Laguna Playhouse
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep $926 weekly minimum (LORT C) Housing is available.
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in KIM’S CONVENIENCE by Ins Choi (see breakdown).
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare one comedic and one dramatic monologue, no more than two minutes total. (Something that showcases Korean language ability would be great.) Please upload your video to YouTube, Vimeo, Dropbox, or other 3rd party platform. Email your headshot/resume along with your video submission with subject line KIM'S Casting.
Deadline: Tue, Jun 14, 2022
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Directed by Jon Lawrence Rivera
Casting Director: Kim Montelibano Heil, CSA (viewing auditions)
OTHER DATES
Rehearsal Begins: Tuesday, August 30, 2022
First Preview: Wednesday, September 21, 2022
Opening night: Sunday, September 25, 2022
Closing night: Sunday, October 9, 2022
OTHER
https://lagunaplayhouse.com
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
Seeking:
No roles will be understudied.
APPA (DAD) (Male, 59 years old, 1st generation Korean-Canadian): The owner of ‘Kim’s Convenience Store', who is searching for his replacement to take over the family business. He is a gruff, undemonstrative traditionalist who loves his family. Fluent in Korean, and speaks English with a Korean accent.
UMMA (MOM) (Female, 56 years old, 1st generation Korean-Canadian): Married to Appa. As dutiful wife and mother, she struggles to mend her broken family while balancing her own happiness. Fluent in Korean, and speaks English with a Korean accent.
JANET (Female, 30 years old, 2nd generation Korean-Canadian): Daughter of Appa and Umma. Though she is unmarried and still lives at home, she is thoroughly assimilated, with dreams of a career in photography. Speaks some Korean with her parents.
JUNG (Male, 32 years old, 2nd generation Korean-Canadian): He is the son of Appa and Umma, with a 2-month-old son. Ran away from home at 16 and hasn’t spoken to his father since. Adulthood has not been good to him.
RICH/MR. LEE/MIKE/ALEX (Male, 30s, Black): Has character dexterity, great comedic timing, and experience with dialects.
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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