Kansas City Actors Theatre
CONTRACT
SPT $657 weekly minimum (SPT Tier 8)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Kansas City Actors Theatre 2022 Season 18 (see breakdown).
KCAT maintains a strong commitment to the Kansas City artistic community and encourages local submissions.
KCAT is promoting a fully vaccinated workplace. All employees are required to be fully vaccinated prior to first day of employment and will maintain social distancing and sanitation protocols during rehearsals and performances.
KCAT is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion and conscious casting, and we encourage performers of all races and ethnicities, gender identities, sexualities, abilities, and ages to audition for our productions. Please let us know if you require special services, assistance, or disability-specific modifications to fully participate.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare two contrasting contemporary monologues, not to exceed a total of 4 minutes, along with a brief introductory slate. Video link or file may be submitted via email with the subject line: AEA General Submission. Please also attach a headshot/resume.
Deadline: Sun, Jan 16, 2022
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Viewing auditions:
John Rensenhouse (Artistic Chair)
Gary Heisserer (Board President)
Darren Sextro (director of SPIDER'S WEB),
OTHER DATES
Season 18:
THE PRICE by Arthur Miller, runs May 25 - June 12, 2022
SPIDER'S WEB by Agatha Christie, runs July 13 - 31, 2022
ABOUT ALICE by Calvin Trillin, runs August 10 - 28, 2022
DOT by Colman Domingo, runs September 7 - 25, 2022
SMART PEOPLE by Lydia Diamond, runs January 11 - 29, 2023
OTHER
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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
THE PRICE by Arthur Miller
VICTOR FRANZ - Any ethnicity, male, 50s. A police patrolman. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
WALTER FRANZ - Any ethnicity, male, 60s. Victor's estranged older brother, a doctor. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
ESTHER FRANZ - Any ethnicity, female, 50s. Victor's wife. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
GREGORY SOLOMON - White/Jewish, male, nearly 90. Still straight-backed and the air of his massiveness still with him. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
SPIDER'S WEB by Agatha Christie
All available roles in SPIDER'S WEB can be played by actors of any ethnicity and will require British dialects.
SIR ROWLAND - 50s-60s, male. Clarissa's godfather. Distinguished and charming.
JEREMY WARRENDER - 30s, male. An elegant young man.
PIPPA HAILSHAM-BROWN - 12-15, female. Henry's daughter, Clarissa's stepdaughter.
ELGIN - 30+, male or female, any ethnicity. The household's butler or cook.
OLIVER - 30s or 40s, male. An attractive man with villainous intent.
HENRY HAILSHAM-BROWN - 40s, male. Clarissa's husband, a mild-mannered diplomat. (will double as CONSTABLE JONES.)
INSPECTOR LORD - 40s or 50s, male. Experienced but occasionally befuddled, performatively in charge.
CLARISSA HAILSHAM-BROWN - Mid-30s to 40, female. The vivacious lady of the house. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
MILDRED PEAKE - 40+, female. An energetic gardener who came with the house. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
BIRCH - 60, male or female. An irascible friend of Clarissa's. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
ABOUT ALICE by Calvin Trillin
CALVIN TRILLIN - White, male, 50s. A wry journalist whose focus is his wife and his enduring love for her. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
ALICE TRILLIN - White, female, mid 40s to early 50s. Educator, author, film producer, and muse to her husband. Has the appearance of an upper-class WASP. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
DOT by Colman Domingo
DOTTY - African American. Female. Sixty-five years old.
SHELLY - African American. Female. Forty-five years old.
JACKIE - Caucasian/Jewish. Female. Forty years old.
DONNIE - African American. Male. Forty years old.
ADAM - Caucasian/Latin/Arab. Male. Forty years old.
AVERIE - African American. Male. Thirty-five years old.
FIDEL - Kazakh/Central Asian. Male. Mid-to-late twenties.
SMART PEOPLE by Lydia Diamond
VALERIE JOHNSTON - 24, female, African American. Recently graduated A.R.T. Acting MFA.
BRIAN WHITE - 36-42, male, White. A professor at Harvard and a neuropsychiatrist. Studies patterns of racial identity and perceptions.
GINNY YANG - 34-40, female, Chinese and Japanese American. No accent. Only speaks English. A respected tenured professor of psychology at Harvard. Studies race and identity among Asian American women.
JACKSON MOORE - 28, male, African American. Harvard Med School. Surgical intern on rotation.
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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