2025 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Equity Principal Actors - Playwrights Foundation Auditions

2025 BAY AREA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL - EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS

Revised

Playwrights Foundation | San Francisco, CA

REVISED

Updated hourly rate

CONTRACT

Special Agreement

$19 per hour

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in 2025 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (See breakdown).

SUBMISSION

INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your headshot, resume, and a two-minute max contemporary monologue at:
submission link. Equity video submissions will be accepted between Saturday, March 15th, 2025, at 4pm PT and Sunday, March 23rd, 2025, at 11:59pm PT.

Deadline: 03/23/2025

SUBMIT TO

PERSONNEL

Jessica Bird Beza - Executive Artistic Director of Playwrights Foundation

Viewing submissions:

AeJay Mitchell - Artistic Producer of Playwrights Foundation

See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

Playwrights Foundation Website

Equity 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 submit.

Notice: Submission

BREAKDOWN

2025 BAY AREA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL

JUSTICE IS JUST ASLEEP

Written by Ruben Grijalva

Directed by Susie Damilano

Performance Date: March 24, 2025

First Rehearsal: March 16, 2025

SEEKING:

JANELLE: Woman, Latina, late twenties.

BRIANNA: Woman, Any Race, late twenties.

CLAY/MARSHALL/CHIEF JUSTICE/THE INTRUDER: Man, Any Race, late twenties.

THE JUSTICE/DOLORES: Woman, Latina, sixties.

THE OTHER JUSTICE/OFFICER DOUGLAS/THE CANDIDATE: Man, White, sixties.

DRIVING THE GIRLS

Written by Cat Brooks

Director TBD

Performance Date TBD (Between May 12-17, 2025)

First Rehearsal TBD

SEEKING:

Mary: Woman, Biracial, Early 20s

Krissy: Woman, Dark Skin Black Woman, Early 30s

Deb: Woman, Latina, Late 20s.

Angel: Woman, Non-Black POC, Late 20s.

Joey: Man, Black, Mid 30s.

UNTITLED HYPER-CONTEMPORARY ELIZABETHAN ROMANCE TO AVENGE THE GENERATION OF SOUNDCLOUD RAPPERS LOST TO THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC OR, THE ROSALINE PLAY

Written by Leigh M. Marshall

Director TBD

Performance Date TBD (Between Aug 11-19, 2025)

First Rehearsal TBD

SEEKING:

ROSALINE: Woman, Global Majority, 30s

THE BOY: Man, Global Majority, 20s

THE ARTIST: Man, Global Majority, 20s

THE MOGUL: Man, White, 50s-60s

THE LITTLE STAR: Woman, White, 20s

THE VOICE: Woman, Global Majority, 40s-50s

OPINION EMPORIUM

Written by Sloka Krishnan

Director TBD

Performance Date TBD (Between October 27 - November 8, 2025)

First Rehearsal TBD

SEEKING:

TRACK 1: Pickpocket Masc, BIPOC, Teens-20s

TRACK 2: (Amy, Customer) Woman, Any Ethnicity, 30s

TRACK 3: (Teakettle, Voice, Escalator, Store Attendants) Transfem, any ethnicity, 20s-30s

TRACK 4: (Drumstick, Ethel, Grout) Transmasc, of color, 20s

TRACK 5: (Security Guards) Any age and Any Gender