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Theatre Casting Call for 2025-26 Season Show

Saint Paul, MN, United States
ID: 280984Exp: 3/22/2025
$839/week
Description:

The company is holding auditions for 2025-26 season show and looking for performers, please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. About the project: "MARISOL" First Rehearsal: 9/9/25 Opening on 10/9/25 Closing on 11/2/25 SYNOPSIS: This Obie Award winning play follows Marisol, a young woman facing the possibility of her own death, in a world in chaos and crisis. The play examines themes of mental illness, spiritual warfare, and a dystopian, disintegration of urban society in America. "JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE" First Rehearsal: 4/28/26 Opening on 5/28/26 Closing on 6/21/26 SYNOPSIS: Set in a Black boarding house in Pittsburgh in 1911, this tender and human drama is an installment in the author’s American Century Cycle, which chronicles Black life in every decade of the 20th century. Each resident of the boarding house has a different relationship to a past of slavery, as well as to urban life at the turn of the century. They include the proprietors, an eccentric clairvoyant, a young man up from the South, a mysterious stranger searching for his wife, and two children learning the ways of a new urban future. Rate: SPT $839 weekly minimum (SPT 9) Additional info: Please prepare two contrasting 2-minute monologues from contemporary African-American canon. Please provide a headshot and resume upon arrival for your audition. For artists who sing, please prepare a brief contemporary musical theater song and bring sheet music in your key. An accompanist will be provided. Performance schedule: Previews on the Tuesday and Wednesday before opening night, curtain is at 7:30pm After opening, Wednesday - Friday curtain is at 7:30pm Saturday curtain is at 2pm and 7:30pm Sunday curtain is at 4pm Please apply if interested.

19 roles

MARISOLFemale18-30 y.o.Latino / Hispanic

A young Puerto Rican woman who works as a copy editor in Manhattan "MARISOL"

ANGELMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

A character in the play "MARISOL"

JUNEMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

Marisol's best friend and co-worker "MARISOL"

LENNYMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

A character in the play, June’s brother "MARISOL"

WOMAN WITH FURSFemale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

A character who becomes Marisol's nemesis in Act II "MARISOL"

MAN WITH GOLF CLUBMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

A character in the play "MARISOL"

MAN WITH ICE CREAMMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

A character in the play "MARISOL"

MAN WITH SCAR TISSUEMale18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

A character in the play "MARISOL"

SUBWAY ANNOUNCERBoth genders18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

A character in the play (voiceover only) "MARISOL"

RADIO ANNOUNCERBoth genders18-56 y.o.All ethnicities

A character in the play (voiceover only) "MARISOL"

SETH HOLLYBoth genders50-54 y.o.African-American

A Black man in his early 50s, Seth is owner of the boardinghouse and works as a craftsman. "JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE"

BERTHA HOLLYFemale23-27 y.o.African-American

Seth's wife of 25 years and five years his junior, Bertha is woman and runs the boardinghouse. She does all the cooking and cleaning, later with the aid of Zonia. "JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE"

BYNUM WALKERMale60-69 y.o.African-American

A "conjure" man staying with the Holly's at the boardinghouse, Bynum is a freed slave from the south. "JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE"

HAROLD LOOMISMale30-34 y.o.African-American

Loomis is a displaced man searching for his wife. He was forced to work for Joe Turner for seven years, which separated him from his wife and daughter. He works as a deacon for the Abundant Life Church and at times was possessed by spiritual beings. "JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE"

RUTHERFORD SEILEGMale18-56 y.o.White / Caucasian

Selig is a peddler who sells Seth's goods. Known as the "People Finder", Selig is from a family that first brought Africans across the Atlantic to become slaves. But now he unites people by recording the names and places of all the people he peddles to. "JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE"

JERERMY FURLOWMale23-27 y.o.African-American

A resident of the boardinghouse, Jeremy is a 25-year-old guitar player. He came to the North looking for a job and a way in life. He works construction, putting in the new road outside of town. "JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE"

MATTIE CAMPBELLFemale23-27 y.o.African-American

A woman who is disappointed with her position in life and is looking for love. "JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE"

MOLLY CUNNINGHAMFemale24-28 y.o.African-American

Molly is a good-looking woman who is strong and independent. "JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE"

MARTHA PENTACOSTFemale26-29 y.o.African-American

Loomis' wife. Very religious and a member of the Evangelical church. She left the South and her daughter behind. "JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE"