KYOTO Equity Principal Actors - Lincoln Center Theater Auditions

KYOTO - NYC EPA REVISED

Lincoln Center Theater | New York, NY
REVISED
Updated preparation

AUDITION DATE

Monday, June 16, 2025
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep
The minimum base weekly salary for the positions being auditioned for is established by a collective bargaining agreement between the above-named producer and Actors' Equity Association. The base weekly salary for each of the listed roles will be $1,144 per week.

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in KYOTO (See breakdown).
All roles will be understudied.

PREPARATION

Please prepare the Sides which will be available from the Equity monitor on the morning of the audition. If you would like to audition for the role of JAPAN, you may use the Side provided or perform a 1-minute monologue of your own. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Ripley-Grier Studios (520)
520 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6507
Holding room - Studio 17X

PERSONNEL

Directors: Stephen Daldry, Justin Martin
Playwrights: Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson
Casting: Jim Carnahan and Alexandre Bleau - Casting Directors
Expected to attend:
Alexandre Bleau: Casting Director

OTHER DATES

First Rehearsal: September 4, 2025
First Performance: October 8, 2025
Opening: November 3, 2025
Closing: November 30, 2025

OTHER

Venue: Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater
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

BREAKDOWN

KYOTO

ROLES CAST:

Don Pearlman: Stephen Kunken
Raul Estrada-Oyuela: TBA
UK / Houghton: TBA

SEEKING:

GERMANY: Female, Late 30s, white. Born in East Berlin, Angela Merkel is a rising figure in newly unified Germany, having fought her way up the greasy political pole to become its government’s Environment Minister, where she is building a reputation as a pragmatic and disciplined leader. COP1 in Berlin in 1995, for which Merkel serves as President, represents her debut on the international stage.

SHIRLEY PEARLMAN: Female, 40s, white. Don Pearlman’s wife and mother of their two children, Brad and Stephanie. Shirley accompanies Don on every trip to every conference, summit and set of talks for the first fifteen years of the UN’s climate change negotiations. She is the play's sole ‘citizen’.

USA: Female, Late 50s-Early 60s, white. Head of the US delegation in the UN’s climate negotiations.
Inspired by several real-life characters:
- Tim Wirth, a U.S. policymaker on environmental and climate issues, serving as the first Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs where he plays a key role in shaping American involvement in international climate negotiations.
- Stuart Eizenstat, a senior U.S. diplomat and negotiator who served as Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs and drafted in to lead the U.S. negotiations in Kyoto.
- Sue Biniaz, Chief lawyer for the U.S. delegation. Known for her unparalleled legal knowledge, unflappability in a crisis and her trademark denim skirt, Sue was a constant presence in the UN climate negotiations for many decades.

KIRIBATI: Female, 20s, Pacific Islander. Spokesperson for the Alliance of Small Island States, which Kiribati and 30 other low-lying island nations establish in 1992 to shift the dial of the UN’s climate negotiations and assert a moral compass into the heart of the talks.

SECRETARIAT: Female 20s, white. The UN Secretariat is responsible for organizing and coordinating the UN climate negotiations. They are the talks’ producers, staging, preparing and facilitating everything from the venue and photocopying to helping the Chair/President strategize and ultimately deliver a multilateral agreement. This character is loosely based on Prof. Joanna Depledge, who worked as an intern in the Secretariat at Kyoto and other COPs and is now a world leading academic on climate negotiations.

JAPAN: Male, 60s-70s, Asian. Hiroshi Ohki is a prominent Japanese politician who serves as Minister of the Environment and presides as President of COP3 in Kyoto.

CHINA:

Male, 50s, Asian. Inspired by Dr Shukong Zhong, the head of the Chinese Delegation at the UN’s climate change negotiations. Known by his fellow negotiators as 'Dr No', Zhong fights hard for his country’s interests and bottom line in the talks, embodying the ‘wolf warrior diplomacy’ which China becomes known for in the years to come.

TANZANIA: Female, 50s, Black. Inspired by Prof. Mwandosya, a leading Tanzanian engineer and climate negotiator who heads up his country’s delegation in the UN’s climate negotiations. At COP3 in Kyoto, Tanzania acts as the Head of the hugely influential G77 + China bloc, which means Mwandosya also represents most of the world’s developing countries, arguing for their right to develop, and for the developed countries of the world to clean up their mess.

SAUDI ARABIA: Male, 50s, Middle Eastern. Dr. Mohammed Al Sabban is head of the Saudi Arabian delegation. He is a prominent Saudi economist and energy policy expert with a distinguished career in academia, government advisory, and international climate negotiations, who also speaks on behalf of the powerful OPEC bloc - the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

BERT BOLIN / AL GORE / BEN SANTER: Male, 50s, white.
- Bert Bolin is a Climate Scientist and Founder of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- Al Gore is the US Vice President, known for his focus on environmental issues and technology.
- Ben Santer is an American climate scientist whose groundbreaking work in the mid 1990s proved a ‘discernible’ link between climate change and manmade greenhouse gas emissions.

FRED SINGER: Male, 50s, white. Atmospheric physicist, co-inventor of the satellite and prominent climate sceptic. Fred works with the Global Climate Coalition, an NGO established to lobby against the implementation of targets and timetables for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

SEEKING

DON PEARLMAN: Male, 50s, white. American lawyer and CEO of the Climate Council. Having worked as Chief of Staff in the US Department of Energy under Ronald Reagan, he becomes a prominent figure in international climate negotiations, representing fossil fuel interests and working to dilute and delay the global response to global warming.

RAUL ESTRADA-OYUELA: Male, 50s, Latine. Chairman of COP1 - 3. He begins the play as the Argentinian Ambassador to China and ascends to become Chairman and chief architect of the Kyoto Protocol. With his unique and eccentric style of multilateral brokering, he is widely considered the ‘Hero of Kyoto’, and a crucial figure in the history of climate negotiations.

UK / JOHN HOUGHTON: Male, Late 40s, white.
- UK: John Prescott is a British Labour politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister under Tony Blair. Known for his working-class roots, trade union activism and for famously punching a voter, his traditional left-wing background meant he acted as a bridge within the Labour Party in the 1990s when the idea of ‘New Labour’ was born. He was a symbol of unity between the left and right of the party and a key ally of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
- John Houghton is a leading British climate scientist and co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group. Pivotal in establishing the scientific consensus on human-induced climate change.