Everyman Theatre
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep $739 weekly minimum (LORT D)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Everyman Theatre's 2022-23 Season (see breakdown).
Everyman embraces identity conscious casting with an intentional eye on gender non binary, diversity, and ability-conscious casting. We believe in fair pay for all guest artists and will continue our transparent practice of compensating for additional commitments as these events occur. We aspire to become an artistic home that is multicultural in representation and centered on anti-racist and anti-oppression practices. Read more through our Statement of Solidarity at everymantheatre.org.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare one contemporary monologue of approximately 2-3 minutes. Please introduce yourself with your name and what you’re going to perform at the start of your video. You can submit a Video of up to 10 mb, or a private video link via YouTube or Vimeo. Email your headshot/resume and video submission. Deadline: Tuesday June 13, 2022 at 5:00 pm EDT.
Deadline: Mon, Jun 13, 2022
SUBMIT TO
EmanCasting@everymantheatre.org
PERSONNEL
Viewing auditions:
Paige Hernandez, Associate Artistic Director
Noah Himmelstein, Associate Artistic Director
Kyle Prue, Producing Director
OTHER DATES
See production dates in breakdown.
OTHER
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
Some roles will be understudied.
DINNER AND CAKE, by Tuyet Thi Pham
Director: Paige Hernandez
Dates:
First Rehearsal: 8 / 4 / 2022
Opening: 9 / 9 / 2022
Closing: 10 / 2 / 2022
Synopsis: Mỹlinh has the chance to boost her career and make important connections in her new home in Washington DC – all she has to do is translate a simple dinner meeting between her friends’ parents – American and Vietnamese in-laws. When the two couples clash over the course of the evening, Mỹlinh must navigate and defuse the awkward and complicated cultural, national, and social politics between the two countries that make up her own unique identity.
Seeking:
Mỹlinh (Female - South/East Asian - 20s) Immigrated to the US as a small child, law school graduate, affable, hardworking, and pretty darn Americanized. Speaks perfect Vietnamese and English because she can.
Mrs. Trần (Female - South/East Asian - late 40s-50s) Vietnamese nationalist, married to Mr. Trần, elegant, smart, traditional, and direct; grows very fond of Mỹlinh through the night.
Mr. Trần (Male - South/East Asian - late 40s-50s) Vietnamese nationalist, married to Mrs. Trần, former military, stoic and reserved, but always aware of his surroundings.
The following roles are CAST. Performers will be considered as possible replacements should any become necessary:
Mrs. Joyce Drumming (Female – Caucasian - 50s-60s) Former senior partner at a huge law firm, lived with Murray in Asia for 30 years. Elegant, smart, worldly, direct, and speaks her mind. Ultimate alpha female. Married to Murray.
Mr. Murray Drumming (Male – Caucasian - 50s-60s) Former Dept. of State diplomat, spent 30 years in East Asia, kind, likable and jovial. Married to Joyce. Always the diplomat and knows how to turn the temperature down.
THE LION IN WINTER, by James Goldman
Director: TBD
Dates:
First Rehearsal: 9 / 15 / 2022
Opening: 10 / 21 / 2022
Closing: 11 / 13 / 2022
Synopsis: A family feud of imperial proportions! Set during Christmas 1183, the play tells the wickedly amusing tale of King Henry II, his imprisoned queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and their three entitled, double-dealing sons who vie for the throne. This viciously funny drama is a high-stakes chess game where the pieces constantly change and no one is spared the sword.
Seeking:
Richard (Male – Any Ethnicity – 26): The eldest surviving son of Henry and Eleanor. Richard is handsome, graceful, impressive, and has been a famous soldier since his mid teens. War is his profession, and he is good at it. He is easily the strongest and toughest of the three sons.
John (Male – Any Ethnicity – 16): The youngest son of Henry and Eleanor, he is sulky and sullen, with a boyish outlook on his position. He is described as pimply and smelling of compost. He is Henry's favorite, but also the weakest. He vacillates throughout the play, not out of cleverness, but out of fear and weakness. He is easily tricked and manipulated by Geoffrey.
Philip II (Male – Any Ethnicity – 18): He has been King of France for three years. He is not initially as accomplished as Henry in manipulating people but seems to acquire greater skills at this during the play. He is impressive and handsome.
