MAGNO Equity Principal Actors - Ma-Yi Theatre Company Auditions
Ma-Yi Theatre Company
MAGNO - NYC EPA
Ma-Yi Theatre Company | New York, NY
Notice: Audition
AUDITION DATE
Thursday, July 30, 2026
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
CONTRACT
CONTRACT
Off Broadway
$867 weekly minimum (Cat. 2)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in MAGNO (see
BREAKDOWN
).All Stage Managerial positions are currently filled.
PREPARATION
Please prepare a brief cut of a folk song or ballad, and a contemporary comedic monologue that shows range. An accompanist will be provided. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Books & Lyrics by Ralph Peña
Music by Fabian Obispo
Director: Ralph Peña
EXPECTED TO ATTEND
Stephanie Yankwitt, Casting Director
Angel Hoyang, Casting Assistant
Jakob Carter, Ma-Yi Executive Producer
OTHER DATES
1st Rehearsal: 1/5/27
1st Preview: 2/20/27
Opening: 2/28/27
Closing o/a: 3/30/27
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition. An Equity Monitor will be provided.
Equity's
CONTRACT
s 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.
BREAKDOWN
MAGNO
SYNOPSIS: Set in 1930 among Filipino migrant farmworkers in California, the piece requires actors who can handle heightened rhythm, ensemble storytelling, humor, physical labor, and emotional intimacy. Strong singing and movement ability are essential. Instrumental ability is a plus. The men function as individual characters, chorus, work crew, band of survivors, and collective memory.
SEEKING
AMADO: Filipino male. 30's-late 40's. Baritone/Tenor. The cook, caretaker, and spiritual ballast of the bunkhouse. Amado understands that food is dignity. A strong character singer with warmth, timing, emotional gravity, and comfort with heightened theatricality if doubling as Dream/Fantasy Clarabelle.
IKONG / FRANCISCO II: Filipino male. Bisaya. 20's-early 30's. Tenor. Silent, observant, mysterious, and watchful. Ikong is a man of few words, but he sees everything. His stillness has weight. A strong ensemble singer/mover with quiet intensity, excellent listening skills, and physical specificity. Facility with Bisaya/Cebuano language or accent work is a plus.
CLARABELLE: White female. 20's. Alto. A white woman from Arkansas who answers Magno's lonely-hearts letters and travels to California after receiving money from him. Clarabelle is tired, hungry, frightened, calculating, and deeply compromised. She is not a simple villain. A strong singer with dramatic range, plainspoken intensity, and the ability to carry difficult moral ambiguity.
THE FOLLOWING ROLES ARE CAST, OR HAVE OFFERS OUT
MAGNO RUBIO - ROLE IS CAST: Filipino male. Baritone/Tenor. A Filipino farmworker who falls in love with a white woman he finds in a lonely-hearts magazine. Magno is small, dark-skinned, physically underestimated, and used to being laughed at. Beneath his comic exterior is a fierce hunger to be seen, loved, and chosen. He is not a fool. Vocal/Physical Requirements: Strong singer with emotional clarity, comic timing, physical expressiveness, and the ability to carry the central emotional arc of the musical.
PEPING - ROLE IS CAST: Filipino male. 30's. Tenor. The narrator and the only man in the bunkhouse with some college education. Peping is observant, literate, careful, and quietly afraid. A strong singer with narration skills, emotional intelligence, and the ability to move between direct address and lived scene work.
TASIO - ROLE IS CAST: Filipino male. 30's-late 40's. Baritone. The clown, gambler, charmer, and escape artist of the bunkhouse. Tasio uses humor as currency and as camouflage. Strong musicality, dance ability, quick banter, physical comedy, and sudden vulnerability.
BERTO - ROLE IS CAST: Filipino male. 25-40. Tenor. The tough guy of the bunkhouse: fiercely loyal, quick to anger, and built around masculine pride. His anger is moral, even when it is reckless. A strong singer with physical presence, comic bite, and the ability to shift quickly from joking to threat to tenderness.
KIKO / FRANCISCO I - OFFER OUT ON THIS ROLE: Filipino male. Ilocano. 40's. Tenor. The informal boss of the bunkhouse. Kiko keeps order, tracks crates, manages logistics, and tries to keep the men employed. He is a practical strategist. A strong ensemble singer with command, grounded presence, and the ability to lead rhythmic work.
