MAGIC Theatre
CONTRACT
Bay Area Theatre $689 weekly minimum
SEEKING
Actors for Magic Theatre's world premiere production of Taylor Mac’s Joy and Pandemic directed by Loretta Greco. 4W. 1M. Local Bay Area actors particularly encouraged to submit.
The theatre plans to rehearse and perform this production in person.
INSTRUCTIONS
Actors should indicate roles of interest in an email to auditions@magictheatre.org. We will respond with appropriate sides within 2 business days. In your video please state your name and the role you are auditioning for. Videos should be emailed to auditions@magictheatre.org by Tuesday, April 13th 2021.
Deadline: Tue, Apr 13, 2021
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Loretta Greco, Director
Sonia Fernandez, Interim Artistic Director
Karina Fox, Casting Associate
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, August 24th, 2021
Opening Night: Thursday, September 22nd, 2021
Closing Night: Sunday, October 10th, 2021
Dates are subject to change.
OTHER
All auditions will be video submissions. No auditions will take place at Magic's physical location.
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
Joy and Pandemic, by Taylor Mac
Joy (female, 40s, white): A survivor. Has put all her faith in Christian Science. Mother of Pilly and Charlie; married to Bradford. Charismatic, ingenious, warm, rigorous, and righteous. Sets impossibly high expectations for herself and others. Human. (Actor also plays older Pilly in Act 3)
Pilly (female mid fifties, white) Alone. Still dutiful, warm hearted, trusting, funny and unarticulated. Has spent her entire adult life in service of Joy. Finds herself middle aged, with no life or identity to call her own. Frantically struggling with the tenants of her faith, and well honed denial, she alone cares for her dying mother but without the courage to confront issues head on. Makes do with intermittent phone calls from her estranged brother and the benign passive aggressive acts she can muster, unwilling to face her mother’s imminent demise and ill equipped to consider her own purpose and passion beyond Joy. (Actor plays Joy in Act I and II)
Rosemary Eldridge (female, 60s, white): Bradford’s spirited mother. Financially comfortable. In the face of Women’s Liberation she remains headstrong, pragmatic-- and skeptical of change. She can’t help but relish arguing in favor of her many opinions; it’s how she shows her love. Language and Comedic chops needed.
Pilly (female, early 20s, white): Daughter of Joy. Utterly devoted to her Mother. Kind and loyal and dutiful. Sweetly geeky with intermittent bouts of sensitivity. Aware that survival is not a given. Physically: an unintentional clown. Language and physical comedic chops needed.
Bradford (male, 40s, white): Married to Joy. An educated painter who lacks any ambition. Accustom to tethering himself to strong women who will lead the way; has a tendency to disappear when the going gets a little tough. Very chill, and sweet, leads with humor.
Melanie Plachard (female 30s, black): mother of Marjory Plachard. Mentally and emotionally volatile. Attempting to raise her daughter solo while her husband is at war. Emboldened by the confluence of war, women’s suffrage enveloping her in the moment, she commits to herself to an extraordinary display of impulsive articulation and independence in an attempt to seize joy for the first time in her life. (Actor also plays Marjory Plachard in Act 3)
Marjory Plachard (female, 30s, black): daughter of Melanie Plachard, an internationally successful fine artist. Howard educated. Politicised. Self-actualized, extremely intuitive, gathers information through observation. A woman who says precisely what she means. Existentially in search of the mother she lost as a young girl. (Actor also plays Melanie Plachard in Act 1 and Act 2)
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.
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