Actors Needed for "It’s My Party" Play Audition
Performers required for the "It’s My Party" play, please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. About the project: The Play in Short: It’s My Party! explores what happens when two different factions ignite political change using wildly different tactics. This play reveals competing strategies, daring stunts, and bitter rivalries that propelled the suffragists’ fight for the 19th Amendment. Rate: These are paid positions. This is a professional theatre experience. Additional info: Callbacks April 5, 2025; Rehearsals start September 15, 2025; Shows run October 17-26, 2025; Audition Requirements: Self Tape: a 1-2 dramatic piece that is some form of suffragist history or historical speech told from a woman's perspective Please apply if interested.
8 roles
Quaker women's rights activist who learned guerrilla tactics in London. She returns to America to get things done! Forms a new political party, The National Woman’s Party (NWP), to exert maximum pressure on Congress and President Wilson.
Bonded with Alice Paul in “the trenches” in London. Radical foil to Alice. Very contemporary, energetic, she loves public protest and throws herself into this fight. Saw more jail time than any other suffragist.
Executive member of NWP. Good friend and chief lieutenant of Alice. She is one of few married women with children (three, grown, in Philadelphia). A caretaker of the group, she is on the picket line almost as much as Lucy Burns.
Twice elected President of National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Brilliant political strategist who instituted grass roots organizing still used today. She is “establishment” suffragist and knows her way is best. At first she welcomes Alice’s fresh perspective and new strategy, then she fears it.
An ordained Methodist minister and a medical doctor, she is a force to be reckoned with. At the play's open, she is President of NAWSA, at the top of her professional and personal trajectory. Definitely Old School.
Joined NAWSA in college and was often the youngest delegate at their conventions. Now she is chief lobbyist for NAWSA in D.C. Exerts traditional passive female power, trading on her femininity.
Reporter for Chicago Tribune, covering Capitol Hill, especially the 19th Amendment story. Friend of NWP.
African-American civil right and women’s rights activist and journalist. Initially a member of mainstream white suffrage groups, she forms the Alpha Suffrage Club for black suffragists in Chicago.
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