Actors for New Works Festival

In The Works~In The Woods New Works Festival
Forestburgh, NY
US

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IN THE WORKS ~ IN THE WOODS is a thrilling New Works Festival at the Forestburgh Playhouse in the beautiful southern Catskills of New York. This year’s festival marks our 4th year of bringing and nurturing playwrights, composers, lyricists and emerging theatrical works and cabaret to the Catskills.

IN THE WORKS ~ IN THE WOODS 2024 will have multiple exciting new works in development here at the Playhouse the week of September 1st - 8th. There are three new pieces that will be featured in this year’s festival listed below.

If you are interested in being considered for one of the shows, please send submissions to the email address by end of day on WEDNESDAY, JULY 10th, with the following information.

Union Status (AEA or NON-AEA)

All submissions should be sent to [email protected]

Headshot / Resume (ATTACHED TO EMAIL -no links, please- in PDF format)

Self-taped material for the teams to be able to get a sense of who you are. (These can be video submissions you’ve used for other projects.)

— For the MUSICAL: A Contemporary Musical Theatre or Pop/Rock song of your choice that shows range and personality and a Contemporary Monologue / Side. Please no Traditional (Golden Age, Shakespeare, etc) material.

— For the PLAY: A brief Meta-Comedy Contemporary Monologue / Side - in the style of YELLOW FACE by David Henry Hwang, WELL by Lisa Kron, etc.

— For the TYA MUSICAL: Contemporary Musical Theatre and/or Mexican Folk (Ranchera, Mariachi, etc.) song that shows personality and range. Bilingual material (English/Spanish) is highly encouraged.

***Pursuant to Forestburgh Playhouse’s Mission, actors of all ethnicities, gender identities, and abilities are strongly encouraged to submit for all projects***

SALARY:

All AEA Actors will be contracted under a Special 34 Hour Developmental Agreement with AEA of $475 for the week plus pension and health. Housing, Travel and Meals provided.

All Non-AEA Actors will be contracted with a Salary of $350 for the week. Housing, Travel and Meals provided.

ABOUT THE SHOWS…..

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MUSICAL:

REBEL GENIUS

Book and Score by MATTHEW PUCKETT

Directed by NOAH HIMMELSTEIN

ABOUT:

REBEL GENIUS crashes physics and love into one another as Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric fall madly in love, risking everything to find a perfect theory of the universe. The show is a contemporary exploration into the heart of a genius torn between ambition and love.

CAST:

ALBERT EINSTEIN - [Male Identifying, Late 20’s - Mid 30’s; POP TENOR]

Vulnerable but confident, wide-eyed with a guarded sensitivity. Barely managing anxiety for the whole piece.

MILEVA - [Female Identifying, Late 20’s - Early 30’s; POP SOPRANO with HIGH BELT]

Warm and inquisitive. Confident partner to Albert who may know a bit more than he does.

BESSO - [Male Identifying, Late 20’s; POP TENOR]

Albert’s best friend and advisor. Besso is more hip and comfortable in his own skin. Bold and a bit sexy.

ELZA - [Female Identifying, 30’s / Early 40’s; ALTO]

Albert’s second wife who steals him away from Mileva. We love to dislike her.

HERMAN / FATHER - [Male Identifying, 40’s - 50’s; BARITONE]

Albert’s father. A smart but broken inventor who loves his son but struggles with his ability to show it.

MAX PLANCK / OTHERS - [Male Identifying, 40’s - 50’s; BARITONE]

Lovable but egotistical and brilliant mentor to Albert who first discovered the existence of Quanta...by accident.

CONRAD / LENARD / OTHERS - [Male Identifying, 20’s; TENOR]

A young man who ends up in the Nazi party. Albert’s enemy from the get-go.

MARCEL / EDUARD - [Male Identifying or Non-Binary, Early 20’s; TENOR]

Marcel is Albert and Besso’s sweet, genuine and deep-feeling confidant. He is too good for this world and a little goofy / Eduard is Albert’s son - plays ages 8-13 for the purpose of this reading.

