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Seeking Non-Equity actors and understudies for roles in Buffalo Theatre Ensemble 2024-25 season

SEEKING
Non-Equity actors and understudies for roles in Buffalo Theatre Ensemble 2024-25 season (see breakdown).

We encourage participation by performers of all races and ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit. If you are in need of an ASL interpreter, please give the theater no less than one week's notice to secure a qualified person.

BUFFALO THEATRE ENSEMBLE 2024-25 SEASON

THE OUTSIDER
by Paul Slade Smith
First rehearsal week of : 8/06/2024
Preview: 09/05/2024
Opening:09/06/2024
Closing: 10/06/2024

SEEKING:
Paige Caldwell: age 20s-40s. Page is a professional pollster, a smart, confident woman with a professional’s view of politics: She sees it as a series of contests to be won.

Louise Peakes: CAST age 30s-50s. Louise is a “temp,” hired as the governor’s executive assistant, a job she mistakes to be assistant governor. She is personable, likable, impressively confident, and entirely inept.

Rachel Parsons: CAST age 30s. Rachel is a television reporter. She has the looks of an on-air correspondent, and the heart of a journalist.

Dave Riley: age 30s-40s. The Chief of Staff to the new governor, Dave is very smart, but despite years of experience in government, endearingly earnest and naïve on the subject of politics.

Ned Newley: CAST age 50s-60s.Ned was lieutenant governor who has just become governor due to the resignation of his predecessor who left office because of a scandal. Ned is a person of impressive ability, but a complete lack of confidence who had no desire for this job.

Arthur Vance: CAST age 50s-60s. Arthur is a preeminent political consultant for many successful national politicians. He is overbearing and overconfident, but 100% genuine. He has volunteered to take on the governor as a challenge.

A.C. Petersen: age 30s-40s. A.C. is the TV camera man. He’s a man who prefers to go about his work unnoticed. He has a low tolerance for idiocy and would rather not interact with anyone. His near silence makes him seem a bit of a mystery. He has few lines until the end when he speaks up.

THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY
by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon
First rehearsal week of 10/14/2024
Preview: 11/14/2024
Opening: 11/15/2024
Closing: 12/15/2024

SEEKING:
MRS. REYNOLDS— CAST Late 50s, early 60s, the housekeeper at Pemberley, knows all and sees all, has been on staff since Darcy was a child, a mother figure to the household.

BRIAN—A footman, in love with technology and inventions, sincere and earnest, perhaps a bit arrogant.

CASSIE—The new housemaid, a village girl, an orphan who came from less than nothing. The opportunity to work at Pemberley means security she has never had, and she takes this job very seriously. She is sometimes maybe too eager and a bit headstrong.

MR. FITZWILLIAM DARCY—Head and owner of Pemberley.

MRS. ELIZABETH DARCY—Mistress of Pemberley.

GEORGE WICKHAM—Grew up at Pemberley, son of the former steward, once a soldier, has been in and out of trouble (of his own making) his whole life.

LYDIA WICKHAM—A bright, warm, and charming personality, if sometimes a bit much, eloped with Wickham at 15 and is now somewhat trapped in this marriage.

NATIVE GARDENS
by Karen Zacharius
First rehearsal week of: 12/30/2024
Preview: 01/30/2025
Opening: 01/31/2025
Closing: 03/02/2025

NOTE: there is a verbal argument between the two sets of neighbors; Tania's water breaks and she's in active labor. She goes to the ground and there is a black out; we then hear the cry of a baby.

SEEKING:
TANIA DEL VALLE: Female, early 30s; smart, likable, positive, passionate, highly-energized, pregnant PhD candidate and gardener.

PABLO DEL VALLE: Male, early 30s; smart, likable, ambitious, savvy young attorney.

VIRGINIA BUTLEY: CAST Female, 60 – mid-70s; smart, likable, assertive, direct, no-nonsense engineer.

FRANK BUTLEY: CAST Male, 60 – mid-70s; smart, likable, excitable, caring, detail-oriented federal employee and gardener. Extras: Surveyor, building examiner, landscapers, silent roles in vignettes between scenes