Audition Information

WE ARE SEEKING:
Equity and Non-Equity actors of any ethnicity and gender identity for various roles in the upcoming 2023-24 Season. See breakdown.

CONTRACT INFORMATION
SPT Tier 5 Contract $488/wk AEA minimum (pending approval)

IN PERSON AUDITION DATES
Tues Sept 5 and Wed Sept 6, 2023
10:00 AM – 6:00 PM (EST)
Lunch 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

AUDITION LOCATION
freeFall Theatre
6099 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, FL 33710
www.freefalltheatre.com

APPOINTMENTS
Equity members –  email Julia Rifino at julia@freefalltheatre.com to request an audition time. Indicate your preferred audition date, time frame, your union status, and your phone number and email address. If you do not have access to a computer, please call 727-498-5205 ext. 009 and leave a message for Julia with your preferred date and time frame (before lunch, after lunch, etc.)

Deadline for requesting an audition time is Sat Sept 2. Non-union actors are welcome to audition.  You may not request an appointment in advance, but attend either day and you’ll be seen throughout the day after Equity members are seen. 

PERSONNEL
Eric Davis, Artistic Director
Matthew McGee, Director “Miracle On 34th Street”
Michael Raabe, Music Director

PREPARATION
FOR PLAYS: Please prepare two contrasting one-minute monologues OR one two-minute monologue.
FOR MUSICALS: Please prepare a two-minute music selection in the style of one of our musicals OR two contrasting one-minute music cuts OR a one-minute music selection and a one-minute monologue. 
Bring a picture and resume, stapled together. 

Accompanist will be provided on Sept 5 and 6.  Bring sheet music in the correct key.  
If you are unable to attend in person, we are also accepting VIDEO SUBMISSIONS. 

VIDEO SUBMISSIONS
To submit via video submission for our season, please create a profile at:
https://bit.ly/freefall23-24seasonsubmissions
After making a profile you can upload your headshot, resume, and video, or link to YouTube or Vimeo.  Follow same content guidelines as in person auditions. Previously recorded material is fine.  Non-union actors are welcome to audition.  Deadline for online submissions is Sun Sept 10 @ 5pm

Use your name as the title of the video – do not use “freeFall” or “freeFall Theatre” in the video title.  Also, please make sure the video is set to unlisted or public.  You can upload or link to your video(s) in the profile you create as described above.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS
freeFall Theatre requires all of its employees and hired artists to be fully vaccinated.  All work will be in accordance with our COVID-19 Health and Safety Guidelines.

All rehearsals and performances will take place at freeFall Theatre in St. Petersburg, FL.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition. 

Non-union actors are welcome to audition.  Housing is provided for all out of town actors.

freeFall 2023-24 SEASON BREAKDOWN:

NIGHTSWEAT
A comedy by Natalie Symons
Based on an original idea by Matthew McGee
Director: Eric Davis
Rehearses: 9/12/23 – 10/6/23
Runs: 10/6/23 – 11/5/23

Synopsis:
When a recently canceled celebrity housewife and her entourage try to escape the media at an Airbnb in The Berkshires, things go terribly and hilariously wrong as the ladies find themselves in the middle of a manhunt for the Berkshire Strangler. The Hollywood elites find themselves triggered by mistaken identities, bad cell service, a set of twins, power outages, a missing alternator, and a mysterious landlady in this hilarious thriller from the writers that brought you The Buffalo Kings, The People Downstairs, and The Night Before.

ALL ROLES FOR NIGHTSWEAT ARE CAST. 
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MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET: A LIVE MUSICAL RADIO PLAY
Adapted from the 1947 Lux Radio broadcast by Lance Arthur Smith
Original songs and arrangements by Jon Lorenz
Director: Matthew McGee
Music Director: Michael Raabe
Rehearses: 11/7/23 – 11/24/23 
Runs: 11/24/23 – 12/24/23

Synopsis:
When a department store Santa claims he’s the real Kris Kringle, his case gets taken all the way to the Supreme Court, and a little girl’s belief makes all the difference. With live Foley effects and a score of beloved holiday carols, Miracle on 34th Street is a holiday classic that will melt even the most cynical of hearts.

Seeking:
KRISTOFER VAN LISBERG as KRIS KRINGLE – Male
Radio star. Santa Claus. Singing optional, F3-E4

CORDELIA RAGSDALE as DORIS WALKER – Female
Radio star. Macy’s public relations expert. Alto/mezzo-soprano C4-C#5. (Also plays Mother, Girl, and Others.) *must be able to sing tight jazz harmonies 

GRACIE DEMARCO as SUSAN WALKER – Female Age 8
Radio star. Her precocious daughter (Age 8). C4-C5

GRADY WILLIAMS as FRED GAILEY – Male
Radio star. Lawyer, looking for love and a miracle. Baritone/tenor Bb3-G4. (Also plays Alfred and Others.) *must be able to sing tight jazz harmonies