LENARD / PRINCETON PROFESSOR / OTHERS - [Female Identifying or Non-Binary, 30’s; HIGH ALTO]

Lenard and Professor both represent adversaries particularly during Albert’s later discoveries and the dropping of the atom bomb.

WEBER / SALESPERSON / OTHERS - [Female Identifying, 30’s; ALTO]

Weber was Albert’s first adversary. Judgemental and set in their ways, trying to keep progress from progressing.

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PLAY:

PALIMPSEST
A New Play by ALIX SOBLER

Directed by EMILY YOUNG

ABOUT:

Palimpsest is a self-referential, meta-comedy about who gets to tell what story, what it means to create art based on real events, and what we owe each other when it comes to telling the truth.

CAST:

ALIX — [Ashkenazi Jewish Presenting Woman; Old Millennial / Young Gen Xer]

A playwright with an anxiety disorder

STEVEN — [Ashkenazi Jewish Presenting Man; Boomer]

An author with a strong conviction, and perhaps an entitlement issue

LEAH — [Any Gender, Race and Age]

A put-upon agent with a heart of gold, an artist advocate but has seen a few things.

BREE — [Woman; Any Race and Age]

Your high school best friend, super-smart with a valley-girl accent, somewhat bored housewife with the brain of a hard-ass lawyer.

JASON — [Man; Any Race and Age]

Super supportive husband who may have reached his breaking point, honest to a fault, practical as hell, madly in love with Alix and shows it by doing the dishes.

MOM / SHELTERED — [Any Gender, Race and Age]

Mom is an angel who is a memory of a memory / Sheltered is a new play just trying to survive, reliant on Alix like a pet but demanding like a lover, a figment of Alix’s imagination but more real than a lot of real people.

DR. NASH / DAVIS — [Any Gender, Race and Age]

Dr. Nash is an imagined therapist, extremely smart, somewhat inappropriate, over Alix’s shit / Davis is a lawyer from Central Casting, all business, sometimes bored, often exasperated, good at their job.

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TYA MUSICAL:

ROJA

A Nuevo Musical for Young Audiences

Written by JAIME LOZANO & TOMMY NEWMAN

Directed by FLORENCIA CUENCA

ABOUT:

Fusing traditional Mexican folk music and Mestizo folklore, ROJA offers a new twist on the Little Red Riding Hood story. At the edge of the desert in Northern Mexico, Rosa rescues a mischievous, magical coyote who offers her the chance to see her father again. What follows is an enchanting journey of love, loss, and resilience.

CAST:

ROJA — [NON-AEA Female Identifying to play young teens, Bilingual; MEZZO WITH BELT]

A fourteen-year-old Mexican girl who is dealing with the loss of her father.

MAMÁ / LA SEÑORA DE LOS HUESOS — [NON-AEA Female Identifying to play 30’s +, Bilingual; MEZZO]

Roja’s mother. She is solely responsible for tending the family farm after her husband has passed. Three years after the loss of her husband, she is still stricken with grief / La Señora is the Queen of the underworld.

COYOTE / PAPÁ — [NON-AEA Male Identifying to play 30’s +, Bilingual; BARITENOR]

Coyote is the shape-shifting god of music, dancing, and mischief. Often depicted with a mustache in human form. A mixture of charro, norteño, and mariachi (though, less mariachi) / Papá is Roja’s father who passed away under mysterious circumstances three years prior to the start of our play.

DON SECO / THE CROW — [NON-AEA Male Identifying to play 30’s +, Bilingual; BARITENOR]

Don Seco is the wealthy landowner who has allowed the Flores family to work the land since Roja was born / The Crow is the spirit of logic and wisdom. They are a legion of thousands in the form of only one.

NOTE ABOUT ROJA CASTING:

This show was crafted with the intention that the cast be exclusively Latiné. This is a show about Mexico as much as it is about embracing your identity.

DURATION

Sep 1, 2024 - Sep 8, 2024

SALARY

$350.00 – $475.00 per gig

UNION

AEA / Non-AEA

HOW TO APPLY

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