STRAIGHT WHITE MEN - NYC EPA
Second Stage Theatre
AUDITION DATE
May 11, 2017
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep LORT A+, contract/salary pending
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles.
PREPARATION
Actors should prepare a contemporary monologue no more than 2 minutes in length. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Carole Rothman
Associate Artistic Director: Christopher Burney
Executive Director: Casey Reitz
Casting: Telsey + Company
Personnel expected to be in attendance at the EPA:
Selina Rosales, Artistic Fellow
Ryan McGlone, Manager of Artistic Development
OTHER DATES
Venue: Helen Hayes Theatre
First Rehearsal: June 14, 2018
First Preview: July 12, 2018
Closing: September 9, 2018
Extension close: October 7, 2018
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity monitor will be provided.
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.
BREAKDOWN
It’s Christmas Eve, and Ed has gathered his three adult sons to celebrate with matching pajamas, trash-talking, and Chinese takeout. But when a question they can’t answer interrupts their holiday cheer, they are forced to confront their own identities. Obie Award-winning playwright Young Jean Lee takes a hilariously ruthless look at the classic American father-son drama. This is one white Christmas like you’ve never seen before.
SEEKING:
MATT – Eldest brother. Good-looking and athletic. Should be able to dance or move well. The character is a bundle of contradictions: a good-looking, smart, charismatic guy who used to be an alpha male but has turned himself into a self-effacing, loser-seeming, beta-male who disappears into the furniture, and who--in his brave efforts to fight off despair in the face of political futility--actively wants to do menial office work for non-profits benefiting QPOC and take care of his father for the rest of his life.
JAKE – Middle brother. Athletic. Successful, recently divorced banker who works out a lot. Cocky and masculine, but self-aware about it. A good talker who likes to dominate the conversation and tell everyone what’s going on. He especially enjoys mansplaining to other SWM. Needs to be able to pull off a tricky emotional maneuver at the end where his persistent defense of Matt turns into violent rage against him on a dime.
DREW – Youngest brother. Attractive middle-aged hipster whom the women go crazy over, but who can’t maintain a relationship for more than a few months. Prizewinning novelist and professor of Creative Writing at Columbia. Has overcome his tendency toward intense negativity and suicidal depression through years of counseling and now believes in therapy, self-love, etc. with the fervor of a newly-converted evangelical, while to some extent maintaining his dark side.
ED – Around 70. Great sense of humor. Good natured, lovable, widowed and retired engineer who is adorable for so much of the play that when he finally comes down on Matt at the end, it’s devastating. Relentlessly practical.
PERSON IN CHARGE 1 and PERSON IN CHARGE 2 – Gender nonconforming characters with an abundance of natural charm. They will interact with the audience and should be able to ad-lib responses as necessary.
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 audition.
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