Performers Needed for Theatre Season Audition
Casting Equity performers for theatre plays. Please see the details below. About the project: 1. "EXCEPTION TO THE RULE" First Rehearsal: 8/20/2024; Opens: 9/22/2024; Closes: 10/20/2024 (potential 3-week extension). 2. "SUMMER 1976" First Rehearsal: 10/8/2024; Opens: 11/10/2024; Closes: 12/15/2024 (potential 3-week extension). 3. "DOWNSTATE" First Rehearsal: 12/3/2024; Opens: 1/12/2025; Closes: 2/16/2025 (potential 3-week extension). 4. "THE SCENARIOS" First Rehearsal: 2/4/2025; Opens: 3/9/2025; Closes: 4/13/2025 (potential 3-week extension). 5. "PARADISE BLUE" First Rehearsal: 4/1/2025; Opens: 5/4/2025; Closes: 6/8/2025 (potential 3-week extension). 6. "WIPEOUT" First Rehearsal: 5/20/2025; Opens: 5/4/2025; Closes: 6/8/2025 (potential 3-week extension). Rate: CONTRACT: LORT Non-Rep $1000 weekly minimum (LORT D) Additional info: Please prepare 2 contrasting short contemporary monologues (Contemporary as in: plays written in the last 30 years). Auditions may not exceed 3 minutes total. Please bring two copies of your headshot and resume stapled together. An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition. Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions. See the attachment for play descriptions. If interested, please apply.
30 roles
"EXCEPTION TO THE RULE" High schooler. Loves to instigate a fight, popular amongst her peers and fierce. Creative, designs her own clothes on a budget.
"EXCEPTION TO THE RULE" High schooler. Goofy, conspiracy theorist, Dayrin's hype man. Tragically lovable. Has no game, but always makes a solid attempt.
"EXCEPTION TO THE RULE" High schooler. Fake thug, wannabe alpha of detention. Braggadocious. Knows the exact button to push with everyone he meets. Street smart and quick.
"EXCEPTION TO THE RULE" High schooler. Mature, but will clapback if provoked. Friendly, curious and great at making others laugh. Used to making the best out of bad situations.
"EXCEPTION TO THE RULE" High schooler. Principled. Believes in rules. Quiet strength but will unleash a fury if wronged and knock you out with one punch. Wants to help himself, grasping at straws.
"EXCEPTION TO THE RULE" High schooler. Book smart, reserved, never been in trouble a day in her life. Equally fascinated by and terrified of detention. Has a kind of infamy for being the smartest person in school.
"SUMMER 1976" An artist, adjunct faculty, and single mother. Keeps everything in order, has good taste, and is constantly lonely.
"SUMMER 1976" Considers herself a hippie, but maybe just because she smokes pot and her house is in a perpetual state of disarray. A mother and a homemaker in the most mundane of marriages until she gets divorced.
"DOWNSTATE" Professional. Adult survivor of childhood sexual assault.
"DOWNSTATE" Professional. Andy’s wife and support system.
"DOWNSTATE" Glasses, motorized wheelchair, childlike, not unlike Fred Rogers. On the sex offender registry for sexual assault of a minor; presents as regretful of his past.
"DOWNSTATE" Thin, languid. On the sex offender registry for sexual assault of a minor; defiant about his past.
"DOWNSTATE" Muscular, clean-cut, ambitious, voluble. On the sex offender registry for sexual assault of a minor, though he considers his crime to have been less egregious than Fred and Dee.
"DOWNSTATE" Heavyset, solitary, silent. On the sex offender registry for sexual assault of a minor.
"DOWNSTATE" Probation officer, overworked, weary.
"DOWNSTATE" Hyperactive. Too much eye makeup. Works alongside Gio as employees at Staples.
"THE SCENARIOS" A talented and moderately successful film/TV actor. Keeps her cards to herself.
"THE SCENARIOS" A largely unsuccessful theater actor; police intervention trainings are his only chances to play leading roles. His insecurities get in the way of his good intentions.
"THE SCENARIOS" A police officer who has been on the force for 11 years. Tough, cynical, and never lets her guard down, because she has to protect herself.
"THE SCENARIOS" Has been on the force for a few years. Holds onto the belief that individuals can effect systemic change. Sincere, if not always effective.
"THE SCENARIOS" Facilitator of these police intervention trainings and theater enthusiast. Tries to make change in small waves without rocking the boat.
"PARADISE BLUE" Pretty in a plain way. Simple, sweet. Waitress, cook and caretaker of Paradise Club. A loving thing with a soft touch. Adores poetry.
"PARADISE BLUE" Proprietor of Paradise Club. Handsome, mysterious. Quietly dangerous. Aloof. A hard shell and a hard interior. Battling many demons. A gifted trumpeter.
"PARADISE BLUE" Slightly chubby. Easygoing and thoughtful, a real sweetheart with a weakness for love. The piano man.
"PARADISE BLUE" Busybody, sweet-talker, hustler. Always eager for his next gig. The percussionist.
"PARADISE BLUE" Mysterious, charming. Spicy. Gritty and raw in a way that men find irresistible. Has a meeeeaaaannnn walk.
"WIPEOUT" A Taurus. An educator. Type-A core of the friends group. Has always made smart and solid choices in life. Cares about safety and stability. A wit that comes from anxiety.
"WIPEOUT" Probably a Leo. Has had four husbands. She doesn’t think so, but everyone can tell about her multiple aesthetic interventions. She has a harder time with getting old, with things changing, and reacts aggressively towards it. She doesn’t think she is a good person, or that she has evolved over the years. A wit that comes from vanity.
"WIPEOUT" Probably an Aquarius. A free spirit, living her best life. Has a new girlfriend, and is excited about learning new things, having adventures, discussing (and having!) sex. Her faculties are in decline. A wit that comes from intelligence.
"WIPEOUT" A Pisces. A Californian surf-bro. Someone you would at first read as surfer that doesn’t worry about “real life” responsibilities, but then you learn has had to deal with severe hardships and carries profound and transcendental wisdom about life and understands surf as a philosophy. A wit that comes from observation.
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