Seeking Comic Physical Actorexpired
Liars & Believers
United States, Massachusetts, TBA
Posted on: Oct. 20, 2024
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Description:
Full job description
Liars and Believers is seeking 1-2 actors for our new comedy about the end of the world. The actors will help devise the new show and then tour it with us over the next 24 months. We are seeking actors of any gender, race, ability or ethnicity. Under represented performers are strongly encouraged to apply.
SHOW DESCRIPTION
This new show will grapple with the coming apocalypse (in its many variations), and find hopeful solace through comedy. The show will use clown, puppetry, physical comedy, mask, and live music. It may be in gibberish. It will be a flexible touring show that creates large spectacle.
We will begin devising the show in December 2024. Using collaborative improvisation, we will explore ideas, forms, techniques, and songs. In a series of 3-week workshops, we will train and devise the script, with a premiere in fall 2025. We will revise and remount the show through winter and spring 2026, with a plan to go to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in summer 2026.
Qualifications:
ROLE DESCRIPTION
We are seeking actors with great physicality, stamina, and who play well with others. Experience in clown, commedia, mask, acrobatics are a plus. Playing an instrument is a plus, or the willingness to learn a simple musical instrument is essential. Actors must have excellent improvisation skills and a willingness to leap before looking. Since we build the story together, our company depends on generating trust in order to allow for authentic voice and artistic expression. A great sense of humor, professional work ethic, and deep compassion are essential!
Dates (may be subject to change)December 2-19, 2025 workshop
January 19 - February 8, 2025 rehearsals
April 29 - May 22, 2025 rehearsals with work in progress showing
October 19 - November 23, 2025 (rehearsals including short workshop premiere)
January - February 2026 3-wk revising workshop (tentative)
April 29 - May 2026 rehearsal with world premiere in Boston (tentative)
July 2026 rehearse (tentative)
August 2026 Edinburgh Fringe Festival (tentative)
Salary: We pay $25/hr. Approximately $500/rehearsal week and $1,000/touring week.
Tour transportation, housing, and food will be provided.
Actors must have local (Greater Boston) housing for rehearsals and workshops.
For more info on LaB, what we believe, and how we work, please click here.
How To Apply:
AUDITION PREP
Please prepare a 1-minute comic monologue and a 1-minute movement something.
Please bring a headshot/photo and resume. It's ok if you don’t have a resume or a lot of experience. Give it a try!
LOGISTICS
Auditions: PLEASE NOTE DATES HAVE CHANGED FROM ORIGINAL POSTING DUE TO DEMAND
Monday October 28th, 6-9pm
Tuesday October 29th 6-9pm
Callbacks: TBD
To reserve an audition slot please fill out this google form.
Apply by:
October 26, 2024
Salary:
$25 /
About this Organization:
Liars & Believers is an ensemble company that creates original live shows with music, movement, mask, puppet, video, clown, live bands, aerialists … pretty much anything we can get our hands on.
We collaboratively develop our plays over 12-24 months of improvisation, experimentation, and training. We premiere in Greater Boston, then continually tour and revise our shows. LAB is the only Boston theatre company touring original work regionally and internationally. LAB works almost exclusively with local artists, training them and paying a fair living wage.
Liars & Believers recognizes our privilege and our limitations as a white theatre company. We are committed to changing, through inclusive and equitable practices and by holding space for diverse voices. This work is centered around practiced power sharing. It includes partnerships with BIPOC-led organizations, diversifying our company and our board, continual anti-racism education, and active participation in decentralizing European concepts of arts & culture.
Application Deadline:
Oct. 26, 2024
Job Duration:
Open ended
Job Category:
Performing
Artistic Discipline:
Theater, Dance, Circus, Performance Art
Payment status:
Paid
Job Location:
United States,
Massachusetts,
TBA
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