Friday, August 15, 2025
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Off Broadway
$903 weekly minimum (Cat. 3)
Equity actors for roles in JESA (See breakdown).
There are no Equity stage managerial positions available at this time.
Please prepare a 90-second contemporary monologue. Also bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
Producing Artistic Director: Ralph B. Peña
Executive Producer: Jakob Carter
Director: Mei Ann Teo
Writer: Jeena Yi
Expected to attend:
Casting Director: Stephanie Yankwitt
First Rehearsal: 02/10/2026
Opening Date(s): o/a 3/17/2026
Closing Date(s): 04/12/2026
Possible Extension: 04/19/2026
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EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
We recognize that characters are written on the binary (use she/her pronouns) and invite gender non-confirming, genderqueer, transgender, and non-binary actors to audition for the roles they most identify with. We seek to cast expansively and intentionally with consideration of race, ethnicity, gender, body type and ability.
SYNOPSIS: JESA by Jeena Yi, directed by Mei Ann Teo, is a riotous and heart-wrenching new play that explodes the idea of the “perfect family gathering.” When four estranged Korean American sisters reunite in Orange County to perform their father’s Jesa—a traditional ritual honoring the dead—old wounds erupt, secrets surface, and ghosts (literal and emotional) refuse to stay buried. With razor-sharp dialogue, explosive humor, and unexpected tenderness, JESA asks how we honor our ancestors when we can barely stand each other. Come for the sibling brawls and burning shrimp, stay for the aching truth of what binds us.
TINA – mid 40s, 1st born, Korean American - The Fuck up. Single, no kids. A chef. Uses humor and tasteless jokes as a defense mechanism. Drinks too much. Her parents never let her forget the shame she brought to the family when she was 16.
GRACE – early-mid 40s, 2nd born, Korean American - The Perfect one. Mom’s favorite. Married to Mike and fervently maintains the façade of a perfect suburban family. Lives to make her mother proud and happy. Has a strained relationship with her daughter Lily.
BRENDA - late 30s, 3rd born, Korean American - The one that’s never there/the Artsy one. Dad’s favorite. A theater director, over worked, always traveling and always on the brink of something potentially great. Currently having an existential crisis about her career. Still angry at her mother.
ELIZABETH – late 20s-early 30s, Korean American - The Baby. Works in Private Equity, makes more money than any of the other sisters ever will. Funds Jesa costs, and loans Tina and Brenda money all the time. Secretly hates dad. At work she’s a tiger, with her family she’s a tiger pretending to be a mouse.
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