The August Company

The August Company’s 2010 AUDITIONS

kelsey — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:38:28 +0000

The August Company, one of the newest theater companies of The Pioneer Valley, produced its first show, Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, this past September in The Pines Theater of Look Park. The company is now beginning its first full-length season and eagerly welcomes all interested performers to audition.

WHEN are the AUDITIONS?

Sunday, January 3, 2010 11a.m. – 3p.m.

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 7p.m.- 9p.m.

WHERE are the AUDITIONS?

The old Dynamite Space in the basement of Thornes Marketplace (150 Main St. Northampton, MA)

WHAT are the AUDITIONS for?

The August Company’s 2010 season consists of Chekhov, Shakespeare and the first OnWord show in March. OnWord shows are created from written pieces not originally intended for the dramatic stage (short stories, songs, blogs…etc) and centered on one chosen word. The auditions are to cast our March show and for the company to meet new performers of The Pioneer Valley. Please prepare a monologue: comedic, dramatic, contemporary or classical and please be prepared to do some movement work.

WHO do you CONTACT to set up an AUDITION?

Please email: RachelMBraidman@gmail.com with the time you would most prefer to audition.

Mission Statement

kelsey — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:03:24 +0000

Dedicated to enriching the lives of community and company members in the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts, The August Company is a collaborative ensemble committed to the creation of theater and film that is human, mirthful and true.

The Company

kelsey — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:02:42 +0000

STEVE ANGEL

Steve Angel is a local actor and graduate of Hampshire College who has worked extensively with Enchanted Circle Theater in Holyoke and The Hampshire Shakespeare Company in Hadley. He most recently played Fred in the highly successful 2008 Old Deerfield Productions performance of A Christmas Carol.

SCOTT BRAIDMAN

Scott Braidman is a teacher, director, and actor. At The University of Massachusetts Amherst, Scott discovered improvisation, and since then he has studied and performed in Chicago, New York, and Boston with The IO Theater, The Annoyance Theater, The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, ImprovBoston, and Improv Asylum.

After living in New York and Boston since graduating in 2006, he is excited to be back in the Valley.

RACHEL BRAIDMAN

Rachel Marie Braidman is an actor and a writer.

She is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) Theater Department where she performed in: Proof, Curse of the Starving Class, Arms & the Man, Alls Well That Ends Well, and Gum. She is thrilled to be back in the Pioneer Valley after three years living in New York City and Boston, paying her dues and her bills.

Currently, she writes a blog called i found a puddle and i fell in it.

LIESEL DE BOOR

Liesel de Boor is an honored graduate of the MFA Film Program at Columbia University. Her films have screened on big and small screens all over the world, and have received awards from The National Board of Review, Eastman Kodak, The Milos Forman Fund, New Line Cinema, and Polo Ralph Lauren, and her feature film scripts have won an award from Nickelodeon, and been selected for the IFP Market. She makes a living as a photographer, filmmaker and educator for Whole Foods Market.

KELSEY FLYNN

Kelsey Flynn is an actor and a writer who lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with her wife. Her theater career began in improvisational and stand-up comedy performing regularly at the Comedy Studio and the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge and Gotham Comedy Club, Catch a Rising Star, and Caroline’s in New York City. Her theater career began as Puck in Hampshire Shakespeare’s MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. Other roles now include Cordelia (KING LEAR), Claire (BOSTON MARRIAGE), Sheila (THE BOYS NEXT DOOR) and Karl Rove (NAKED THEATER 3: BETRAYAL CAN BE FUN). She’s also a regular player with PaintBox Children’s Theater having performed such roles as Baby Bear, Peter Pan, and all the witches in the WIZARD OF OZ. When not on stage, Kelsey is a twice-awarded VALLEY ADVOCATE’S BEST IN THE VALLEY radio personality for WRSI, the River.

SHEILA SIRAGUSA

Sheila Siragusa teaches courses in acting and theater. Formerly on the faculty at NYU’s Stella Adler Conservatory, SUNY Oneonta, Sheila now teaches at Central Connecticut State University. This past season, she wrote and produced a new play entitled WATER, about privatization of natural resources. She was a founding member of the KO Festival of Performance, at which she acted, directed, wrote and composed over a number of seasons. Directed THE DIRTY GIRLS, which ran at Manhattan Class Company, The Village Gate, the Raw Space and the Philadelphia Womens’ Theater Festival. Recent directing credits include new works FAITH AND CLOVER, BECOMING, THE ISLAND AGAIN and MATTER. Staged readings of THE THINGS THEY CARRIED at Eastworks and THE CATONSVILLE 9 in conjunction with a lecture by Professor Howard Zinn. At UMass, directed OTHELLO, SOME ASIANS, REINCARNATION OF JAMIE BROWN, and TRUE WEST. Directing credits at Hampshire Shakespeare Festival include MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING and KING LEAR. In the last couple of seasons her work has been seen in MERCY OF A STORM and BLACKBIRD at the Chester Theatre Company. Sheila has performed at various regional venues, including the George St. Playhouse, the Theater at Monmouth, and at St. Peter’s at the Citicorp Center and Moonworks at the 29th St. Repertory.

On Word.

kelsey — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:22:02 +0000

The August Company loves words. Spoken and unspoken. From the quietest whisper to the loudest roar, from a full-length play to a pithy two-line blog. Utilizing our backgrounds in theater, film, and writing, our company brings words to the stages of the beautiful Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts. Human, mirthful, poignant and true. Words.

Watch our recent OnWord endeavor, “Blog Fever”, a parental list-serve from an unnamed elementary school (starring Rachel Cummings, Claire Kavannah, Steve Angel, Scott Braidman, and Kelsey Flynn and filmed and edited by Liesel de Boor.)

OnWord: What happens when the written is spoken? What is the meaning of just one word? OnWord brings to life poetry, prose, blogs, essays, and songs in a unique evening of short works NOT originally written for the stage, all built around a single word.

Words…

Abandon

Fresh

First

Float

Found

Lost

Stumble

Fall

Changing

Brutal

Murder

Red

Raw

Artificial

Artifact

Relic

Traditional

Home

Dark

Grave

Chew

The August Company Season

kelsey — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:11:51 +0000

AUGUST 2009: William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew

FEBRUARY 28, 2010: The August Company performs a five minute set at THE REALLY BIG SHOW at The Academy of Music in Northampton, MA

MARCH 2010: The August Company Presents On Word: GONE