Audition Info for…..

 

A DOLL’S HOUSE PART 2

 

Beck Center and Guest Director Don Carrier will hold Open Call Auditions for Lucas

Hnath's award winning "A Doll's House, Part 2" on Monday, January 8th and Tuesday, January 9th by appointment only. Appointment slots will be available beginning at 5PM each day and can be scheduled by calling the Beck Box Office at 216-521-2540 during regular business hours.

 

Auditioning actors are asked to prepare a brief (no more than 90 second) contemporary monologue. Auditioners may also choose to read a provided monologue or cutting from the show.

 

"A Doll's House Part 2" opens May 31st and plays in Beck's intimate Studio Theatre

until June 30th with performances on Friday/Saturday Nights and Sunday afternoons.

Rehearsals will begin in very late April.

 

It is anticipated that 2 AEA contracts (Special Appearance Tier 2) will be available for this production. In addition, all non Equity performers 18 and over are paid a stipend for theirparticipation.

 

Callbacks for this production will occur sometime during the weekend of January 13/14 TBD.

 

Show/Role Info:

 

Written as a sequel to Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Lucas Hnath's A Doll’s House Part II is an intermission-less relentless reunion of Nora with her daughter, husband and housekeeper. Comedic and passionate, the characters advocate for their point of view as they excavate the past and try to find a way to the future. 

SEEKING:

NORA – Female, 40 – 45, any ethnicity. Nora returns to the life she left behind 15 years after she slammed that door. Strong, independent and determined to stay free and unencumbered. Like any one who is opinionated she will have her admirers and detractors. Not sentimental. 

TORVALD – Male, 45 - 50, any ethnicity. Has Torvald changed over the years since Nora’s departure? We see him as a mellow middle aged man who was bewildered with his wife’s departure those 15 years ago. He is genuinely astonished at her return and allows the bitterness he has held, to finally explode. 

ANNE MARIE – Female, 55 – 70, Caucasian. Anne Marie took on the role of “woman of the house” after the departure of Nora. She is wise, wry and pretty tired after years of work from being the nanny and later the surrogate mother. She holds a certain amount of resentment towards Nora as well. Frank and wry. 

EMMY - Female, 20 - 25, any ethnicity. Just a little girl when her mother left 15 years earlier, Emmy still possesses many of Nora’s traits: confidence, saying what she wants, a certainty. She is conflicted: she needs her mother’s help but also has anger around her mother leaving her as a young girl. That she prioritized her needs above her daughters. 

 ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

DONALD CARRIER is an actor, teacher and director who has worked extensively in theatre and film across North America. He spent nine seasons at the Stratford Festival, three seasons at the Old Globe under renowned director Adrian Noble and two seasons at the Shaw Festival. He has worked at the Shakespeare Theatre, Studio Theatre, the Huntington Theatre, the Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, the Intiman Theatre, the Great Lakes Theatre, the Wilma Theatre, Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, The National Arts Center, CanStage, Maltz Jupiter Theatre and TheatreWorks, among many others. For the Cleveland Play House, he has appeared in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE, ALL THE WAY, LUNA GALE, THE CRUCIBLE, THE LITTLE FOXES, LINCOLNESQUE, NOISES OFF!, TEN CHIMNEYS, IN THE NEXT ROOM, OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY AND YENTL. Film and TV credits include: TWICE IN A LIFETIME, THE PASSION OF AYN RAND, HOLLYWOOD OFF-RAMP, THE WIVES OF WINDSOR, DEAD BY MONDAY AND EARTH: FINAL CONFLICT. Directing credits include: MIDDLETOWN, THE LIAR, PASSAGE, FIFTH OF JULY, CLYBOURNE PARK, THE MISANTHROPE AND TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD, CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program; THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, Notre Dame University; TWELFTH NIGHT, Colorado College; Assistant Director for CYRANO DE BERGERAC, Stratford Festival; THE CRUCIBLE, AS YOU LIKE IT, CYMBELINE, CWRU Theater Department; WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, REALLY, REALLY, SEMINAR, Beck Center; BECKY SHAW, Dobama Theatre; OTHELLO, Texas Shakespeare Festival; ELLIS ISLAND: AN AMERICAN DREAM, VIOLINS OF HOPE AND DISCOVERING ROMEO AND JULIET with the Cleveland Orchestra. Don is a 2016 Lunt Fontanne Fellow. Don is the Director of the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program.