La Jolla Playhouse 2023-24 Season - Equity video submissions (principals)
La Jolla Playhouse | La Jolla, CA
Notice: Submission
LORT Non-Rep
$1008 weekly minimum (LORT B)
Equity actors for principal roles in La Jolla Playhouse's 2023-24 Season (See breakdown).
All races, ethnicities, genders and abilities are encouraged to submit.
All roles will be understudied.
Please prepare two contrasting songs, one song and a monologue, 2 contrasting monologues or any combination thereof. Total should not exceed 4 minutes. If you do not have access to accompaniment, you may use the music at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1g_nzKf3HhU13elCmaGtcCKQYIaxQc4BW? usp=sharing . Please submit your headshot, resume and audition video at:
https://formspringxpeow.formstack.com/forms/ljp_open_call_submission_form .
Submission Deadline is December 29th at 5:00pm PT.
Deadline: 12/29/2022
La Jolla Playhouse 2023-24 Season - Equity video submissions (principals)
LOVE ALL
By Anna Deavere Smith
Director: Marc Bruni
THE UNTITLED UNAUTHORIZED HUNTER S. THOMPSON MUSICAL
Music and Lyrics by Joe Iconis
Book by Joe Iconis and Gregory S. Moss Director: Christopher Ashley
SUMO
A co-production with Ma-Yi Theater Company By Lisa Sanaye Dring
Director: Ralph B. Peña
BABBITT
By Joe DiPietro
Adapted from the novel by Sinclair Lewis Director: Christopher Ashley
Viewing submissions:
Casting Director: Jacole Kitchen
Learning and Engagement Manager: Hannah Reinert
LOVE ALL
Rehearsals start – May 2, 2023
Previews start – June 3
Opens – June 9
Closes – July 2
THE UNTITLED UNAUTHORIZED HUNTER S. THOMPSON MUSICAL
Rehearsals start – July 18, 2023
Previews start – August 29
Opens – September 10
Closes – October 8
SUMO
Rehearsals start – August 22, 2023
Previews start – August 26
Opens – October 1
Closes – October 22
BABBITT
Rehearsals start – October 3, 2023
Previews start – November 7
Opens – November 12
Closes – December 3
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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.
LOVE ALL
Love All is the triumphant story of the rise of sports icon and social justice pioneer Billie Jean King. The trailblazer for equality faced tough competition on the court and adversity in the world, all against a backdrop of the massive social changes of the 1960s and ’70s. Love All evokes the highs and lows of Billie Jean King’s extraordinary career and asks not just what it takes to be a champion, but what it takes to change the course of history.
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: Character presents as male, 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: Character presents as male, 30s, Black. The famous tennis player and activist. Focused on the political advancement of Black, male, athletes. Uncompromising and incredibly charismatic.
GLADYS HELDMAN: Character presents as female, 40s-50s, White. A shrewd businesswoman in the world of sports. Excellent at managing personalities and almost always has the upper hand.
ALTHEA GIBSON: Character presents as female, 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.
ROSIE CASALS: Character presents as female, 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: Character presents as female, 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: Character presents as female, 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.
FEMALE ENSEMBLE TRACK 1 (FRANKIE/ILANA/others): Character presents as female, 30s, White. 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, and athletic.
FEMALE ENSEMBLE TRACK 2 (ALICE MARBLE/DELORES HORNBERGER/others): Character presents as female, 40s-50s, White. 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 TRACK 1 (BILL MOFFIT/TED TINLING/others): Character presents as male, 30s-40s, White. 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.
MALE ENSEMBLE TRACK 2 (WHITE MALE PSYCHIATRIST/MERV ROSE/others): Character presents as male, 50s-60s, White. 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.
THE UNTITLED UNAUTHORIZED HUNTER S. THOMPSON MUSICAL
Hunter S. Thompson changed journalism and defined counterculture. Equal parts philosopher, clown and genius, he was armed and dangerous with a typewriter as his preferred weapon. In relentless pursuit of the meaning of the American Dream during an era of political and social upheaval, Hunter S. Thompson cultivated a new form of journalism that ― for better or worse ― injected his subjective view into the heart of the story. This musical is a heartfelt trumpet call to the moral idealists, the outraged, the outlaws and the outsiders. There will be peacocks, there will be breakdowns, there will be fireworks.
All other roles in this production have been cast.
Available Ensemble Roles:
THE KID - Character presents male. 16 or older to play various characters from ages 13 – 16, including young Hunter Thompson, Juan Thompson (Hunter’s son), a radically idealistic high school student and others. Scrappy, buoyant, charismatic and maybe a little weird. Strong singer with the ability to believably play multiple roles.
