"Appointment" Auditions at NYU

The Undergraduate Drama Department
Proudly Announces
Audition/Interviews for

APPOINTMENT
Directed by Aaron Landsman

AUDITION/INTERVIEWS:
Thursday, April 29th, 7-11pm & Sunday, May 2nd 12-3pm


PERFORMANCE DATES:
September 16-19th

The piece will begin rehearsing in late-August. You must be in town and available starting August 30th in order to audition.

Please prepare for the interview:
1-2 minute presentation that answers the following questions

1. How have you created original work in the past?
2. Why do you want to be a part of this project, given the description of it?
3. Who are your influences?
4. What are three things that distinguish you as an artist?
5. What is an area of your theatermaking you'd like to improve?

You are welcome to bring in text, audio, video (on a laptop) or still photos to support your presentation, but please note that you only have two minutes before Aaron starts asking you questions.

Adventurous theater-makers sought for Appointment, an ongoing theater project by theater artist Aaron Landsman. Selected students will work with Landsman on short, repeatable performance works staged in small offices for a single viewer at a time. This project is open to intrepid playwrights, directors and performers who create original work, and to both single artists and collaborative pairs. Participants will be chosen by interview. Please come prepared to discuss your approach to making live performance; if you’d like to read or show something, you are welcomed to.

We’ll start with a score – a series of formal elements that need to be in each piece – and a series of possible scenarios for creators to use as starting points. Over the course of two intensive weeks, each artist or team will develop 10- to 15-minute works that can be performed several times in a row. We’ll inhabit a suite of newly renovated offices on NYU’s campus, and create an event that combines elements of theater, installation and workaday task. Viewers may not only be performed for, they may be counseled, negotiated with, seduced, or interviewed. Together we’ll study and explore strategies for how to create work in a small space, how to involve the audience in a clear way, how to perform intimately, and how to deal with the technical and dramaturgical requirements of a piece that is performed again and again.

Appointment is an ongoing project Landsman is creating with groups of artists and students internationally. Previous iterations have taken place at CUNY’s Prelude Festival and in Oslo, Norway. Future versions are scheduled in Austin, Berlin, Minsk and Philadelphia. The project continues his series of works created for quotidian locations like offices, homes and barrooms, in which context becomes its own formal element.

The results of our work together will be available online at the Appointment Blog: http://makeanappointment.wordpress.com

About the Director
Aaron Landsman is a Brooklyn-based playwright and actor. Since 2002, he has created four site-specific plays including Open House (2008), commissioned by the Foundry Theatre in New York, and performed in 24 NYC apartments; Love Story (2007), an audio walk and gallery tour presented at Austin’s Fusebox Festival, What You’ve Done (2006), a theater installation in a Houston row house, commissioned by DiverseWorks; and Desk (2002), presented by Chashama in an abandoned Manhattan office and supported by an artist residency at HERE. He is currently an artist-in-residence at University Settlement, where he is developing two new stage plays, Running Away From The One With The Knife and Special Tonight. He is a member of the I-73 writer’s group at P-73 and a finalist for their playwriting commission, as well as a finalist for the Yale Drama Series. His monologues have been aired on public radio in New York and Minnesota.


Since 2004, Landsman has performed with Elevator Repair Service Theater, creating roles in two acclaimed productions – GATZ and The Sound And The Fury – and touring these works across the US, Europe and Australia. He has appeared with many directors and choreographers, including Richard Maxwell, Tory Vazquez and Andrea Kleine. Landsman has taught at Juilliard, where he was an artistic advisor to seniors in the dance program from 2004-2007, and at NYU’s Department of Undergraduate Drama. He is a founding member of Collective Arts Think Tank – an group of artists, curators and administrators seeking to address systemic issues in performing arts funding, presenting and creation. http://www.thinaar.com

*Sign up book available now*
(outside the production office on the 3rd floor of 721 Broadway)
Questions? Please e-mail Carrie Meconis at carrie.meconis@nyu.edu
or visit the production office - Room 311 of 721 Broadway

For information regarding performances, ticketing, or The Department of Drama, please go to: drama.tisch.nyu.edu

Casting Call for Short Film

CALL FOR ACTORS & EXTRAS
FOR SHORT FILM

Casting + Rehearsals:
Wednesday, April 21st

Shooting:
Thursday, April 22nd + Friday, April 23rd (starting from 8 p.m.)

Synopsis: Manhattan, a busy coffee shop, late afternoon. A quintessentially New York encounter between Claudia, an improvised Italian-language teacher and Marc, a regular and sly customer of the shop, leading to an unexpected romantic twist. The script won the 3rd prize at the 2008 Manhattan Short Screenplay competition and will be submitted to a variety of local and international film festivals.

