Manhattan Theatre Club | New York, NY
REVISED
Link to sides added to preparation.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
LORT Non-Rep
$2020 weekly minimum (LORT A+)
Equity actors for roles in BUG (see breakdown).
NOTE: All roles are currently cast, seeking understudies for all roles.
Please prepare EITHER a two-minute contemporary monologue, OR one of the provided sides. Sides can be accessed at the following link:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/rx24pqmjb2qaigvztvv0c/AEzL-2tECOfbmTCilVrEUAY. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
Playwright: Tracy Letts
Director: David Cromer
Casting Directors: David Caparelliotis & Kelly Gillespie, Joe Gery
Casting Assistant: Malaika Fernandes
Artistic Line Producer: Jeff Brancato
Casting Directors: David Caparelliotis & Kelly Gillespie, Joe Gery
Casting Assistant: Malaika Fernandes
Artistic Line Producer: Jeff Brancato
1st Tech (Understudy start): December 9, 2025
1st Preview: December 16, 2025
Opening: January 8, 2026
Clear through: mid-March, 2026
www.manhattantheatreclub.com
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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. Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BUG
NOTE: All roles are currently cast, seeking understudies for all roles.
AGNES WHITE [CAST]: Early-mid 40s. A cocktail waitress. Hiding from her violent ex-husband. Lonely, and living a very constrained existence. Starved for company and suggestible, she is pulled into Peter’s delusions and begins to unravel. NOTE: Nudity required for this role.
PETER EVANS [CAST]: 30s. A Gulf War veteran. Seems at first to be a disarmingly un-aggressive and lost young man, but as the depth of his paranoia reveals itself, his tether to reality comes into question. But he is persuasive in his conviction, and his distrust of authority seems earned. NOTE: Nudity required for this role.
R.C. [CAST]: 40s/50s. Agnes’s friend. A lesbian biker. Introduces Agnes to Peter and tries to intervene when she comes to regret it. A realist. Loyal, down-to-earth.
JERRY GOSS [CAST]: 40s/50s. Agnes’s ex-husband. Recently out of prison. Expects Agnes to welcome him back without question, and is aggravated by Peter’s presence in her hotel room. Menacing and violent. A man who expects to have his way.
DR. SWEET [CAST]: 50s/60s. A military medical “consultant.” Calm and unreadable. Wants to extract Peter from the motel room and is willing to trick Agnes in order to do it. Whatever has brought Peter to his current state, Dr. Sweet knows something about it.
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