WALLACE AINSLEY as MALE CHARACTER ACTOR – Male
Radio star. Versatile. Baritone B3-E4. (Plays Drunken Santa, Shellhammer, Dr. Sawyer, Gimbel, R.H. Macy, Thomas Mara, Others.) *must be able to sing tight jazz harmonies

OLIVIA GLATT as FEMALE CHARACTER ACTOR – Female
Radio star. Versatile. Soprano C4-E5. (Plays Mortimer, 2nd Mother, Miss Prong, Dr. Pierce, Nurse, Charley, Mrs. Mara, Tommy, Others.) *must be able to sing tight jazz harmonies

ALEX MIALDO as ANNOUNCER, FOLEY ARTIST and JUDGE – ROLE IS CAST. Male
Plays keyboard. Bass/baritone F2-E4 –
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KURT VONNEGUT’S GOD BLESS YOU, MR. ROSEWATER 
Book and lyrics by Howard Ashman
Music by Alan Menken
Additional lyrics by Dennis Green
Director: Eric Davis
Music Director: Michael Raabe
Rehearses: 1/16/24 – 2/9/24 
Runs: 2/9/24 – 3/10/24

Synopsis:
Experience an outrageously funny fantasy about people, their pleasures and pains, a penetrating satire on insanity – a millionaire’s private lunacy. Featuring an infectious score by the Oscar-winning team of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman (Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Little Shop of Horrors) God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater is a legendary collaboration between one of America’s greatest novelists and the songwriting team behind some of the greatest hits of all time.

Seeking:
ELIOT ROSEWATER – Male, 35-45 (vocal range G2-F4) – A tall, bulky, slightly unkempt, often distracted sweetheart of a man. Heir to Rosewater fortune, and President of the Rosewater Foundation. Optimistic, quixotic, a bit insane – troubled by darker past.

SYLVIA ROSEWATER – Female, 35-45 (vocal range F3-B4) – Eliot Rosewater’s wife. Nervous, attractive, well-bred and well-intentioned.
Also seeking an ENSEMBLE OF 5 ACTORS to play the following roles…

SENATOR ROSEWATER, MR. MCALLISTER, NORMAN MUSHARI, MARY MOODY, DAWN LEONARD, DIANA MOON GLAMPERS, CHARLEY WARMERGRAM, DELBERT PEACH, NOYES FINNERTY, JEROME HAYES, PSYCHIATRIST, KILGORE TROUT and various other roles. 
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NOLLYWOOD DREAMS
By Jocelyn Bioh
Director: TBD
Rehearses: 3/26/24 – 4/12/24
Runs: 4/12/24 – 5/12/24

Synopsis:
It’s the nineties in Lagos, Nigeria, and the “Nollywood” film industry is exploding as the second-highest producing film industry in the world. This laugh-out-loud romantic comedy follows the story of Ayamma, a young woman who works with her sister at their parent’s travel agency, who dreams of leaving her job and becoming a star. When she auditions for a new film by Nigeria’s hottest director, tension flares with his former leading lady, and sparks fly with Nollywood’s biggest heartthrob.

Seeking:
(*all characters are of West African descent) 
AYAMMA OKAFOR – Female, 20’s/early 30’s – Aspiring Nigerian film actress but isn’t very good. Works as a travel agent/secretary at her parents’ office. She is a big dreamer and hopes for a better life for herself as a famous actress.

DEDE OKAFOR – Female, 20’s/30’s – Ayamma’s older sister.  She works (lazily) at her parents’ travel agency. She loves all things pop culture: talk shows, soap operas, and celebrities, she loves it all. Close with Ayamma but also serves as Ayamma’s truth serum when need be.

GBENGA EZIE – Male, 30’s – Rising Nigerian film director. Is known to be rich and has studied in America but harbors dangerous secrets to his success.

WALE OWUSU – Male, 20’s/30’s – Nigeria’s hottest rising star. He is half Ghanaian and half Nigerian. He is constantly being hit on by women but they rarely ever get to know him or his story. Quietly confident,

FAYOLA OGUNLEYE – Female, 20’s/30’s  – Wildly referred to as “The Nigerian Halle Berry with Tina Turner Legs” as she is very beautiful and very sexy. She is pompous and arrogant and will say anything to get her way regardless of how it makes her look. She views Ayamma as her prime competition. 

ADENIKEH – Female – late 30’s/Early 40’s – The Nigerian “Oprah Winfrey”

TELEVISION ANNOUNCER/MOVIE TRAILER VOICE – 20’s and/or older; male – is the voice behind the television and on the movie trailer for “The Comfort Zone.”

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freeFall has a rich tradition of telling varied stories and working with a diverse group of artists from many different perspectives of race, culture, religion, sexual orientation, and gender.  We believe in the value of empathetically experiencing those perspectives through stories.  We also practice and advocate non-traditional and diversity-forward casting practices to bring new perspectives to familiar roles.