Description:

Bluebird Arts is now accepting video submissions for the non-equity spring production of PROOF by David Auburn, directed by Luda Lopatina Solomon.

Seeking 4 principle actors and 2 understudies. BIPOC performers are strongly encouraged to submit for the roles of HAL and CLAIRE. Submissions will be reviewed as received and actors will be contacted for in-person callbacks, held Tuesday 11/28 and Wednesday 11/29 from 6:00-9:30pm at Theater Wit. If selected for callbacks, performers will be contacted for a 30 minute time slot on one of the two days.

Submission deadline is Monday November 27 at 5:00pm.

Videos should include:
Slate:
-First and last name
-Preferred pronouns
-Height
-Names of plays and characters of your monologues
Material:
2 contrasting contemporary monologues, no longer than 60 seconds each

Description:
Proof is the story of an enigmatic young woman, Catherine, her manipulative sister, their brilliant father, and an unexpected suitor. They are all pieces of the puzzle in the search for the truth behind a mysterious mathematical proof. Catherine grieves over the loss of her father, a famous mathematician who had become a legend at the local university for solving complicated proofs, and for suffering from dementia. Just as Catherine begins to give in to her fear that she, too, might suffer from her father’s condition, Catherine’s older sister Claire returns home to help “settle” family affairs and Hal, one of the father’s old students, starts to poke around the house. What Hal discovers in an old speckle-bound notebook brings to light a buried family secret. It tests the sisters’ kinship as well as the romantic feelings growing between Catherine and Hal. This poignant drama about love and reconciliation unfolds on the back porch of a house settled in a suburban university town, that is, like David Auburn’s writing, both simple and elegant. (pulitzer.org)

CLAIRE (29) — Catherine’s older sister. Unlike Catherine, Claire is not a genius, but she has worked hard to achieve her successes and has been supporting her father and sister financially for some time.

CATHERINE (25)—Daughter of Robert and sister of Claire. She delayed her college education so she could stay at home with her father while he was ill. After his death, she finds herself caught between where she wants her life to go and where it has been.

ROBERT (50+)—Father of Catherine and Claire. A retired professor of math at the University of Chicago. Robert left his position when mental illness overtook him (at one point, he believed aliens were communicating to him through the Dewey Decimal system). Robert also suffers from Graphomania, meaning he has an obsessive need to write.

HAL (28) —Former student of Robert’s. He has a great deal of respect for Robert as a mathematician and once dreamed he would contribute to mathematics in similar ways, but now feels he is too old to contribute at all.