Audition notice--Equity/nonEquity

The Women’s Theater Company has some plum parts open for its May production of "Painting Churches" by Tina Howe.

Equity auditions Monday at the Parsippany Comunity Center, 1130 Knoll Road, Lake Hiawatha section of Parsipany. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for Equity actors. There are two Equity contracts available. NonEquity by appointment.

To make an audition appointment, call Kathrynne Forsbrey, production manager, at (973) 316-3033. ext. 5. A brief monologue should be prepared.

Needed are:
Fanny, age 60+, a Bostonian from a fine old family.
Gardner, 70+, her husband and an eminent New England poet
Margaret Church, 30+, their daughter, a painter.

The production runs May 18 to June 3, on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons. Daytime rehearsals begin on May 1.

For those who aren't familiar with the Womens Theater Company, founder and artistic director Barbara Krajkowski offers an artistically rich environment as she dedicates her company to producing exclusively the works of female playwrights. And her company has found a nice intimate space in Parsippany after a few years on the move. A lot of New Jersey's best regional actors, including fellas such as Duncan Rogers, David Volin, Michael Irvin Pollard and JC Hoyt, have done some of their best work in the company, and, of course, there's always plum roles for the ladies.

Barbara's a fun person to work with, an experienced educator (on staff at Willaim Paterson) and we were both in the same production at the Barn Theatre in Montville in 1976. I assume I might have met her young daughter at the time, but I really don't remember. But she grew up to be Tony and Olivier winner Jane Krakoswki, so there's some good actor mojo following that family.

The company hasn't quite caught on with the community as yet, so the crowds are relatively small. But if I was an actor, I would want to work with these people and in this space.