New York Theatre Workshop
CONTRACT
Off Broadway $1,076.23 weekly minimum
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in american (tele)vision (see breakdown).
All stage managerial positions have been filled.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare a contemporary monologue, no longer than 2 minutes in length. Please email submission videos via a private Youtube or Vimeo link and include your headshot/resume. Subject line should read: american (tele)visions - YOUR NAME.
Deadline: Mon, Jun 20, 2022
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Author: Victor I. Cazares
Director: Rubén Polendo
Scenic & Costume Designer: Brette Gerecke
Lighting Designer: Jeanette Oi-Suk Yew
Technology Design: Kelly Colburn, Alex Hawthorn, and Justin Nestor (Theater Mitu)
NYTW Producing Team: Evan O’Brient, Yang-Yang Chen, Patrick McDonnell
NYTW Production Manager: Hillary Luong
NYTW Technical Director: Drew McCollum
NYTW Costume Shop Manager: Jeffrey Wallach
Casting Director: Joe Gery and David Caparelliotis (viewing auditions)
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal – August 2, 2022 or August 9, 2022
Tech – August 31 – September 6, 2022
First Preview – September 7, 2022
Opening – September 28, 2022
Latest Closing – October 23, 2022
OTHER
http://www.nytw.org
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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
PLEASE NOTE: unless otherwise specified, for all roles we are actively seeking and welcoming of actors of any ethnicity, race, gender/gender identification/gender expression, and physical and neurological ability.
SEEKING:
Octavio - 40s-50s; He/ Him/His; Mestizo, Mexican, Mexican American, Mexican American of Indigenous descent. He migrated sin papeles from Mexico to the US in the 80s and saved enough money to send for his family years later but his isolation from them has only grown with their proximity. He works and works and works (he’s a solder) and on his day off, he watches (television, telenovelas, porn VHS tapes on the sly) and pays for things. PLEASE NOTE: while the character of OCTAVIO is Mexican/Mexican American/Mexican American of Indigenous descent, and we are committed to casting the role as authentically as possible, we welcome also submissions of Latinx actors who speak to the characteristic specs of OCTAVIO.
Maria Ximena- Late 30s- 40s; She/her/hers; Mestiza, Mexican, Mexican American, Mexican American of Indigenous descent. She is exhausted by her poverty and the double wide her husband Octavio brought them over from Mexico for. She loves TV, she loves Wal-Mart, comforted by its promise of the American Dream: shelves of plenty, aisles without want, channels of desire. She is an accounting genius, every dollar is budgeted and every slight remembered. Like Nora, she dreamt of leaving her family and shutting the door. But because she knows about the rising cost of housing, she’ll make sure to take her side of the double wide with her. PLEASE NOTE: while the character of Maria Ximena is Mexican/Mexican American/Mexican American of Indigenous descent, and we are committed to casting the role as authentically as possible, we welcome also submissions of Latinx actors who speak to the characteristic specs of Maria Ximena.
Erica- Seeking actors 18+ to read tweens; She/her/hers at 12; they/theirs in adulthood; Mestiza, Mexican, Mexican American, Mexican American of Indigenous descent. Erica is our hero, the hero of ages lost. She’s adventurous, she’s curious, she’s the captain of this ship and its sometimes mutinous crew. She’s seen more and experienced more than a child should but that’s stuff that will be unpacked much later in life on somebody’s couch, hopefully when she has medical insurance. She’ll grow up to be a Dreamer, maybe a lawyer, definitely an activist. But right now, right now she’s 12 and all she wants to do is not be confined by her assigned gender (but it’s the early 90s in the middle of nowhere Arkansas) and so she becomes Fernando the Hero of Ages lost and goes on memory quests: to keep Alejandro alive, to defeat Octatron and his goons, and to fix The Citizenship II - the ship that crash landed into America. PLEASE NOTE: while the character of Erica is Mexican/Mexican American/Mexican American of Indigenous descent, and we are committed to casting the role as authentically as possible, we welcome also submissions of Latinx actors who speak to the characteristic specs of Erica.
Jesse/Alejandro- Early 20s - 30; AAIP. JESSE is Vietnamese, Asian, Asian American. Jesse is the secret boyfriend of an undocumented factory worker, ALEJANDRO, with whom JESSE works, and who the actor playing JESSE also portrays. JESSE is a runaway, his sexuality probably the reason why; he navigates the world with an aggressive masculinity that’s laced with a sense of poetic tragedy. Bemused by the cultural differences between his own Vietnamese background and Alejandro’s Mexican family, JESSE loved ALEJANDRO deeply, emotionally, spiritually, sexually. JESSE never explained to ALEJANDRO why he ran away, he figured they had all the time in the world for that. When ALEJANDRO dies in a factory accident, ALEJANDRO’s mother MARIA XIMENA tasks JESSE with “playing” ALEJANDRO in this memory play. Just as JESSE loved being inside ALEJANDRO in all ways when ALEJANDRO was alive, “playing” him now is his last opportunity to be inside him once again. PLEASE NOTE: Actively seeking and encouraging of inclusive submissions of actors of all gender identities and expressions. While the character of JESSE is Vietnamese, and we are committed to a casting process to cast the role as authentically as possible, we welcome and encourage submissions from all AAPI actors for consideration.
Jeremy- Seeking actors 18+ to read tweens; He/him his; any ethnicity. Jeremy is Erica’s sidekick and neighbor. He’s an impossibly queer child in this little corner of Arkansas/Wal-Mart’s Backyard. His references are entirely influenced and inspired by white culture and white pop culture that doesn’t mean Jeremy is necessarily white. Jeremy is the queer boy complement to Erica’s tomboy. Like Jesse, he’s fascinated by Erica’s family’s otherness. He can be an outsider looking in.
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 submit.
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