Burien Little Theatre will be holding auditions for its 2011 Playwrights Festival this coming Monday and Tuesday, and they’re looking for a wide range of ethnically diverse Actors.

Auditions will be held Monday, Feb. 7th, and Tuesday, Feb. 8th, from 7pm to 10pm, in Room 11 at the Annex to the Burien Community Center, located at the intersection of SW 146th St. and 4th Ave SW (for directions, go to www.burienlittletheatre.org).

Callbacks for main-stage shows will be Wednesday, Feb. 9th, from 7pm to 10pm.

To audition, please make an appointment by emailing audition@burienlittletheatre.org, or call Burien Little Theatre at 206-242-5180. Come prepared to perform a short comedic monologue and a short dramatic monologue.  Please also bring resume and headshot. Stipend of $35 provided for main-stage plays.

“Everyone is invited to audition for our exciting, jam-packed 2011 Bill & Peggy Hunt Playwrights Festival,” they said in a press release. “It’s gonna be wild, crazy and a total blast! We are auditioning for three main-stage plays and two staged readings. These plays are brand-new and have never been produced elsewhere. Each main-stage play will be part of a double-bill, and each will have six performances.  Each staged reading will receive two performances.”

There are 27 roles ranging in age from 17 through the 50s, including three that are specifically African-American and two that are specifically Latino, plus some ethnic-neutral roles. Auditions are open to all ethnicities, and details on shows and characters are listed below.

The festival runs April 8-May 1, 2011 at Burien Little Theatre in Burien. Performances of main-stage plays are Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons. Staged readings are Saturday afternoons.

Here are the details on main-stage plays:

“Unfound Fossils”: A full-length play written by Chris Bailey.

SYNOPSIS:  Oct. 11, 2009 marked the 40th anniversary of an infamous San Francisco shooting death, which put the exclamation point on the tumultuous summer of 1969. On that foggy October night in the ‘60s, two men in their underpants, post-coital, lounge in the bedroom of a Presidio Heights mansion, not far from the scene of the freshly committed murder. As police search the nearby Presidio, one of these men will come to realize the other is a killer. In Act II, an elderly man named Bill shows up in the fall of 2005 at the Seattle office of a 40-something psychologist and former FBI profiler, Dr. Maureen Campbell. When Bill’s revelations about the 1969 San Francisco shooting death threaten the “facts” in her soon-to-be released true crime book, Dr. Campbell does her best to discredit Bill, leaving him no choice but to threaten her in other ways. Drama.

Character list:

• Lee: Male, 30 to 35, powerfully built with a paunch and crew cut. Also plays Brian.
• Colin: Male, 40 to 45, lean and handsome, if not a little Kennedyesque. Also plays Bill.
• Dr. Campbell: Female, 45 to 50, smart, attractive, fit.
• Bill: Male, 65 to 70, aunt. Also plays Colin.
• Brian: Male, 45 to 50, built like Lee. Also plays Lee.
• Dispatcher: Female, 40 to 55. Voiced by the actor playing Dr. Campbell.

“Super Tuesday”: A full-length play written by Jesse Putnam

SYNOPSIS: An African-American governor, formerly a Democrat and now Republican, is running for president against an ultra-conservative opponent. He is confronted with a choice between saving a man on death row and his bid for the presidency. Drama.

Character list:

• Jim Powers: Male, African-American governor of Ohio and a candidate for president. A rising star in the Republican Party.
• Angela Powers:  Female, African-American. Jim Powers’ wife. A financial services attorney who has taken time off to help with the campaign. A strong-willed woman averse to the hyper-political culture.
• Rochelle Powers: Female, age 17, African-American. The Powers’ daughter. She is preparing for journalism school.
• Chuck Bartell: Male. Jim’s fast-talking campaign manager. A lifetime political operative who stops at nothing to get his man elected.
• Donna Zula: Female. Jim’s super-sharp and reliable communications director.
• Juan Testo: Male, age 17, Latino. Sentenced to death for shooting a police officer.
• Sandy Sanchez: Male, Latino. Juan’s uncle and Jim’s college buddy who pleads for a commutation of Juan’s sentence.
• Perry Franklin: Male. A Colorado businessman running against Jim on an anti-immigrant platform. A darling of the anti-government Patriot Party.
• Jason Platt: Male. A Philadelphia reporter.
• Agent: A Secret Service Agent.
• Moderator: Debate moderator.
• Guard: A correctional officer.
• Second Guard (offstage): A correctional officer.
• TV Reporter (offstage):  A CNN reporter.
• TV Anchor (offstage): A CNN anchor (Wolfe Blitzer type).
• Reporters: Three reporters (mainly offstage).

