Theater Resources Unlimited, in association with Actors Access, Actors Connection, Back Stage, The Barrow Group Theatre Company & Acting School, Paul Michael’s The Network, The Players Theatre, Precision Photos/36th Street Studio, Ripley-Greer Studios, Shakespeare Mailing and Weist-Barron Studios, presents the TRU 2011 Audition Event on Saturday and Sunday, April 2 and 3, 2011 from 10am to 6pm at The Barrow Group TBG Theatre, 312 W. 36th Street, 3rd floor, NYC. Registration is $45 (postmarked before February 28) and $60 (February 28-March 18). Applications are available at http://www.truonline.org/2011TRUAudition2.htm.
More than 40 New York area producers, theater companies, writers and directors will sit in on two days of auditions. Actors can sign up to be seen by them and by at least two top New York agents and/or casting directors in this unique Combined Audition open to Equity and non-union actors. The venue is handicap-accessible, and actors with disabilities are encouraged to apply and inspire attendees with the possibility of greater diversity in casting.
2010 Auditors included 13th Street Rep, Abingdon Theatre Company/Cabaret, Aching Dogs, Acme Theatre Factory, The Actor’s Project NYC, Animated Theatreworks, The Artists’ Playground Theatre, Civil War Voices, Cross-Eyed Bear Productions, Fully Flighted Productions, Inc., Hudson River Repertory Company, Janazak Productions, John Montgomery Theatre Company, The Killing Kompany, Looking Glass Theatre, Manhattan TheatreSource, McCarter Theatre Centre (Princeton), Milk Can Theatre Co., NY Artists Unlimited, Oberon Theatre Ensemble, Off the Leash Prod., Original Theatre Works, Peccadillo Theater Company, PIM Repertory Group, Premiere Productions, Pulse Ensemble Theatre, Rebellious Subjects Theatre, Rising Sun Performance Company, The Simon Studio, Small Pond Entertainment, Terrence Montgomery Productions, TheaterSmarts, Theatre East, Threshhold Theatre Company, Triangle Theatre, Trinity Players, TRU Voices Play Reading Series, Turtle Shell Productions, Wildfire Productions, Wildly Productive Productions, WorkShop Theater Co. plus independent producers, writers and directors.
Registration is $45 (postmarked before February 28) and $60 (February 28-March 18). Applications are available at http://www.truonline.org/2011TRUAudition2.htm. There is a $5 discount for any current paid member of TRU, as well as AEA members (does not apply to Membership/Audition package). In addition, there is a free INFORMATION/MEET THE COACHES session on Sunday, March 6 from 5pm to 9pm to prepare actors for the TRU Audition with a seminar led by TRU Actor Program Director Jaye Maynard and Audition Event Coordinator Clyde Baldo. Actors will meet a dozen audition & vocal coaches, followed by a wine & cheese reception, plus Q&A about the event. FREE with registration for the TRU 2011 Audition Event.
TRU was founded in 1992 to promote a spirit of cooperation and support within the general theater community by providing information and a variety of entertainment-related services and resources that strengthen the business capability of producing organizations, individual producers, self-producing artists and other theater professionals. The company holds monthly seminars on a wide range of subjects important to theatrical producers and artistic directors conducted by panels of experts from both the commercial and not-for-profit segments of Broadway, Off-Broadway and the motion picture industry. TRU also publishes a monthly email community newsletter of services, goods and productions. In addition, TRU created the TRU VOICES Annual New Play Reading Series and the TRU VOICES Annual New Musicals Reading Series in which TRU underwrites developmental readings of new works for theater. In 2001, TRU began giving annual scholarships to The Commercial Theater Institute, to encourage the development of aspiring producers, created a Producer Mentoring Program whose mentors are among the most prominent producers and general managers in New York theater, and presents Producer Boot Camp workshops to help aspirants develop the business skills they need. In March ’08, TRU was associate producer of its first Equity showcase, Missives at 59E59 Theatre, a play that was developed in the 2006 TRU reading series. TRU programs for actors include an Annual Audition Event, Resource Nights and “Speed Dating” as well as free monthly actor events, including workshops.
Programs of Theater Resources Unlimited are supported in part by public funds awarded through the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, as well as generous support from the Friar’s National Foundation Association.
For more information about TRU membership, visit www.truonline.org or call 212-714-7628.
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