[Capdist-auditions] Submissions for CLARKSTON @ Bridge Street Theatre

[Steven Patterson]

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*Casting Notice – CLARKSTON by Samuel D. Hunter*



*Bridge Street Theatre*

*44 West Bridge Street*

*Catskill, NY 12414*

*bridgest.org <http://bridgest.org>*



Jake and Chris meet while working the night shift at the Costco in
Clarkston, Washington. Jake has fled his privileged life in Connecticut
after being diagnosed with a fatal illness. Chris, a would-be writer with a
meth addicted mom, is stuck in what he fears is a dead-end life in a
dead-end town. Their tentative attraction develops into something deeper,
scarier, and more intimate in Samuel D. Hunter’s heartbreaking and
ultimately hopeful companion piece to BST’s 2021 production of LEWISTON.



Director: Daniel Elihu Kramer

Special Appearance Contract: AEA $300/week, non-union $280/week.

Housing available on-site for out-of-area performers



*Searching for AEA and non-union actors for the following roles: *



*JAKE *– early to mid-twenties, male, openly gay. Small, thin, nearly
delicate. From Connecticut. Privileged background, liberal arts education,
recently diagnosed with a degenerative terminal illness. A distant
descendant of William Clark of the Lewis & Clark expedition. His
self-involvement and almost unconscious sense of class privilege and
entitlement can make him insensitive at times.



*CHRIS *– early to mid-twenties, male, gay but not out. Tall, broad, but
not movie-star attractive by any means. A small-town boy, born in Lewiston,
ID, just across the Snake River from Clarkston, where he’s lived almost his
entire life. He’s never seen the ocean. An aspiring writer, he hopes to get
into the MFA program at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Living on his own,
apart from his mother, who’s a recovering meth addict.



*TRISHA *– Chris’s mother, early forties, female. Working as a waitress at
the local Denny’s, a chain smoker. A recovering meth addict – clean now for
six months (she claims), but she’s relapsed before and it’s perpetually
tenuous. Desperate to retain some kind of relationship with her estranged
son. She sees them as a “team” and hopes he’ll decide to move back “home”.



Rehearsals begin at the theatre in Catskill on April 12, 2022

Previews Thursday April 28

Opens Friday April 29

Runs April 28 – May 8

8 performances

Performances Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30pm, Sundays at 2:00pm



For consideration, submit picture and resume to casting at bridgest.org by
February 18.

Selected applicants will receive sides for video submissions.

Callbacks, if necessary, will be via Zoom.
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