Alive Theatre presents...
by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb
Directed by Caitlin Sullivan Hart
Audition Notice
boom by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb 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 3rd Street, Long Beach, CA 90802)
Callbacks: Saturday, January 14 from 12pm-3pm
Callback Location: The Farm (555 East 3rd 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 11th-Monday, March 12th: 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.
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://www.box.com/s/c0g7i72kuvmhucqagls3 (stop/start at 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://www.box.com/s/6i8f02gfplfauirv99yv and http://www.box.com/s/3mggcmbsefgu9y9iy8zv
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://www.box.com/s/6i8f02gfplfauirv99yv (stop/start at 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://www.box.com/s/6i8f02gfplfauirv99yv and http://www.box.com/s/3mggcmbsefgu9y9iy8zv
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://www.box.com/s/m4tozt1msjts2rtspjos (stop/start at pg 36 "Ohhhh. Oh, oh, oh" - "It was the skin of my mother")
Callback sides available at http://www.box.com/s/at77sxuufa29o578uq9g
**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
