Hurricane Diane by Madeline George
Directed by Ann Bronson
August 2nd & 3rd at 6:30pm
callbacks August 4th at 6:30pm (if needed)
Director Ann Bronson is looking for 5 female and/or non-bianary actors ages 20’s and up for our October production. There is a $100 stipend available at the close of the run.
Actors should arrive ten minutes before start time to complete the audition paperwork, and bring a list of all conflicts between now and October 17th.
Auditions will consist of cold readings from the script.
ABOUT THE SHOW:
Meet Diane, a permaculture gardener dripping with butch charm. She’s got supernatural abilities owing to her true identity—the Greek god Dionysus—and she's returned to the modern world to gather mortal followers and restore the Earth to its natural state. Where better to begin than with four housewives in a suburban New Jersey cul-de-sac? In this Obie-winning comedy with a twist, Pulitzer Prize finalist Madeleine George pens a hilarious evisceration of the blind eye we all turn to climate change and the bacchanalian catharsis that awaits us, even in our own backyards.
AVAILABLE ROLES:
Carol Fleischer (female identifying, any race/ethnicity): Carol knows what she wants and knows she deserves it. She’s built a nice life but dreams of a better one. Slightly cold, in control, logical, with a surprising hidden strength.
Pam Annunziata, (female identifying, any race/ethnicity): She’s got emergency radios and food rations in the basement, she’s prepared. Loud, passionate, always looks put together, great laugh, protective, ready for a good time.
Renee Shapiro-Epps, (female identifying, Woman of Color): Proudly dated a woman after college, but now married to a man. Professionally successful, the only woman of color on the masthead of an interior design magazine. More open and forward thinking than the rest of the group, but also competitive. Sharp, smart, passionate, fair, reliable.
Beth Wann, (female identifying, any race/ethnicity): Beth’s husband recently left her, a moment she never saw coming (but everyone else did.) She is reeling and not able to get on top of this new reality. She wants to be saved. Dreamy, gentle, melancholy yet optimistic, floaty, sweet.
Diane, (genderfluid/female identifying/trans/nonbinary, any race/ethnicity): The Incarnation of Dionysus, the Greek god. A butch charm factory, combination of swagger and stillness. Powerful, wry, charming, confident, smooth and immortal.
A note about intimacy: The actor playing Diane will have potential kissing and/or other physically intimate moments with the actors playing Beth, Renee and Pam.

