Casting Performers for "Who Cares" Play
Seeking male-female talent for the "Who Cares: The Caregiver Interview Project" play. See the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. About the project: Voices Festival Productions (VFP) is an independent production company based in Washington DC, which produces plays (and the occasional musical) that stimulate debate and discourse, introspection and awareness, informed by revelation of our underlying humanity in all its color and complexity, finding resonance between those living with conflict in the Middle East and closer to home, in our nation’s capital, along the seams of our nation and its very real and perceived divides. We celebrate diverse, inter-cultural voices and encounters through inter-connected performance of both provocative and introspective new works for the stage, in dialogue with our moment. Rate: SPT/$450 weekly minimum (SPT 3) Additional info: First rehearsal: December 9, 2024 First performance: January 9, 2025 Opening Night: January 13, 2024 Closing performance: February 2, 2025 Possible Extension through Feb 9, 2025 SCHEDULE DETAILS: Performs Thurs @ 7:30PM, Fri @ 7:30PM, Sat @ 8PM, Sun @ 3PM. Maximum Performances/Week: 4 Maximum Workweek Hours: 30 Hours for Actors. Maximum Daily Hours (during rehearsal): 5 out of 6 1/2 hours per weekday, and 7 out of 8 1/2 hours per weekend day or, by unanimous secret ballot vote, on a weekday. Tech-Dress Rehearsal Days: Two days of 8 out of 10 hours When applying, please schedule an audition appointment.
8 roles
Producing partner of theater company, convener of caregiver support group to alleviate isolation, including her own, though she doesn't readily broadcast the story of caring for her own sister, Bee (57), because it’s so fresh. Values listening.
Local pastor with Southern roots caring for husband who divorced her in the midst of his condition; dispenses a wise gospel of love in the midst of much pain. CAMEOS: BEE (57) Lorri’s sister, afflicted with ALS-FTD; and TANTY (95), Kathleen’s arch, elderly Caribbean aunt (who’s also a hoarder).
Paid caregiver initially Zooming in from Chicago, former Division III college basketball player, caring for Holocaust refugee psychologist with dementia, still figuring out their path; KATHLEEN (60s-70s Black) Playwright/professor who cared for highly successful, well-organized parents; now travels to NYC to care for highly disorganized, elderly aunt. Also: SELAM (30s) Ethiopian nurse.
CEO of international NGO caring for her formerly world- traveling parents. Also plays: JUNE (40’s, White) Queer Gender Studies professor poised to care for three queer parents. GERIATRIC THERAPIST (50s) specializing in Arts Therapy and Movement, and JIM’S MOM (80s) living with dementia, acerbic, often inappropriately.
Part-time stand-up comic, affable family man. Also: PAUL (60s, White) Jewish American teacher, writer, former Broadway and Hollywood actor, now teaching theater to 7th graders in a DC Public Charter School. And Politics & Prose BOOKSTORE OWNER.
Covers SARAH, THERESA, & OTHERS.
Covers LORRI, RACHEL, KRIS, & OTHERS.
Covers JIM & OTHERS.
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