Angels in America, Parts 1 and 2 - NYC Appointments
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
APPOINTMENTS
NYC auditions expected to be held week of August 7th, by appointment only
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep
LORT B $1,000/wk + travel & housing.
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles in both productions:
Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches
Angels in America, Part 2: Perestroika
See breakdown.
INSTRUCTIONS
For consideration, send a picture/resume and a note with your role preference.
SUBMIT TO
Tara Rubin Casting
ATTN: Angels self-submissions
200 West 41st Street
4th floor, #401
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
By Tony Kushner
Directed by Tony Taccone
Tony Taccone, Artistic Director
Susan Medak, Managing Director
OTHER DATES
Millennium Approaches
1st reh: 1/23/18. Staging: 3/28. 1st Preview: 4/17. Opens: 4/28. Closes: 7/22. Possible extension to 9/2/18
Perestroika
1st reh: 1/23/18. Staging: 3/29. 1st Preview: 4/19. Opens: 4/28. Closes: 7/22. Possible extension to 9/2/18
OTHER
Role of HANNAH PITT has already been CAST.
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
[LOUIS IRONSON]
Mid 20s – Mid 30s. Male. Caucasian. Jewish. Works as a court clerk in Brooklyn. Incredibly intelligent, neurotic, anxious and full of self-loathing and guilt. Louis abandons his lover Prior when Prior reveals he has AIDS. Actor also plays The Angel Australia.
[PRIOR WALTER]
Mid20s – Mid30s. Male. Caucasian. Louis’ waspy boyfriend, he works as a club designer/caterer but otherwise lives off of a trust fund. Extremely charismatic and bitingly witty, he is also frail, intense and vulnerable. Actor also plays The Man in the Park.
[ROY M. COHN]
50s – 60s. Male. Caucasian. Jewish. An influential and successful New York lawyer and powerbroker. Extremely smart, cunning and tremendously vicious. Roy’s hatred and denial of most everything in his life, including his battle with AIDS, isolates him further and further from the community around him. A closeted homosexual, he is full of hate and bile. Actor also plays Prior 2 and The Angel Antarctica.
[JOSEPH PORTER PITT]
Mid 20s – Mid 30s. Male. Caucasian. Mormon. Married to Harper, he is an incredibly handsome, Republican lawyer who is deeply closeted. Actor also plays Prior 1, The Eskimo, The Father, The Angel Europa.
[HARPER AMATY PITT]
Mid 20s – Mid 30s. Female. Caucasian. Joe’s wife. An agoraphobic with an addiction to Valium. Perpetually fearful, in order to cope with her failing marriage, Harper hallucinates and invents imaginary characters to escape her troubles. Actor also plays Martin Heller and The Angel Africanii.
[BELIZE]
Mid 20s – Late 30s. Male. African-American. A registered nurse and former drag queen, Belize is Prior’s best friend and Roy’s caretaker. Extremely stylish with a personality to match, he is all flair. Actor also plays Mr. Lies, The Angel Oceania, and the voice of Caleb.
[THE ANGEL]
30s – 50s. Female. Any Ethnicity. An imposing, terrifying, divine presence who descends from Heaven to bestow prophecy on Prior. A force to be reckoned with, she is powerful, forceful and full of intensity. Actor also plays Emily, Sister Ella Chapter, Homeless Woman, and the voices of Orrin and The Mormon Mother.
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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