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| The Tempest Auditions-Austin, TX - Casting ID # 1576148 | |||
| Project Type | Live Event | Submission Type | Open Call |
| Location | Austin, TX | Union | Non-union |
| Rate/Pay | n/a | Release Date | 07-16-18 |
| Audition Date | 12-19-18 | Submission deadline | 12-16-18 |
| Casting Category | Theatre - Non-Equity | ||
| For twelve years, Prospero, the exiled Duke of Milan, has been living on a remote, uninhabited Mediterranean Island with only his daughter, Miranda (a young girl who has grown up seeing no other human being but her father), Caliban (the son of the island’s former ruler, a witch named Sycorax), and Ariel (an “airy spirit” who has served as Prospero’s servant). Prospero has learned the magical arts through deep meditative study, and uses his supernatural powers to exert his authority and influence events. | |||
| Role # 1 Alonso |  |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Is the King of Naples. An enemy of Prospero’s, he accepted Antonio’s proposition to help the latter usurp Prospero’s throne in return for Antonio’s swearing Milan’s fealty to Naples. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 2 Sebastian | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Is the brother of Alonso, the King of Naples. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 3 Prospero | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Is the deposed Duke of Milan. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 4 Antonio | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Is Prospero’s brother. He usurped the throne of Milan from his brother with Alonso’s help, willingly abandoning the sovereignty of the Dukedom to Naples. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 5 Ferdinand | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Is Alonso’s son. Cast up on his own on the island after the wreck, he is convinced that his father has drowned, not least by Ariel’s songs. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 6 Gonzalo | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Is an old man, an honest counselor of Alonso’s. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 7 Adrian | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Is a lord in Alonso’s suite. He appreciates the climate of the island where they have landed, and questions Gonzalo’s scholarship. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 8 Francisco | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Is a lord in Alonso’s suite. He attempts to comfort the King with the hope that Ferdinand may be alive, but is unsuccessful. He is intrigued by the vanishing of the spirits at the feast. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 9 Caliban | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Is the savage son of the witch Sycorax, and was born on the island. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 10 Trinculo | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Is Alonso’s jester. He is a coward and is delighted to have Caliban subservient to him. He has a taste for finery as well as for liquor, and plans to help Stefano become king of the island. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 11 Stephano | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Is Alonso’s butler. He has something of a taste for liquor, and is well-served when he is cast up on the shore with a butt of wine that he held onto to avoid drowning. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 12 Master of a Ship | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Captains a ship bearing the King of Naples and his closest advisers home from a wedding in Tunis. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 13 Boatswain | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Is in charge of running the ship in the storm. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 14 Mariners | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Try to keep the ship afloat during the storm, but soon realize that all is lost and that their only hope is in prayer. They spend some time under strange hatches, haunted by odd sounds, but then awake to discover that their ship has not been wrecked after all. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Female Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 15 Miranda | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Is Prospero’s daughter. Though she has some vague memories of her time at court when she was a toddler, in the main she has no recollection of a life other than being isolated on an island with no company but her father and Caliban. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Female Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 16 Ariel | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Is an airy spirit bound in service to Prospero and impatient for his release. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 17 Iris | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Is one of Prospero’s spirits, representing the goddess of the rainbow in the masque. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Female Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 18 Ceres | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Is one of Prospero’s spirits (likely Ariel) representing the goddess of the harvest in the masque. She joins Juno to bless Ferdinand and Miranda’s union. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Male Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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| Role # 19 Juno | |
| Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role Is one of Prospero’s spirits, representing the Queen of Heaven and goddess of marriage in the masque. She joins with Ceres to bless Ferdinand and Miranda’s union. Searchable talent specs : Gender: Female Age: from 18 to 60 Ethnicity: Any - |
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