Casting Call for Theater Festival 2025 Season
Performers needed for the Theater Festival 2025 Season. See the details below. Rate: LORT Non-Rep $839 weekly minimum (LORT D) About the project: 1. "HAPPY FALL: A QUEER STUNT SPECTACULAR" SYNOPSIS: Happy Fall is a world premiere produced in partnership with Rogue Artists Ensemble and the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Two queer Hollywood stuntmen navigate the dangers of exposing their love. Based on true life events and told through live stunts, video, puppetry, and cinematic illusions, this story is a fun, raucous tribute to the resiliency of the LGBTQIA+ community. Illuminating issues of identity in the film industry, this play highlights the importance - and danger - of being true to one’s self. 2. "MAGDALENE" SYNOPSIS: WORLD PREMIERE Eighteen years after the crucifixion, Peter reconnects with the banished Mary Magdalene. After casting her out, he now seeks her advice and counsel. Questions erupt as they recall different versions of Jesus, His miracles, and His vision for the faith. Whose memories are closest to the truth? Whose secrets are revealed? Whose stories will stand the test of time? 3. "SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE" SYNOPSIS: What happens when the trust we place in our medical system actually makes us sicker? After a series of diagnoses, a mother leads us through her son's search for wellness, a Kafkaesque journey through the world of psychiatry. Written with humor and fury, the story explores the side effects of fighting through illness with the ones we love. In these crazy times, it asks us to question...are we medicating life itself? Note: All of these characters, these voices in His Mother’s head, are played, not broadly, but with their full humanity. Seeking versatile actors to play the following roles in a 5 actor ensemble. Additional info: Please prepare a brief contemporary monologue, one minute in length. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together. First Rehearsals: June 10th, 2025. Openings: July 11th, 2025 and July 12th, 2025. Closing: August 3rd, 2025. To be considered, please apply.
14 roles
"HAPPY FALL: A QUEER STUNT SPECTACULAR" Confident in a way that only 20-something’s can be. A stuntman who works on high falls. Comfortable with stunt work and/or fight choreography and willing to learn how to do stunt falls.
"HAPPY FALL: A QUEER STUNT SPECTACULAR" Alpha, once a highly-successful stuntman. Doubles as CLAY PUPPET and HOST (think Katya Z.) Comfortable with stunt work and/or fight choreography and willing to learn how to do stunt falls.
"HAPPY FALL: A QUEER STUNT SPECTACULAR" ENSEMBLE: Five actors that make up a superhuman ensemble that performs death-defying stunts and puppeteer Clay Puppet. Note: Actors experienced in fight choreography and puppetry are encouraged to audition.
"HAPPY FALL: A QUEER STUNT SPECTACULAR" ENSEMBLE: Five actors that make up a superhuman ensemble that performs death-defying stunts and puppeteer Clay Puppet. Note: Actors experienced in fight choreography and puppetry are encouraged to audition.
"HAPPY FALL: A QUEER STUNT SPECTACULAR" ENSEMBLE: Five actors that make up a superhuman ensemble that performs death-defying stunts and puppeteer Clay Puppet. Note: Actors experienced in fight choreography and puppetry are encouraged to audition.
"HAPPY FALL: A QUEER STUNT SPECTACULAR" ENSEMBLE: Five actors that make up a superhuman ensemble that performs death-defying stunts and puppeteer Clay Puppet. Note: Actors experienced in fight choreography and puppetry are encouraged to audition.
"HAPPY FALL: A QUEER STUNT SPECTACULAR" ENSEMBLE: Five actors that make up a superhuman ensemble that performs death-defying stunts and puppeteer Clay Puppet. Note: Actors experienced in fight choreography and puppetry are encouraged to audition.
"MAGDALENE" An Educated woman. She’s known great love and great tragedy. She grieves for the past and the future. Keen sense of intellectual humor, sarcasm, wit, and presence.
"MAGDALENE" Fisherman. An ordinary man struggling to fulfill extraordinary expectations.
"SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE" A writer, A deep thinker but prone to tangents. Passionate, relentless, quick to find the irony in the worst fucking situations and to cover or avoid with a laugh.
"SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE" TRACK 1: Female, POC, Doubles as the following roles and more: PSYCHIATRIST: Female, well off, successful, smart, assured, 50s. SOCIAL WORKER: Female, BIPOC, truth teller. KARA: A botanist, early 20s, grounded, straight forward, smart. DR. LUCIRE: Australian, female, a fearless scientist, 82.
"SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE" TRACK 2: Female, POC Doubles as the following roles and more: BEST FRIEND: Female, bipoc, no filter, lotsa highs and lows. SOCIAL WORKER 2: Female, young, new at her job. WOMAN WITH AKATHISIA: A Veteran.
"SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE" TRACK 3: Doubles as the following roles and more: PSYCHIATRIST 2: Male, a bit Hollywood, charming, 40s. PSYCHIATRIST 3: Male, older, serious, bookish. HOMEOPATH: Male, philosophical, down to earth. OREGON DOCTOR: Male, soft spoken, wise, a good doctor. HIS FATHER: An artist, 50s or 60s, warm, emotional, impulsive, unabashedly spiritual. HIKING FRIEND: Male, 20s. MAN WITH AKATHISIA CHAD INTEGRATIVE PSYCHIATRIST 2 NURSE BOB HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIST
"SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE" Bright, original, loves life
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