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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
9:30 am-5:30 pm
(lunch 1:00-2:00 pm)
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Contract
Off Broadway
$593/week minimum
Location
Actors' Equity Association NYC Audition Center
165 West 46th Street
16th Floor
New York, NY 10036
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Seeking
Equity actors, male and female, for DAPHNE'S DIVE. See breakdown.
Preparation
Please prepare a brief contemporary monologue.
Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.
Other Dates
First Rehearsal: March 29, 2016
Announced Run: April 26, 2016 through June 5, 2016 (possible three-week extension)
Personnel
Artistic Dir: James Houghton
Assoc Artistic Dir: Beth Whitaker
Author: Quiara Alegría Hudes
Dir: Thomas Kail
General Mgr: Gilbert Medina
Casting Dir: Telsey + Company— Will Cantler & Karyn Casl
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will be provided.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
DAPHNE’S DIVE: Daphne’s Dive is a cheap corner bar in North Philly where Daphne and her eclectic group of friends and family meet, talk, bond and drink. As Daphne’s adopted daughter, very different from her quiet and pragmatic mother, grows up, this unconventional family is forced to confront ugly secrets and take a hard look at their lives.
SEEKING:
DAPHNE
35-50, Latina. Fantastic sense of humor, lively and magnetic, glowing with life and has a cutting sense of humor. She’s seen it all. Also can be tough—she tends bar and can throw down if she needs to. Outwardly, she’s the reason locals return to this bar time and again. When it comes to true intimacy and friendship, though, she’s guarded and closed off. There’s some serious Catholic shame brewing in there.
INEZ
40-55, Latina. A bold enigmatic spirit, loves material comfort and luxury, but is also a community activist and spiritual woman. Both snootier and warmer than Daphne. The successful one in the family. She moved from the barrio to the suburbs and has no problem liking the finer things in life. She is proud to be the only Latina on her upper crust block. She carries the banner of her people wherever she goes.
ACOSTA
40-60, Latino. Unpretentious and proud, a man of the people, an entrepreneur. Born in Puerto Rico, he came to Philly’s barrio and takes extreme pride in employing his people and bettering his community. Wears nice loafers to his construction sites, but has no problem getting his hands dirty on the job. He should feel both island and urban, and is a natural leader.
JENN
30s, Asian-American. From a conservative immigrant family, ran away from home to become an activist, performance artist, and merrymaker. Lithe, the body of a dancer. Immediately identifiable as not mainstream. She’s sly and undeniably ''other'' with a mischievous ebullience and a mind that can slip into the shadows. A history of severe depression.
PABLO
40s, Latino. Born in Cuba. A tortured, bombastic painter who takes himself extremely seriously. (And therefore is funny.) He’s sophisticated, intellectual. He’s annoyingly macho and argumentative. He’s worldly—has lived in Cuba and Stockholm. He has chosen the path of a painter/visionary over a more financially successful life. He walks, lives and breathes the injustice in the world.
RUBY
Teens-20s, Latino or black or mixed-ethnicity. Bright eyes, smart, also psychologically-broken and self-destructive. A gifted girl born into an abusive home. An open heart with an explosive fire. Over the course of the play she transitions from girl to teen to woman, so the actor needs to have a flexibly youthful appearance. She’s of the street—educated in the worst inner city schools—but also makes it out to college.
ALREADY CAST:
REY
50-65. Manual laborer. Country folk, good people. A biker. Grew up wrestling hogs in the mud. A blue collar Buddha with a penchant for beer. A man of few words, but who loves life. Still waters run deep. Any ethnicity.
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