Leading roles:

• CLAUDIA: a likable 25ish native-Italian speaker, with a slight Italian accent, but with very good English proficiency. Preferably dark-haired and blue-eyed, but not necessary.
• MARC: 25-30 years old. American. Charismatic and rather charming.
• EXTRAS: we are looking for 5-8 people to fill in the background of our shots, by simply and naturally sitting at the coffee shop’s tables, drinking coffee, chatting with each other, typing on their laptop etc...

Remuneration: food & beverage on set, film credits.

If you are interested in participating in this project, please send an email with the following information to italian101short@gmail.com:
• headshot
•brief resume
•your contact info
•best time to schedule your audition.

If you match the ideal criteria, you will be contacted and scheduled for an audition.

Thank you for reading and looking forward to hearing from you!

LINGUA FRANCA: NYU Short Film Casting

Dramatic short film LINGUA FRANCA produced in association with NYU seeks its 2 leads. Story centers around how language bridges and distances strangers. Dialogue-driven and plenty of opportunities for minutely calibrated emotions - a great showcase for actors. Scheduled to shoot for 2 days in mid-late April.

1) Age 25-30. European male. Native speaker of a Romance language (preferably French, but Spanish and Italian would be fine as well) with fluency in English. Driven and ambitious MBA/finance-type transplanted to New York for work.

2) Age 35-45. East Asian female. In addition to some English, must be perfectly fluent in either Mandarin Chinese, Japanese or Korean. Beautiful and dignified woman moving confidently into the next stage of her life. Should evoke the grace of a former dancer.

Please email over a headshot, resume, and links to reel (if avail) to linguafrancashortfilm@yahoo.com. Look forward to collaborating.

SPRING AWAKENING National Tour Open Call Auditions

SPRING AWAKENING
A NEW MUSICAL

OPEN CALL in NEW YORK

Seeking Male Singers ages 18-21 &
Female Singers ages 18-21 for
original cast members of the Non-Equity National Tour of
the Tony Award winning musical
SPRING AWAKENING

SUNDAY, APRIL18, 2010 AT 11AM
CHELSEA STUDIOS
151 WEST 26TH STREET, 5TH FLOOR

Bring a recent picture and resume and prepare a short
folk/alt. rock song. Bring sheet music.
Accompanist provided.

www.networkstour.com/jobs
Call 212-719-9393 x360 for more info

CHICAGO Broadway Auditions

CHICAGO The Musical, Maybelline New York and CVS/pharmacy
Provide a Once in a Life-time opportunity where the contest winner performs in CHICAGO on Broadway

An amazing contest has been created that will land the winner on the Broadway stage, in CHICAGO, the musical. Although it is called a "walk on", the winner will do much more than walk. Depending on the winner's ability, they will get to sing, dance and most certainly have lines in this once in a lifetime opportunity.

The contest, created in partnership with cosmetics giant Maybelline New York and CVS/pharmacy in cooperation with CHICAGO, sets the stage for a truly sensational experience.

Details for entering and auditioning details can be found at BeSensationalAndWin.com Deadline for entries is April 14th.

The Six finalists will be announced on April 16th on BeSensationalAndWin.com where the public will vote to determine the winner.

All are invited to enter the contest.

Zucker Public Relations
315 E 70 Street
New York, NY 10021
212 535-1616
zprny@aol.com

Adler Alumni Night for NOAH'S ARKANSAS

Ryan:

Johnny passed along your information, and said you'd be interested in hearing about my theater company's Alumni Night. Wide Eyed Productions was founded by two Adler Alum, myself, Trevor Dallier, and Melissa Johnson, among others. We have since accepted another company member and Stella Alum Colin McFadden and have worked with Dylan Jackson as well. Our first full length original production, Noah's Arkansas, is being Assistant Directed by Melissa and I am doing Sound Design as well as an original score. More info is to be had at www.wideeyedproductions.com.

Alumni night for Wide Eyed Productions' Noah's Arkansas is set for Weds., April 28th. Regularly $25, tickets will be $15 and will be released that evening to walk-ins on a first come, first served basis. As the show starts at 7:30, the box should be open by 6:45. All that Stella Grads (or current students) need to do to get the discount is say "Stella" at the box office when they arrive. Noah's Arkansas is being performed at the Wings Theater at 154 Christopher St. (1 train to Christopher and go west).

If you have any questions, feel free to email me or Amy Lee Pearsall, our House Manager (whom I've CC'd).
Thanks!
--
Trevor Dallier
Actor/Sound Designer
Wide Eyed Productions
IT Professional

www.wideeyedproductions.com
www.youtube.com/trevord