Description:

Haven Chicago is seeking talent for 2024's Director's Haven 7 project.

The shows we are casting are SKYFLINT, KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, and THE SIREN SONG OF STEPHEN JAY GOULD (All three breakdowns are listed below)
       
Please review the below production details and contact awalkercasting@gmail.com for audition instructions if interested and available.

KRAPP'S LAST TAPE
Theatre
Director's Haven 7 / Haven Chicago
Performing at The Den Theatre
Non-Equity
Artistic Director: Ian Damont Martin
Executive Director: Angela Salinas
Director: Faith Hart
Playwright: Samuel Beckett
Casting Director: Alexis Walker
Audition and Callbacks: Auditions and Callbacks will be conducted virtually
First Rehearsal: Early-Mid February after 2/9/2024
First Tech: 3/13/2024
First Preview: 3/25/2024
Opening: 3/27/2024
Closing: 4/10/2024
Rate of Pay: $200
Location: Chicago, IL

DEADLINE: TBD
PLEASE LIST ACTORS' VOCAL PROFICIENCY- Some singing is required but does not need to be good
PLEASE LIST STAGE COMBAT PROFICIENCY- There is a choreographed fall to the ground

[CHARACTER]
[KRAPP] 50s to 70s to play 69 years old. White male, gray haired, laborious walk. Near sighted and unshaven. A tragic clown and failed writer, isolated from society and unaccustomed to human contact. MUST BE WILLING TO EAT TWO BANANAS ONSTAGE PER PERFORMANCE.

STORYLINE: A dying writer revisits a tape he recorded at age 39 and finds a vast chasm between the man he is and the man he was. Beckett's critically acclaimed Krapp's Last Tape is a meditation on loneliness, failure, and the technology of memory.

SKYFLINT
Theatre
Director's Haven 7 / Haven Chicago
Performing at The Den Theatre
Non-Equity
Artistic Director: Ian Damont Martin
Executive Director: Angela Salinas
Director: Gaby Labotka
Music Director: TBD
Fight and Movement Director: Gaby Labotka
Puppets: TBD
Intimacy Director: TBD
Playwright: Cassandra Rose
Casting Director: Alexis Walker
Audition: Online
Callback: 1/16/2024 - 1/22/2024
First Rehearsal: 2/5/2024
First Tech: 3/13/2024
First Preview: 3/25/2024
Opening: 3/27/2024
Closing: 4/10/2024
Rate of Pay: $200

Location: Chicago, IL

DEADLINE: TBD
Initial auditions will be conducted via Tape Submissions. Potential Virtual or In-Person Callbacks TBD.

NOT REQUIRED BUT PLEASE SHARE IF YOU HAVE THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE: ANY INSTRUMENT (PREFERABLY: GUITAR, MANDOLIN, VIOLIN, BANJO, OR SQUEEZEBOX ACCORDION) SINGING, PUPPETRY, AND STAGE COMBAT PROFICIENCY

[CHARACTERS] *
[BEATRIX ARDEN] (open gender/open ethnicity, late teens):
Our Skyflint. She knows she can control lightning but refuses to use this ability. Especially after she watched her mother die in a thunderstorm when she was just a little girl. She jumps on the chance to join the Good Ship Piglet as the Oddbody, the lowest-ranking member of the crew, just for a chance to leave the ground behind. And to outrun anybody from the Magistrate that might be hunting for a Skyflint like her. Luckily, this position allows her to form a new family as she peels potatoes with Ruperta, repairs electrical couplings with Enoch, takes stock of medical supplies with Dokky, and learns sword fighting from Lindsay. She will form more than a passing affection for multiple members of the crew.

[MADAME GEORGETTE] (open gender/open ethnicity, 60s):
The leader and financier of the expedition. Recently widowed by Wharton, hence the need for a change of pace. She's always been a dreamer, wondering what things looked like in the atmosphere, stratosphere, and above-the-sphere itself. Ever optimistic, she always strives to see the best in people, even when they might not deserve it. She is secretly a woman consumed by grief, to the point that she's willing to risk the entire crew's safety to fly all the way up to heaven.

