"How The Light Gets In" Stage Play Needs Equity Actors
Searching for Equity actors for roles in Theatre's 2027 Winter Season show "How The Light Gets In". ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. Kindly review the details below. About the project: SYNOPSIS: In a Japanese garden, four isolated people cross paths at moments when their lives are cracking open. Grace Wheeler is a travel writer who never travels, now facing a frightening breast cancer diagnosis. Haruki Sakamoto is a Japanese architect hired to design a tea house, but he cannot find the shape of it—or the courage to say what he feels. Kat Lane is a homeless seventeen-year-old runaway hiding beneath the garden’s weeping willow. Tommy Z is a tattoo artist whose gift for seeing people clearly is complicated by his own grief and addiction. As their stories begin to intertwine, the garden becomes a place of unlikely refuge: a space where illness, fear, love, damage, and tenderness can be spoken aloud. Inspired by the Leonard Cohen lyric, the play is a lyrical, humane story about brokenness, connection, and the possibility that our cracks may become the places where light enters. Note that this play includes frank descriptions of breast cancer and its treatment, suicide, and addiction. Rate: LORT Non-Rep $889 weekly minimum (LORT D) Additional info: All roles will be understudied. PREPARATION: For the musical or musical and plays, please prepare a 32 bar cut in the style of the show and a short monologue with a total audition time under 3 minutes. If interested in plays only, please prepare two contrasting monologues (one should be comedic) with a total audition time under 3 minutes. An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition. Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition. Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions. Rehearsals begin March 16, 2027 Previews are April 7, 2027, and April 8, 2027 Show opens April 9, 2027 Show closes May 23, 2027 If you are interested, please apply.
3 roles
Female-presenting, 46 years old. A travel writer who has built a career writing about places she has never actually visited, relying on research, imagination, and emotional insight. She volunteers as a docent in the Japanese Garden, though she is not Japanese. Intelligent, guarded, funny, and deeply lonely, Grace is forced into vulnerability when she receives a breast cancer diagnosis. Her journey is not one of simple bravery, but of learning how to be seen, helped, and loved.
Male-presenting, Japanese, 52 years old. An accomplished architect who specializes in buildings that live in conversation with nature. Hired to design a tea house for the garden, Haruki is blocked by grief, perfectionism, and a growing attachment to Grace. Precise, private, and emotionally contained, he is a man at a personal and creative crossroads, trying to reconcile beauty, loss, duty, and desire.
Male-presenting, 39 years old. A tattoo artist with a rough, intimidating exterior and a profoundly generous heart. Tommy has an unusual gift for seeing what people need to reveal, protect, or transform, and for translating that into images on their skin. He is connected to the play’s themes of scars, survival, and chosen identity, while also carrying his own grief and relationship to addiction. (Also plays: Sweet Little Lady, Big Man, Nurse, Cop, Surgeon)
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