Playwrights Horizons Inc.
CONTRACT
Off Broadway $1,020 weekly minimum (Off-Broadway CC)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in DOWNSTATE by Bruce Norris (see breakdown).
All stage managerial positions have been filled.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare a monologue of your choice. A personal introduction would be appreciated, but not required. Total video not to exceed 5 minutes. Email your headshot/resume (as PDF's) and your video submission link (Vimeo or Unlisted YouTube). State your union status in subject line. Deadline: June 21, 2022 at 6pm ET.
Deadline: Tue, Jun 21, 2022
SUBMIT TO
PHCastingSubmissions@phnyc.org
PERSONNEL
Director: Pam MacKinnnon
Viewing auditions:
Alaine Alldaffer, Casting Director
Lisa Donadio, Associate Casting Director
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Tech: Friday, October 21- Thursday, October 27, 2022
First Preview: Friday, October 28, 2022
Opening: Monday, November 14, 2022
Regular Run End: Sunday, December 11, 2022
Maximum Extension: Sunday, January 8, 2022
OTHER
NOTE: Full vaccination plus booster is required.
Venue: The Mainstage Theater at Playwrights Horizons, 416 W. 42nd Street.
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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
Presenting the Steppenwolf Theatre Company and National Theatre production of DOWNSTATE.
ROLES AVAILABLE:
IVY: 40’s - 50’s. Black or Latina. Probation officer, overworked, weary. She makes weekly visits to and drop-ins on the group home.
EFFIE: Late teens - Early 20’s. Any ethnicity. Hyperactive. Too much eye makeup. GIO’s co-employee at Staples. Vapes CBD to control her anxiety.
ROLES CAST:
ANDY: Late 30’s - 40’s. White. Professional, liberal, adult survivor of childhood sexual assault. CAST
EM: Late 30’s - 40’s. Married to ANDY, smart, suburban, sensitive - highly protective of Andy and her child. CAST
FRED: 70’s. White. Glasses, motorized wheelchair. On the sex offender registry, post incarceration. He is sincerely repentant and childlike in manner - not unlike Fred Rogers. CAST
DEE: Pushing 60. Black. Thin, languid, also on the registry, post-incarceration. Defiant about his past. CAST
GIO: 30’s. Black. Muscular, clean-cut, ambitious, voluble. On the registry, post-incarceration. Considers himself above FRED and DEE. CAST
FELIX: 40’s. Latino. Heavyset, solitary, silent. On the registry, post-incarceration. Tormented by his past. CAST
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 submit.
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