CEREMONIES IN DARK OLD MEN Equity Principal Actors - Theatre At St. Clement's Auditions

CEREMONIES IN DARK OLD MEN - NYC EPA

Peccadillo Theater Company | New York, NY

REVISED

Corrected title of play, updated personnel, updated audition schedule, and updated breakdown.

AUDITION DATE

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)

Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CONTRACT

Off Broadway

$803 weekly minimum (Cat. A)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in CEREMONIES IN DARK OLD MEN (see breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please prepare a one-minute contemporary monologue of your choice and bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Theatre at St. Clement's
423 W 46th St
New York, NY 10036-3510

PERSONNEL

Author: Lonne Elder, III
Director: Sheldon Epps
Producer: Peccadillo Theater Company, PTL Three, LLC (Pamela Ross, Toni Isreal, Leah Michalos)
General Manager: Rashad Chambers/Evan Bernadin Productions
Casting Director: Robin Carus, CSA

Expected to attend:
Dan Wackerman - Artistic Director, Peccadillo
Robin Carus - Casting Director

OTHER DATES

Tentatively:
1st Rehearsal: 3/31/25
1st Preview: 4/24/25
Closing: 6/1/25

OTHER

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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.

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

BREAKDOWN

CEREMONIES IN DARK OLD MEN

SEEKING:

[RUSSELL PARKER] CAST. 55-60 years old, Black man. A widower who runs a barbershop that has no customers and who lives upstairs with his daughter and two sons. Parker is not an ambitious man, but he is amiable and ordinarily honest, at least until he is talked into going along with his son's Theo's schemes. He loves his children, and his attempts to recover his youth are touching.

[BLUE HAVEN] CAST. 30 to 35 years old, Black man. Blue Haven, a tough man of the streets who knows how to get along and exploit weaker men such as Theo and Bobby. In his blue ensembles and dark glasses, carrying his gold-headed cane, Blue Haven can appear menacing.

[YOUNG GIRL] CAST. 20 to 25 years old, Black woman. Young girl, the unnamed pickup with whom Russell Parker becomes infatuated after he gets a few dollars from Theo’s till to spread around. She is callous and exploitive, and she is a great disappointment to Parker.

[WILLIAM JENKINS] 55 to 65 years old, Black man. Parker's friend and checkers opponent who finds himself drawn into the crooked dealings that Parker's sons undertake. He and Parker obviously feel deep affection for each other as they engage in badinage over their checkers games, which Jenkins always wins.

[THEOPOLIS PARKER] Mid-20s, Black man. Russell Parker's older son, known as Theo. He teams up with Blue Haven to set up a bootlegging business but finds himself doing all the work while his father dips into the till. Theo is eager to run a con, and he has better judgment than his brother Bobby.

[BOBBY PARKER] 18-20 years old. Black man. Russell Parker's younger son, an expert burglar and shoplifter. As the second son, Bobby resents playing second fiddle to Theo, whose thoughtless insulting descriptions of Bobby probably help compel Bobby to perform reckless criminal acts under the spell of Blue Haven.

[ADELE ELOISE PARKER] 25 to 29 years old, Black woman. Adele Eloise Parker, Parker’s hardworking daughter, who supports the whole family with her office job. Adele is intelligent and conscientious, but the man she is seeing beats her, and she seems doomed to be used by men.