Auditions
Tennessee Women's Theater Project announces auditions for our February-March 2012 production, the regional premiere of Jennifer Fawcett's The Disappearance of Janey Jones.
Roles available:
Janey Jones – age 28
Young Janey – age 8
Marion (Janey's mother) – mid 50s. In scenes depicting the past she is 9 and 16
June (Janey's grandmother) – audience sees her from age late 30s to 70s
Harry (Janey's grandfather) – audience sees him from age late 30s to mid 50s
Denys (Janey's boyfriend) – late 20s/early 30s
Doctor/Fortune teller – female, age unspecified
Director's note: Actors need not be the exact age specified, but must be able to pass for that approximate age. I urge everyone to read the script, which is available online at Jennifer Fawcett's web site. This link opens the pdf.
Audition dates: January 6 & 7 (callbacks, if necessary, January 10)
Audition time: 6:00 - 9:00 PM.
e-mail chris-at-twtp-dot-org to schedule an audition time, specifying the role desired, and the date you prefer to come.
Audition Location:
Second Presbyterian Church
3511 Belmont Blvd.
Nashville 37215-1607
Park in the lot at the corner of Graybar & Richards, follow signs to audition.
The play: Janey Jones can’t get out of bed. She’s lost her job, her boyfriend has dumped her, and now she’s on a crash course into the same mental torment that swallowed her grandmother. Desperate and alone, she watches past and present collide as her room is invaded by a fortune teller, her doctor, her dead grandparents, her ex, her mother and more. Can she find a future beyond the darkness, a life worth getting out of bed to explore?
The Disappearance of Janey Jones explores the shifting mental landscape of depression and questions the role of genetics, anti-depressants and self-control, not only for the person suffering from the disease but for the loved ones around them.
Production dates: Opens Friday, February 24 and runs Thursday through Sunday, March 11, with two Sunday afternoon and two Tuesday morning matinees. We perform at the Z. Alexander Looby Theater, 2301 Rosa L Parks Blvd., Nashville.
Rehearsals: 1st read-through January 24. The rehearsal schedule will be locked once the production is cast. Please note that there may be some daytime rehearsals.
Pay rate: TWTP is a professional company; pay is $15 per hour for rehearsal and $500 weekly during production weeks.
Bring: head shot and resume. The audition will consist of readings from the script. No need to prepare a monologue; please see the director's note about reading the play.
e-mail chris-at-twtp-dot-org to schedule an audition time, specifying the role desired, and the date you prefer to come.
