CALL TO AUDITION:

HANGMEN
by Martin McDonagh

AUDITION NOTICE  for the Role of Inspector Fry

The role of Inspector Fry has become available for the production of Hangmen.

PERFORMANCE DATES
Tue 13 Aug to Sat 14 Sep 2024

REHEARSALS
Rehearsals have commenced and are currently Tuesday/ Wednesday and Sunday nights. This will change to Wednesday and Thursday nights in July.

ROLE
Fry: 40+ police inspector. Lonely and lost and a somewhat miserable crony of Harry Wade, the Hangman.

We very much encourage and welcome submissions from people who identify as First Nations, PoC, CaLD, queer and/or gender diverse.

TO BOOK AN AUDITION
Email your EOI to hangmennt24@gmail.com with AUDITION FOR FRY in the subject line. Auditions at this time will be a read with existing cast at rehearsal. A perusal copy of the script is available here.

In your email, please:

• Include an up-to-date headshot and CV.
• Indicate if you are currently a New Theatre member.

PLEASE NOTE
New Theatre a community theatre company and a volunteer-based organisation – there is no for payment for this production.

If cast, you will be required to wash your own costumes and assist with production bump out.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Starting as an actress: Kate in Taming of the Shrew (Little Theatre); Titania in Midsummer Night’s Dream (Ars Viva) and Raina in Arms and the Man; moved on to directing and then writing for stage. Deborah has studied at NIDA and La MaMa International, written nine full length plays and directed over 20. Represented and published by Australian Plays Transform. Her play Cry, Wolf ran off-Broadway for eight weeks and has been, like Gentlemen Inc, optioned for film. Breathless, a war play, was a finalist in the Silver Gull Award 2019. Other works have been translated and performed overseas including the triptych The Kiss, three short plays for the LGBTQIA+ community and currently touring in Ecuador. A founding member of the Parramatta Theatre Company, one-time President of the Illawarra Council for the Performing Arts; a life member of Workshop Theatre and has been Education Officer for New Theatre.   Directed Much Ado About Nothing for the Genesian Theatre 2017; for New Theatre Britannia Waves the Rules (2015), The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2018), Pygmalion (2019) The Lovely Bones (2021) and The Pond at Flight Path in 2020.

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