NEW PLAYS FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES DEVELOPMENTAL SERIES - Provincetown Playhouse (NYU Steinhardt) Non Equity Auditions

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NEW PLAYS FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES DEVELOPMENTAL SERIES - Provincetown Playhouse (NYU Steinhardt)

Auditions

Thursday, May 2, 6:45-9:30 p.m., Education Building, room 770 (7th floor), 35 W. 4th Street

Friday, May 3, 4:00-8:00 p.m., Education Building, room 307 (3rd floor), 35 W. 4th Street

Saturday, May 4, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Education Building, room 307 (3rd floor), 35 W. 4th Street

Show up and we’ll fit you in!

Bring yourself and a headshot and resume – no monologue needed.

Total audition time is 30-60 minutes, depending on how many sides you read.

We are a non-Equity program (students may ask AEA for an educational exception).

No financial compensation beyond a 7-day Metrocard is available to actors in the series.

When is the 2019 series? - June 2-23

Week 1: 6/2-6/9 Week 2: 6/9-6/16 Week 3: 6/16-6/23

There is a different script each week – check out our website &/or Facebook page for info on each script. You can audition for one, two, or all three scripts. Rehearsals during the series are 6-10 p.m. Sunday through Friday and on Saturday from 2-6 p.m. Readings are on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 3 p.m.

Check out our
website
or
Facebook
page for more information.

(https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/edtheatre/summer/newplays; https://www.facebook.com/events/398051251003685/)

Questions? - Contact Teresa Fisher, Producer/Production Manager at
taf263@nyu.edu

All characters will be played by adult actors

June 2-9, 2019: Popularity Coach (by Brian Guehring; directed by Adil Mansoor)

Cooper is once again starting a new school, and he desperately wants to be popular. However the first day of third grade could not have gone worse for Cooper, who is not like the sports-playing, superhero loving boys in his class. His neighbor Mia also would like to be popular, but would rather just play sports than braid hair and take ballet. When the popular 7th grader Blake offers to be their Popularity Coach, Cooper and Mia sign up for the ten lesson unit (despite the scoffing from Blake’s rebellious older sibling AJ) From Lesson #1: Ignore the Popularity Advice of Your Parents to Lesson #3 Look the Part, Cooper and Mia try their hardest but popularity gains are very small. When they decide to study AJ as their homework for Lesson #5 Learn from the Best, AJ gives them the complete opposite advice. As Halloween approaches, Cooper and Mia have to decide which advice they should follow and how important popularity is. Brian Guehring is an award-winning Theater for Young Audiences teaching artist who currently is the Playwright in Residence and Education Director at the Omaha Theater Company for Young People. Adil Mansoor is a Pittsburgh-based theatre director and educator centering queer people of color and their stories.

· Characters: Cooper (sweet, kind, sensitive 3rd grade boy; unpopular; likes musicals, Pokemon, baking, and dancing), Mia (shy, athletic, smart 2nd grader; tomboy, unpopular; loves to draw, read, and play sports); Blake (confident, outgoing, popular 7th grader; loves football, popular music, social media, and watching movies; schemer, always in need of money); AJ (confident, laid back 8th grader; Blake’s sibling; gender-nonconforming; short hair, no make-up; wears t-shirts with alternative bands, manga, Tim Burton movies, and obscure comics; likes Chuck Tailor shoes, sunglasses, and tough jackets; loves to draw and read; used to be a dancer; not popular); Cooper’s Mom/Zoe/Kayla, Mia’s Dad/JJ/Channing; other kids (Apple, Brandi, Kayla, Grayson, JJ, and Shane – 1st/2nd graders; Zoe and Channing – middle school)

June 9-16, 2019: Itzel: The Pirate Queen (by José Cruz González, directed by Armando Molina)

An original adventure story about an adventurous Mayan girl named Itzel whose world is forever changed when Spanish marauders steal away her little brother Dacey. Itzel must sail across an ocean to save him but is captured by the infamous privateer Captain Blood, who sails the high seas seeking Spanish treasure. Years pass, and through a series of adventurous exploits, Itzel becomes a well-known privateer. The Spanish are out to get her. In a great battle at sea, her brother Dacey, now a defender of Spain, defeats his sister (who he has long forgotten). Will Itzel go the gallows or convince her brother that she is his sister and change the course of history. José Cruz González is a playwright writing for young audiences and is based in Los Angeles, California. Armando Molina is an LA-based director and Artistic Director of Company of Angels Theater.

· Characters: Itzel (Mayan-Spanish mestiza girl who will grow up to lead her own pirate ship), Dacey (Itzel’s younger brother, taken away to Spain and renamed Aragón; will serve the Spanish crown as a soldier-priest), Aapo (Spanish soldier who survived a shipwreck and learned the Mayan ways, Itzel’s and Dacey’s father), Akna (Mayan princess; Aapo’s wife, Itzel’s and Dacey’s mother), Barrosa (soldier-priest who serves God and Spain; deadly), Ensemble (Hangman, Soldier, Simon, Tobias, One-Eye, Padre Matías), Stage Directions

June 16-23, 2019: Return to Sender (adapted by Marisela Treviño Ortiz, directed by Ernie Nolan)

Return to Sender tackles the complicated issue of immigration and how it touches the lives of children and their families. After Tyler’s father is injured in a tractor accident, his family is forced to hire migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure. Tyler isn’t sure what to make of these workers. Are they undocumented? And what about the three daughters, particularly Mari, the oldest, who is proud of her Mexican heritage but also increasingly connected to her American life. Her family lives in constant fear of being discovered by the authorities and sent back to the poverty they left behind in Mexico. Can Tyler and Mari find a way to be friends despite their differences? Return to Sender is an adaptation of the Julia Alvarez novel by the same name. Marisela Treviño Orta is an alumna of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop, a Core Writer at the Playwrights Center, and currently a member of the Goodman Theatre’s Playwrights Unit. Ernie Nolan is the Executive Artistic Director of the Nashville Children’s Theatre and sits on the Executive Committee of ASSITEJ, the international children’s theatre service organization.

· Characters: Mari (11-year-old girl, Mexican), Tyler (11-year-old boy, American, White), Luby (5-year-old girl, Mexican American), Ofie (7-year-old girl, Mexican American), Grandma Paquette (70s, American, white), Mrs. Paquette (40s, American, white), Mr. Paquette (40s, American, white), Mr. Cruz (30s, Mexican), Tío Felipe (early 20s, Mexican), Mrs. Cruz (late 20s, Mexican), Mr. Calhoun (30s, American), Mr. Rossetti (70s, American of Italian descent); Others doubled by actors playing Calhoun, Rosetti, Mr. Paquette, and Tío Felipe; Stage Directions

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