Artists, Technicians, and Management

As Actors Theater continues to grow artistically, we look forward to engaging more and more actors, designers, and other artists to augment our expanding season and standards of professionalism.

Directors, designers, and choreographers of wide and varied experience are welcome to submit their resumes and portfolios to the appropriate TAT artistic staff. We are are an eclectic theater, and favor whatever creative notions in concept, design and movement complement the intent and purpose of the play. Tat's mission includes the production of the best children's theater possible; therefore, submission from artists familiar and experienced in theater for children are always welcome.

Because we are a theater known for its quality in production values and especially acting, TAT recognizes the professionalism and high standards of ACTORS EQUITY ASSOCIATION, and seeks at every opportunity to augment our season with as many AEA performers as possible. We are operating at present on a Small Professional Theater contract with AEA. The artistic director of TAT is an active Equity member, and a strong believer in the values and aims of AEA. Equity actors are invited to submit material to the TAT at the address below.

Auditions for TAT are normally held at our home base at the Crescent Theater located in Sussex Sussex, NJ, Sussex County. [Please see directions and maps on "Directions to TAT" page.].

Non-Union actors are also welcome to submit pictures and resumes to the address below. All submissions will be considered with care and interest for suitable roles.

Positions Available : 2008 Season
Actors:
Woman in Black-- 2 Men(45-65 & 20-30)Equity, 1 WOMAN(20-30) non-Equity
A Christmas Carol-- 3 men(20-40), 2 Women(20-40)Equity and Non-Equity
Other Artistic:
none at this time
Technical/Design
Lighting Designers for all productions
Stagehands for all productions--
Equity Stage Managers for Woman in Black-A Christmas Carol
Administrative:
Development Director/Consultant
Administrative Intern

CURRENT AUDITIONS:
Equity[SPT Level 2] Non-Equity
Audition material listed below.

EQUITY PRINCIPAL AUDITIONS -- THE WOMAN IN BLACK

Equity Principal Auditions: (2 Equity roles)
Thursday, July 10, 2008
10AM-5PM                                       Tri-State Actors Theater
                                                            PO Box 7225
                                                            74 Main Street
                                                            Sussex, NJ
                                                            Directions at www.tristateactorstheater.org/maptat.htm
                                                            Bus: Lakeland Bus Lines--http://www.lakelandbus.com
                                                                   (Ride to Newton Shop Rite stop)
                                                            Local Bus: Sussex County Transit: call 973-579-0483

No appointment necessary. The producer will run all aspects of this call. Equity Principal Audition procedures are not in effect, and no Equity Monitor will be provided.
Sides will be provided at the audition and on our web site --www.tristateactorstheater.org--prior to the auditions. Sides(large type) will be provided to visually challenged actors two days before the auditions by calling 973-875-2950. Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.

Breakdown: Two Equity contracts--

ACTOR—Male, 45-60, British dialects necessary, care-worn, haunted, name is “Kipps” but is referred to as the “Actor”, plays several characters in the play.

KIPPS—Male,25-35, British dialects necessary, self-confidant, he is the “actor” who plays “Kipps” in the enactment of the story.

STAGE MANAGER : SPT Tier 2, 258.00 / week minimum, travel, housing
Synopsis:

English Victorian Gothic Horror Play. A lawyer hires an actor to tutor him in recounting to family and friends a story that has long troubled him concerning events that transpired when he attended the funeral of an elderly recluse. There he caught sight of the woman in black, the mere mention of whom terrifies the locals, for she is a specter who haunts the neighborhood where her illegitimate child was accidentally killed. Anyone who sees her dies! The lawyer has invited some friends to watch as he and the actor recreate the events of that dark and stormy night. A classic of the genre.

Equity Actors who are invited to submit headshots and resumes by regular mail to: Tri-State Actors Theater, PO Box 7225, Sussex, NJ 07461.

NON EQUITY ACTORS(Stipend or salary plus travel):
None at this time.
Please mail photos and resumes to Tri-State Actors Theater , PO Box 7225, Sussex, NJ 07461. Please DO NOT E-MAIL PICTURES, RESUMES, ETC.

Large type Sides will be provided to visually challenged actors two days before the auditions by calling 973-875-2950.
Theater is located in northwestern New Jersey, approximately 50 miles from NYC.
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Sides: (SAMUEL FRENCH--SCRIPT)

Kipps: You see, it doesn't come in five minutes. You think to stand up, recite your tale, and have your audience hang upon your words. As if that's all it takes. In which case, why'd you come to me for help? So that I'll say, "yes, wonderful, with a flaw"? Believe me, sir, performing is an art acquired with tears and time. I would be encouraged, sir, if every time I offered some advice you would not put up your manuscript and make to stalk out of the theatre!

Kipps: I fell into a sort of trance, half sleeping, half waking, rocked by the motion of the cart. I knew I had entered some hitherto unimagined realm of consciousness and there was no going back. That the woman by the graves had been ghostly I now--not believed, no knew , for certainty lay deep within me. And I began to suspect that the pony and the trap, the pony and the trap with the child who had cried out so terribly and which had been sucked into the quicksands, they too had not been real, not there, present, not substantial, but ghostly also. What I had heard, I had heard as clearly as I now heard the roll of the cart and the drumming of the pony's hooves, and what I had seen--the woman with the pale, wasted face, by the grave of Mrs. Drablow and again in the old burial ground--I had seen. I would have sworn that on oath. Yet they had been, in some sense I did not understand, unreal, ghostly; things that were dead.

