OIL - NYC Appointments
Olney Theatre Corporation
APPOINTMENTS
NYC Appointment Only Audition Date(s): 11/13/2018, 11/14/2018 Callback Date(s): 11/14/2018
CONTRACT
COST $600/week minimum
SEEKING
Submissions from AEA Actors for 2 roles. See breakdown.
INSTRUCTIONS
For consideration, email picture and resume ASAP.
Deadline: Fri, Nov 2, 2018
SUBMIT TO
SUBMISSION.MCCORKLECASTING@GMAIL.COM
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Jason Loewith
Director: Tracy Brigden
Writer: Ella Hickson
Casting Director: Pat McCorkle, Katja Zarolinski
Casting Assistant: Kristen Kittel
OTHER DATES
Rehearsal Date(s): 02/05/2019
Preview Date(s): 02/27/2019
Opening Date(s): 03/02/2019
Closing Date(s): 03/31/2019
Possible Extension: 04/07/2019
Shoot Location: Olney, MD
Venue: Olney Theatre Center
OTHER
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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
[MAY]
Female: 30s-40s, mother of Amy. Headstrong. Driven and determined to make a better life for herself and her daughter. Always one step ahead of those who underestimate her. Actors of all ethnicities strongly encouraged to submit. This role requires both a Cornish and Standard British accent.
[SAMUEL/OFFICER SAMUEL]
Samuel/Officer Samuel: Male, 30s-40s, A rough man with a charming yet calculated presence. Controlling brother on a large family farm in Cornwall in 1889, army officer in Tehran in 1908. Actors of all ethnicities strongly encouraged to submit. This role requires both a Cornish and Standard British accent.
STORYLINE:
This “scorchingly ambitious,” (The Guardian), genre-busting American premiere follows mothers and daughters over two centuries, from the dawn of the age of oil in 1889 to its “peak-oil” demise sometime in the not-too-distant future. In five separate but connected playlets, a single mother named May defies the odds to provide for her daughter Amy by any means necessary. From Cornwall to Tehran, London, Baghdad, and back, the mother-daughter power struggle evolves and shifts, even as the resources that fuel it (and the rest of the world) begin to dwindle. This American premiere is bursting with theatricality and big ideas about feminism, imperialism and environmentalism from another leading playwright wowing audiences in the U.K.
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 submit.
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