IT'S ONLY A PLAY Equity Actors - Morningside Theater Co Auditions

IT'S ONLY A PLAY - Submit for NYC appointments

Morningside Theater Co. | New York, NY

CONTRACT

Showcase-NY
$500 stipend

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in IT'S ONLY A PLAY (see breakdown).
Morningside Theater Co is committed to non-traditional, diverse and multicultural casting.
Morningside Theater Co (formerly Morningside Players) is a highly respected, well reviewed, award-winning theater company in Morningside Heights, Manhattan.

SUBMISSION

INSTRUCTIONS

Please email a pic/resume and reel (if available) and we will get back to you regarding an on-person audition later in August at our space. Please also note that if we can't see you on this project, we will save actor information in our files. Thanks!
Deadline: 08/29/2025

SUBMIT TO

morningsideplayers@gmail.com

PERSONNEL

• Playwright - Terrence McNally
• Director - Susanna Frazer
• Set - Noel Brooks
• Lighting - Aidan McCleod
• Sound - Swordfish Productions
• Costumes - Cecilia Riddett
• Producer for MPTC - Bridget Leicester, Susanna Frazer
• Stage Manager - TBD
• Graphic Design - Isabella Calisi-Wagner

OTHER DATES

Invited auditions to be held late August.
Rehearsals start: Tuesday Sept 30
Usually early evenings during weekdays and Saturday and Sunday daytimes TBD. Wednesday off. Some flexibility and scene work.
Open Thursday Oct. 30 – Close Nov. 16, 2025
Monday, Thursday, and Friday at 7:30 pm, Saturday at 5 pm, and Sunday at 5 pm; extra matinee Sunday Nov. 16

OTHER

All rehearsals at MTCo. Theater space at 100 La Salle St, back entrance. (Morningside Heights approx. equal to 124th St and Broadway, Manhattan)
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

IT'S ONLY A PLAY

THE STORY: It’s the opening night of The Golden Egg on Broadway, and the wealthy producer Julia Budder is throwing a lavish party in her Manhattan townhouse. Downstairs the celebrities are pouring in, but the real action is upstairs in the bedroom, where a group of insiders have staked themselves out to await the reviews. The group includes the excitable playwright; the possibly unstable wunderkind director; the pill-popping leading lady, treading the boards after becoming infamous in Hollywood; and the playwright’s best friend, for whom the play was written but who passed up this production for a television series. Add to this a drama critic who’s panned the playwright in the past and a new-in-town aspiring singer, and you have a prime recipe for the narcissism, ambition, childishness, and just plain irrationality that infuse the theatre—and for comedy. But don’t worry: this play is sure to be the hit they have all been hoping for.

“This show is without a doubt hilariously, sidesplittingly funny… These are among the funniest lines to roll off a stage in years… IT’S ONLY A PLAY deserves only a rave.” — The New York Times.
“… You really must laugh at McNally’s unquenchable wit—but those sloppy-kiss tributes to the theater… are deeply felt and honestly moving.” — Variety.
This is the sort of comedy that puts the broad in Broadway, with a genuinely funny script… IT’S ONLY A PLAY is a poison-pen mash note to New York theater, at once gleefully bitchy and affectionate. — Entertainment Weekly.

SEEKING:

• Virginia Noyes - Late 30s to 50s. The brilliant stage star. Has an electronic bracelet on her ankle and drug issues.
• Frank Finger - 20s-30s. The crazed avant-garde director, British (with Cockney or Caribbean accents) - about to be knighted.
• Ira Drew - 40s-50s. The hated critic (secretly yearning to be a playwright).
• Julia Budder - The Producer, 40s-50s, genuinely nice and dogged.