GO DOWN, MOSES Equity Principal Actors - Unlimited Stages Auditions

GO DOWN, MOSES - NYC EPA

Unlimited Stages | Harrison, NY

Notice: Audition. Call Type: EPA.

AUDITION DATE

LOCATION

Friday, March 13, 2026
A.R.T./New York Studios
520 8th Ave, New York, NY 10018
9:30 AM - 6:00 PM (E)

Break: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM. Enter through main building entrance; check lobby directory for studio room: Aibel Studio.

CONTRACT

PERSONNEL

Mini Playwright: Dana Leslie Goldstein
$793 weekly minimum
Producers: Unlimited Stages, Brandon M. Weber, Alexa Powell
Director: Brandon M. Weber
Associate Director: Alexa Powell

EXPECTED TO ATTEND

All stage managerial positions are currently filled.

OTHER DATES

PREPARATION

First Rehearsal: Monday, April 20, 2026

First Preview: Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Official Opening: Friday, May 15, 2026

Closing: Sunday, May 31, 2026

Please prepare a 1-minute contemporary dramatic monologue. Bring a picture and resume stapled together. Sides may be provided for callbacks. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

Performance Schedule: Standard schedule to be determined; typical evening performances with possible matinees.

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EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition. An Equity Monitor will be provided.

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GO DOWN, MOSES (World Premiere)

It's 1985. Ethics professor Philip Hoffman and newly appointed Dean of Students Albert Becker already have a long history: they marched side by side for civil rights, registered voters together during Freedom Summer, and have maintained a friendship that crosses the boundaries of race, religion and country of birth. Now they work at a small, liberal university, where part of the job is training a new crop of activists. When a star student from the South Bronx crosses the administration and invites a controversial speaker to campus, free speech becomes a battle cry, and still-festering inequities become impossible to ignore.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This production explores themes of free speech, civil rights, interracial friendship, and generational change in the 1980s American university setting. The play examines the intersection of African American and Jewish American experiences while interrogating privilege, power, and the limits of academic freedom.

ENCOURAGEMENT

Unlimited Stages encourages participation by performers of ALL RACES AND ETHNICITIES. We are committed to inclusive casting and actively seek diverse artists. While certain roles have specific ethnic requirements integral to the dramatic narrative, we welcome actors of all backgrounds to audition for roles where ethnicity is not specified.

SEEKING

ANGELA CARTER

Female, 18, Black/African American. First-year student and firebrand. African American New Yorker. Passionate, politically charged, unafraid to challenge authority. Dynamic, youthful, commanding presence.

TERRY MITCHELL

Male, 18, Black/African American. First-year student, ambitious and privileged. African American. Navigates the tension between activism and assimilation with nuanced handling of class dynamics within the Black community.

ALBERT BECKER

Male, 40s–50s, Black/African American. Newly minted Dean of Students, formerly a History professor. Becker is Hoffman's oldest and dearest friend. Warm, authoritative, emotionally deep with a sense of gravitas, caught between administrative duty and personal loyalty.

PHILLIP HOFFMAN

Male, 50s–60s, Eastern European/White. Professor of Ethics. German Jewish refugee, widower. Becker's oldest and dearest friend. Intellectual, principled, wrestling with historical trauma and contemporary moral complexities. German Jewish accent/dialect skills are a plus.

ISAAC SCHWARZ

Male, 18, White/South African Jewish. First-year international student. Afrikaans accent required; strong dialect work essential. Also plays Police Officer (American accent). Wrestling with his identity as a Jewish South African during the apartheid era.

KATIE LINDEN

Female, 18, Open Ethnicity (East Asian, Filipino, Hispanic, Indigenous, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, Mixed Ethnicity, Pacific Islander, South Asian, Southeast Asian, White). Earnest first-year student, sheltered and suburban. Navigating privilege and awakening to social justice with evolving consciousness.

JESSICA HOFFMAN

Female, 18, Eastern European/White. Professor Hoffman's daughter. First-year student. Grieving the loss of her mother while establishing her own identity. Delicately vulnerable, searching, trying to heal.