Profile Theatre 2023-24 Season - Portland, OR EPA Profile Theatre Project | Portland, OR
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Friday, August 18, 2023
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (P)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
To set up an audition time please email your top three preferred audition availability times (in one-hour blocks) to:
casting@profiletheatre.org.
SPT
$540 weekly minimum (SPT 5)
Equity actors for roles in Profile Theatre's 2023-24 Season (See breakdown).
Please prepare two contrasting contemporary monologues. Auditions should be no longer than 5 minutes in length. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Imago Theatre
17 SE 8th Ave
Portland, OR 97214-1239
Do not park in the parking lot behind the theater.
Playwrights: Kristoffer Diaz, and Christopher Oscar Peña
Artistic Director: Josh Hecht
Line Producer: Jamie Rea
Company Manager: Lauren McGuffee
Expected to attend:
Casting Director: RaChelle Schmidt
See breakdown for production specific personnel
See breakdown for production specific dates.
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COVID-19 Compliance:
Vaccination: Profile Theatre requires documentation of vaccination.
Testing: If you are offered a role, you must be willing to take a COVID test as documentation of a negative test result which is required 72 hours prior to first rehearsal. Profile will provide and/or pay for this and any additional tests necessary to the scope of participation.
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.
Profile Theatre 2023-24 Season
AWE/STRUCK by Christopher Oscar Peña
Director: Josh Hecht
Rehearsal Dates: October 18, 2023 - November 3, 2023
Previews: November 2-3, 2023
Opening Night: November 4, 2023
Closing: November 19, 2023
SYNOPSIS: To save his daughter from the violence of their home country, Julio convinces her to leave everything behind and move to an unfamiliar world. Monique has never left Chicago but is feeling increasingly alienated by the world around her. Navigating a new country is exhausting and lonely, but when an altercation with a troubled teen leads to the unthinkable, people who were once strangers find a way to become family.
Denia - Latin American girl in her early twenties. Strong willed.
Julio - Denia’s father. A man with secrets. Broken.
Drew - All American perfect white guy, but gay. Never been hurt. Early twenties.
Monique - Crazy hood rat, white, but maybe forgets? Ticking time bomb.
Lucy - Educated black girl trying not to lose her street cred. Evolving.
REGGIE HOOPS by Kristoffer Diaz
Director: TBD
Rehearsal Dates: January 22, 2024 - February 9, 2024
Previews: February 8-9, 2024
Opening Night: February 10, 2024
Closing: February 25, 2024
SYNOPSIS: Reggie is one of the most promising executives in the NBA. But as a Black woman working in a male-dominated field, she’s had to work twice as hard to get half as far. Now abruptly unemployed, she’s adjusting to home life with a wife and kids she rarely saw while on the job. Between a mother with a secret past, an unemployed brother, and an audacious wife, Reggie is on edge. When an acquaintance from the past appears with an unbelievable job offer, Reggie finds her family has their own agendas in regards to her career.
Reggie - Female, mid-30s, Black and Irish
Bells - Female, early 30s, Chinese-American, Reggie’s wife.
Muncie - Male, early 30s, Black and Irish, Reggies brother.
Rafa - Male, mid-30s, Latino. Reggies one-time flame.
Iz - Female, Irish. Late 50s in the present world, early 20s in flashbacks. Reggie and Muncie’s mother. Ben - Male, black. Appears in flashbacks in his 20s and 50s. Reggie and Muncie’s father.
OUR ORANGE SKY by Christopher Oscar Peña
Director: TBD
Rehearsal Dates: May 13, 2024 - May 31, 2024
Previews: May 30-31, 2024
Opening Night: June 1, 2024
Closing: June 16, 2024
SYNOPSIS: With a successful career, an adoring boyfriend, and money to burn Orlando seems to have achieved what others only dream of. And yet he feels more empty than ever. So he makes a life changing decision and returns to his childhood home. When he arrives with a big announcement to share, he finds he’s not the only one with shocking news.
Orlando - 30s - White passing Latino.
Marisol - Late 50s/early 60s - Dark skinned Latina - has an accent.
Mando - Late 50s/early 60s - Has an accent.
Junior - 40s - Dark skinned Latino.
Mario - Late 20s - Dark skinned Latino.
Wes - 30s - White.
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