Sunday, November 26, 2006

Casting News Hot Off The Wire!

THEATRE ARTS JAPAN AUDITION AND WORKSHOP, NEW YORK CITY

Audition: Mon, Nov. 27. 6-8 pm. Champion Studio, 257 W. 39th Street (between 7th and 8th Ave), 14th Floor. Theatre Arts Japan will hold an audition and workshop (callback) for our upcoming production, "It Is Said the Men are Over in the Steel Tower," in collaboration with woken' glacier theatre company and MONO theatre company. This black comedy about four men of vaudeville team "The Happy Lads" deals with wartime and identity. The project will be developed between the summer of 2006 and the full production in March 2007 at TBG Theatre as an Equity Showcase, pending approval. Choose one of the audition dates above and RSVP with a resume and headshot to casting@wokenglacier.org. Audition will be first come-first served. Please prepare a 2-minute comedic monologue. Seeking: 5 males age mid-20's to late 30's any ethnicity. For detailed character breakdown, please visit: www.TheatreArtsJapan.org or www.wokenglacier.org. You must be available for all workshops, rehearsals and performances. Cast will be determined after the workshop (conflicts can be discussed at audition). Workshop: Dec. 5: 1-4, Dec. 6: 1-4, Dec. 7: 2:30-5:30, Dec. 8: 1-4, Dec. 9: 2-7. Rehearsals: late January through February. Performances: March 1: Tech and Dress all day. Mar 2: Rehearsal and dress, all day. Mar 3: Brush up and opening, all day. March 4: Possible brush up and show, all day. March 7-17: 8pm show, 7pm call. Sun Mar 18: 3pm show, 2pm call. Transportation paid for rehearsals and performances.

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CORPORATE DRAMATIZATIONS NEEDED, MIAMI

Non-Union. Director: George Cotayo. Seek several Actors/Actresses, all types, ages 21-60 for various corporate vignettes that will be presented on company's website. Production starting December 4, 2006. Pay is $100 to $200 per day, 8 to 10 hour per day. Must speak English fluently. Prior on camera performance experience necessary. Interviews/Auditions will be held by appointment only. Please send photo/resume ASAP! To: Producer/Knowledgeware 429 Lenox Avenue, Miami Beach, FL 33139. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE.

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REDMOONBIZ PRODUCING 35MM SAG FEATURE FILM 'THE ME NOBODY KNOWS', FORT LAUDERDALE

