Stupid Fucking Bird

Mash loves Con who is devoted to Nina who is enchanted by Trig, the lover of Con's mother Emma, who loves Trig and herself and Dev loves Mash and Mash tolerates Dev. Sorn is just happy to be included.

A perfect storm of romantic and artistic entanglements is brewing amongst family, friends, and lovers in Aaron Posner's Stupid Fucking sort-of adaptation of Chekhov's The Seagull. Desires and passions unravel and intertwine as these characters grapple with disillusionment, existential rage against the machine, and the audacity of pursuing dreams when society seems perpetually on the brink of calamity.

Aren't you tired of being passive? Don't you just want to go apeshit?

STUPID. FUCKING. BIRD.

Performance Dates: May 1-10

The Secret Theatre
10-10 44th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101

Director - Jorden Charley-Whatley
Assistant Director - Jonathan Mora
Producers - Erin Layton, Sarah Weglowski, Jack Tavcar

$100 Stipend 

Seeking:

NOTE: All characters can be portrayed by any race or ethnicity.
This production intends to use prop herbal cigarettes; please note comfortability around smoking and/or being around smoke.

All moments of intimacy and undress are open to adjustment according to actor comfortability. All actors should expect to make costume changes on stage if possible, but actors should not expect to be in their underwear unless explicitly stated below.

CON: 20s-30s, Male or male-presenting. Passionate, impatient, sensitive, rebellious; a playwright aching for change and approval.
Intimacy note: this character will appear in his underwear in Act II; actor must be comfortable with passionate kissing

NINA: 20s-30s, Female or female-presenting. Idealistic, optimistic, smart; an aspiring actress with an unstable home life, and is willing to take risks to leave that life behind.
Intimacy note: this character will undress onstage to her underwear/ bra; actor must be comfortable with passionate kissing

DEV: 20s-30s, Male or male-presenting. Hopeful, goofy, steadfast to a fault; Con’s best friend, a teacher, and really really in love with Mash.
Intimacy note: actor must be comfortable with kissing

MASH: 20s-30s, Female or female-presenting. Melancholic and acidic in an attempt to bury how deeply she feels and loves; the estate’s part-time cook, secret musician, and really really in love with Con.
Intimacy note: actor must be comfortable with kissing

TRIG: 30s-40s, Male or male-presenting. Observant, obsessive, insightful, libertine; a famous middlebrow author, and Emma’s lover.
Intimacy note: this character may appear shirtless in Act II; actor must be comfortable with passionate kissing and simulated sexual engagement 

EMMA: 40s-50s, Female or female-presenting. Supercilious, honest, fierce, competitive; Con’s absent mother, Trig’s doting lover, and famous actress. Every bit as desperate for approval as her son, and every bit as mercurial.
Intimacy note: this character will appear in her underwear; actor must be comfortable with passionate kissing and simulated sexual engagement

SORN: 50s-60s, Male or male-presenting. Supportive, mild, caring, inert; Emma’s brother, a doctor, wants more from life but is afraid it’s already passed him by.

Submissions are due by Wednesday, February 18. Invitations to in-person auditions will be sent out by Monday, February 23. We need your headshot, resume and self-tape of a contemporary monologue.

In-person auditions will take place the first week of March at various locations in Manhattan and Queens.