Auditions
Return to BlueFin
by D.L. Coburn
The Bay Theatre, 275 West Street, Annapolis, Maryland
Lucinda Merry-Browne, Artistic DirectorJanet Luby, Co- Artistic Director
SPT (approval/salary level pending; 2008-09 minimum weekly salary: $218)
| Director | Lucinda Merry-Browne |
|---|---|
| First Rehearsal | March 22, 2010 |
| Opens | April 30, 2010 |
| Closes | June 5, 2010 |
| Regular Performance Dates | Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, Sunday afternoons |
Audition Dates
- Saturday, February 20, 2010, 3:00 PM-6:00 PM
- Saturday, February 27, 2010, 1:00 PM-3:00 PM
Please bring your headshot and resume, stapled together. Auditions will be cold readings from the script. Actors with a visual impairment, please notify audition coordinator to receive sides in advance. All roles paid.
Synposis
The Bay Theatre is honored to have this Pulitzer Prize winning playwright stage the world premiere of this play. Nothing is more intoxicating than a noble cause - and Peck Wilson is a man with a cause: to restore the Chesapeake Bay to a pristine glory not seen in over a hundred years. He sees crystalline clear water teeming with dense populations of rockfish, shad, bluefin crabs, and oysters. But most of all, he sees oysters - beds as thick as a skipjack's beam - because it's the extraordinary filtering capacity of these remarkable creatures that will bring about his vision. But it is this very quest for clarity in the bay that leads him into dangerous and uncharted waters in his own life and to a waterman's bar in the town of Bluefin named "Gertie's," a place of honest-to-God belly laughs and a sense of tragic loss in the air. Welcome to Bluefin.
Male Roles:
| Role | Age | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Peck | Mid 30's | Well spoken, educated, freshly scrubbed look to him |
| Bear | Late 50's | A big man rugged and weathered. A local waterman, intelligent |
| Birdie | Mid 60's | A captain from Smith Island. He has the air of a mirthful sage |
| Ace | Late 20's | A young waterman. Jovial, feisty |
| Wayne | Early 40's | A local waterman with the worn look of a failed man |
Female Roles:
| Role | Age | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Gertie | Early 50's | Attractive but weathered. Worked her entire life in a waterman’s bar |
| Miss Meg | 70's | Loves a good drink, Alert yet prone to melancholy |
For an appointment, leave a message on the theater audition line at (410) 268-1333, option 4 or e-mail Janet Luby or our main office. Specify preferred audition date and time. Please state in the body of the e-mail whether you are AEA or not as many non-equity actors read these notices (Non Union can come standby). Appointments will be confirmed by e-mail. Please bring AEA card to audition.
Sides will be provided at the audition. Visually-impaired performers may request an advance copy of sides when making an audition appointment.
Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.