Actor: (reading) It was nine-thirty on Christmas Eve. As I crossed the long entrance hall of my house, on my way from the dining room, where we had just enjoyed the first of the happy, festive meals, towards the drawing room and the fire around which my family were now assembled, I paused, and then, as I often do in the course of an evening, went to the front door, opened it and stepped outside.

Actor: [read Landlord]

Landlord: Are you a friend of Mr. Dailey's, then sir?

Kipps. No, no.

Landlord: Ah. Not meaning to pry, only I saw you arrive in his car.
Kipps. I met him on the train. He was kind enough to bring me from the station.
Landlord. I see. He's a large landowner is Mr. Daily. Buying up half the county.
Kipps. In that case I may be doing business with him myself before the year is out. I am a solicitor looking after the affairs of Mrs. Alice Drablow of Eel March House. Perhaps you knew of her?
Landlord. (a reaction) I knew of her.
Kipps. It's quite possible that her estate will come up for sale in due course.
Landlord. I doubt whether even Samuel Dailey would go so far.
Kipps. I don't think I fully understand you. I gather there is a farm a few miles out of the town.
Landlord. (dismissively) Hoggets! Fifty acres and half of it under flood for the best part of the year. Hoggetts is nothing.
Kipps. There's also Eel March House and all the land surrounding it--would that be practicable for farming?
Landlord. No, sir.
Kipps. Well, might not Mr. Daily simply want to add a little more to his empire? You imply he is that kind of man.
Landlord. Maybe he is. But let me tell you that you won't find anybody, not even Mr. Sam Daily having to do with any of it. I'll wish you goodnight, sir. We can serve breakfast at any time in the morning, to your convenience.

Artistic: NONE AT THIS TIME

Stage Manager/Tech/Design: Stage managers for productions, Equity and non-
equity. All designers may submit portfolios, resumes, or other appropriate material to the address below.
Technicians--lighting and sound, technical direction, painters, wardrobe--should send material to: Sceneshop
at Tri-State Actors Theater, P.O. Box 7225, 74 Main Street, Sussex, NJ 07461-7225

Administrative: Arts management candidates, please send resumes to: Managing Director at
the address below. Tri-State Actors Theater, P.O. Box 7225, 74 Main Street, Sussex, NJ 07461-7225
1) Development Consultant, Part-time. Responsible to Managing Director, work in areas of grants and
corporate gifts; individual contributions, audience development. Motivated Beginners will be considered.
Writing skills a plus; must be a "people" person. Drivers license necessary; car a plus, but not a prerequisite
for position. Consulting Fee.
2)Administrative Intern: Responsible to Managing Director; work front of house, publicity, advertising,
other areas of administration of theater. Writing skills a plus; must be a "people" person. Drivers license necessary;
car a plus, but not a prerequisite for positions. Stipend; housing.
--Must live near theater during season.

We are located in northwestern New Jersey, approximately 50 miles from NYC.
Directions from Manhattan are below.
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Directions to Tri-State Actors Theater— (Approximately 50 miles)
(Also see our website: http://www.tristateactorstheater.org/maptat.htm)
By Car (from NYC)
From NYC: Interstate 80W to Exit 53(Route 23N). Follow exit to 23N; drive approximately 30 miles to
Sussex, NJ (Gulf Service Station on left; historic Sussex Inn straight ahead) Rte. 23 will turn sharply to left;
you should continue straight ahead onto Main St., Sussex (up hill, Flying Pig Art Gallery); follow Main
St. to the right; continue one block to Fountain Square, and Tri-State Actors Theater
ALTERNATE ROUTE:
Exit NYC via the Lincoln Tunnel to NJ Rte. 3W to Route 46W to Route 23N. Take 23N (at Wayne/
Fairfield, NJ) approximately 30 miles to Sussex, NJ.(Gulf Service Station on left; historic Sussex Inn
straight ahead) Rte. 23 will turn sharply to left; you should continue straight ahead onto Main St., Sussex
(up hill, Flying Pig Art Gallery); follow Main St. to the right; continue one block to Fountain Square, and
Tri-State Actors Theater.
By Bus(NoTrains)—The Bus Line to Sussex County is Lakeland Bus Lines.
http://www.lakelandbus.com-- Google their site and go to "schedules" for weekdays or Saturday, I80West and for return, I80East.

To Tri-State: (M-F)         Leaves from PA Bus Terminal 10:30, arrives Newton, NJ(closest stop) 12:30.
                              Leaves from PA Bus Terminal 1;30, arrives Newton, NJ(closest stop) 3:30.

Return NYC (M-F)          Leaves Newton 4:10; arrives NYC 6:20
                              Leaves Newton 8:10; arrives NYC 10:20
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Tri-State Actors Theater

P.O. Box 7225

74 Main Street

Sussex, NJ 07461-7225

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