Auditions Now Open for BLOODLETTING
Pork Filled Productions announces auditions for our 2023 mainstage show, Bloodletting, by Boni Alvarez and directed by Zenaida R. Smith (a white haunting).
Siblings Farrah and Bosley Legazpi are forced to make a journey back to the Motherland. Their father’s last wish was for his ashes to be sprinkled in the newly minted ‘natural wonder’ – the Underground River of Palawan in the Philippines. During the tension-filled journey, the two must sort out their father’s affairs as well as their own relationship. When they discover that one of them is an aswang (a Filipino witch), 30+ years of feelings come to a boil. Is it easier to accept a sibling’s cruel nature if it is steeped in the supernatural?
Bloodletting will be performed at Theatre Off Jackson in Seattle’s International District – 409 7th Ave S. Seattle, WA 98104 – October 19 to November 4. Performances will run Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings with one (1) Sunday matinee and one (1) Monday industry night performance. There will be one week of streaming approximately two weeks later.
Audition Information
Audition/Interview Dates: Saturday, May 20, Theatre Puget Sound, Studio E, starting at 10 am to 6 pm.
Audition sides are available below.
Actors will be paid a stipend of $500.
If you are unable to make it on the 20th, please give some idea on availability for a Zoom appointment.
Character Breakdown / Project Needs
SETTING: Princess Cafe in Puerto Princesa, Island of Palawan, Philippines.
CHARACTERS:
- FARRAH LEGAZPI – Filipino-American woman. Hard-edged, mercurial. She is an unhappy actor with a penchant for smoking and barbed comments. She holds her identity close to her chest, avoids looking inward. Older 30s.
- BOSLEY LEGAZPI – Filipino-American, Farrah’s younger brother. Sensitive, big-hearted, and intelligent. Typically good-natured but Farrah brings out the worst in him. Openly queer. Happily chubby. 30s.
- JENRY FLORES – Owner of the Princess Cafe in Puerto Princesa, though originally from Barbaza. Cautious exterior, but wise and loving underneath. Protective to the point that he seems suspicious to visitors like Farrah and Bosley. Guardian of secrets and family. 60’s.
- LEELEE FLORES – Jenry’s granddaughter, raised in Puerto Princesa. Young and instinctual and surprisingly sharp, incisive. Exudes a sense of knowing that rattles people. Quietly and openly powerful. A real aswang. 19.
Note that the characters are either Filipino or Filipino Americans.
Ability to speak any of the Palawanic languages a plus
Knowledge of the Palawan region also a plus.
Sides
Where are auditions?
Theatre Puget Sound
4th Floor of the Armory, (Seattle Centerhouse)
Studio E
Please email BloodlettingAudition@porkfilled.com with headshot and resume, and to make an appointment for an audition, by giving general availability during the day. If you are unable to make it on the 20th, please give some idea on availability for a Zoom appointment.
Rehearsal Period:
Aiming to begin the latter part of August (depending on cast availability)
More about the author
Boni B. Alvarez is a Los Angeles-based playwright-actor and faculty member at the USC School of Dramatic Arts. His plays include America Adjacent, Bloodletting, Fixed, Nicky, Dallas Non-Stop, Dusty de los Santos, Ruby, Tragically Rotund, The Special Education of Miss Lorna Cambonga, Marabella, Driven, The Debut of Georgia, Emmylu, and Refuge for a Purple Heart.
His plays have been produced at Center Theatre Group – Kirk Douglas Theatre, Echo Theater Company, Coeurage Theatre Company, Skylight Theatre Company, and Playwrights’ Arena. His plays have been developed/given readings at Chalk Rep, Moving Arts, Artists At Play, The Vagrancy, Los Angeles Theatre Center, EST/LA, The Blank, Pork Filled Players (Seattle), Theatre Rhinoceros (San Francisco), Second Generation (2g, NYC), InterAct Theatre (Philadelphia), and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He has been a semifinalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and a Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Aurora Theatre’s Global Age Project, and Clubbed Thumb’s Biennial Commission.
Alum of the CBS Writers Mentoring Program, CTG Writers’ Workshop, Moving Arts’ MADlab, Echo Writer’s Lab, Skylight Theatre’s Play Lab, and the Humanitas Play LA Workshop. He is currently in the Geffen Playhouse’s Writer’s Room and a Resident Playwright with New Dramatists.
He holds a BA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MFA (Acting) from A.R.T./MXAT Institute at Harvard University, and an MFA (Dramatic Writing) from USC.
