ETERNAL LOVE Equity Principal Actors - Z Space Studio Auditions

ETERNAL LOVE - San Francisco, CA EPA

Z Space Studio | San Francisco, CA

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AUDITION DATE

Tuesday, July 14, 2026
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (P)
Lunch 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment, please email the Casting Assistant by July 9th at:
casting@zspace.org.

CONTRACT

Bay Area Theatre
$545 weekly minimum (Tier 2)
Plus - Pension & Health

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Word for Word's 2027 Spring/Summer production of ETERNAL LOVE (See

BREAKDOWN

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PREPARATION

Please prepare one monologue for the in-person audition. Total audition time no more than 3 minutes. Also, bring your headshot and resume.

LOCATION

Z Below
470 Florida Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Parking is very difficult during the day. Please allow extra time.

PERSONNEL

Written by Karen Bender
Executive Director: Shafer Mazow
Curatorial Director: Nikki Meñez
Expected to attend:
JoAnne Winter - Word for Word Artistic Director
Vanessa Flores Chacko - Word for Word Associate Artistic Director
Amy Kossow - Director of ETERNAL LOVE
Word for Word Core Company members

OTHER DATES

Rehearsals Begin: Week of May 10, 2027
Load-in/Tech: Week of May 31
Dress/Preview: June 8 - June 11
Opening: June 12
Closing: July 3, 2027 (two day show)

OTHER

www.zspace.org
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity’s

CONTRACT

s 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.

BREAKDOWN

ETERNAL LOVE

Word for Word Performing Arts Company performs short works of fiction, without changing a word, preserving the author’s voice and honoring their intent with inventive staging and theatrical distribution of the text. Word for Word believes in the power of the short story to provide solace, compassion, and insight into our daily lives. We bring stories from diverse cultures to our diverse communities and develop future audiences’ love for the printed and spoken word. Some of the many authors whose works we have produced include Alice Munro, Edward P. Jones, Tobias Wolff, George Saunders, Amy Tan, Colm Toíbin, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sandra Cisneros.

Z Space empowers artistic risk, collaboration, and camaraderie amongst artists, audience, and community in the service of creating, developing, and presenting new work. In addition to being home to local and international artists and organizations, Z Space develops and produces its own new work. Over the past few years, Z Space has built a national reputation for developing and producing large-scale new works that reimagine the traditional musical theater form, receiving critical acclaim for Hundred Days (The Bengsons), The Lucky Ones (The Bengsons), and Weightless (The Kilbanes).

Z Space and Word for Word Casting Commitments:
Z Space and Word for Word’s

CONTRACT

s prohibit discrimination. Z Space and Word for Word are committed to diversity and encourage all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Z Space and Word for Word encourage performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit.

SYNOPSIS: Word for Word shines a light on our society's fear of the adult lives of neurodivergent people. In Eternal Love, we follow the story of one family who nervously chaperones their adult neurodivergent daughter and her new husband on their Vegas honeymoon.

NOTE: All actors will play multiple roles, mostly young adult to young middle age, with a couple of older characters. Actors should be agile at making quick and distinct character transformations and be good movers.

SEEKING:

• Ella: CAST. 50s Jewish mother.
• Lou: CAST. 50-60 Jewish father.
• Ensemble: CAST. multiple roles, any ethnicity/age, female.
• Ensemble: CAST. multiple roles, any ethnicity, age, male.
• Lena: 30s Jewish, acts young for her age, neurodiverse female. Non-specific neurodiverse actors are encouraged to audition.
• Bob: 40s, neurodiverse male, described as short, balding. Non-specific neurodiverse actors are encouraged to audition.