BLACK NATIVITY Equity Principal Actors - Intiman Theatre Company Auditions

BLACK NATIVITY - Seattle EPA

Intiman Theatre Company | Seattle, WA

AUDITION DATE

Friday, June 6, 2025
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM (P)

APPOINTMENTS

To set up an audition appointment, contact Pilar O’Connell at:
casting@intiman.org.
If unable to attend the in-person auditions, you may submit a video audition. Prepare the same as for the in-person audition. Submit your audition video, resume, and headshot to
casting@intiman.org. Include your video as an unlisted Youtube or Vimeo link. The deadline for video submissions is June 7, 2025.
Naming format of files submitted should be “LASTNAME_FIRSTNAME_TYPE” (type specifying Resume/Headshot).

CONTRACT

SPT
$706 weekly minimum (SPT 6)

SEEKING

We are seeking 2 Equity actors for BLACK NATIVITY by Langston Hughes, directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton and choreographed by Vania Bynum.
Local Seattle or King County actors are encouraged to audition.

PREPARATION

Please prepare the side at
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1whqkHeyvzcTEGGtcGD-evhC0MDhhRbsVfFwzRv9RmB8/edit?tab=t.0.
Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Theatre Puget Sound
305 Harrison St
Seattle, WA 98109
Theater Puget Sound Studio C. TPS is on the 4th floor of the Seattle Center Armory Building (305 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA 98109)

PERSONNEL

Marcos Everstijn - Production Director
Pilar O’Connell - Casting Associate
Expected to attend:
Faith Bennett Russell (Associate Director)
Valerie Curtis-Newton (Director)
Jennifer Zeyl (Artistic Director)

OTHER DATES

First Rehearsal: November 24, 2025
Previews: December 10, 2025
Performance Schedule: December 09-14, 17-21, 23, 26-28, 2025
Opening Performance: December 11, 2025
Closing Performance: December 28, 2025

OTHER

www.intiman.org
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

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.
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BREAKDOWN

ABOUT THE PLAY:

“The Christmas story in dialogue, narrative, pantomime, gospel song and folk spirituals – the unique creation of the poet and playwright Langston Hughes … ‘His tone has that intimate, elusive, near-tragic, near-comic sound of the Negro blues, and is equally defiant of analysis’ is how a critic described this work by Langston Hughes, who mentions Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman as his main literary influences. As a young man, Hughes participated enthusiastically in the activities of the Karamu Players in Cleveland, and later he was to found Negro Theater [in] Harlem, Los Angeles and Chicago. He wrote a number of plays and musicals and then came to his own special creation which calls ‘the Gospel Song-Play’... which is Black Nativity.”
Source: Dramatic Publishing.

SEEKING:

We are seeking 2 actors for BLACK NATIVITY by Langston Hughes, directed by Valerie Curtis-Newton and choreographed by Vania Bynum. Experience with liturgical dance or performing gospel choir vocals is a plus.

• WOMAN: Black, Lead soloist of the ensemble
• MAN: Black, Ensemble member
• NARRATOR: Black, Leads the ensemble through the Nativity story
• OLD WOMAN: Black, Townsperson of Bethlehem
• ELDER: Black, Leads the ensemble through the Nativity story