Non-Union. Director: Manuel Montenegro. This is a feature film to be entirely shot in the Greater Fort Lauderdale area during three consecutive weeks, ideally starting in March 2007 or as soon as I have a good cast. This film will probably go using both Union and Non Union Actors but in either case, it will be budgeted with the parameters of a SAG Modified Low Budget Agreement. (Meaning a salary of $ 933 a week for leading full time performers) and prorated pay for supporting day players. At post production phases, all actors shall be required to render talents for ADR sessions, with the usual hourly pay according to the same parameters. Auditions will be completed as follows: Actors shall submit via e-mail headshot and resume to Production company. Each one of the pre-selected actors shall receive a synopsis and a character's profile in order to improvise for taping purposes, his or her recreation of a character of their choice using the very little information they receive. Out of that group, she shall issue call backs along with sides from the movie for Taped auditions at our production offices. From there, we shall reach our final decision.
Breakdown:
- Male / 25-30 yrs. / Hispanic: Daniel Torres works in the hotel day and night. His supervisors adore him for his dedication. A concierge when the sun is up. Barman when the moon is out. He is the man to call to get something done, to find the impossible, to link and expedite whatever a guest would needs because he needs all the money he can get to send to his native country, to support his everyday growing pauper family deployed amid a country in civil war. Every time they talk, he gets the same phantasmal picture and there is no other way out. They need so much help and the crying voice of his mother is just too much to handle.
- Male / 41-50 yrs. / White. Requires Nudity: Justin Van der Osten has arrived to Fort Lauderdale in a good mood. . He is in town to kill a man. Some one has put a contract on his head and Justin is here to get the job done. He does not know that person. He could not care less about him. This all about the money and he is prepared to execute his task swiftly, quietly; and he will get out of there as colorless as he arrived to that cute hotel. Justin Van der Osten, if that was his real name, is not a first timer. He has been through this. However, he has never been in love until now.
- Male / 31-40 yrs. / White. Requires Nudity: William Johnston is a real player. He runs an independent brokerage firm that invests local money in stocks and options all over the world, making some important people wealthier and making him the happiest man on earth. William is fond of beautiful women and fine life. Life is brighter than ever if it was not for that bastard that swindled him all of that “other people's money”. That will cost him dearly, so much that William Johnston has put a contract on that man's head.
- Male / 51-60 yrs. / White: Zack Drayer is packing a large amount of money in a briefcase to; finally, meet with his contact in a regular hotel. He is getting a smuggled medicine from the barman, probably the last hope to help his terminally ill child. An experimental prescription from Eastern Europe banned in our country, who knows for what reason. It will be worth all the risk, all the lying, all this messing up with so many important people. Your child's life is worth all risks. After all, he had been threatened before. His wife Sally will take care of everything if things go very wrong. He had no choice.
- Female / 41-50 yrs. / White. Requires Nudity: Sally Drayer is so exhausted of praying. It has been a long terrible journey with no reward at the end of the road. Doctors have told her that her son is not going to make it and seeing him fade out has drained her last drop of hope. Sadly, she sees her husband believe in any option he has found online in a desperate attempt to give his son some extra time. She knows well that it is all over and they should only wait. Last week, she found out about her husband's overseas accounts. She learned how to reach into them. She knew this was blood money and in running blood it will turn their lives, unless she found a way to take advantage of a sure disgrace that is about to happen.
- Female / 25-30 yrs. / Any Ethnicity. Requires Nudity: Laura Frazier works so hard to keep her private life private.One more year in the shadows and she will be a magnetic resonance technician and perhaps, get away for good from those eclectic nights at the strip bar. Maybe not. The money is so good just for a few hours of silly entertainment.She knows deep inside that a wonderful man is around the corner and love will redeem a young life of confrontation with her own persona. Forget about emotional redemption. Laura loves to get nude on stage and, above all, she loves her own sexuality.
- Male / 31-40 yrs. / Any Ethnicity. Requires Nudity: Mark Rohmer is a law enforcement negotiator. Happily married to Angela Rohmer, soon will struggle with the battles of his very mild machismo with his lusty infatuation for his wife and her confessed infidelity. Circumstances will bring him to a standoff and to a life and death situation that will confront him with the person he loves the most. Lust and jealousy will match up contending with duty and responsibility. Strong emotions that will over flow the integrity of this honorable man.
- Female / 25-30 yrs. / Any Ethnicity. Requires Nudity: Angela Rohmer dared to do the unthinkable. She let her boss at the office touch her legs and even find his way up to her underwear and beyond, as she presented some financial figures in his office. Angie is a successful professional, savvy stoke broker, married to a loving husband, two beautiful children, but she fell to her instincts and for no reason whatsoever, she has decided to be unfaithful for the first time. Tomorrow, after work, excusing with a very important meeting, she is going to have sex with another man in a small cute hotel and her life will change forever, for no so good.

Email your headshot and resume to: themenobodyknows@redmoonbiz.com. Ends December 16. Filming slated for March 2007. More info at: Web: http://www.redmoonbiz.com/tmnk/tmnk.html

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY STUDENT FILM SHOOTING "HUG", NEW YORK CITY

Khary Saeed Jones (writer-dir.) is casting Hug, an advanced Columbia grad film shooting on Super 16mm or HD. Asa and Drew are hours away from destiny: a meeting to audition beats for the rapper du jour. If only Asa can corral his bipolar partner's spiraling capacity to reason and fixation with making amends with his siblings before the two of them make it "big." Shooting begins Feb. 2, 2007. Seeking—ASA: male, 19, biracial, wiry, a bit of a hipster but don't get it twisted, Ivy league, his talent is hustling, he's good-natured but untested; DREW: male, 20, African-American, bipolar, big and handsome, a rich kid, a talented "beatsmith," think Kanye, Pharell, Asa's best friend and Ivy schoolmate; HOLLIS: female, 28, African-American, Drew's older sister, lawyer, young, tasting power and loving it; LEIGH: female, 32, African-American, Drew's sister, art history PhD student, bleeding heart, neurotic; ROCKY: male, 30s, Leigh's husband, African-American, jazz purist, jazz trumpeter, pretty boy. Email pix & résumés to gokhary@gmail.com, Attn: Mr. Kellan Wilkes and Mr. Khary Jones. No pay, but videocopy, credit, and meals provided. SAG Student Film Agreement.

