Click here for audition information for THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY.
Company One is holding auditions for their Second Stage production of Lauren Yee's HOOKMAN, directed by Greg Maraio, taking place in March/April.
Being a freshman in college is hard when your roommate is weird, home is far away, and Hookman is everywhere! What's Lexi to do when her old high school friend, Jess, gets killed...I mean--has an accident, a car accident, I think? Not even Facebook stalking the dead can calm the creepy feelings spilling out of the shadows in this existential comic horror slasher -- a new play by Lauren Yee.
Audition dates are pending. Please read below and email if you are interested.
To secure an audition slot, please email auditions@companyone.org and attach your resume, and digital head shot.
Production Information:
- Rehearsals begin mid February. Monday through Thursday evening, and Sundays daytime.
- Production runs March 23rd - April 14th, 2012 - Wednesday through Sunday.
- All actors cast receive a stipend.
Characters (4F, 1M):
ACTOR 1:
- LEXI: 18, female. Freshman at UConn. Likes to sing to herself when alone. Can't drive. Does not know what her major is. (Though maybe something to do with kids?) Talks too much. An only child.
ACTOR 2:
- JESS: 18, female. Freshman at UC Davis. Possibly Lexi's best friend. Works at American Eagle at school. Also reads her father's old Economist issues when in the bathroom at home. Jess is a sociology major with a minor in international relations (the same as her brother).
ACTOR 3:
- YOONJI: 18, female. Freshman at UConn. Lexi's roommate. Korean American. From New Jersey. Likes listening to music and getting a tiny bit stoned with her Jewish friend Rachel. Passive aggressively sick of Lexi. Yoonji is a lit/poli sci double major to piss off her parents.
- JIEHAE: 18, female. Went to Peru and died. Really good at math, though kind of a bitch. Would have been a math major even though she was basically a slut.
ACTOR 4
- CHLOE: 18, female. Freshman at UConn. From New York City proper. Knows Lexi from somewhere. Has a giant thermos that is maybe filled with coffee? Thrilled to be alive. Charming. Chloe is an anthro major (but thinking about switching to environmental studies because why not!).
- KAYLEIGH: 15, female. Sophomore at West Porter High. On a quiet power trip. Wants to go to Georgetown for college and major in history and economics. Will be more successful than Lexi when she grows up.
ACTOR 5
- SEAN: 20, male. Junior at Bloomington University. Plays intramural baseball. Business major. From Connecticut. May be a rapist.
- HOOKMAN: old enough to be sketchy, male. Has a hook for a hand. May or may not also have a hand on his non-hook arm. Maybe just has a hook and no hands at all? Constantly looks hung over.
Auditions for
"THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY"
Company One is holding auditions for its Summer 2012 production of Kristoffer Diaz's THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY.
2011 OBIE Award Winner for Best New American Play, CHAD DEITY is a serious minded comedy about wrestling, geopolitics, and raisin bread. Mace is a really good professional wrestler. He's not the champion though - that's the impossibly charismatic Chad Deity. When Mace discovers a young Indian-American Brooklyn kid whose charisma rivals that of the champ, Mace decides to get him a job in the company. The only problem is that the boss has a very specific plan for the duo: put them onscreen as terrorists, exploiting racial stereotypes in the name of ratings. A show about three men fighting for much more than the championship title, CHAD DEITY dares to throw political correctness out of the ring.
Audition dates are pending. Please read below and email if you are interested.
To secure an audition slot, please email auditions@companyone.org with your resume, digital head shot, and specific time request if needed.
Please prepare a contemporary monologue of up to 2 minutes.
Production Information:
- Training will be provided and will begin late 2011 / early 2012. Rehearsals begin in June 2012.
- Production runs July 27th, 2012 thru August 25th, 2012. Wednesday through Sunday.
- Stipend provided.
Character Breakdown (5 men):
Macedonio "Mace" Guerra: A Puerto Rican professional wrestler. Good at what he does, undersized, our hero. 24-32.
Everett K. Olson (aka EKO): The Caucasian owner of T.H.E. Wrestling. Brash, confident, ostensibly our villain. 40-60.
Chad Deity: The African-American of T.H.E. wrestling. Confident, handsome, not a very good wrestler. Built like a pro-wrestler / body builder. 21-30.
Vigneshwar Paduar: A young Indian-American Brooklynite. Charismatic, natural, effortless. 21-28.
Joe Jabroni: A non-descript professional wrestler. Non-speaking; also plays Billy Heartland and Old Glory.
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