EL MENTIROSO Equity Principal Actors - Arts On Site Auditions

EL MENTIROSO - NYC EPDA

Revised
Arts On Site | New York, NY
Updated personnel and breakdown.

AUDITION DATE

Sunday, March 9, 2025
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM (E)

CONTRACT

Mini
$820 weekly minimum (plus $30 weekly bump to understudy one additional role)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in EL MENTIROSO (See breakdown). All races, ethnicities, and gender identities are encouraged to audition.

PREPARATION

We ask that all performers come warmed up and ready to dance CONTEMPORARY movement. There will be floor work, partnering, and improvisation designed to push our physicality as movers so please bring appropriate clothing (knee pads may be helpful) and be prepared to dance barefoot. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together. If you are asked for a call back, you may be asked to read Sides. The Sides can be found
here.

LOCATION

Arts on Site
12 St Marks Place
3F
New York, NY 10003
Please Buzz 3F to be let into the building. An elevator is available upon request. Auditions will be held in Studio 3R. Studio 3F will be available for warming up starting at 4 PM.

PERSONNEL

An-lin Dauber: Co-Creator & Scenic Designer
Octavia Chavez Richmond: Writer
Lauren DeLeon: Intimacy Coach
Kiara Brown: Stage Manager
ArtsOnSite: Co-Producer
Expected to Attend:
Mauricio Salgado: Co-Creator & Co-Producer
Chelsea Ainsworth: Co-Creator & Choreographer
Josiah Davis: Director
Jillian Jetton: Line Producer and Production Manager

OTHER DATES

1st Rehearsal: August 11th
1st Understudy Rehearsal: August 25th
Break in rehearsals in honor of the holiday: August 30th-September 3rd
1st Preview: September 10th
1st Performance: September 11th
Closing: September 27th
15 shows total, with 5 shows a week (evenings from Wednesday-Saturday with a matinee on Saturday; no shows on Sundays)

OTHER

www.artsonsite.org
ECC Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPDA

BREAKDOWN

EL MENTIROSO

SYNOPSIS: EL MENTIROSO is for grown-ups being bullied by childhood trauma — it’s for anyone haunted by harm. Perhaps it winks at you through the mischief of your children; pesters you in your mother’s silence, or befriends you on the toilet in the dark a-la-dos-de-la-mañana (!!) when you think everyone is asleep… This is a 70-minute dance theater descent into the subconscious of a Fool who is desperate to extract the truth from a lie. This is an irreverent - mythological - game show - locura - fever dream about intergenerational trauma, loss of innocence, and M&Ms. This production grapples with the memory of sexual abuse. Given the sensitive nature of the material, the Director and/or Co-creators agree to share a draft of the script and meet with potential company members before a contractual agreement is finalized.

SEEKING:

NOTE: Dancer with a strong movement background and an experimental sense of play. Performers should be comfortable partnering, performing different dance genres, have experience/enthusiasm for working with masks or clowning, stylistically quirky/strange with a humorous edge, between 20 and 50 years old. More details in the casting breakdown below.

FOOL: CAST. (Latine, male, Spanish speaking, 40-50) A self-professed-well-put-together-fully-functioning-in-control FOOL.

GORDON HOLLYWOOD/MOTHER: CAST. (Latine, female, Spanish speaking, 50-70) A game show host, an emcee, a conductor. Extracting memory from the Fool to reckon with the past. Is this an act of love? Or something else?

HEDONISTO & Understudy Role TBD: (any race, ethnicity, and gender, 20-50) Powered by instinct and primal urge. Awakens the memory with a sensual touch.

DETALIA & Understudy Role TBD: (any race, ethnicity, and gender, 20-50) All about the facts. In devilish pursuit of the truth.

OTRO & Understudy Role TBD: (any race, ethnicity, and gender, 20-50) An unknown presence that haunts you like a shadow.

UNDERSTUDY for FOOL & GORDON HOLLYWOOD/MOTHER: Female identifying. Comfortable speaking Spanish.