CASTING
The Actors' Gang is an ensemble-based theatre company, founded in 1981 and based on a shared tradition and vocabulary. The company workshops together once a week, in a technique known as The Style. New ensemble members join The Gang through annual interviews and auditions, generally held in the spring of each year. A volunteer commitment of 10 hours per week plus attendance at the weekly Sunday Workshop is required.
ANNOUNCING: Casting is now closed. We will continue to accept headshot/rsumes for new Gang members for 2012 and plan to audition in Apr/May 2012. PLEASE SUBMIT HEADSHOT/RESUMES AND LETTER OF INTEREST VIA MAIL IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN JOINING THE COMPANY!
If you are interested in applying to join The Gang, please send a headshot/resume and letter telling us about yourself and describing why you want to be a part of The Actors' Gang to the attention of Education Department, 9070 Venice Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232. This letter is very important to us. We also highly recommend that you have seen one or more productions and be familiar with our work before applying. This April interested candidates can come see Tartuffe to fulfill this.
No phone calls, please.
JOBS
The Actors' Gang periodically requires growth in certain elements of production. We currently seek expansion of our STAGE MANAGER pool, as well as our STAGE CREW pool. If you are interested in working as as stage manager or have experience in stage crew, please email a letter of interest and resume to production@theactorsgang.com.
Currently we also could use some PRODUCTION MANAGER assistance on a per-show basis. If you have experience in this regard, please email your resume to production@theactorsgang.com.
SCRIPT SUBMISSIONS
We are not currently accepting unsolicited script submissions.
THE STYLE
The Actors' Gang is well known for its original acting method, referred to as The Style, a precise technique brought to The Actors' Gang by Georges Bigot and the Theatre du Soleil. This is a unique melding of the broad physicality of commedia dell'arte and the intense, disciplined use of heightened emotion. This investment, based in truth, is focused in four specific states - happiness, sadness, fear and anger. Erasing the concept of a fourth wall, performers connect directly with audience members, for the sole purpose of sharing these moments in real time. The goal is to bring your audience on a journey, that they might be transformed. This is how we tell our stories.
Enhancing this process are larger-than-life disciplines such as mask work, puppetry, movement and music.
The development process begins with a series of workshops whereby Gang Members begin by juxtaposing The Style onto source material. In keeping with commedia tradition, for example, the actors develop a full image. Makeup and costumes for the characters are made specific before the interior characterization work begins. The Gang encourages its members to keep the barriers between disciplines as low as possible. Designers attend these workshops and rehearsals, sharing in the creative process. The result is a truly organic collaboration.
