Actors' Playhouse 2023-2024 Season - NYC EPA Actors' Playhouse | Coral Gables, FL
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Monday, September 11, 2023
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
BREAK 1:00PM - 2:00PM
LOA
$795 weekly minimum (LOA ref. LORT)
Equity actors for Actor's Playhouse's 2023- 2024 season (see breakdown).
For musicals: Please prepare a brief musical cut, bringing sheet music in the appropriate key. For plays: please prepare a 2-minute monologue. Please bring a copy of your headshot and resume.
Pearl Studios (500)
500 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6504
3rd Floor: Studio 303
Founding Executive Producing Director Barbara S. Stein
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Artistic Director - David Arisco
SWEET GOATS AND BLUEBERRY SEÑORITAS: Rehearsals begin Oct. 17, 2023 Run: Nov. 8 – Dec. 3, 2023
LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL: Rehearsals begin Jan. 9, 2024 Run: Jan. 31 - Feb. 25, 2024
CAROLINE, OR CHANGE: Rehearsals begin March 5, 2024 Run: March 27 – April 14, 2024
A ROCK SAILS BY: Rehearsals begin April 23, 2024 Run: May 15 – June 9, 2024
HUNDRED DAYS: Rehearsals begin June 25, 2024 Run: July 17 – August 11, 2024
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.
BEATRIZ: 30s; Warm, funny, quiet rebel. Runs her own Cuban-American pastry shop in Maine. Cuban-American, bilingual.
TIO EME: 50s; Full of life, wisdom, sense of humor. Uncle to Beatriz. Cuban-American, bilingual. CAST
MARILYN: 50s; Mother to Beatriz. Miami based Cuban, fiery, tough, bilingual.
BLAKE: 35-40; Gay neighbor to Beatriz, adrift, vulnerable, gentle humor. American, originally from Kentucky
GEORGIE: 50; American, quirky, a woman longing for love.
MAYNARD: 40; A true Mainer, rough exterior, big hearted American
ELLE WOODS: 18 to 25; The quintessential Valley Girl who follows her ex-boyfriend to Harvard Law School and realizes that she has more to offer than just a pretty face and a bubbly personality. Female. Vocal range top: G5 Vocal range bottom: Gb2
EMMET FORREST: 20 to 25; A smart and sensitive law student who takes Elle under his wing. He is charming, quirky, loveable, and friendly. Male. Vocal range top: A4 Vocal range bottom: B2
PAULETTE: 35 to 45; A brash, caring, optimistic hair stylist who is friends with Elle and longs to find a man for herself. Female. Vocal range top: A5 Vocal range bottom: A3
PROFESSOR CALLAHAN: 45 to 55; A pompous, sleezy and manipulative law professor at Harvard who is highly successful, but completely immoral. Male. Vocal range top: F#4 Vocal range bottom: A2
WARNER HUNTINGTON III: 20 to 25; A good-looking but shallow and pompous guy who breaks Elle's heart and heads off to Harvard Law. Male. Vocal range top: Ab4 Vocal range bottom: Eb3
VIVIENNE KENSINGTON: 20 to 25; A smart, savvy, and uptight law student and Warner's fiancée who initially dismisses Elle but grows to be her friend. Female. Vocal range top: F5 Vocal range bottom: A3
BROOKE WYNDAM: 25 to 35; An exercise video mogul who is also a former sorority girl. She is energetic and charismatic, yet currently on trial for murder. Female. Vocal range top: G5 Vocal range bottom: A3
CAROLINE THIBODEAUX: 39-year-old African American maid for the Gellmans. Actors' Playhouse 2023-2024 Season - NYC EPA Page 3 of 5
DOTTY MOFFETT: An old friend of Caroline and fellow maid, takes night classes at the University
STUART GELLMAN: A professional clarinet player and teacher, Noah's father; mourning the loss of his wife
GRANDPA GELLMAN: Stuart’s father/Noah’s grandfather
GRANDMA GELLMAN: Stuart's mother/Noah’s grandmother
ROSE STOPNICK GELLMAN: Noah's concerned new stepmother, a friend of the family who marries Stuart after his first wife's death. CAST
MR. STOPNICK: Rose's father, a Jewish man with a liberal ideology
THE DOMESTIC APPLIANCES:
• The Radio is portrayed by three women that look and sing like a Motown girl group.
• The Washing Machine: Is brand-new and a good force that pushes Caroline to move forward in life.
• The Dryer: Torments Caroline throughout the play.
THE MOON: A calming and healing presence throughout the play.
THE BUS: Is the primary source of transportation for the African American characters in the play.
DR. CUMMINGS: Female, 50’s-60’s. An astrophysicist, professor. She is very intelligent, somewhat sardonic, a believer in facts. Widowed two years ago and still in mourning. She has a daughter, Olive. She receives a diagnosis of early onset dementia but shows only slight signs of it during the play.
OLIVE: Female, Cummings’ daughter, 20’s-30’s. Smart, self-possessed, caring. A positive, smart, attractive person, she believes in more than she can see. She is a doctoral candidate in English literature.
JASON: Male, 30’s. A journalist, he works for a magazine he doesn’t respect, has recently broken up with a girlfriend, and isn’t sure what he believes about the greater questions. He does want there to be more than this. He wants there to be meaning and order. Ethical, intelligent, searching.
PLAYER: Any gender, any age, any race, any type. They make up the rest of the “world.” This includes, Haley, Chancellor, Farrell, Doctor and Messenger.
HUNDRED DAYS:
SHAUN: 30-40; Proficient acoustic guitar player, expressive lead vocals, demure, but a man with a vision.
ABIGAIL: 30-40; Lead Singer of band, vibrant, exciting, expressive vocals. Ability to play some stand up drum and possibly accordion. Big vocal range and large personality.
MUSICIAN 1: Synthesizer/keyboard/possible accordion.
MUSICIAN 2: Drums
MUSICIAN 3: Bass
MUSICIAN 4: Cello/possible accordion.
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