[Capdist-auditions] Happy Birthday Wanda June Auditions 3/3

[Mike Lake]

We at Will Kempe's Players are looking for two child actors (1 male 1
female/12-16) to fill two
roles in our first production of the 2018 season, Happy Birthday Wanda
June, by Kurt Vonnegut.

In his first published play, Kurt Vonnegut finds a powerful vehicle for his
tragicomical
imagination. When the great hunter Harold Ryan- missing and presumed dead-
returns from South America after eight years, his wife is aghast and his
son is enchanted. Happy Birthday Wanda June is a play about expectations
vs. reality, ideas of masculinity, and what it means to be a hero.

Available roles:

Wanda June- (female, 10 years old) The play’s title character, ten year old
Wanda June, is
dead, hit by an ice cream truck on her birthday, and is now in heaven. With
her bubbly attitude
and wisdom beyond her years, she isn't upset about being dead one bit.

The actor playing Wanda June must read young, but an older actor may be
considered.
We may also consider casting an understudy for this role.

Paul Ryan- (male, 13 years old) The son of Penelope and Harold Ryan. Paul
was only four
years old when his his father disappeared. He idolizes the idea of his
father, but is devastated
by who his father reveals himself to be.
Paul has a wide range of emotional depth that may require an actor a bit
older than the stated in the description.

Those considered will be asked to return for callbacks to read with Penelope
and Harold.

Auditions will be held at the Washington Ave location of the Albany County
Public Library,161
Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12210 on Saturday, March 3rd, 2018 between
1:00pm and
3:00pm in the auditorium.

WKP is a touring company and performances are; one week in May 11-13th at
the Arts Center
of the Capital Region
265 River St, Troy, and a second week in June at the Albany Barn theater 56
2nd St, Albany.

NO FEE!

Please contact us at willkempesplayers at gmail.com “Happy Birthday Wanda June
Auditions” in
the subject line, to schedule an appointment. Auditions will consist of
reading provided sides
from the play, short monologues encouraged but not mandatory.

Thank you!
Michael Lake
Will Kempe's Players Co-founder

Happy Birthday Wanda June Co-director
willkempesplayers at gmail.com
Will Kempe’s Players Cooperative is a new company based out of Troy, NY
with the intention of
putting on theatrical works not only by Shakespeare, but also his
contemporaries in productions
that are both integral and idiomatic to the Elizabethan era. We also intend
to produce new works
relevant to our experiences in the current times and begin a narrative of
regenerative creativity
in a world we feel could benefit from it. “...and we’ll strive to please
you every day.”

Thanks,
Michael Lake
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