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Notice: Submission
LORT Non-Rep
$1100 weekly minimum (LORT B) - Boston
$1197 weekly minimum (LORT B+) - Washington D.C.
Equity actors for roles in LEOPOLDSTADT (see breakdown).
Please submit your headshot and resume for consideration.
Deadline: 05/24/2024
janetfostercasting@gmail.com
Auditions will be held in NYC on May 30th, and 31st.
Boston Dates:
1st Rehearsal: 8/13/24
1st Prev: 9/12/24
Opening: 9/18/24
Closing: 10/13/24
D.C. Dates:
1st Reh: 11/21/24
1st Prev: 11/30/24
Opening: 12/4/24
Closing: 12/29/24
Poss. Ext: 1/5/25
OTHER
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.
Director: Carey Perloff
Writer: Tom Stoppard
This is a co-production with Shakespeare Theatre Company.
Playwright: Tom Stoppard
Location: Huntington Theatre, LORT B; Shakespeare Theatre Company, LORT B+ First Rehearsal: Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Tech Begins: Friday, September 6, 2024
First Preview: Thursday, September 12, 2024
Opening: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Closing: Sunday, October 13, 2024
Shakespeare Theatre Company Dates
First Rehearsal: Thursday, November 21, 2024
Tech Begins: Sunday, November 24, 2024
Thanksgiving: Day off Thursday, November 28 and daylight day of rest Friday, November 29 Dress Rehearsal: Friday evening, November 29, 2024
First Preview: Saturday, November 30, 2024
Opening: Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Closing: Sunday, December 29, 2024
Extension Closing: Sunday, January 5, 2025
Dates are subject to change.
Actors must be available for both runs.
In this production, the adult cast size will be reduced down to a 15-person cast with actors required to double and triple roles.
For characters/tracks whose ages span across a wide range, we are interested in seeing actors who fall anywhere within that spectrum and could play older or younger throughout the course of the play.
HERMANN: Ages from his 40s through his 70s. Jewish, but converted to Catholicism. He is married to Gretl and is the father of Jacob. Ebullient patriarch. Warm, sympathetic and loving with a good sense of humor. He believes strongly in the process of assimilation and will do anything in his power to give a better life to his only son.
LUDWIG: Ages from his 40s through his 70s. Jewish. Husband of Eva, father of Pauli and Nellie, brother of Wilma and Hanna. He is a mathematician: clever, witty, and a true intellectual. He is Hermann's ideological opposition. Despite his strong opinions, he will put his love for his family before all else.
ERNST/KURT: ERNST: Protestant. A doctor. Husband of Wilma; father of Rosa and Sally. A kind, caring family man with a level head and distaste for danger and violence. KURT: Jewish. Husband of Hanna, father of Hermine. A respectfully dressed philosopher and a Marxist academic. He is a very supportive husband to Hanna and respects her need to distance herself from his political reputation.
ROSA/HILDE: Ages from her 30s through 60s. Jewish. Born in Vienna, moves to New York as a student and becomes a psychoanalyst. Authoritative and witty. A kind person with a ferocious temper. Despite living through a period of great historical and familial despair, she maintains that her worst moment was forgetting where she hid the afikomen as a child. HILDE: a parlor maid.
GRETL: Ages from her 30s through 60s. Gentile, married to Hermann. So enthusiastic and curious about her husband's Jewish culture that she is unaware of her place of privilege. She is beautiful and wants to be remembered.
YOUNG HANNA/HERMINE: HANNA: 18. Jewish. Younger sister of Wilma and Ludwig; wife of Kurt, mother of Hermine. She starts a bit naïve and innocent, but grows to be tough. Plays piano. HERMINE: 20s through 30s. Jewish. Daughter of Hanna and Kurt, wife of Otto and mother of Heini. Flirtatious. A good dancer. Despite her love of romance, she is very understanding of her circumstances and approaches relationships with practicality in mind.
