Auditions

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Women of the Night 

by Kimberly Demmary

Auditions are: Sunday, 12/7, 10:00 to 2:00, Monday 12/8, 7:00 to 10:00 PM Possible callbacks Wednesday 12/9, 7:00 to 10:00 PM 

Please bring headshot and resume if you have them. Sides will be provided at auditions. Please be prepared to state your conflicts on your audition sheet when auditioning. All roles are open. Show nights are 2/13 through 3/8, four week run, final week has a Thursday performance on 3/5. Contact Kim Demmary with any questions via email only please at filmscoutabout@yahoo.com

Synopsis and character breakdown

Women of the Night explores the unseen labor women carry and the weight of loyalty, the complexity of chosen family, and the ways love endures with no bounds…so long as you have a trunk and good shovel.

DIGGING HOLES

Gladys, Mavis and Margie have been partners in mischief, adventure and unspoken promises since childhood. Now in their golden years, they see the insidious deterioration of their dear friend's mind and body, and the realization of the true heartache that will soon follow. For one last night, the three women reunite in the woods, to bury a body…again. Their bond, once bult on secrecy, must now face something they cannot strategize, bury, or run from.

Characters:

Gladys 65+ (Preferably played the older the better) Sweet & quirky and fun spirited. She doesn't like being alone, and fears what loneliness can do at her age.

Mavis 65+ (Preferably played the older the better) Grumpy & easily annoyed. She'd prefer to be left alone to retire and simply watch the world go by.

Margie 65+ (Preferably played the older the better) A free spirit and occasional wiccan practitioner. Alzheimer is starting to take over. She accepts her fate and is taking her future seriously. She tries to get Gladys and Mavis to understand and accept her final decision.

SHE WHO HUNTS

During the day, Jo, Britt, Frankie and Brooke are packing lunches, grading papers, and have full careers all awhile caring for husbands and children. But at night they step into the shows and do the unthinkable: hunt and kill vampires. Bound by destiny and a centuries-old-mandate handed down from generation to generation from only Mothers to Daughters, they are sworn to contain the rising threat lurking beneath everyday life.

Arguments erupt, vulnerabilities surface, and hard truths are spoken. Are they saving the world or merely delaying the inevitable.

Characters

JO: Late 40s. The reluctant leader. She's exhausted mentally and emotionally. After years of killing vampires, no one else knows exists, she questions whether their sacrifices matter and she wants out.

BRITT: 40s. At home she's the forgotten wife. Desperate, she takes Jo's doubts personally. Hunting vampires is the only place she feels alive and seen. Without this group, she fears she'll become invisible again.

Frankie: 20s-30s Sharp and thoughtful schoolteacher. She doesn't want children, especially daughters, to carry on their vampire slaying destiny. She doesn't want a daughter to grow up in a world with dangers of the supernatural and the ordinary.

Brooke: 20-28 (9-months pregnant) The youngest of the group and the most daring. She's thrilled to be pregnant. She believes, if she has a daughter, there is a higher purpose, and she will continue the vampire hunter legacy. Her hope becomes a point of painful tension.

Sides

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The Elite Theatre Company Nontraditional Casting Policy

Unless otherwise contractually required by our licensing agreement, The Elite Theatre Company holds a nontraditional casting policy. Meaning we expect our directors to cast the best candidate for a role without considering the actor's ethnicity, skin color, body shape, sex and/or gender when casting for a role.