Connecticut Players Foundation
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep $926 weekly minimum (LORT C)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Long Wharf Theatre's 2021-22 Season (see breakdown).
No understudy roles are available.
Local actors encouraged to submit.
Long Wharf Theatre is an Equal Opportunity Employer recognizes the need for expanding the participation of ethnic minorities (African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American and Native American), women Actors and Actors with disabilities in their artistic process and will make an effort to cast these individuals in roles where race, ethnicity, gender, or the presence or absence of a disability is not germane.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare 1 short contemporary monologue. Actors can submit their video auditions here: https://airtable.com/shrMCiVYB9mNVnrGo
Deadline: Wed, Oct 20, 2021
PERSONNEL
Viewing auditions :
Jacob Padrón, Artistic Director
Hope Chavez, Director of Artistic Planning
Joey Reyes, Line Producer (auditing)
OTHER DATES
See production and location specific dates in breakdown.
OTHER
www.longwharf.org
To ask questions, please email joey.reyes@longwharf.org
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
FIRES IN THE MIRROR: CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN AND OTHER IDENITIES
Written by Anna Deavere Smith
Directed by Nicole Brewer
This show will be produced and performed in Baltimore, MD and then transfer to New Haven, CT.
Baltimore Center Stage – Baltimore, MD
First Rehearsal: October 26, 2021
Tech Begins: November 20, 2021
Previews Begin: November 27, 2021
Opening: December 2, 2021
Closing: December 19, 2021
Long Wharf Theatre - New Haven, CT
First Rehearsal: January 4, 2022
Tech Begins: January 9, 2022
Previews Begin: January 15, 2022
Opening: January 20, 2022
Closing: February 6, 2022 (Possible extension through February 13, 2022)
In 1991, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, an Hasidic man’s car jumped a curb, killing Gavin Cato, a seven-year-old Black child. Later, in what appears to have been an act of retaliation on the part of a faction of the black community, Yankel Rosenbaum, an Hasidic rabbinical student, was stabbed and killed. The ensuing riots that wracked Crown Heights’ previous atmosphere of tolerance for its divergent cultures made national headlines and pointed to the growing friction in racial and cultural relations across America. Drawing verbatim from a series of over fifty interviews with Crown Heights’ residents, politicians, activists, religious leaders, gangs, street dwellers, victims, and perpetrators alike, Anna Deavere Smith’s Fires in the Mirror is a theatrical event distilling the lives and voices of twenty-six of the incident’s survivors into a visionary amalgam, the import of which touches upon every American regardless of race, color, or beliefs.
Pay rate is $1,008 per week at BCS and $1,000 per week at LWT.
CHARACTER 1: 30s-50s, any gender, Black or mixed-race. Embodies twenty-six characters in a series of monologues telling verbatim accounts about the 1991 Crown Heights riots. Characters include people/characters from the Black diaspora, the Lubavitcher Jewish Communities of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and many others. Requires vocal strength and stamina, transformational quality, and the ability to inhabit multiple roles physically and emotionally.
DREAM HOU$E
Written by Eliana Pipes
Directed by Laurie Woolery
This show will be produced and performed in Atlanta, GA, and then transfer to New Haven, CT and Baltimore, MD.
Alliance Theatre – Atlanta, GA
First Rehearsal: December 28, 2021
Tech Begins: January 18, 2022
Previews Begin: January 22, 2022
Opening: January 27, 2022
Closing: February 13, 2022
Long Wharf Theatre – New Haven, CT
First Rehearsal: March 5, 2022
Tech Begins: March 6, 2022
Previews Begin: March 12, 2022
Opening: March 17, 2022
Closing: April 3, 2022 (Possible extension through April 7, 2022)
Baltimore Center Stage – Baltimore, MD
First Rehearsal: April 16, 2022
Tech Begins: April 16, 2022
Previews Begin: April 21, 2022
Opening: April 28, 2022
Closing: May 15, 2022
DREAM HOU$E follows two Latinx sisters on an HGTV-style reality show who are selling their family home, hoping to capitalize on the gentrification in their “changing neighborhood.” As they perform for the camera, one sister grapples with turmoil in the family’s ancestral past while the other learns how much she’s willing to sacrifice for the family’s future. What is the cultural cost of progress in America — and is cashing in always selling out? DREAM HOU$E is the winner of the 2021/22 Alliance/Kendeda National Graduate Playwriting Competition.
Pay rate is $926.00 per week at Alliance, $926.00 per week at LWT, and $926.00 per week at BCS.
PATRICIA – Woman. Late 30’s, Latinx.
Accountant by day. Julia’s older sister, with a distinct Older Sister Complex. She's practical to the core, and a natural caretaker – but often resentful of that role. Lived in the house for over a year taking care of their ailing mother. She believes money brings dignity, security, meaning.
JULIA – Woman. Late 20’s, Latinx.
Elementary school history teacher by day. Patricia’s younger sister, six months pregnant. Hasn’t lived in the house since she left for college, and is recently reclaiming her heritage in preparation for motherhood. Very sentimental. She believes culture brings dignity, security, meaning.
TESSA – Woman. Early 30’s, white.
Real Estate agent and TV Host. A bubblegum pink pep-princess. Blonde. Very genial and well-meaning, dreams of making documentaries. Controls the reality show, and everything within it. She genuinely wants to help the sisters and uses the show to get them the biggest payout possible is her understanding of what they need.
QUEEN
Written by Madhuri Shekar
Directed by Aneesha Kudtarkar
This show is presented in partnership with NAATCO (National Asian American Theatre Company).
First Rehearsal: April 19, 2022
Tech Begins: May 1, 2022
Previews Begin: May 7, 2022
Opening: May 12, 2022
Closing: June 5, 2022
PhD candidates Sanam and Ariel have spent the better part of the last decade exhaustively researching vanishing bee populations across the globe. Just as these close friends are about to publish a career-defining paper, Sanam stumbles upon an error in their calculations, which could cause catastrophic damage to their reputations, careers, and friendship. Now, Sanam is confronted with an impossible choice: look the other way or stand by her principles and accept the consequences? QUEEN is a provocative portrayal of brilliant women confronting inconvenient truths.
Pay rate is $926.00 per week.
Sanam Shah: F. 31, Indian (from India - accented speech). Quiet, reserved, sensitive. An applied mathematician about to graduate from a PhD program in ecology.
Ariel Spiegel: F. 33-34. Passionate, committed to changing the world. A PhD ecology researcher and single mom.
Arvind Patel: M. Mid-to-late 30s. A financier from New York. Indian American. A potential suitor for Sanam.
Dr. Philip Hayes: M. Late 40s/Early 50s. Ariel and Sanam's supervising professor.
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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