FRITZ/DR. OTTO/PERCY: FRITZ: 20s. A gentile. Military officer who enters an affair with Gretl. Passionate, prideful, and cunning. OTTO: 30s. Married to Hermine, father of Heini. A charming doctor of law and economics. He is in favor of the merging of Austria and Germany as one nation; he does not mince his words. PERCY: 40s. An intelligent Englishman who extends his kindness to the family after developing a deep understanding of the danger they are in. Friendly, honest, and worrisome. RP accent.
WILMA: Ages from 20s through her 50s. Ludwig's sister. Married to Ernst and mother to twins Sally and Rosa. Yearns to regain the love and approval of her parents after marrying a gentile and does everything in her power to earn it.
PAULI/ZAC/CIVILIAN: PAULI: a young Jewish boy. Son of Ludwig and Eva. Sweet brother to Nellie. ZAC: Jewish, 30s. Caring father of Nathan, Mimi, and Bella. Balances his appreciation for tradition with his love for his hesitant wife. CIVILIAN: a powerful, intimidating, and authoritative figure; an outsider.
JACOB/LEO: Ages from age 10 through his 30s. Son of Hermann and Gretl. After deciding he wanted to be a soldier from a young age, he is severely wounded in World War One. This experience makes him a realist with strong opinions on government, politics, Judaism, and revolution. LEO: Ages from childhood through 20s. Jewish, with a slight British accent as he ages. Fled Austria as a young boy and has since become unaware of his family's history and devastation. He is proud of his upbringing as an Englishman while remaining empathetic. RP accent.
EVA/NELLIE: EVA: 30s. Self-proclaimed bad Jew. A devoted wife and mother with a quick wit, unafraid to speak her mind. NELLIE: Ages from her 20s through 40s. Jewish. The daughter of Eva and Ludwig, sister of Pauli, and mother of Leo. Educated, warm, witty, and intelligent; a socialist.
POLDI/OLDER HANNA: POLDI: Ages from 40-60. The family's housekeeper-cook. She is unreasonably powerful yet incredibly loyal. HANNA in her 50s: Jewish. Poised. Full of protective love for her family. Plays piano as HANNA..
AARON/NATHAN: AARON: in his late 20s. Jewish. Husband of Nellie, father of Leo. A working-class intellectual who doesn't take himself too seriously. NATHAN: Ages from childhood through 30s. Jewish. Son of Sally and Zac. Auschwitz survivor. Mathematician. He has strong opinions and the ability to articulate them passionately and effectively. Proud of his heritage, outspoken about what he and his family have endured.
EMILIA/OLDER EVA: EMILIA: 80s. Jewish. A loving matriarch with a quick wit who passively resents her family's turning away from tradition. She cares deeply about the preservation of family memories and identities. EVA: in her 60s. She has faith in her and Ludwig's ability to persevere. Believes that the worst is behind them, making her immobile to the possibility of the danger to come. Proudly and defiantly Austrian, Jewish, and a mother.
JANA/ADULT SALLY: JANA, the family's nursemaid, tasked with caring for several children of various ages during holidays. SALLY: Ages 30s through 50s. Jewish. A devoted mother who wants what is best for her children and is forced to navigate the uncertainty of what that might be in real time. Her passion can become loud, unabashed, and frantic at times.
CHILD SALLY/MIMI: SALLY: 9-11. Jewish. Daughter of Wilma and Ernst. Rosa's twin. Bold and sure of herself. MIMI: Daughter of Sally and Zac. Bella's twin. Insistent. Protective. Loves when her mom reads to her.
CHILD ROSA/BELLA: ROSA: 9-11. Jewish. Daughter of Wilma and Ernst. Sally's twin. Finds joy in simple things, was thrilled to be asked to hide the afikomen. BELLA: Daughter of Sally and Zac. Mimi's twin. Has a habit of sucking her thumb. Always self-soothing.
CHILD HEINI: young child, 7-9. Jewish. Son of Hermine and Otto. The youngest and smallest of the children in 1938. Loves playing his toy piano.
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