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AUDITIONS
We’re making an all-new, super bad-ass piece for this summer’s
So we’re adding to our small group of trusted, creative, committed actors (and thinkers) who meet regularly to collaboratively warm up, play, create and write material.
We are seeking highly physical, imaginative actors with an interest in collaborative theatre-making. We are open to all ages, ethnicity, and body types. We’re particularly interested in performers with strength in Improv, dance and movement, and any crazy musical talent.
Interested in particle physics? war theory? hats? container gardening? video games? micro-loans? the properties of water? Want to play a 60 year-old stripper? an expert on the history of the American Horse? an evil kindergarten teacher? a Republican climate scientist? a talk-show host with PTSD?
You know you want to.
Auditions will be the first week of April. Equity and Non-equity welcome.
Performers must be available twice a week in April and May, and more regularly in June through the festival dates (June 10-12). Once you collaborate with Hand & Eye, you're part of the team, and on the short-list for future productions, we're looking for long-time collaborators!
Send pictures and resumes (and anything else you think we'd like to know) to:
Figment Project -- You Again!!
Hand & Eye Theater is currently working on developing an interactive, audience-directed short play as an entry in this summer's Figment Project called YOU AGAIN??
Held on Governors Island in the Hudson River between Manhattan and Brooklyn, the Figment Project is in it's fifth year. From their website:
"FIGMENT is a forum for the creation and display of participatory and interactive art by emerging artists across disciplines. FIGMENT began in July 2007 as a free, one-day participatory arts event on Governors Island in New York Harbor with over 2,600 participants. Since then, FIGMENT has grown significantly each year?in number of projects, duration, participants, volunteers, fundraising capability, exhibitions, locations, overall level of commitment and participation, and public support."
Our piece will show multiple times daily from June 10 through June 12 for thousands of audience members/art lovers somewhere on the green hills and historic buildings of one of the city's newest public spaces!
Unlawful Gatherings -- Second Draft!
After a tremendous(ly gratifying) effort last summer -- before we lost Emily to the Actor's Theatre of Louisville for a spell -- we had the first public reading of our first full-length piece.
Set in a dead woman's apartment in Marble Hill Unlawful Gatherings unpacks the story of Katja, an immigrant, a mother, a revolutionary, a hoarder. The story is told by those she hardly knew, the young inhabitants of her building, as they dig through the detritus of a life unobserved.
The actors share the responsibility of playing all the characters that populate Katja's story, and most of the scenery too.
We're headed into a rehearsal period this early spring armed with a revised and re-arranged "script" and a modified cast list (simplify, simplify) and we're so f-ing excited!
How Come?
We believe that theater requires the whole performer, not just text and types. At it's best, it's irreverent, dangerous, joyful, brave, ridiculous, passionate. And ultimately a wholly different experience from other forms of entertainment.
We are an ever-changing ensemble of theater-makers, musicians and artists. Our task is original work. Our process is consistently redefined. It's go time.
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