Casting Equity Actors For Production Of "Bernarda's Daughters"
Auditions for "Bernarda's Daughters" - video submissions. Seeking Equity actors. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. Please see the breakdown below. Rate: Off Broadway. $1061 weekly minimum (Category CC). Additional info: Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to apply. 1st Rehearsal: April 3, 2023. Tech: April 25, 2023. 1st Preview: May 2, 2023. Opening: May 21, 2023. Closing: June 18, 2023. When applying, please include your head-shot, resume and audition video in a non-downloadable format (private YouTube link, Vimeo, etc.). Please prepare a contemporary monologue, no more than 2 minutes in length. Videos should be shot in landscape (horizontally) in a well-lit (not backlit) space. State your name, height, and piece and show a full length shot of your body at the top of your recording then cut to your monologue shot from the chest up. Subject line should be formatted as follows: "NAME - ROLE".
6 roles
Eldest (after Louise Gluck) Age 35. Born in Haiti, but moved to Brooklyn around 1-2 yrs old. Has a different biological mother. Father remarried soon after her mother’s death, but has always known Bernarda as mom. This difference doesn’t really ever come up except in extreme conflict. Quintessential oldest sister. Loudest voice in the room. Business-minded. Hard-boned. The only sister who speaks Creole fluently. Dating Matthew, a white guy she’s known since college, but is not from her world.
Second oldest (after Trumbull Stickney, son of Harriet Trumbull Stickney) Age 33. As the remaining sisters, born in Brooklyn. Sad/hopeless romantic. Loves soap operas, Jane Austen novels, sappy romance. Bernarda and her husband’s first child born in the States. A do-gooder, mommy’s favorite. Always does what she asks. Follows Louise’s direction. Has a secret crush (that mostly everyone, but definitely Louise knows about) on Louise’s boyfriend.
Middle (after Mary Ruefle) Age 29. One half of the middle girls. Pretty easy going. Loves to gossip. Good natured and generally doesn’t take sides, which makes her easy to confide in. Has a mostly non-judgmental eye on everything. Stays out of drama. Used to be out in the streets: parties, hookups, fun drugs and drinking. As she approaches 30, has really slowed down, no doubt an effect of being in the house. Her name relates to poet Mary Ruefle.
Second youngest (after Erosmène Delva) Age 27. Other half of the middle girls. Also good natured and gets along with everyone. Has made a concerted effort to venture out into the world and out of the house in a much different way than her sisters. She’s gone away for college; and has recently rented an apartment in the same building (or maybe near it) where her parents first rented after moving to Brooklyn.
Youngest (after Magdalene called Lena) Age 22. The baby. The least existentially “buzzing.” Not really pressed by anything, especially time. Not so much whiny as she is fully self-justified in her casual complaints. Is not so much concerned with some imagined life out of the house as she is with being left to her own devices. No one takes her seriously. She is slowly completing a bachelor’s degree.
Grandmother (after Florence Miller) Age who knows? (probably late 70's, early 80's). The secret blueprint. Bernarda’s hold on the house (even in absentia) is in large part an incredibly strong reaction against her own mother. In reaction to Florence Delva’s own overbearing influence on Bernarda’s life, Bernarda overcorrected in the opposite direction, looking for freedom in her marriage. Florence now lives in the basement, between realms of human and creature, living and dead.
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