THE HEARTH COLLECTIVE

 

AUDITION NOTICE

 

Who: The Hearth Collective (Megan Kate Ward, Courtney Freed and Jill Westerby) hosted by Portland Center Stage

 

What: 3 Staged Readings of plays from The Kilroys List (http://www.thekilroys.org/about-the-list/) Performances will take place Sunday, July 12 at Portland Center Stage at 12:00pm, 4:00 pm and 8:00pm.

 

When: Auditions are from 10am-1:00pm on Saturday, May 30th and 10am-1:00pm on Sunday, May 31st.

 

Where: TBD

 

Pay: A stipend will be provided

 

The time commitment will be one rehearsal (time TBD), one tech/ put-in the day of the performance, and the performance.

Please contact us at thehearthcollective@gmail.com with a headshot and resume if you would like to schedule an audition. Please indicate if you would like to read for a specific role.

 

THE OREGON TRAIL by Bekah Brunstetter, Directed by Megan Kate Ward

Present time

Jane, an angsty, contemporary young lady, prone to sadness

Mary Anne, her slightly OCD sister, a violinist 

Billy, the hottest pre-pubescent guy in school 

1848

Then Jane, a young girl traversing the country with her family, via the Oregon Trail

Mary Anne, her seemingly perfect sister (played by contemporary Mary Anne)

Clancy, their father

The Omnipotent Voice of the Oregon Trail

 

I ENTER THE VALLEY by Dipika Guha, Directed by Olga Sanchez

Augusto Real – mid seventies, has a hulking frame, sometimes clownish looking. Looks like he always has dirt underneath his fingernails, might be mistaken for a farmer, has a huge presence and a way of appearing abruptly and yet seeming like he’s always been there.

Magdalena – Late sixties, long haired, graceful, interminably calm, light on her feet.

Beatriz – Mid forties, deeply common-sensical, generous figure

Zuleiya – eighteen, waifish, young, theatrical, a lost soul

Henna- mid seventies, glamourous, wordly

Luis – mid-twenties, is consistently either melancholic or in ecstasy, the temperament of a creative soul who has yet to create.

 

BLISS (OR EMILY POST IS DEAD!) Directed by Jill Westerby

 

Character Breakdown (a total of 5 actors are needed):

 

Clementine (Clytemnestra): White, mid 30s, sarcastic, sees beyond

the shiny veneer and is therefore unhappy. She's holds a grudge

against her husband, an acquirer of businesses, for several

reasons. She is currently in love with her doctor who supplies her

amphetamines. Pill popper. – PRECAST

 

Maddy (Medea): Part Hawaiian, part white, early 30s, an overly

happy, June Clever type who loves the latest kitchen gadgets and

Emily Post. Therefore, she is easily swayed to the dark side when

she uncovers the truth about her husband's infidelity. Because

she's part Hawaiian, she tries to mask it with looking as

“American” as possible. Pill popper and former ukulele player in a

family band.

 

Antonia (Antigone): White, 17, is beholden to her Uncle and

sheltered from life. She is full of youthful passion, but she

doesn't know how to channel this passion...yet. She's in love

with a black boy named Gil.

 

Cassandra (Cassandra): Black, early 20s, seer of past, present and

future, and a typist. Clementine's husband acquired the business

Cassandra worked for and she was transferred to his place of

business. She is trying to break this curse laid on her by

Apollo. She is desperate to convince the women they can change

the course of their lives. She does not smile.

 

* Apollo: Ageless and beautiful. God of many things. He's cocksure

to the nth degree, but he's having trouble sleeping.

 

* Doctor Smith: White, mid 30s. A widower and who is in love with

Clementine and supplies her pills.

* Jason's Voice

* Uncle's Voice and Image

* NOTE: One male actor will play the parts of both Apollo and

Doctor Smith, Jason and Uncle's Voices and Uncle's Image.

Location and Time:

North Orange, NJ. September, 1960.

 

 

Please direct all questions to:  thehearthcollective@gmail.com