Dogteam Theatre Project Summer 2024 Season
About the project
Alex Draper, co-artistic dir.
Seeking Equity actors for Dogteam Theatre Project's Summer 2024 Season.
Season
includes "A Hundred Circling Camps" (Sam Collier, playwright), and "La
Viuda" (World premiere of the translation by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.
María Irene Fornés, playwright).
The two shows are performed in repertory.
Dates & Locations
Rehearsals begin June 18; runs July 9-Aug. 4 in Middlebury, VT.
Compensation & Contract
Key Details
- Apr 26, 2024: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM EDT
Parking available at the location. Theatre is on the second floor.
Equity actors must schedule an audition appointment by emailing dogteamtheatreproject@gmail.com.
If unable to attend this audition in person, Equity actors may submit a
video audition at the same email address. Video submission deadline is
April 30.
To audition, prepare a 90-second monologue, ideally
featuring heightened language. Also, bring headshot and resume stapled
together.
For more info, go to https://www.middlebury.edu/college/academics /theatre/dogteam-theatre-project
An
Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects
of this audition. Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
Equity’s
contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and
emcourages 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.
Additional Materials
“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 Mari?a Irene Forne?s (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.
Forne?s’ 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).
