LITTLE ROCK - NYC EPA
Little Rock Off Broadway LLC
AUDITION DATES
Wed, Jan 31, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EST)
Lunch 1 to 2
Thu, Feb 01, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EST)
Lunch 1 to 2
Fri, Feb 02, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EST)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
Off Broadway $839 /week
SEEKING
Equity actors for 9 available tracks.
Little Rock is an American Play with music in two acts inspired by the events of the Little Rock Crisis of 1957. The play follows the Little Rock Nine’s tumultuous first year as they integrated Little Rock Central High School from September of 1957 to May of 1958, and bears witness to the strength, courage, and fortitude that these prolific nine African American teenagers had to change the course of America forever, simply because they wanted to go to school. All actors play multiple roles ranging from teenagers to political figures of the time and members of the community.
PREPARATION
Please prepare a short contemporary monologue and 16 bars of an a cappella spiritual or freedom song.
Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Producer: Harvey Butler
Written by: Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj
Directed by: Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj
General MGMT: Perry Street Theatricals
Casting: Laura Stanczyk (expected to attend the EPA); Brick Wall Theatrical LLC
OTHER DATES
1st rehearsal: On or about April 30th, 2018
1st preview: On or about May 30th, 2018
Opening: On or about June 14th, 2018
Closing: On or about September 9th, 2018
Venue: The Sheen Center
OTHER
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.
BREAKDOWN
LITTLE ROCKIAN ONE
Female, African American, 25-40. Plays characters ranging from teens through adulthood. Plays multiple characters including Elizabeth Eckford and Dr. Melba Pattillo, both members of the Little Rock Nine, and Juanita Walls, Carlotta Walls mother. Must be strong, have a great sense of language and facility with Shakespeare, be vulnerable and have a sweet natural singing voice. SINGS.
LITTLE ROCKIAN TWO
Female, African American 25-40. Plays characters ranging from teens through adulthood. Plays multiple characters including Gloria Ray and Minnijean Brown, both members of the Little Rock Nine and Birdie Eckford, Elizabeth Eckford’s mother. Actress must have a genuine sense of fun and flirt as well as edge and vulnerability. SINGS.
LITTLE ROCKIAN THREE
Female, African American, 25-40. Plays characters ranging from teens through adulthood. Plays multiple characters including Carlotta Walls and Thelma Mothershed, both members of the Little Rock Nine and Daisy Bates, NAACP Chapter President in Little Rock. Actress must have great intelligence and strength as well wit and a dry sense of humor. SINGS.
LITTLE ROCKIAN FOUR
Male, African American, 25-40. Plays characters ranging from teens through adulthood. Plays multiple characters including Dr. Terrence Roberts, a member of the Little Rock Nine, Thurgood Marshall, a lawyer during the time who won the case of Brown vs. Board of Education, and Pastor Henry Bass, Pastor of the Wesley Chapel Methodist Church during the crisis. Must have gravitas and authority. SINGS.
LITTLE ROCKIAN FIVE
Male, African American, 25-40. Plays characters ranging from teens through adulthood. Plays multiple characters including Jefferson Thomas, a member of the Little Rock Nine, Oscar Eckford, Elizabeth’s father, and Louis Armstrong, the most popular African American male popstar of the era. Actor must have a keen sense of timing and humor and be a STRONG SINGER.
LITTLE ROCKIAN SIX
Male, African American, 25-40. Plays characters ranging from teens through adulthood. Plays multiple characters including Ernest Green, a member of the Little Rock Nine and the first African American to graduate from Little Rock High School, L.C. Bates, a newspaper man who is the husband of Daisy Bates during the crisis and a member of the NAACP and Cartelyou Walls, Carlotta’s father. Actor must have vulnerability, humor and strength. SINGS.
LITTLE ROCKIAN SEVEN
Male, Caucasian, 25-40. Plays characters ranging from teens through adulthood. Plays multiple characters including Mike Wallace, a liberal reporter from NYC, Ford, a teen segregationist, and Link, a teen who loves Shakespeare. Should be attractive, fit and telegenic. Must have gravitas, great humor and timing.
LITTLE ROCKIAN EIGHT
Male, Caucasian, 25-40. Plays characters ranging from teens through adulthood. Plays multiple characters including Governor Orval Faubus, the segregationist Governor of Arkansas, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Principal Jess W. Mathews, the principal at Little Rock High School during the crisis in 1957. Looking for a chameleon-like actor able to inhabit the worst and best of human nature.
LITTLE ROCKIAN NINE
Female, Caucasian, 25-40. Plays characters ranging from teens through adulthood. Plays multiple character including Peggy Sue, a sixteen-year-old segregationist, Robin Woods, a student at Little Rock Central High School, Mrs. Grace Lorch, a Christian woman who saves Elizabeth’s life, and Mrs. Huckaby, Vice Principal of Little Rock Central High School during the crisis. Seeking a fearless actress with edge and compassion, again to inhabit the worst and best of human nature.
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 audition.
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