TEMPORARY INSANITY
*WORLD PREMIERE*
*WORLD PREMIERE*
Auditions will be virtual.
Instructions:
Link to submit files
Questions can be directed to the director, Jon Flower @ jon.david.flower@gmail.com. He will respond within 24 to 48 hours.
Scene clips below:
Instructions:
- Frame Your Shot: It’s important you’re well-lit, the center of the frame and that I can hear you.” You should speak into the camera, and the frame should remain stationary focused on you.
- Include a Slate: State your name, age (or age range), and which character(s) you're interested in playing, before beginning your side.
- Acting / The Script: You may read from one of the provided sides (below), or a prepared comedic monologue (no more than 3-5 minutes).
- Your Reader: If someone is reading of the provided sides along with you, your reader should be as close to you as possible while being off-camera. Positioned just right or just left of the camera.
- Audition Form / Resume: Please provide a copy of your resume and the filled out audition form along with your video submission.
- Deadline is 11:59 pm on Sunday April 5th.
- In person callbacks of less than 10 people will be conducted the week of April 6th.
Link to submit files
Questions can be directed to the director, Jon Flower @ jon.david.flower@gmail.com. He will respond within 24 to 48 hours.
Scene clips below:
| scene_1.pdf |
| scene_2.pdf |
| scene_3.pdf |
| scene_4.pdf |
| scene_5.pdf |
| scene_6.pdf |
Character Breakdown:
COLLYN (pronounced Colin) 45ish. Female. Married to Mike. Emerson's business partner and best friend.
EMERSON 45ish. Female. Married to Ted. Collyn's business partner and best friend.
MARIE FORRESTER 65ish. Female. Emerson's mother.
ROSE Comes across as 17. Female. Emerson's daughter.
WILL BRANCH 35 - 40. Male. Actor.
TED 45ish. Male. Married to Emerson. Real Estate Agent. Accidentally hypnotised to experience an entire gestation every 24 hours.
SAMUEL BRIARWOOD 65ish. Male. Owner of Briarwood Hotels and Collyn and Emerson's potential client.
PHILOMENA (PHIL) BRIARWOOD 33ish. Female. Sam's niece. Sam is training her to take over Briarwood Hotels.
HEGLUND Comes across as 18. Male. Pizza delivery person and goes to high school with Rose.
MIKE 45ish. Male. Married to Collyn. CPA.
COLLYN (pronounced Colin) 45ish. Female. Married to Mike. Emerson's business partner and best friend.
EMERSON 45ish. Female. Married to Ted. Collyn's business partner and best friend.
MARIE FORRESTER 65ish. Female. Emerson's mother.
ROSE Comes across as 17. Female. Emerson's daughter.
WILL BRANCH 35 - 40. Male. Actor.
TED 45ish. Male. Married to Emerson. Real Estate Agent. Accidentally hypnotised to experience an entire gestation every 24 hours.
SAMUEL BRIARWOOD 65ish. Male. Owner of Briarwood Hotels and Collyn and Emerson's potential client.
PHILOMENA (PHIL) BRIARWOOD 33ish. Female. Sam's niece. Sam is training her to take over Briarwood Hotels.
HEGLUND Comes across as 18. Male. Pizza delivery person and goes to high school with Rose.
MIKE 45ish. Male. Married to Collyn. CPA.
Production scheduled run for June 5-21, Friday-Sundays
By Karen Schaeffer
In this fast-paced farce, Collyn and Emerson run a marketing firm but haven’t landed a major account. A dinner invitation is extended to a potentially lucrative client who’s in town for one night. However, Emerson’s husband, Ted, has been mistakenly hypnotized and now goes through an entire gestation period every 24 hours. To ensure a smooth evening, Collyn’s husband, Mike, takes Ted out for drinks. Emerson sequesters her daughter, Rose, in her room and enlists her mother, Marie, to serve dinner. She hires actor, Will Branch, to play her husband. Everything goes according to plan until Ted shows up with an intoxicated Mike just before the clients arrive. Will Branch discovers he’s now Collyn’s fake husband, while Rose’s admirer desperately tries to ask her out with a message pizza, and the client turns out to be Marie’s old flame. Then, Ted goes into labor. Will they still get the account?
By Karen Schaeffer
In this fast-paced farce, Collyn and Emerson run a marketing firm but haven’t landed a major account. A dinner invitation is extended to a potentially lucrative client who’s in town for one night. However, Emerson’s husband, Ted, has been mistakenly hypnotized and now goes through an entire gestation period every 24 hours. To ensure a smooth evening, Collyn’s husband, Mike, takes Ted out for drinks. Emerson sequesters her daughter, Rose, in her room and enlists her mother, Marie, to serve dinner. She hires actor, Will Branch, to play her husband. Everything goes according to plan until Ted shows up with an intoxicated Mike just before the clients arrive. Will Branch discovers he’s now Collyn’s fake husband, while Rose’s admirer desperately tries to ask her out with a message pizza, and the client turns out to be Marie’s old flame. Then, Ted goes into labor. Will they still get the account?