FLOWER CHILD – Character presents as female, 20s–30s. Strong singer and mover with the ability to play multiple roles including a “flower child” that serves as part of Hunter’s ensemble narrating the story forward, a secretary, one of Hunter’s ex-girlfriends and others.
SUMO: Entrenched in an elite sumo training facility in Tokyo, six men practice, eat, love, play and ultimately fight. With sponsorship money at stake, their bodies on the line, and their futures at risk, the wrestlers struggle to carve themselves – and one another – into the men they dream of being.
The cast of this play should be embodied by large Japanese and Japanese-American men.
MITSUO – character presents as male, 34. Japanese - ōzeki. Highest ranked in the stable, one tournament away from being a Yokozuna, the highest of sumo rankings.
REN – character presents as male, 29. Japanese - jūryō. Solid, critical, grounded.
FUMIO – character presents as male, 26. Japanese – makushita. Loyal - torn between being conformist and romantic.
SHINTA – character presents as male, 29. sandanme. Ethnically Hawaiian, free thinker.
SO – character presents as male, 25. Japanese - jonidan. Lowest ranked besides Akio, a sensationally optimistic underachiever.
AKIO - character presents as male, 18. Japanese - maezumo. The newcomer, naturally alpha despite his status.
BABBITT: George F. Babbitt is a middle-aged real estate broker in the Midwestern city of Zenith. By day, he has a prosperous, respectable middle-class existence. By night, he’s plagued by the thought that he has amounted to nothing. Searching for more to life than his top-of-the-line toaster and hickory golf club ― more meaning ― Babbitt leaps with abandon into the most spectacular rebellion of his life ― one that could end up costing him everything.
GEORGE F BABBITT – CAST. Role to be played by Matthew Broderick.
MYRA BABBITT - Character presents as female. 50s. Any ethnicity. George's dutiful wife who, unbeknownst to her, is about to rebel against her respectable life.
PAUL RIESLING/PETE - Character presents as male. Mid 40s-Mid 50s. Any ethnicity. PAUL RIESLING, Babbitt's oldest friend. Stuck in a job he hates. Married to a woman he despises. He feels as if he's about to explode. And he does. PETE, a young and gay hipster.
CHARLES McKELVEY/PJ MAXWELL – Character presents as male. 40s. Any ethnicity. CHARLES McKELVEY, Zenith's Republican kingmaker. Demands strict obedience to the cause. PJ MAXWELL, a tell-it-like-it-is defense lawyer.
TINKA BABBITT/SENECA DOANE/LUCILLE McKELVEY/SYLVIA/SISTER FITCH - Character presents as female. 18+. Any ethnicity. TINKA BABBITT, Myra & George's adorable 6-year-old daughter. SENECA DOANE, a socialist politician. LUCILLE McKELVEY, a society matron. SYLVIA, a free-love loving hipster. SISTER FITCH, a new age spiritualist.
EUNICE LITTLEFIELD/ZILLA RIESLING/MAY ARNOLD – Character presents as female. 18+. Any ethnicity. EUNICE LITTLEFIELD, A 17-year old excited about the new age that is dawning. ZILLA RIESLING, a wise-cracking, discontented housewife, and MAY ARNOLD, a widow in search of companionship.
MRS. FRINK/MISS McGUON/CARRIE/MRS. OPAL MUDGE/COMMISSIONER ARCHIBALD TRUWORTHY – Character presents as female. 20s–30s Any ethnicity. MRS. FRINK, Zenith's finest poet. Also a fine lush. MISS McGUON, George's long-time secretary. CARRIE a young, poetry-loving bohemian. MRS. OPAL MUDGE. an inspirational optimist. COMMISSIONER ARCHIBALD TRUWORTHY, a Zenith Republican hot shot.
TED BABBITT/STANLEY GRAF/GIORGIO – Character presents as male. Any ethnicity. TED BABBITT, George & Myra's 17 year old son. Loves only cars and Eunice Littlefield. STANLEY GRAF, 20s–30s, a lazy but ambitious realtor. GIORGIO, 20s–30s, an Italian gigolo.
TANIS JUDIQUE/DR. HOWARD LITTELFIELD – Character presents as female. 30s. A lonely free spirit. TANIS JUDIQUE, Teaches dance in her apartment. DR. HOWARD LITTLEFIELD, Babbitt's neighbor and Eunice's disapproving father.
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