“Two”: A one-act play written by Suzanne Bailie

SYNOPSIS: In the future, suicide is now a government-regulated institution. Jet Alveraz, a third-generation clone, confronts the callous reality his intellect assisted in creating. Goodness, Jet discovers, has little value in mankind’s world of scientific advancement. Drama.

Character list:

• Jet Alveraz the 3rd:  Male, age 30-50ish, bitter, wealthy, intelligent. (Same actor plays Jet Alveraz the 4th.)
• Jet Alveraz the 4th:  Male, age 30-50ish, bitter, wealthy, intelligent. (Same actor plays Jet Alveraz the 3rd.)
• One:  Gender neutral, middle-aged, government worker, robotic.
• Avery: Female, 30-40ish, nurturing, kind, maternal.  (Same actor plays Two.)
• Two: Avery as a trans-human, robotic, government worker. (Same actor plays Avery.)

Details on staged readings:

“Action! Commericials! Subtext!”: A full-length play written by Sean Walbeck

SYNOPSIS:  Jana Goodwill’s mundane existence as an architectural historian is shattered when her neighbor, and possibly more, Port Commissioner Severt Longboardson bribes Jana’s dog Snarky into stealing Jana’s secret report. As Jana climbs the ladder of government policy to preserve historic waterfront buildings and protect herself from Severt’s nefarious *but handsome) clutches, she is plagued by a duplicitous city drone, dead bodies, spotty research, a clingy box and the angry ghost of her revenge-hungry dog. That is, until a training montage and vision quest from Obama make her the hero hstorian she needs to be, searching for La Cuidad de Oro in Bellingham Bay. Comedy.

Character list:

• Previa Felicity: Female. Planner Second-Grade with City of Bellingham and Vision Quest prisoner. Also plays Roadie (P), male. Also plays Henchey, female, Severt’s henchwoman/intern.
• Defensia Libertini: Female. Chair of Washington State Department of Architecture and Historic Preservation and VisionQuest Guiding Spirit. Also plays Roadie (D), male.
• Jana Goodwill: Female. Expert in architecture and history.
• Snarky: Female. Jana’s dog. Also plays S-Previa, female, a Planner Second-Grade with the City of Bellingham. Also plays S-Defensia, female, Chair of the Washington State Department of Architecture and Historic Preservation. Also plays Barbara “Flash” Redburn, female, a Para-Historian with the Office of Building and Maintaining Architecture
• Severt Longboardson: Male. Commissioner of Port of Bellingham. Also plays Roadie (SL), male. Also plays Juan de Fuca, male.

“The Fishbowl”: A full-length play written by Katherine Luck

SYNOPSIS:  Under the watchful eyes of the media, a criminal stunt by formerly famous has-beens at a fast-food joint goes violently awry. Dark comedy.

Character list:

• Mac: Male, 40s, white. Once a very popular movie star. Today, he’s washed up, though still in decent shape and not bad looking.
• Duke: Male, mid- to late 20s. A notorious reality TV star, He was villain on each of the many shows he appeared on; however, his fame is slipping away.
• Sebastian: Male, mid- to late 30s, Asian or white. Mac’s accountant.
• Sunni: Female, barely 21, Hispanic, black or standard-issue white trash. The cashier at the Fishbowl.
• Nikki Drake: Female, late 30s to late 40s. Defense attorney to the stars. She isn’t as successful as she used to be, but she’s very good at concealing this.