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Seeking
Equity actors for various roles in this production where Working Theater has commissioned teams of artists to create new plays in collaboration with communities in each of the five boroughs of NYC
see breakdown.
Preparation
Please prepare a short monologue. Either comic or dramatic is acceptable!
Bring picture and resume.
Other Dates
Performances of each play will be done using the staged reading guidelines in April, prior to the LOA production. All five will then be presented as work-in-progress showings at the Dorothy Strelsin Theater the week of May 3rd
Other
Participation in the LOA production is not contingent on taking part in the staged reading performances.
Personnel
Mark Plesent, Producing Artistic Director
· EPA Rules are in effect.
· A monitor will be provided.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
BRONX: THE BLOCK
by Dan Hoyle Directed by Maureen Towey
seeking:
Mel: (OFFER ACCEPTED) African-American 38 years old/Moe: West African. mid 30-40’s. has a 13 year old daughter. Came to the Bronx in 1995. Republican.
Rick: Puerto Rican 20’s-30’s /Freddy: Mexican 30’s
Reggie: (OFFER OUT) African American From the south. Still sounds like it. Mid 50’s. Single father/
Charlie: African American The Mayor of the block. a very positive presence. 50-60’s/ Eddie: The local Wino – African American 60’s
Soria: Latina. Mid 50’s
Eliza: African American - 55 years old. Looks good for her age. Enrolled at the community College. Lives with her niece.
Dijjon: (OFFER OUT) Early 20’s. Born in Jamaica but has no accent. Celebrates his outside perspective/
Juan: Mexican. Undocumented. 30’s.
Please note: Doubling might change so looking for very versatile actors.
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BROOKLYN – UNTITLED
by Ed Cardona Jr. Directed by Ana Margineanu
seeking:
Edson/Green: (OFFER OUT) A twenty-eight year-old Mexican undocumented immigrant. He is still the best handyman in Bushwick even though now he calls East New York home.
Crispin/Blue: (OFFER OUT) A fifty year-old Puerto Rican Bushwick native. He is a retired N.Y.C Social worker.
Swayze/Red: (OFFER OUT) A thirty year-old white artist/photographer. He's currently unemployed and has lived in Bushwick for the past four years. He's what you call an anti-hipster though he easily fits the bill of an aging hipster.
Magalia/Orange: (OFFER OUT) A forty year-old Dominican. She is a self-employed street vendor and has lived in Bushwick over twenty years.
Budhi/Yellow: (OFFER OUT) A twenty-seven year-old Korean American. She is an army-brat that has lived both in Korea and the United States. She is a fairly successful street artist. Who has traveled the world creating street art. She also sells in galleries. She is bicoastal and keeps a studio in Bushwick.
Nirt/Indigo: (OFFFER OUT) A forty year-old Black visual artist. On the street he works with stensiles. He is a Brooklyn native and graduate of the Pratt Institute. Where he currently teaches part-time.
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QUEENS: ALTERNATING CURRENTS
by Adam Kraar, Directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch
seeking:
ELENA STEIN: 30, a white woman. Verve, curious about people, wit, and something of an outsider. While she has some wounds, she does not have an edge.
LUKE CAMPBELL: (OFFER OUT) 28, an African-American man. A stalwart, strong teddy-bear of a man; freedom loving, curious, and honest. While he is usually in control of himself, he’s capable of losing his temper.
JERRY: a young white man who can also play a wide range of roles. He is our Guide and the “Stage Manager” of this play. Idealistic and lyrically eloquent. This actor must be able to play a wide variety of ages and types.
A MIDDLE AGED WHITE WOMAN, who can play other ethnicities and also plays at least one man
A YOUNG BLACK WOMAN, who can also play a teenaged male hip hop dancer, among other roles
SAL, (OFFER OUT) 50s, white, who also plays other electricians. Sal is an Italian-American New Yorker; outgoing, a performer, appetitive. He is aware of his power in the union, and confident in his belief that he wields his power for the common good.
NOTE: All actors should have facility with playing comedy and heightened language. Also, while Elena and Luke will only play themselves, the other four actors should be able to play a wide variety of characters, sometimes quite different from their ethnicity, gender, age or type. For those four actors, a facility with accents is essential, and, ideally, they should also have the ability to use their bodies to help delineate character.
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STATEN ISLAND: BREAKING BREAD
by Chisa Hutchison Directed by Kristin Horton
Note: This play will be “Reverse Cast”. So, all the Italian-American characters will be played by actors who can play African-American; and the lone African-American character will be played by an actor who can play Italian-American.
GIORGIO: 60's, Italian-American (via African-American), that jovial uncle who tells inappropriate jokes and maybe gets a little handsy when he's had too much wine. He means well, just wants everybody to be happy and have a good time, but can do some real damage unwittingly. Speaks some Italian.
CELIA: 60's, Italian-American (via African-American), has been married to Giorgio for waaaaay too long. She gives as good as she gets, though, and handles his shit with grace and humor. Most times. She's religious, but more out of habit than anything else at this point. It doesn't do her much good dealing with her family's cultural baggage and subsequent conflicts. Speaks some Italian.
ANGELA: 40's, Italian-American (via African-American), just wants the best for her family. She's inherited her Uncle Giorgio's people-pleaser gene, so you'd have to take a sledgehammer to her buttons before she'd get confrontational. But once the buttons are pushed... look out. Speaks some Italian.
VINNIE: 40's, Italian-American (via African-American), Angela's husband. The sledgehammer. He's not one to suffer in silence and has lately been feeling like the whole world's against him, but especially his co-ed daughter, Nicole, who seems to have made it her personal mission to piss him off. Speaks some Italian.
NICOLE: (OFFER OUT) 19, Italian-American (via African-American), Angela and Vinnie's daughter. She's always been uneasy with life on the Rock (Staten Island), but she didn't fully understand why until going to college off-island. She's got some progressive ideas that will either get her ahead in life or fatally assaulted. Her abrasive, self-righteous attitude makes it hard for people to pick up what she's putting down.
SABUR: 21, African-American (via Italian-American), a spoken-word artist and activist. Nicole's boyfriend. In Arabic, his name means patience or endurance and man, does he have to exercise a lot of that when Nicole brings him (quite deliberately) to a traditional family dinner.
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MANHATTAN: UNTITLED PLAY/INSTALLATION
by Caridad Svich, Michael Premo and Rachel Falcone.
As of now there is no information on roles and this might be purely an installation without actors. TBA
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