Seeking Actors for Emerging Producers Festival 2025
ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. Seeking actors for Emerging Producers Festival 2025. Please, see the details below. Rate: The Emerging Producers Festival is a paid, intensive training program for underrepresented theater producers (under the age of 30) who are seeking hands-on experience in staging community-centred and socially engaged works. Salary: $20/hr (subject to equity status). Length of Contract: 1 work week, or 40 hours total, not consecutive, within the range of the range of July - August 21st for prep, auditions, and rehearsals. The rehearsal schedule will be made in consultation with the Director and Producer. Additional information: The Festival runs in Toronto’s East Danforth neighborhood from Thursday, August 21st, until Saturday, August 23rd. Location: Toronto. July - August 21st for prep, auditions, and rehearsals. The rehearsal schedule will be made in consultation with the Director and Producer. Anticipated Start Date for “Presentation A”: July 28th, 2025 Anticipated Start Date for “Presentation B”: August 1st, 2025 Anticipated Start Date for “Presentation C”: August 4th, 2025. Application Deadline: Wednesday, July 2nd at 11:59pm. For more details regarding this opportunity, please see the attachment. When applying, please submit your head shot, resume/CV, and your biography (500 words max.)—attached as a single pdf document. The subject line “EPF ACTOR [your preference of Presentation ‘A’, ‘B’, or ‘C’] Submission”.
8 roles
“Presentation A”. Non-binary, they/them, queer. Thoughtful, introverted, sensitive. They move through the world with caution. Until they don’t.
“Presentation A”. She/her. Frazzled, preoccupied, scathing. Has rarely attempted to hide a single thought or feeling.
“Presentation A”. She/her. Willful, proud, impish. Still shows traces of her former fearless and charismatic self.
“Presentation A”. David Bowie. Genderless & timeless masterpiece. In this story, played by a transmasc actor. British accent (Middle class, South London). Priority will be given to actors of Slavic or East European heritage/identity.
Presentation "B”. She/her, Palestinian-artist, great apartment hunter, will make a great family someday but isn’t defined by it.
Presentation "B”. He/him, Palestinian-electrician, great builder of furniture, will make a great family someday and is defined by it.
“Presentation C”. She/her, early career. Fire and steel, her femininity a weapon as much as it is a shield. She’s angry—angry at the world, and angry at herself for still caring. She is sharp, determined, and wears her disillusionment like a badge of honor. Her early career aspirations have been worn thin by the relentless grind, and she teeters on the brink of bitterness and defiance. Every step she takes is fueled by a simmering rage, a defiance that refuses to be crushed.
He/him, late career. A man who has lived through it all, his body hardened by a lifetime of relentless physical demands. He’s old, but there’s a surprising vitality to him—he can spring into a tap dance as if it’s second nature, his muscles conditioned by years of performance. As a seasoned professional; there’s a sense that he’s holding on because it’s what he knows best, and it’s all he has left. His dialogue is peppered with stories from the past.
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