FISH Equity Principal Actors - WP Theater Auditions

FISH - NYC EPA

WP Theater | New York, NY

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

LOCATION

Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E) 16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM. Sign-ups will end early due to the Memorial Day Holiday.

PERSONNEL

Written by Melis Aker
Directed by Tatiana Pandiani
Off Broadway
Expected to Attend:
WP Theater Producing Artistic Director: Lisa McNulty
WP Theater Associate Artistic Director: Rebecca Martinez
Signature Theatre Artistic Producer: Jeremy Ehlinger
Casting Director: Kelly Gillespie
Casting Director: Joe Gery

FISH is a Co-Production with WP Theater and Signature Theatre in association with New Light Theater Project, Consulting Producer Noor Theatre.

OTHER DATES

First Rehearsal: September 1st, 2026
Previews begin: September 26th, 2026
Opening: October 11th, 2026
End of announced run: October 25th, 2026
Possible extension through: November 8th, 2026

PREPARATION

Actors should prepare a brief monologue. Please bring a physical copy of your resume and headshot stapled together.

OTHER

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Breakdown

FISH

PERSONNEL:

Written by Melis Aker
Directed by Tatiana Pandiani
WP Theater Personnel:
Producing Artistic Director: Lisa McNulty
Managing Director: Michael Sag
Associate Artistic Director: Rebecca Martinez
Signature Theatre Personnel:
Artistic Director: Emily Shooltz
Executive Director: Tim McClimon
General Manager: Kenneth Naanep
Artistic Producer: Jeremy Ehlinger
New Light Theater Project Personnel:
Artistic Director: Sarah Norris
Producing Director: Michael Aguirre
Associate Artistic Director: Kleo Mitrokostas
Noor Theatre Personnel:
Executive Director: Ariana Safarazi
Artistic Producer: Kate Moore Heaney
Director of New Work Development: Sivan Battat

SYNOPSIS:

2016, London. Seventeen-year-old Karya is navigating her brother’s unresolved disappearance. When her mother’s outrageous theory about his whereabouts starts to gain traction, Karya decides to put it to the test. With her best friend, she devises a twisted online experiment, setting a hook in the darkest corners of the internet. But what begins as a search for answers quickly spirals into something more sinister than she ever expected. By turns sharp, tensely funny, and tender, Fish is a darkly comedic coming-of-age story about grief, girlhood and games that go too far.

Accent note for all roles: The play is set in London in 2016, and all actors should be able to work confidently in a contemporary British accent. The accent world should feel lived-in, specific, and urban (not heightened RP or generic “stage British.”) For the teenage characters especially, the language has speed, bite, slang, and rhythm, so actors should be comfortable with a London/Greater London teenage register, with dialect work to be refined in rehearsal.

SEEKING:

KARYA/Additional Voices: (car-[ee]-yah): F. 17. British-Turkish. Sharp, funny, guarded, not very femme, Karya is emotionally overburdened. She is trying to survive her brother’s disappearance while managing her mother’s grief and increasingly extreme theories. Clever and dry on the surface, she is lonelier and more vulnerable than she lets on. Her journey takes her from scepticism into obsession, as she begins testing a dangerous online theory for herself. Witty, comedic chops. Accent: Contemporary London/British teenage accent. Fast, dry, natural, not posh.

CEYDA/Additional Voices: (jay-duh) [ROLE CAST]: F. Early 40s. Turkish. Karya’s mother. A proud, funny and loving woman whose grief over her missing son has hardened into control, denial, and desperate belief. She can be outrageous and embarrassing, but never foolish. The role needs warmth, humour, volatility, and real emotional depth. Accent: British-based English with Turkish specificity or Turkish-inflected English. Grounded and truthful, never caricatured.

LIBBY/Additional Voices [ROLE CAST]: F. 17. British. KARYA’s best friend: chaotic, magnetic, funny, provocative, and fearless until things get genuinely dangerous. She pushes Karya further than Karya would go alone, but her recklessness comes from loyalty as much as mischief. Needs strong comic timing, speed, and emotional intelligence beneath the bravado. Accent: Contemporary London/British teenage accent. Slangy, quick, irreverent, fully lived-in.

ISHA/Additional Voices: (eee-sha): F. 20s-early 30s, Syrian/SWANA/South Asian. Emir’s former girlfriend. Sharp, furious, wounded, and unwilling to be polite about the assumptions made about her. Grew up in a Muslim family, but isn't religious herself. Funny, direct, defensive, and emotionally perceptive. Sharp, witty, comedic chops. Accent: Contemporary British/slightly more East London accent. Should feel Northeast London-raised. (NOTE: Possible partial nudity required. The script calls for this character to appear topless for a short duration in a scene with three other cast members.)

JON/Additional Voices: M. late 20s–30s, British, non-white. A swimming instructor. Charming, relaxed, attractive, and philosophical. Studied Classics at university. Jon is the ‘straight man’ in this witty, fast-paced comedy. Accent: Contemporary British accent.