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CENTER STAGE COMMUNITY THEATER, NEW YORK CITY

Wed, Nov 28 and Thurs, Nov 29. 7:30 PM. Center Stage Community Theater, 2474 Westchester Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461 Directed by Sharon Spenser. Casting 4M, 1F. Auditions are being held for 'MUSIC FROM A SPARKLING PLANET', a comedy by Douglas Carter Beane (Staged Reading) at Center Stage Community Theater. 3 Performances February 9 - 11 Whatever became of Tamara Tomorrow? In the early seventies, this local television host, in her antennae and space suit, made cheery predictions of how exciting the future was going to be. Her sudden disappearance from the public eye was one of the great mysteries of the Philadelphia area. Three fans of Tamara, all grown up and disenchanted with the "future" as she predicted, decide to go in search of this "Delaware Valley Greta Garbo." What they find along the way teaches them more about themselves than they really thought they could know. Seeking: Hoagie Male, mid 20s-30s. Personal trainer. Unattached. Loves trivia. Miller Male, mid 20s-30s. PR Flack. Gay. Loves trivia. Wags Male, mid 20s-30s. Lawyer. Can’t deal with his impending fatherhood. Loves trivia. Tamara Tomorrow Female, 30s-50s: Children’s TV show host. Plays both during her heyday and 30 years later, so may cast younger to play older or vice versa. Andy Male, 30s-50s: Tamara’s producer, also plays during Tamara’s heyday and present time. More info at: info@centerstageplayhouse.org; www.centerstageplayhouse.org; 718-823-6434.

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SEEKING PUPPETEERS FOR 'ARABIAN NIGHTS', NEW YORK CITY

McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ announces non-equity auditions for an educational touring production of The Arabian Nights directed by Jon Ludwig. Auditions will be held on December 1st in New York City. Puppeteers must be available from Jan 8th through March 16th. Puppeteers must have mask work experience. MUST BE NON-EQUITY. Seeking: PUPPETEERS (ALL ETHNICITIES) The puppeteers play multiple roles in the production. Must have incredible sense of humor, ability to shift from character to character very quickly. PUPPETRY EXPERIENCE A MUST. AUDITIONS WILL BE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1ST IN NEW YORK. ALL AUDITIONS ARE APPOINTMENT ONLY. Actors are asked to prepare a one minute classical monologue. Please send picture/resume to: Attn: Arabian Night's Casting, 91 University Place, Princeton, NJ 08540. Submissions due to the McCarter Theatre by November 29th. No phonecalls or e-mails please.

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SINGERS AND DANCERS FOR DISNEY CRUISE LINE, NEW YORK CITY

Mon, Dec. 4. 10AM: Open dancer audition. 1PM: Open musical theater vocalist audition. Ripley-Grier Studios, 520 8th Avenue, Suite 16. Disney Cruise Line is seeking talented and versatile musical theater performers for mainstage productions on their luxury cruise ships in the Caribbean and Bahamas. Please see website for further detail: www.disneyauditions.com. All performers must be trained vocalists and actors who move well, or trained dancers who can sing on key. Also a need for female dancers who resemble classic Disney animated characters. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age. Rehearsals are held in Toronto. Contracts are approximately 7-9 months and include competitive pay, room and board, and no cruise staff duties. For more information including audition requirements, visit www.DisneyAuditions.com. Disney Cruise Lines is always searching for Specialty Acts for performance opportunities at sea. Please send any Specialty Act promotional material to: Jonathan Lang, P.O. Box 10210, Lake Buena Vista, Florida 32830.

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SUBMIT VIDEO OVER YOUTUBE TO AUDITION FOR 'THE INTERIOR'

Scripted Drama "The Interior" is a scripted drama series, shooting early 2007 in the Amazon. We are casting roles for a young couple, Bonni & Michael, and a middle-aged couple, Alan & Gloria: BONNI. Female. Age: 22-30. Intriguing. Smart. Spontaneous. Idealistic. Fresh. Up for anything. Any ethnicity. MICHAEL. Male. Age: 22-30. Thinker. Determined. On a mission from God. Any ethnicity. ALAN. Male. Age: 50+. Loner. Estranged. Master of his jungle kingdom. Stayed in the wilderness too long. Any ethnicity. GLORIA. Female. Age: 50+. Quietly strong. Would like to leave, but not without her husband. She’s there to protect Alan from himself. Any ethnicity. Please visit www.theinterior.tv for audition instructions. Email: general@theinterior.tv.

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