Durango Playfest 2025 Season Equity Principal Actors - Durango Playfest Auditions

DURANGO PLAYFEST 2025 SEASON - REAL-TIME VIRTUAL EQUITY AUDITIONS

Durango Playfest | Durango, CO

AUDITION DATE

Tuesday, June 3, 2025
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM (M)

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment please email: Sheilah Brach -
shebrach5@gmail.com.

CONTRACT

SPT
$435 weekly minimum (SPT 3)

SEEKING

Real-time virtual Equity auditions for Equity actors for roles in Durango Playfest's 2025 Season (see breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please prepare a 1-minute monologue - (For Victoria) comedic - (For Theodore) dramatic.

LOCATION

Remote via Zoom, CO 80204-4035

PERSONNEL

Sheilah Brach: Production Coordinator
Expected to attend:
Felicia Lansbury Meyer: Artistic Director/Producer

OTHER DATES

Reading of BECKY AND HER LUNG TRANSPLANT
First Rehearsal date: 6/23/2025
Performance dates: 6/26/2025 and 6/29/2025

Reading of THERE ARE MONSTERS
First Rehearsal date: 6/23/2025
Performance dates: 6/27/2025 and 6/28/2025

OTHER

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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

DURANGO PLAYFEST 2025 SEASON

Reading of BECKY AND HER LUNG TRANSPLANT

by Lucy Wright and William Missouri Downs
Director: Nick Chase

SYNOPSIS

Desperate for work and facing middle age, a divorced Hollywood screenwriter takes a crap job writing an inspiring family channel movie about a child's lung transplant, only to discover that the true story may not be true, nor is her own life.

SEEKING

Victoria – female, hip Hollywood agent; 30s to 50s.

PRE-CAST ROLES

• Sylvia - PRE-CAST. screenwriter, washed up, blacklisted in Hollywood, 40s
• Zeke - PRE-CAST. Sylvia's son (17); rebellious, tattooed, video game junkie
• Cecilia - PRE-CAST. white, Midwestern mother; 35-50

Reading of THERE ARE MONSTERS

by Andrea Aptecker
Director: Amy Glazer

SYNOPSIS

When a wealthy husband and wife welcome a pair of stranded strangers into their elegant but isolated home in the countryside, disturbing connections come to light. With a storm raging and no cell coverage, the evening takes a macabre turn and the strangers won’t leave until they get what they came for.

SEEKING

Theodore – black, 40s-60s, professor, Harvard-educated, wealthy

PRE-CAST ROLES

• Myrna – PRE-CAST. 40s-50s, Harvard-educated, social graces, charming
• Red – PRE-CAST. 30s to 40s, white, Southern, working middle class, hardly smiles
• Opal – PRE-CAST. 30s to 40s, Southern, white, working middle class