DOWNSTATE Casting Powerful Actor for a Linchpin Role in Amazing Play!
DEE: 40s-60s. Languid, also on the registry, post-incarceration. Defiant about his past. An emotional anchor with a quick wit.
Auditions were fantastic last week. I love Capital Region theater so much especially after seeing this brave group of auditioners show up and make fantastic choices to play this fascinating cast of individuals, unlike any you have ever seen onstage before.
Harbinger is very excited to get started in August but we still need one actor to play Dee, a Black former dancer on the national tour of Peter Pan who had a relationship with one of the lost boys. Dee is now the conscience, emotional anchor and steadying influence in the group home, checking on Fred’s meds and calling out Gio’s transgressions with a quick wit, all while grappling with his own conflicting emotions.
Critics praised K. Todd Freeman who created the role for his ability to expertly navigate complex dualities. He brought a “silky layering of wit and steel”, using sharp humor and a quick tongue as a defense mechanism against bigotry and societal cruelty, while delivering a deeply vulnerable and tragic performance.
Production at Albany Barn
9/17-9/26
Rehearsals in August at Christ Church, Troy
Harbinger’s 21st Capital Region Premiere