The following roles are CAST. Performers will be considered as possible replacements should any become necessary:
Eleanor of Aquitaine (Female – Any Ethnicity – 61): The wife of Henry, a beautiful woman of hot temperament, and great authority and presence. She has been a queen for nearly 46 years and is thoroughly capable of holding her own in a man's world. She schemes against Henry and loves him intensely at the same time. She has contempt for her children but is not willing to see them harmed.
Alais Capet (Female – Any Ethnicity – 23): In love with Henry, everyone underestimates her intellect and power. She is initially portrayed as innocent, but by the end of the play has begun to acquire a ruthless streak of her own, insisting that Henry imprison his three sons for the rest of their lives in the dungeon.
Henry II (Male – Any Ethnicity – 50): Though aging, he is still very nearly as vital as he ever was. His manipulations of family and others are portrayed as spontaneous and emotional as opposed to the well-thought-out stratagems of Eleanor, and the cold, calculating machinations of Geoffrey.
Geoffrey (Male – Any Ethnicity –25): A son of Henry and Eleanor, he is a man of energy and action. He is attractive, charming and has the strongest intellect of the family; he is also a cold, amoral schemer. His view of himself is of one who yearned greatly for the love of his parents while receiving none.
KEN LUDWIG’S BASKERVILLE: A SHERLOCK HOLMES MYSTERY, by Ken Ludwig
Director: Laura Kepley
Dates:
First Rehearsal: 11 / 3 / 2022
Opening: 12 / 9 / 2022
Closing: 1 / 1 / 2023
Synopsis: From the award-winning mastermind Ken Ludwig comes a fast-paced comedy about everyone’s favorite detective solving his most notorious case. Sherlock Homes and Dr. Watson must crack the mystery before the family curse dooms its newest heir.
Seeking:
Track Two (Male – Any Ethnicity – 25-45): Multiple roles, including Sir Hugo Baskerville (a brutal, cruel Cavalier), Wilson (exuberant, hearty head of messenger office), Sir Henry Baskerville (young Texan relation to Baskervilles, open-hearted, earnest, ready for adventure and to fall in love), and Inspector Lestrade (cocky police inspector).
The following role are CAST. Performers will be considered as possible replacement should ONE become necessary:
Female Track One (Female – Any Ethnicity – 20-40): Multiple roles, including Miss Stapleton (Stapleton’s initially secretive, scared “sister” who passionately falls in love with Sir Henry), Cartwright (scrappy Dickensian urchin), Mrs. Barrymore (severe, humorless Swedish caretaker of Baskerville Hall), Mrs. Hudson (older, maternal housekeeper for Holmes).
Sherlock Holmes (Male – Any Ethnicity – 40’s): Highly intelligent, confident, charismatic, quick-witted, obsessive. Thinks very highly of his close friend Watson. A sophisticated mind who savors adventure and an intriguing mystery and has a manic gleam of mischief in his eyes. A mind that works overtime.
Doctor Watson (Male – Any Ethnicity – 40’s): Smart, grounded, full of heart and wonder, lives to have adventures and assist his close friend Holmes. We see the play through his eyes. He is the heart and soul of the play.
Male Track One (Male – Any Ethnicity – 30-50): Multiple roles, including Stapleton (seemingly geeky butterfly lover who conceals a psychopath within), Barrymore (mournful caretaker of Baskerville Hall), Milker (scrappy Dickensian urchin boy), Lucy (loving wife of Wilson), and Dr. Mortimer (elegant, friendly, passionate).
JUMP, by Charly Evon Simpson
Director: TBD
Dates:
First Rehearsal: 12 / 21 / 2022
Opening: 1 / 27 / 2023
Closing: 2 / 19 / 2023
Synopsis: As Fay copes with the death of her mother and loss of her childhood home, she seeks solace by visiting the bridge her mother took her to as a child. There she meets Hopkins, who walks the bridge as a balm for his own grieving. Filled with poetry and emotion, this story is about anguish, humanity, and the process of letting go.
Seeking:
Fay (Female – Black – 28): Younger sister of Judy, she’s hooked on her vape now that she doesn’t smoke cigarettes.
The following role are CAST. Performers will be considered as possible replacement should ONE become necessary:
Judy (Female – Black – 31): Older sister of Fay, she still smells the lingering cigarette smoke and likes the color blue.
Hopkins (Male – Any Ethnicity – 25-40): A fellow bridge walker.
