THE THEATRE PROGRAM WILL HOLD AUDITIONS FOR TWO PLAYS:

The Veri**on Play by Lisa Kron and Museum by Tina Howe

Actors and Non-Actors (Techies) are welcome. 
 

Signup for a thirty minute audition slot below (Non-Actors do not need a audition slot.):

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/904044FAFA923A7FF2-auditionsthe

Please arrive 15 minutes early to fill out an audition form.

No preparation is required. Come prepared to move and have fun!

Call Back Auditions will be held on February 13 between 7-10 PM

Email allison.campbell@goucher.edu with questions or conflicts.

ABOUT THE PLAYS

The Theatre Program’s production of The Veri**on Play by Lisa Kron (Fun Home) starts with a billing mistake, but when Jenni makes a simple call to customer service she is launched into a world—part film noire, part Chaplinesque romp— where corporate malfeasance is exposed and where she is forced to confront her own complicity. What do we owe one another and what do we give up when we concede power. It’s a comedy. 

CHARACTER Descriptions from Humana Festival 2012 The Complete Plays:

JENNI—Smart, hip, young aspiring professional working in the not-for- profit earnest and helping professions.

ANISSA—Also a smart, hip, young aspiring professional who says she works in the not-for- profit helping professions but is actually the head of  training and management at Ferizon customer service. Jenni and Anissa live together and are twin sisters.

INGRID—Appears at first glance to be another smart, hip, young aspiring professional but is actually the mysterious head of the underground resistance against bad customer service. She speaks in a compellingly unidentifiable accent and can often be seen gazing off into the middle-distance with an ironic half-smile as if looking through a private window onto the absurd pain of the world. If this were the movie made 20 years ago, she would be played by Isabella Rossellini. Estranged sister of Cydney.

 BRYCE—Friend of Anissa and Jenni. Hipster dude who happens to have a job as an investment banker. Super laid-back.

CUSTOMER SERVICE LADY #1—Pleasant customer service lady. Sincerely trying to do her job.

CUSTOMER SERVICE GUY (STEVE)—Pleasantly empathetic customer service guy. Sincerely trying to do his job.

CYDNEY—Pleasant customer service lady, sincerely trying to do her job. Not quite aware that she’s working for a company that would like to snuff out her small but bright spark of humanity. Long-lost sister of Ingrid.

BILLING LADY (MS. TAYLOR)—Doing an assembly line job. Her disaffected affect is laid on top of a thin sheen of suppressed rage.

BILLING GUY (MR. JOHNSON)—Similarly soul-dead.

CAROL K. ANDERSON—Old-school cranky New York lady. 

LARS—Young, well-meaning gay guy. Bit of a caretaker.

JERRY NYBERG—Single, probably works in a video duplication place. Hyper-annunciater. Has figured out how to decipher his Con Ed bill.

WANDA—Older professional woman. Warm but not inclined to suffer fools.

APATHETIC GREYHOUND CLERK—As described.

THUGGISH BILLING GUYS—As described.

ASSORTED AUTOMATED VOICES—As described. 

AND

Emily Ingalls’s Integrative Arts Studies Senior Project of Museum by Tina Howe is a comical play about a mélange of today's "culture vultures" as they make their way through a gallery reacting to art and to each other. An entertaining look at art snobs and artists whose enthusiastic opinions, attitudes, and uirks provide for humor and fun. 

CHARACTERS:

Approximately 30 characters, actors will play multiple roles