"Topdog Underdog" Play Looking for Performers
The company is holding auditions for "TOPDOG UNDERDOG" show and looking for performers, please see the details below. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. About the project: In Suzan-Lori Parks’ Pulitzer and Tony Award winning play, brothers Lincoln and Booth are haunted by their past and obsessed with the street con game three-card monte. A darkly comic fable named the best play of the last 30 years by The New York Times, Topdog/Underdog digs deep into brotherly love, a sibling rivalry foretold by the names their father gave the brothers as a joke, and the long game of American History, as it asks: can we ever change the cards we’re dealt? Rate: LORT Non-Rep $1213 weekly minimum (LORT B) $889 weekly minimum (LORT D) $831 weekly minimum (LORT D - Protected) Additional info: Please prepare either two contrasting monologues or one monologue and one song not exceeding two minutes in length. An accompanist will be provided. Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions. First Rehearsal: Sept 18, 2026 Performances: Oct 13 - Nov 22, 2025 Fielding Stage, LORT D
2 roles
Topdog. He lives with his brother, Booth, after his wife left him. An intelligent man who drinks, he works at an arcade as an Abraham Lincoln impersonator. Before working at the arcade, Lincoln used to be a hustler who played Three-Card Monte on the streets and conned people out of their money.
Underdog. A hotheaded and unemployed, he has allowed his older brother, Lincoln, to stay in his apartment. Booth is obsessed with making money and attracting women. Aspirational hustler.
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