HOT WING KING Equity Principal Actors - Cygnet Theatre Company Auditions

HOT WING KING - San Diego, CA EPA Cygnet Theatre Company | San Diego, CA

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (P)

Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment please email: auditions@cygnettheatre.com with preferred time frame(s).

CONTRACT

SPT

$605 weekly minimum (SPT 6)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in HOT WING KING (See breakdown).

Queer Actors of Color are encouraged to audition.

Cygnet encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, body types and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.

PREPARATION

Please prepare the Side for the character you'd like to audition for. To request sides and script please email:

auditions@cygnettheatre.com. Also please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Cygnet Theatre Rehearsal Space

2555 State Street

Suite 104

San Diego, CA 92101

Entrance to building is off of Maple Street. Parking is residential.

PERSONNEL

Written by Katori Hall

Expected to attend:

Director: Kian Kline Chilton

Casting Director: Allen Lucky Weaver Producer: Craig Campell

Artistic Director: Sean Murray

OTHER DATES

Callbacks: Monday September 23, 2024

Rehearsals begin: March 11, 2025

Previews begin: April 9, 2025

Opening: April 12, 2025

Closing: May 4, 2025

OTHER

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An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

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 attend every audition.

Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.

BREAKDOWN

HOT WING KING

SYNOPSIS: It’s time for the annual Hot Wang Festival down in Memphis, Tennessee, and CORDELL CRUTCHFIELD is determined to take this year’s hot chicken crown. Supported by his beau DWAYNE, and their culinary clique the New Wing Order which includes friends ISOM and BIG CHARLES, Cordell is marinating, and firing up the frying pan in a bid to claim the hot wing king crown. But when a family incident forces Dwayne to take in his nephew EVERETT, the weekend gets side-tracked, as the newly legitimized couple comes to terms with a new definition of family.

Setting: Memphis. Now.

SEEKING:

CORDELL (Black, 40s) - the head chef of the clique. Recently emerged from the closet to cohabitate with Dwayne. In a not so former life, had a wife and 2 kids.

DWAYNE (Black, 40s) - might not be the head chef but is the head of the household. Holds Cordell and everyone down. Has been a mentor to his struggling nephew for years. Holds resentment towards Cordell for taking so long to legitimize their relationship.

ISOM (Black, 30s) - new friend. Play lists includes gospel and rap and that’s exactly how he talks. Met the duo at church.

BIG CHARLES (Black, 40s) - old friend. Met the duo at the barber shop. Observant, laid-back. The Rock.

EVERETT EJ (Black / Latino / Asian / Mixed Race, 16) - Dwayne’s nephew. In need of guidance and a new home.

TJ (Black, 35) - Everett’s father. A long-time dealer who is “about that life”. Struggles with teaching his son how to be a man, but unsure if Cordell and Dwayne can be good father figures to his son.