRACK 1: (Alternate) ~ 20s-30s, Latino/e/x. ALT-ANGELA, spirited man to play the role of an older woman: “firm, agile, with grace and elegance.” This role has a heavy line load, lightly stylized (La Viuda).

TRACK 2: 40s+, AfroLatino. Three roles:
FATHER CRAVET, a self-centered spiritual leader among wealthy Cuban families of the mid-19th century, heavy person (La Viuda).
DON MODESTO, a wealthy mid-19th century Cuban landowner (La Viuda).
POP, an elderly man who was a child at the time of the Bonus Army (A Hundred Circling Camps).

TRACK 3: 30s Light-skinned Latino/x. Two roles:
DON MANUEL ALVAREZ, mid-19th century Cuban, seen as a youth then as a judgmental older man (La Viuda).
WALTER W. WATERS, White male, early 30s, founder and leader of the early 20th century Bonus Expeditionary Army. An out-of-work former fruit-picker and cannery worker from Portland, OR (A Hundred Circling Camps).

TRACK 4: 30s, Latino/x. FRANCISCO “PACO” ARENAL, a mid- and late 19th century Cuban revolutionary, politically passionate (La Viuda).

TRACK 5: 30s, Black, female. SEWILLA LAMAR. Wife of a World War I veteran and an officer in the Bonus Army. (A Hundred Circling Camps).

TRACK 6: 20s-30s, Black, male. Two roles:
RUSH, a veteran of World War I (A Hundred Circling Camps).
HENRY, a veteran of WWII, now a protestor in the mid-20th century Poor People’s Campaign (A Hundred Circling Camps).

TRACK 7: 8+ years-old Latino/e boy. CHILD SALVADOR, young boy, 5 years old, sweet natured, sensitive (La Viuda).

SALARY

LOA $360 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT)

UNION

AEA