Contemporary American Theater Festival 2025 Season Equity Principal Actors - Contemporary American Theater Festival Auditions

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATER FESTIVAL 2025 SEASON

Contemporary American Theater Festival
Washington, D.C. EPA

AUDITION DATE

Tuesday, March 25, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an appointment please contact:
Nicole M. Smith, Company Manager & Amy Wratchford, Interim Managing Director
681-240-2283

auditions@catf.org (preferred) M-F, 11am to 4pm

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep
$839 weekly minimum (LORT D)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Contemporary American Theater Festival’s 2025 Season (see breakdown). No roles will be understudied.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a brief contemporary monologue, one minute in length. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Keegan Theater
1742 Church Street NW
Washington, DC 20036

PERSONNEL

Artistic Director: Peggy McKowen
Associate Artistic Director: Theresa M. Davis
Casting Directors: McCorkle Casting, LTD
See breakdown for specific production personnel.

EXPECTED TO ATTEND

Artistic Director: Peggy McKowen

OTHER DATES

First Rehearsals: June 10, 2025
Openings: July 11, 2025 and July 12, 2025
Closing: August 3, 2025

OTHER

https://catf.org/
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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

HAPPY FALL: A QUEER STUNT SPECTACULAR

by Sanaye Dring and directed by Ralph B. Peña

SYNOPSIS

Happy Fall is a world premiere produced in partnership with Rogue Artists Ensemble and the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Two queer Hollywood stuntmen navigate the dangers of exposing their love. Based on true life events and told through live stunts, video, puppetry, and cinematic illusions, this story is a fun, raucous tribute to the resiliency of the LGBTQIA+ community. Illuminating issues of identity in the film industry, this play highlights the importance - and danger - of being true to one’s self.

SEEKING

FELIX: 22, Male, Asian American, confident in a way that only 20-something’s can be. A stuntman who works on high falls. Comfortable with stunt work and/or fight choreography and willing to learn how to do stunt falls.

CLAY: 47, Male, white, alpha, once a highly-successful stuntman. Doubles as CLAY PUPPET and HOST (think Katya Z.). Comfortable with stunt work and/or fight choreography and willing to learn how to do stunt falls.

ENSEMBLE: Five actors that make up a superhuman ensemble that performs death-defying stunts and puppeteer Clay Puppet. They play a variety of roles including: STUNTWOMAN/COSTUME DESIGNER/FIGHT COORDINATOR 2, DIRECTOR, FIGHT COORDINATOR. Note: Actors experienced in fight choreography and puppetry are encouraged to audition.

MAGDALENE

by Mark St. Germain. Director TBA

SYNOPSIS

WORLD PREMIERE Eighteen years after the crucifixion, Peter reconnects with the banished Mary Magdalene. After casting her out, he now seeks her advice and counsel. Questions erupt as they recall different versions of Jesus, His miracles, and His vision for the faith. Whose memories are closest to the truth? Whose secrets are revealed? Whose stories will stand the test of time?

SEEKING

MARY: Female, Any Ethnicity, 30s-Early 40s. An Educated woman. She’s known great love and great tragedy. She grieves for the past and the future. Keen sense of intellectual humor, sarcasm, wit, and presence.

PETER: Male, Any Ethnicity, 40-60. Fisherman. An ordinary man struggling to fulfill extraordinary expectations.

SIDE EFFECTS MAY INCLUDE

by Lisa Loomer. Director TBA

SYNOPSIS

What happens when the trust we place in our medical system actually makes us sicker? After a series of diagnoses, a mother leads us through her son's search for wellness, a Kafkaesque journey through the world of psychiatry. Written with humor and fury, the story explores the side effects of fighting through illness with the ones we love. In these crazy times, it asks us to question...are we medicating life itself? Note: All of these characters, these voices in His Mother’s head, are played, not broadly, but with their full humanity. Seeking versatile actors to play the following roles in a 5 actor ensemble.

SEEKING

HIS MOTHER: Female, Any Ethnicity, late 40’s, 50’s, or 60’s. A writer, a deep thinker but prone to tangents. Passionate, relentless, quick to find the irony in the worst situations and to cover or avoid with a laugh.

TRACK 1: Female, POC, Doubles as the following roles and more:
PSYCHIATRIST: Female, well off, successful, smart, assured, 50s.
SOCIAL WORKER: Female, BIPOC, truth teller.
KARA: A botanist, early 20s, grounded, straightforward, smart.
DR. LUCIRE: Australian, female, a fearless scientist, 82.

TRACK 2: Female, POC, Doubles as the following roles and more:
BEST FRIEND: Female, BIPOC, no filter, lots of highs and lows.
SOCIAL WORKER 2: Female, young, new at her job.
WOMAN WITH AKATHISIA: A Veteran.

TRACK 3: Male, Any Ethnicity, Doubles as the following roles and more:
PSYCHIATRIST 2: Male, a bit Hollywood, charming, 40s.
PSYCHIATRIST 3: Male, older, serious, bookish.
HOMEOPATH: Male, philosophical, down to earth.
OREGON DOCTOR: Male, soft spoken, wise, a good doctor.
HIS FATHER: An artist, 50s or 60s, warm, emotional, impulsive, unabashedly spiritual.
HIKING FRIEND: Male, 20s.
MAN WITH AKATHISIA: Straightforward, visibly suffering, riddled with movements.
CHAD: Male, early 20s, enchanted by the American Dream, money and cars.
INTEGRATIVE PSYCHIATRIST 2: Male, caring but practical.
NURSE BOB: Male, friendly, seeking control.
HOSPITAL PSYCHIATRIST: Male. White, God.

GABRIEL: Early 20s, open, bright, original, loves life.

KEVIN KLING: UNRAVELED

by Kevin Kling directed by Steven Dietz

SYNOPSIS

A world premiere in partnership with Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Kevin Kling is a weaver of stories. He is constantly looking for patterns, connections, and unexpected intersections that connect us to one another and to the world. With abundant humor and offbeat insights, with an ode to love and apologies to the gods, Kling unravels the threads that have led him to an unexpected destination. There’s the trip you plan… and the trip you take.

SEEKING

NARRATOR: ROLE IS CAST. Male 40-60, any ethnicity. Insightful, humorous, charming with an ability to spin a yarn.

DID MY GRANDFATHER KILL MY GRANDFATHER: AN UNLIKELY VIETNAM STORY

by Cody Leroy Wilson. Director TBA

WORLD PREMIERE

SYNOPSIS

Cody tells the unlikely journey of his blended family from Vietnam to Plum Run, West Virginia. In this compelling tale, he examines what it means to be Asian American, to love one family while embracing the unknown, and ultimately to question his own identity. This powerful story proves that who you are is a choice of your own making.

SEEKING

CODY: ROLE IS CAST. Narrator, Male Identifying. Asian American. 30s. Doubles as MR. JEFFERSON, a high school history teacher.