"Network" Audition for the Theater
Equity actors needed for 2027 Season show "Network". ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED. Additional details can be found below. About the project: SYNOPSIS: Howard Beale, news anchorman, isn't pulling in the viewers. In his final broadcast he unravels live on screen. But when the ratings soar, the network seizes on their newfound populist prophet, and Howard becomes the biggest thing on TV. Rate: Bay Area Theatre $651 weekly minimum (Tier 3) Additional info: Local Bay Area actors are encouraged to audition. PREPARATION: Please prepare a contemporary monologue no more than two-minutes. If you wish to be considered for the musical, please prepare 16-bars of an up-tempo song in the style of the show. An accompanist will be provided. 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. First Rehearsal: May 4, 2027 Tech: May 27, 28, 29, 2027 First Preview: June 2, 2027 Opening: June 5, 2027 Closing: June 27, 2027 When applying, please include with your Equity status.
9 roles
(Male-presenting) The UBS television news anchor who after being fired for low ratings, announces on-air that he will kill himself. When instead he begins ranting prophetically about the emptiness of modern life, his madness is commodified into high ratings, turning him into the "mad prophet of the airwaves.”
(Male-presenting) Veteran head of the news division and Howard's longtime friend. He struggles with his own midlife crisis, personal morality, and the death of traditional journalism. He briefly enters a doomed, hollow affair with Diana before realizing how toxic the corporate television landscape has become.
(Female-presenting) A ruthless, ambitious Vice President of Programming. She represents cold corporate calculation. She sees Howard's nervous breakdown and human misery not as a tragedy, but as raw material to build shocking, highly profitable reality television programs.
(Male-presenting) Executive Senior Vice President of the network. A new breed of management executive who seeks to become Arthur Jensen’s go-to man at the network.
(Female-presenting) Max Schumacher’s neglected wife, who anchors the emotional reality of the collateral damage caused by the media business.
(Male-presenting) Chairman of the board of UBS. An older, traditional network news executive whose moral authority is cast aside by the younger, profit-hungry regime.
(Male-presenting) An ambitious Associate Producer at the UBS television network who assists in packaging the unstable news anchor Howard Beale’s rants into profitable, ratingsgrabbing entertainment.
(Male-presenting) A high-ranking UBS television executive who represents traditional corporate morality and old-school broadcasting standards before being pushed aside by ruthless, ratings-obsessed modern media.
(Male-presenting) The omnipotent conglomerate chairman and CEO. Believes the world is a corporation of corporations and rebukes any notion of separate national identities or human values.
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