"...A company well worth watching"

David C. Nichols,
LA Times

"The peripatetic Alive Theatre... creates the same anticipation that Apple creates just before a new product release. They make us wonder, what will they do next?"

James Scarborough,
Grunion Gazette

"Alive Theatre is a young, dynamic, multicultural company producing vibrant work on a shoe string. They are straight up "of the people, for the people". Strength, commitment, talent and heart abound"!

"I was very moved... by the excellent performance of my play".


"Judging by the chemistry of this galvanized group, along with their professionalism and talent, I predict a rash of breakout stars, as well as a thriving future for the company. . . Alive Theatre has the potential to be Long Beach's Steppenwolf or Actors' Gang."

Marchelle Hammack,
Beachcomber Newspaper

*Plus! Special Opening & Closing Weekend Event!*
Friday, January 20th and Saturday, February 4th @ 11pm
catch a very special aftershow performance of 'Rhinocerous',
a shadow play based on Eugene Ionesco's work!

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AUDITION CALL
Alive Theatre presents...
In Collaboration with the Long Beach Playhouse


By Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

@ The Long Beach Playhouse, Studio Theatre
5021 East Anaheim Street, Long Beach, CA 90804 

Is a hilarious doomsday comedy that perfectly approaches its big themes sideways.  It is a play that speaks quietly and piquantly, to our enduring fascination with and need for myths about the beginning of life as well as its end.

What: boom by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb. Directed by Caitlin Sullivan Hart

Who: Produced by Alive Theatre in collaboration with the Long Beach Playhouse

When: Friday, February 24 - Saturday, March 10 (Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays @ 8pm)

Where: Long Beach Playhouse, Studio Theatre (5021 East Anaheim St., Long Beach, CA 90802) www.lbplayhouse.org

 

 

Auditions: Thursday, January 12 & Friday, January 13 from 6pm – 10:30pm.

Audition Location: The Farm (555 East 3^rd Street, Long Beach, CA 90802)

Callbacks: Saturday, January 14 from 12pm-3pm

Callback Location: The Farm (555 East 3^rd St., Long Beach, CA 90802)

Rehearsals: Wednesday, January 25- February 23 (4 ½  weeks). Wednesday- Friday evenings and Saturday and Sunday during the day. Schedule TBD

Actors will not be called to every rehearsal.

Rehearsal Location: Either LA or Long Beach. Exact location TBD after casting

Strike: Sunday, March 11^th-Monday, March 12^th: Actors are required to attend a minimum of 4hrs of strike

 

Audition Requirements: Familiarization with sides links are below.

Pay: 99 seat waiver AEA rate for all AEA actors cast.

Contact:  Email headshots and resumes to aliveboomcasting@gmail.com to schedule a 5 minute audition time slot.

www.alivetheatre.org

Roles: No nudity in any roles.

 

JULES:
Male, Any Ethnicity
Late 20's
A marine biology graduate student.  He is smart, socially awkward yet charming, creepy yet harmless, practical, homosexual, uncomfortable, excitable and literal.

Sides available at http://bit.ly/xFvkLR
Jules Side #1 pg 32 "We have to rebuild the human race" - "We've got to no matter how terrible it will be"
Callback sides available at http://bit.ly/y639le and http://bit.ly/zbyMkP
Jo & Jules # 1 : pg 44 "I thought this would be the moment" - "KILL YOURSELF ALREADY!"
Jo & Jules # 2: pg 48 "You have a mechanism" - "the last few moments of our *kiss*"

JO:
Female, Any Ethnicity
Early/Mid 20's
An undergraduate journalism student. She is funny, impulsive, intelligent, attractive and an external processor. An outsider.
Sides available at  http://bit.ly/wHGWppJo Side # 1 pg 24: "I keep this in the bathroom" - Jo looks like she's getting an electrical charge shooting through her when she touches it.
Callback sides available at http://bit.ly/y639le and http://bit.ly/zbyMkP
Jo & Jules # 1 : pg 44 "I thought this would be the moment" - "KILL YOURSELF ALREADY!"
Jo & Jules # 2: pg 48 "You have a mechanism" - "the last few moments of our *kiss*"

  

BARBARA:
Female, Any Ethnicity
40's-50's
A natural history docent. She is dynamic, passionate and loves her job more than life itself.  She is a teacher, physically agile, quirky, confident and vulnerable.
Sides available at http://bit.ly/x3suKq
Barbara Side # 1 pg 36 "Ohhhh. Oh, oh, oh" - "It was the skin of my mother"
Callback sides available at http://bit.ly/ywn8r1
Barbara # 1: "This is Barbara" - "I really wish that"

 

**Note** All roles require strong physicality.

On the Director…

"Caitlin S. Hart's direction is first rate" -StageSceneLA

 

"Director Caitlin S Hart seizes on the text's Gothic elements in a staging worthy of The Old Dark House" -LA Weekly

 

"This production is well assembled and crafted" -LA Theatre Review

 

On Alive Theatre…

"...A company well worth watching" -David C. Nichols, LA Times

"Alive Theatre is a young, dynamic, multicultural company producing vibrant work on a shoe string. They are straight up "of the people, for the people". Strength, commitment, talent and heart abound!””- Playwright, Stephen Adly Guirgis, on In Arabia We’d All Be Kings

"I was very moved... by the excellent performance of my play.”-Playwright, José Rivera on Alive Theatre's References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot at The Museum of Latin American Art