RAGING SKILLET AUDITIONS
WHEN: Monday June 25, 10:00AM – 3:00PM WHERE: Ripley-Grier Studios, 520 8th Avenue, New York NY 10018 APPOINTMENTS: Call: (508) 349-9428 ext. 112 or email: auditions@what.org SEEKING: Male and Female Equity and Non-Equity Performers for Raging Skillet PREPARATION: Brief Comedic Monologue, Call or email for link to sides CONTRACT: AEA NEAT Category 5 ($352/week minimum) PERSONNEL IN ATTENDANCE: Christopher Ostrom, Producer, Sasha Brätt, Director
RAGING SKILLET
by Jacques Lamarre based on The Raging Skillet: The True Life Story of Chef Rossi, A Memoir with Recipes First Rehearsal: August 6, 2018 (in Wellfleet MA) First Public Performance: August 22, 2018 Press Opening: August 24, 2018 Closing Performance: September 15, 2018
ROSSI –
Chef Rossi is a late 30s to early 50s female punk rock caterer to the stars. She is Jewish, but not quite kosher. Rossi, as the owner and executive chef of “The Raging Skillet,” a cutting-edge catering company known for breaking any and all rules, has earned a reputation as the one to call when it’s time to do something different. She is here to tell her “pulling-herself-up-by-her-bootstraps” rise through the culinary ranks. She is the essential bad-ass.
MOM –
Rossi’s mother. The quintessential ”Jewish mother”…on the surface. However, maybe the mother that Rossi remember and has rebelled against is not the person she thinks she is. Funny, caring, and at times, overbearing. Mom is looking out for Rossi, even when Rossi doesn’t need anyone looking out for her. 60’s.
DJ SKILLIT –
DJ serves as an assistant in the kitchen and in the storytelling for Rossi. DJ Skillit provides the sounds of the performance as well as the voices from characters from Rossi’s past. Race is unimportant and gender is flexible. High energy and likable. 20s-30s.