LOVE ALL - Equity video submissions Ready to Play LLC | New York, NY
Notice: Submission
Development Agreement
$575 weekly minimum (Tier 1) plus pension and health
Equity actors for roles in LOVE ALL (See breakdown).
All stage management positions have been filled.
Please prepare a one-minute contemporary comedic monologue. Please submit your headshot, resume and video audition in a downloadable format (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.). In the subject line, please type: [Your full name] - [The role for which you’d like to be considered].
Deadline: 12/14/2022
loveallcasting@gmail.com
Written by: Anna Deavere Smith
Directed by: Marc Bruni
Produced by: Harriet Leve
Viewing submissions:
Casting Director: Karyn Casl, CSA Casting Assistant: Charlie Hano, CSA
Dates: January 5th-January 15th (Monday January 9th will be the day off)
Rehearsal Hours: 1:00pm to 6:00pm (subject to change)
Location: TBD in Manhattan
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.
Rosie Casals: female (cis or transgender), Late 20s-Early 30s, Latiné, a bombastic and rebellious professional tennis player. Sometimes unfocused, but a fierce activist and friend. Competitive, stubborn, with a big compassionate heart.
Margaret Court: female (cis or transgender), Late 20s-Early 30s, White, Australian with Australian dialect. Incredibly poised and athletic, excellent at “playing the game” of being a celebrity athlete. Her refined demeanor acts as a cover for her sometimes extreme conservative values.
Marilyn Barnett: female (cis or transgender), Late 20s-Early 30s, White. Quick to fall in love, not nearly as hapless as she may appear. Marilyn has instant chemistry with Billie Jean the moment they meet. A bit of a wild child, who runs with a tough crowd.
Younger Male Ensemble Track: male (cis or transgender), 30s-40s, White. Doubles as a variety of characters including but not limited to, BILL MOFFITT, Billie Jean’s father. Working class, a former athlete, a family man, struggles with homophobic tendencies, and TED TINLING, a stylist who’s been hired to help the women tennis players appear to a larger demographic. Sharp tongued, and lives in a very different world from the athletes he works with.
THE FOLLOWING ROLES HAVE BEEN CAST:
Billie Jean King: female (cis or transgender), Late 20s-Early 30s, White. Billie Jean begins the play with a single minded focus on tennis, but slowly expands her horizons and grows into her activism. She struggles with her sexual orientation, and the role society has laid out for her. Driven, compassionate, a fast talker.
Larry King: male (cis or transgender), Late 20s-Early 30s, White. Billie Jean’s husband, she will never quite love him the way he loves her, and he’s accepted that. Begins the play as a hopeful young man, who eventually will tie his ambition completely to his wife’s career. Well meaning, but not as progressive as he would like to be.
Arthur Ashe: male (cis or transgender), 30s, Black. The famous tennis player and activist. Focused on the political advancement of Black, male, athletes. Uncompromising and incredibly charismatic.
Gladys Heldman: female (cis or transgender), 40s-50s, White. A shrewd businesswoman in the world of sports. Excellent at managing personalities and almost always has the upper hand.
Althea Gibson: female (cis or transgender), 30s, Black. The famous tennis player. Her success was never as profitable as it should’ve been due to the era she lived in, so she turned to activism. Brilliant, athletic, and very good humored with early career athletes.
Female Ensemble 1: female (cis or transgender), 30s, White. Doubles as a variety of characters including but not limited to, FRANKIE, a spirited, French, tennis player, who always speaks her mind, and ILANA, the eventual love of Billie Jean’s life, thoughtful, compassionate, athletic.
Female Ensemble 2: female (cis or transgender), 40s-50s, White. Doubles as a variety of characters including but not limited to ALICE MARBLE, a former pro tennis player turned coach, sarcastic, but not quite bitter and DELORES HORNBERGER, owner of a tennis club in Texas. She’s for women’s liberation, as long as it benefits her pocketbook.
Male Ensemble 2: male (cis or transgender), 50s-60s, White. Doubles as a variety of characters including but not limited to WHITE MALE PSYCHIATRIST, a compassionate doctor who coaches Billie Jean through her “abortion hearing,” and MERV ROSE, an Australian tennis coach. A little crass, but well meaning.
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