Casting Talent for 2025-2026 Season Show
The company is holding auditions for 2025-2026 season show and looking for performers, please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. About the project: "MOTHER MARY" Rehearsals 9/9/25 - 10/8/25 Previews 10/9/25 - 10/10/25 Performances 10/11/25 - 10/26/25 "ZABEL IN EXILE" Previews 2/19/26 - 2/20/26 Performances 2/21/26 - 3/8/26 Rate: NEAT $575 weekly minimum (Cat. 5) 32-hours of rehearsal per week (36-hours in tech week), a maximum of 5 performances per week Additional info: Please prepare a contemporary monologue of 2-minutes or less. If you wish, you may also prepare one side from one of the season’s plays, which will be sent when your audition slot is confirmed. These plays are new and in process! Also bring your headshot and resume stapled together. When applying, please include your full name, Equity status, contact information (including mailing address), and the show(s) for which you would like to be considered. Please include your complete availability for both audition dates (6/16 and 6/23). You will receive a confirmation email with a specific time slot.
8 roles
Sharp, playful, bold but cautious, forthright, capable. A taxi driver. Moved to Boston from the island a few years back. JO is a butch woman – she dresses in clothing designed for men, she moves through many parts of the world as a man, but she feels and fucks like a woman. Walking down the street, however, she is primarily perceived as a man. Doubles as: NURSE CRUZ, Puerto Rican, from the island, woman "MOTHER MARY"
(Irish). Discerning, intuitive, impulsive, amusing, playful. A schoolteacher. MARY is a femme woman, born and raised in South Boston. She has a slight Boston accent. She probably grew up with a stronger one, but it has faded with her education. Doubles as: MRS. O'SULLIVAN "MOTHER MARY"
Writer and activist Zabel Yessayan from childhood through her 50. Elegant, fiercely smart, ambitious, steely sense of humor, badass with heart. (Armenian)
Soviet Guard. Intense, smart, perceptive -- a match for Zabel. Young enough to still believe earnestly in extreme political ideas and the idealistic use of violence. Doubles as: Boy, Teacher with Ruler.
Meguerditch, Zabel's Father (Armenian). Kind, charming, and fun, creative, and iconoclastic. Ability to transform into an ancient old man who has lost all hope. Doubles as: Centenarian.
Midwife (Armenian). Grounded, maternal energy. Ability to handle poetic text, to drive through with momentum, hint of mischief. Doubles as: First Monster, Grandmother, Madame Dussap, Man with Bugle, Helping Woman.
Mother (Armenian). Transformative with the ability to handle poetic text and play tragic circumstances directly, simply, and without sentimentality. Doubles as: Sophie (Zabel’s daughter), Arsha, Eva, Woman with Baby, 2nd Monster.
Uncle ( Armenian). Transformative with ability to play multiple distinct characters, access to humor, physically agile. Doubles as: Priest, Elegant Woman, Tinsmith, Principal, Terzian, Armenian Guide, Turkish Soldier, Laughing Man.
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