[LINDSAY PALMERSTON] (open gender/open ethnicity, early to mid 30s):
Madame Georgette's First Mate, second in command, and longtime personal secretary. He often takes on a tempered, level-headed approach to all of Madame Georgette's whims. He's an excellent swordsman and loves to train others to be able to match his enthusiasm. Lindsay immediately takes Trix under his wing, which makes his betrayal later all the more painful.

[DR. IVES ENOCH- "DOKKY"] (open gender/open ethnicity, late 20s to early 30s):
A medical doctor who loves to draw incredibly accurate drawings of strange insects and other little wiggly creatures for their collection. They can't wait to see what's living up in the cloud cover. Think Dr. Stephen Maturin in Master and Commander. Sometimes their love of natural wonders puts them in mortal danger. Especially when it comes to the wonder of the Sky Squid. Married to Beryl.

[BERYL TRAHERN] (open gender/open ethnicity, Mid to late 30s):
That blue-collar person who refuses to let anything stay broken. Or fixed. "Fixed" is just a pitstop on the road to innovation. Has a TBD disability and would be played by an actor with a similar disability. Whatever accessibility aids they use, they designed them themself. also made the Good Ship Piglet a reality and could fix it in their sleep... provided it wasn't sabotaged by someone else onboard. Married to Dokky.

[RUPERTA ZULEIKA] (open gender/open ethnicity, late teens to early 20s):
Thanks to being Madame Georgette's cousin, once or twice removed, Ruperta was able to cut a deal with the Magistrate. She either became the Piglet's cook or spent seven years in prison for fencing stolen goods. Now she's trying her best to invent three meals a day for the entire crew and making her second chance worth it.

* Though gender specific pronouns are included in the character descriptions, we are open to all gender identities for all roles. We can edit the script to match the performer.

THE SIREN SONG OF STEPHEN JAY GOULD
Theatre
Director's Haven 7 / Haven Chicago
Performing at The Den Theatre
Non-Equity
Artistic Director: Ian Damont Martin
Executive Director: Angela Salinas
Director: Leanna Oliveira
Playwright: Benjamin Bettenbender
Casting Director: Alexis Walker
Audition: 1/9/2024 - 1/15/2024 via Self Tape Submission
Callback: 1/16/2024 - 1/23/2024
First Rehearsal: 2/5/2024
First Tech: 3/13/2024
First Preview: 3/25/2024
Opening: 3/27/2024
Closing: 4/10/2024
Rate of Pay: $200
Location: Chicago, IL

Initial auditions will be conducted via Tape Submissions. Potential Virtual or In-Person Callbacks, TBD.

PLEASE LIST STAGE COMBAT PROFICIENCY- There is a choreographed fall to the ground

This project contains mentions of multiple distressing topics including but not limited to self-harm, suicide, and death.

[CHARACTERS]*
[WOMAN] Unnamed (Open age / gender / ethnicity) A lovesick, sarcastic inquirer having trouble moving on from a past partner.

[MAN] Unnamed (Open age / gender / ethnicity) Down on his luck carpet warehouse employee who can't seem to catch a break.

STORYLINE: A man lands on a woman after trying to throw himself off a bridge in a botched suicide attempt. On the quiet riverbank, as he attends to her minor injury, he learns that she too was planning to end her life over a broken heart. An argument ensues over the relative seriousness of their respective losses, the nature of existence, and the harmful effects of the essays of biologist Stephen Jay Gould. Will this unexpected collision lead each of them back to the dark place where they started, or will they start anew?

*We are committed to sharing the stories from those from all walks of life. Though gender specific pronouns are included in the character descriptions, we are open to all-identifying genders for all roles. In addition, we are open to all ages, ethnicities, and disabilities.