LASC - Open Auditions for "Heroes of the Fourth Turning"
Ed Sengstack
Los Altos Stage Company is holding open auditions for the third production of our 2023-2024 season, Heroes of the Fourth Turning, by Will Arbery.
Directed by Gary Landis
On the edge of the Wyoming wilderness, the last guests linger late into the night at a celebration for the new President of their conservative Catholic college. Reunited after seven years, the friends toss back whiskey and name-check Thomas Aquinas, Hanna Arendt, Steve Bannon, even Bojack Horseman, tracking their distance from each other and the people they thought they’d be by now. Will Arbery’s portrait of white conservatives trying to make sense of where they, and their country, stand is an incisive and personal look at the intelligence and despair of the Catholic right.
Auditions: Sunday, September 10, 2023, from 10am-2pm.
Callbacks: Sunday, September 17, from 10am-1pm.
Where: Grant Park, 1575 Holt Ave, Los Altos.
Rehearsals: Weekly: Sundays through Thursdays, 7-10pm until tech and performance weeks, which will be evenings from 6-10pm.
Performance Dates: Thursdays through Sundays, January 25-February 4; Wednesdays Through Sundays, Februar 7-18. Wednesday-Saturday performances start at 8pm. Sundays at 3pm.
Actor Acknowledgement: All roles are volunteer and non-AEA. A $15 meal per diem will be provided for rehearsal and performance days to which the actor is called up to a total amount of $500, distributed after the closing performance.
Audition requirements: Please prepare a two-minute contemporary monologue.
It is preferable that you audition in person, but if you are unable to make auditions, video submissions will be considered. Please fill out the audition form and send your video to a...@losaltosstage.org.
Callbacks must be in person.
Please sign up for a slot on our SignUpGenius, and fill out our audition form. You will need both to audition.
Audition Sign Up: Please choose a time to audition using our SignUpGenius here.
Online Audition Form: Please fill out Los Altos Stage Company’s virtual audition form here.
Please forward questions to LASC’s interim production manager, Amy Baker at a...@losaltosstage.org.
Roles: Los Altos Stage sincerely encourages people of all ethnicities, races, and gender identities to audition. Please bear in mind the author’s note on casting Heroes of the Fourth Turning: “This play is, in part, about whiteness and the way it operates in America. Each character is implicated. That’s not to say that certain roles (particularly Justin and Kevin) can’t be cast in a way that evokes “passing” or assimilation, but bear in mind that this is a white environment, and these characters are speaking to each other accordingly.”
● Justin - male, reads 38
● Emily - female, reads 25
● Kevin - male, reads 28
● Teresa - female, reads 29
● Gina - female, reads 64