AUDITION INSTRUCTIONS: Actors are asked to sign up (sign-up sheet on the Department callboard, by 223 Fine
Arts Complex - photo right or below.) for a private monologue 5-minute slot 1:00-2:30pm.
Auditioners will then be called in a group to read with other actors from 2:30-5:00pm.
Auditions will be in the "Green Room"; Theatre 101 at the base of the stairs to the left of the Salisbury as compared to the Great Hall
/ downstairs from the sign-up callboard.
Please bring a completed copy of the Theatre & Film UAF Audition Form to your monologue appointment. Blank forms will be available at the auditions.
Fairbanks community members and UAF students are encouraged to audition.
Actors should read the audition sides which are available in digital form only via
our website at https://uaf.edu/theatrefilm/auditions/ . Those wanting to read the whole script should contact Rachel Blackwell <blackwell.rachel@gmail.com>
REHEARSALS: will depend on the availability of cast members, but Rachel would initially like
to have rehearsals on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursday evenings beginning
January 18, with a few table readings in late November/early December. Times are
flexible, and not all of the cast members will have to be at every rehearsal. Rehearsals
will become more rigorous, complex, and demanding of time as opening night approaches.
PERFORMANCES: Friday February 24 & March 3, Saturday February 25 & March 4 and Sunday, March 5.
THE ROLES: 4 total (2 female, 2 male) - Actors of all ethnicities and gender identities are encouraged to audition.
Character descriptions:
Adam is a nerdy, awkward English major working part-time in a museum as a security guard.
Adam is shy, intellectual, indecisive, decisive, amiable and a nerd; a man wanting
to change and develop his life. He is in his early twenties.
Evelyn, an art student working on her thesis project. Evelyn is attractive, arty, sophisticated, charismatic, cruel and caustic. She preys
emotionally and sexually on Adam. Evelyn, an art student working on her thesis project. She doesn't like art that isn't
"true." She is in her early twenties.
Phillip, Adam’s boorish friend. Phillip is supercilious, aggressive, amiable and quick witted. He is a good friend
to Adam. He is in his early twenties.
Jenny is Phillip's fiancée, who years before had an unrequited crush on clueless Adam. Jenny is a conventional small town girl who is happy, vulnerable and confused; she
is out of her depth when she meets Evelyn. She is in her early twenties.
Audition Sides:
Side 1: Phillip, Jenny, Adam, and Evelyn
Side 2: Adam and Evelyn
Side 3: Phillip and Adam
Side 4: Evelyn and Jenny
Full Length Drama (about 110 minutes)