Equity Performers Needed for 2025 Season Show
The company is seeking Equity actors for roles in 2025 season show and looking for performers, please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. About the project: "SACCO AND VANZETTI’S DIVINE COMEDY" First Rehearsal: on or around June 2, 2025 First Public Performance: June 25, 2025 Press Opening: June 27, 2025 Closing Performance: July 26, 2025 "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD" First Rehearsal: on or around July 14, 2025 First Public Performance: August 6, 2025 Press Opening: August 8, 2025 Closing Performance: September 6, 2025 "PAUL AND ÉMILE" First Rehearsal: on or around August 25, 2025 First Public Performance: September 18, 2025 Press Opening: September 20, 2025 Closing Performance: October 12, 2025 Rate: NEAT $561 weekly minimum (cat. 5) Additional info: Please prepare 2 brief contrasting contemporary monologues. For SOUTHERN HARMONY: A folk or country style song. Accompanist provided. You may be asked to read from sides from the show. Please bring headshot and resume Please apply if interested.
20 roles
Italian-American Anarchist, controversially convicted of murder and armed robbery and subsequently executed following a sensationalized trial fraught with irregularities. Requires strong comedic timing and physical comedy. "SACCO AND VANZETTI’S DIVINE COMEDY"
Italian-American Anarchist, controversially convicted of murder and armed robbery and subsequently executed following a sensationalized trial fraught with irregularities. Requires strong comedic timing and physical comedy. "SACCO AND VANZETTI’S DIVINE COMEDY"
Sacco’s wife, a very VERY good cook "SACCO AND VANZETTI’S DIVINE COMEDY"
The highly conflicted judge who presided over the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti. Stern, no nonsense, and a symbol of a corrupt justice system. "SACCO AND VANZETTI’S DIVINE COMEDY"
More than a sidekick to Judge Thayer, a sympathetic voice with an anti-establish streak "SACCO AND VANZETTI’S DIVINE COMEDY"
From Louisiana. He is extroverted and talkative and loves being around people. He is kind and selfless almost to an unbelievable extent. Quite effeminate, he does not watch football, nor does he drink beer. He loves Golden Age Musicals, art, and singing in the church choir. Mortician by trade and good at it. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Texan. Personality is that of a diamond back rattlesnake. Would just as soon keep to herself unless you poke her, in which case she will strike. In either case, she doesn’t like you. Or anyone. Now a widow, she is the wealthiest person in Carthage and has disowned her only son for petty reasons. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Carthage District Attorney who sees himself as a noble man of the law. There’s good people and bad people and it’s up to the good ones to control the bad ones. The only thing he hates more than crime is a slow day at the office. He can be attention seeking but has feelings and does not lack empathy. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
A simple man but not stupid. He works for an insurance company. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
A waitress at a diner, she has a very sweet, motherly disposition. Her oldest child, Jason, has the opportunity to become the first generation in her family to go to college. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Granddaughter of Marjorie Nugent. Loves her grandmother even though her grandmother has been estranged from Shanna’s father. She is suspicious of Bernie. She is a law student at the time of the first trial of Bernie Tiede. Extremely sharp and serious. She’s a fighter and will not be intimidated. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Always well meaning, but loud, in everyone’s business, and lacks any sense of propriety which has led to her being largely avoided by others. Ever the busybody, she is constantly trying to set up her daughter with Bernie, hoping he will become 5th in a long line of husbands. She is lonely and enjoys the company of Bernie Tiede. She often says outlandish things, but is never trying to be funny or make a joke. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Well connected, high powered attorney for a famous Hollywood film director, now working to help Bernie Tiede. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Soft spoken intellectual. He, like Bernie, is an outsider in Carthage. Always serious and a deep thinker. He runs an arts foundation in Carthage. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Public defender for Bernie Tiede in the first trial. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Funeral home director and former employer of Bernie Tiede. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Sheriff and longtime friend of Danny Buck Davidson. He is small and completely non- threatening in every way, but he is not clumsy or stupid like Barney Fife. He is knowledgeable and trained and takes the job very seriously and goes by the book. And he is very passionate about his firearm(s). "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Paul Cézanne, 19th Century French post-impressionist painter, friends since boyhood with author Émile Zola, the two suffered a bitter falling out leading to two decades of silence. "PAUL AND ÉMILE"
Émile Zola, 19th Century French novelist, journalist and playwright, friends since boyhood with artist Paul Cézanne, the two suffered a bitter falling out leading to two decades of silence. "PAUL AND ÉMILE"
Cézanne’s housekeeper, a former nun with a quick wit. "PAUL AND ÉMILE"