Dad (Male – Black – 50-65): Father of Fay and Judy. Lonely.
THE SOUND INSIDE, by Adam Rapp
Director: Vincent M. Lancisi
Dates:
First Rehearsal: 2 / 2 / 2023
Opening: 3 / 10 / 2023
Closing: 4 / 2 / 2023
Synopsis: In this intimate drama we meet Yale writing professor Bella Lee Baird and her prodigy misfit student Christopher Dunn. Bella has recently been diagnosed with stage two cancer as the audience slowly learns about her unconventional choices regarding treatment. The two grow closer as Bella helps Christopher with his novel that eerily mirrors is life. Christopher seeks mentorship while Bella seeks something of her own, something she desperately wants.
Seeking:
The following role are CAST. Performers will be considered as possible replacement should ONE become necessary:
Bella Baird (Female – 50’s): CAST. An isolated creative writing professor at Yale.
Christopher (Male – 18-25): CAST. A brilliant but enigmatic student.
HARVEY, by Mary Chase
Director: Susanna Gellert
Dates:
First Rehearsal: 3 / 23 / 2023
Opening: 4 / 28 / 2023
Closing: 5 / 21 / 2023
Synopsis: Elwood P. Dowd insists on including his friend Harvey in all of his sister Veta’s social gatherings. Trouble is, Harvey is an imaginary six-and-a-half-foot-tall rabbit. To avoid future embarrassment for her family, Veta decides to have Elwood committed to a sanitarium. At the sanitarium, she explains to the staff that her years of living with Elwood’s hallucination have caused her to see Harvey also, and so the doctors mistakenly commit her instead of her mild-mannered brother. The truth comes out, however; Veta is freed, and the search is on for Elwood, who eventually arrives at the sanitarium of his own volition, looking for Harvey. But it seems that Elwood and his invisible companion have had a strange influence on more than one of the doctors. Only at the end does Veta realize that maybe Harvey isn’t so bad after all.
Seeking:
Judge Omar Gafney (Male – Any Ethnicity – 45-70): An old family friend of the Dowds and the family’s lawyer. He is fiercely protective of the family and surprisingly understanding of Elwood’s belief in Harvey.
The following roles are CAST. Performers will be considered as possible replacements should any become necessary:
Ethel Chauvenet (Female – Any Ethnicity – 55-75): An old friend of the family, she is an elite member of the town’s social circle that Veta desperately wants Myrtle to break into.
Betty Chumley (Female – Any Ethnicity – 50-65): Dr. Chumley’s kind and talkative wife.
Veta Louise Simmons (Female – Any Ethnicity – 35-50): Elwood’s younger sister, she has returned to the family home after the death of her mother and is intent on landing a suitable husband for her daughter, Myrtle Mae. Veta is very concerned about fitting into society and all the social proprieties that that involves. She loves her older brother Elwood very much.
Ruth Kelly (Female – Any Ethnicity – 20-35): A young nurse who has a love/hate relationship with Dr. Sanderson. She is sweet and kind and looks for the best in people.
Myrtle Mae Simmons (Female – Any Ethnicity – 18-25): Veta’s daughter and Elwood’s niece, she and Veta are interested in finding Myrtle a man to marry - a mission that is made impossible with Elwood and Harvey constantly popping in. Myrtle is extremely self-centered.
Dr. William Chumley (Male – Any Ethnicity – 50-65): An esteemed psychiatrist and the head of Chumley’s Rest, he is a difficult, exacting man who will go to any length to protect the reputation of his sanitarium.
Elwood P. Dowd (Male – Any Ethnicity – 45-60): Veta’s older brother, he is a charming eccentric whose best friend is Harvey, an invisible six-foot-tall rabbit. Elwood is well mannered, very friendly, and has “old-school gentleman charm.
E.J. Lofgren (Male – Any Ethnicity – 40-65): A cab driver.
Dr. Lyman Sanderson (Male – Any Ethnicity – 25-40): A young and highly qualified psychiatrist, he has been handpicked by Dr. Chumley. Sanderson’s talent is only surpassed by his vanity. He is as infatuated with Nurse Kelly as she is with him, though he struggles not to let on.
Duane Wilson (Male – Any Ethnicity – 30-45): He is the muscle of Chumley’s Rest, a devoted orderly responsible for handling the patients who will not cooperate voluntarily. He sets his sites on Myrtle Mae soon after meeting her.
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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