3PENNY OPERA - NYC EPA
Off-Brand Opera | New York, NY
REVISED
Updated Personnel and Breakdown. Updated Audition location.
AUDITION DATE
Monday, November 3, 2025
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
CONTRACT
LOA-NYC
$818 weekly minimum
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in 3 PENNY OPERA (See breakdown).
There are no Equity stage managerial positions available for this production.
PREPARATION
Please prepare Sides which will be provided on the day of the audition. You may be asked to sing, so please have a short song prepared and bring your book. Music preference would be in the world of Kurt Weill or something comedic from the same period. Also, bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
LOCATION
Ripley-Grier Studios (520)
520 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6507
Holding room - Studio 17D
PERSONNEL
- Artistic Director(s): Veronica Shea, Erin Kennedy
- Director/Adaptor: George Abud
- Score Adaptor: Jake Landau
- Original Text and Score: Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill
- Choreographer: Brianna Mercado
- Expected to attend: George Abud, Director
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: December 8, 2025
First Performance: January 15, 2026
Closing: January 25, 2026
OTHER
offbrandopera.org
Performances for 3 PENNY will take place at the Theater at St. Jean's on East 76 St. and Lexington Avenue, NYC.
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Equity’s policy
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
3PENNY OPERA
SYNOPSIS: This is a politically charged, fully adapted new version of Brecht & Weill's Threepenny Opera commissioned by the Off-Brand Opera Company. It is set in contemporary times, NYC, and is shaped with much of the current politics and issues of the day.
ALL CHARACTERS can be ANY ethnicity if not otherwise stated. All roles should be able to sing well and have excellent comedic skills.
SEEKING:
- PIRATE JENNY – CAST. Female, 40s. A prostitute. Dry, brooding, intense, vulnerable, quick. Macheath’s most faithful lover. The one who is most devoted to him.
- MACHEATH – CAST. Male, 30s. A gangster. A silly vaudevillian, and a dangerous man. Mysterious, charming, and casually cruel.
- POLLY PEACHUM – CAST. Female, 70s. The Bride. Doe-eyed, or formerly doe-eyed, oblivious, silly, quick, grand, very Gracie Allen.
- PEACHUM – Male, either 20s OR 60s/70s. The Father. This role can either be someone quite young or someone older. Peachum is a self-serving entrepreneur, and manipulator of people and the system. He runs an outfit for poor immigrants to make money off of even poorer immigrants based on their legal status. Sharp, erudite, commanding, wiley.
- MRS. PEACHUM – CAST. Female, 20s. The Mother. Unsympathetic, stern, tough, and innocent.
- TIGER BROWN – CAST. Female, 20s. The Chief of Police. Charming, befuddled, intimidating, and terrified.
- LUCY BROWN – Female, 70s. The other woman. Tough as nails, grand, grounded, does not suffer fools, and in love with Macheath.
THE GANG:
- PAM – CAST. Any gender. Any age. A shapeshifter and a vaudevillian. Excellent with sharp comedy, sarcasm, and big characterizations. Good singer. Will play a gangster, a prostitute, and a beggar, and upwards of several parts.
- STUFFY STEVIE – Any gender. Any age. A shapeshifter and a vaudevillian. Excellent with sharp comedy, sarcasm, and big characterizations. Good singer. Will play a gangster, a prostitute, and a beggar, and upwards of several parts.
- KRUSTI KRISTI – Any gender. Any age. A shapeshifter and a vaudevillian. Excellent with sharp comedy, sarcasm, and big characterizations. Good singer. Will play a gangster, a prostitute, and a beggar, and upwards of several parts.
- POUTY PETEY – Any gender. Any age. A shapeshifter and a vaudevillian. Excellent with sharp comedy, sarcasm, and big characterizations. Good singer. Will play a gangster, a prostitute, and a beggar, and upwards of several parts.
- TUMMY TOMMY – Any gender. Any age. A shapeshifter and a vaudevillian. Excellent with sharp comedy, sarcasm, and big characterizations. Good singer. Will play a gangster, a prostitute, and a beggar, and upwards of several parts.
