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St. Louis Actors’ Studio announces auditions for its Ninth season, themed “Mind Games”.

STLAS will hold Equity and Non-equity auditions on:

May 8, 2015: 7 pm -10 pm General auditions (if you have never been cast in our shows in the past)

May 9, 2015: 10am -12pm (if needed)-general auditions continue

May 9, 2015: 1pm - 6pm - call backs for “Seminar" and "Gin Game” (IF YOU HAVE BEEN IN A SHOW WITH US IN THE PAST, YOU MAY COME TO CALLBACKS, PLEASE NOTE THE PLAY AND CHARACTER YOU ARE INTERESTED AUDITIONING FOR)

May 10, 2015: if needed, time TBA - callbacks for “Seminar" and "Gin Game” continue

May 16, 2015: 10 am - 3 pm - Callbacks for Gideon’s Knot

FOR GENERAL AUDITIONS: Please prepare two contrasting monologues (no longer than 1 minutes each) and please bring one headshot and resume.

FOR CALLBACKS: Please Bring Headshot and Resume

To schedule an audition, please email william@clients.matthewkenton.com/stlas .You will be contacted with a confirmation of your audition slot.

Auditions will take place in the offices of The Eleven, Inc - 360 N Boyle, 63108. I.5 blocks north of Lindell Blvd in the Central West End.

All performances will take place at The Gaslight Theater, 358 N. Boyle.

"Seminar" by Theresa Rebeck, Directed By Liz Helman

Sept. 18 – Oct. 4, 2015

STORY: Set in present day New York City, Seminar follows four young writers—Kate, Martin, Douglas, and Izzy—and their professor, Leonard. Each student has paid Leonard $5,000 for a ten-week writing seminar to be held in Kate's Upper West Side apartment. As tensions arise and romance falls, they clash over their writing, their relations, and their futures.

Kate –30’s

Izzy - 30’s(This Part Requires Partial Nudity)

Martin – 30’s

Douglas - 30’s

Leonard – 50’s

"The Gin Game" by Donald Coburn, Directed by Bobby Miller

Dec. 4 – 20, 2015

STORY: Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, two elderly residents at a nursing home for senior citizens, strike up an acquaintance. Neither seems to have any other friends, and they start to enjoy each other's company. Weller offers to teach Fonsia how to play gin rummy, and they begin playing a series of games that Fonsia always wins. Weller's inability to win a single hand becomes increasingly frustrating to him, while Fonsia becomes increasingly confident. While playing their games of gin, they engage in lengthy conversations about their families and their lives in the outside world. Gradually, each conversation becomes a battle, much like the ongoing gin games, as each player tries to expose the other's weaknesses, to belittle the other's life, and to humiliate the other thoroughly.

Weller Martin – 70’s

Fonsia Dorsey – 70’s

"Gideon’s Knot" by Johanna Adams, Directed by Lee Anne Mathews

Feb 12 - 28, 2016

STORY: Over the course of a 90-minute parent/teacher conference, a grieving mother and an emotionally overwhelmed primary school teacher have a fraught conversation about the tragic suicide of the mother's son, the teacher's student, Gideon. Gideon may have been bullied severely -- or he may have been an abuser. As his story is slowly uncovered, the women try to reconstruct a satisfying explanation for Gideon's act and come to terms with excruciating feelings of culpability.

2 women: 30’s - early 40’s

AUDITIONS FOR “IVANOV” WILL TAKE PLACE LATER THIS SUMMER.

AUDITIONS FOR "2015 LABUTE NEW THEATER FESTIVAL" WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER THIS MONTH.