inwood shakespeare festival 2010
THE SEASON OF GUNS & PROSES
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SUBMISSIONS NOW ACCEPTED
Moose Hall Theatre Company is accepting pix & resumes for Inwood
Shakespeare Festival 2010. Inwood Shakespeare Festival, produced in
partnership with City of New York/Parks & Recreation presents our
eleventh annual summer season of acclaimed free outdoor theatre in
northern Manhattan’s
Inwood Hill Park Peninsula.
INWOOD SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL
Season
includes:Shakespeare's COMEDY OF ERRORS (runs June 2-19) and TOMBSTONE,
SAGA OF AMERICANS - THE WEST, (runs July 14-31). A tale which follows
the tempestuous times, characters and events surrounding the 1882
shootout at the OK Corral. Ted Minos, Producing Artistic Director.
Catherine Bruce Technical Director. Ray A. Rodriguez, Fight
Choreographer. Frank Zilinyi, Vocal Director/Production Assistant.
Aaron Simms, Associate Producer.
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS—All Roles: seeking artists with comic and classical experience, and great movement skills.
TOMBSTONE—Wyatt Earp: 30s, enigmatic, leader of the Earp clan, stately, very dry humor; Doc Holliday:
30s, has tuberculosis, highly educated, debonair and dangerous charm,
excellent gunslinger, heavy drinker, poetic. Dedicated to Wyatt; Morgan Earp: 20s-late 30s, gregarious nature, easily riled; Virgil Earp: 30s-40s, Wyatt's elder brother, honest, committed; Mattie: 20's-30's Wyatt's common-law wife, quiet despondency; Margaretta: young female, Mexican, "steals" Gold Dollar's man; Gold Dollar: young prostitute, blonde, pretty, petite, murders Margareta; Old Man Clanton: 40s-60s, hard-edged patriarch of the rustlers; Billy Clanton: 19, reluctantly caught in the family business; Ike Clanton: 20s-30s, blowhard, grimy, instigator; Curly Bill: reckless outlaw, rustler leader. Member of Clanton gang ; John Ringo: 30s, member of the Clanton Gang, well educated, rival of Holliday, excellent gunslinger; China Mary (Ah Lum): 20s-30s, Asian, emotionally solid, kind, supplies opium, provides laborers; Big Nose Kate (Kate Elder): 20's - 30's Hungarian. Working prostitute, long tempestuous relationship with Holliday, friend of John Ringo; Sadie Marcus:
young beautiful Gilbert & Sullivan actress, belle of the
honkytonks, the love of Wyatt's life, ex-mistress of Behan, vocal
skills a plus; John Swain: 30s-50s, African-American, ex-slave, philosophic, steady and calm survivor; Preacher:30's - 50's African American. Earthy intelligence. Intense, caustic evangelist. Billy Breakenridge: 20s-30s, prissy, gossip, inflated self-importance. Process-server; Tom McLaury: 20's-30's potentially good citizen, likeable, but caught up with Clanton clan; Frank McLaury: 20's-30's. cocky, vain troublemaker. Member of Clanton gang; Alfredo Maria-Garcia: 20's-40's leader of Mexican ranchers, vigilante, courageous, kills Old Man Clanton; Johnny Behan: 30's - 40 Irish politician, charming, county sheriff, rival of Wyatt, associate of the Clantons; John Clum: 20's - 40's editor of the Epitaph, pro Earps; Harry Woods: 20's - 40 editor of the Nugget, anti-Earps; Nellie Cashman: 20's - 30's Catholic social worker for the silver-miners, restaurant owner. The "Angel of Tombstone"; Wells Spicer: justice of the peace, dauntless, fair judge; Bird Cage Theatre: prostitutes, singers, bawdy performers, traveling Shakespearian actors, dancers; Rustlers: Clanton's band of rowdy dangerous mavericks; Townspeople:
male and female, all ages and ethnic cultures, movement and vocal
skills a plus, to play various characters, a physical and rhythmic
chorus, must move well, singing, dialects, and multilingual fluency a
plus.
Also seeking staff—Volunteers, Interns, Administrative Assistants, Sound, Lighting Assistants, and Crew Positions.
Note: Multiple-role casting. Cross-gender casting will be considered for some roles in both productions.
Send pix & résumés Attn: Casting, Moose Hall Theatre Company/Inwood
Shakespeare Festival, 25 Indian Road Studio LA, NYC 10034. Indicate on
the envelope which production(s) you are interested in. Those applying
for staff positions only should email Cathy Bruce at cbruce@moosehallisf.org. No pay provided.
COLLEGE INTERN PROGRAM
HEED THE CALL OF THE WILD with Moose Hall's COLLEGE INTERN PROGRAM.
"...more fun than interning the Berliner Ensemble!!!" - Barbara Paterson - Oberlin College, Moose Hall Intern Program 2003.
Interns have served from: Columbia University, Oberlin College, SUNY
New Paltz, Northwestern University & The University of Hartford.
Theatre workshops, technical experience, administrative experience,
public relations experience, advertising . . . go places & eat
things, . . . cool t-shirts? Be the envy of all. . . Find you
inner-moose! INTERESTED? CONTACT: Cathy Bruce, Educational Outreach
Director; outreach@moosehallisf.org
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