Luna Stage Company 2024-25 Season Equity Principal Actors - Luna Stage Company Auditions

LUNA STAGE COMPANY 2024-25 SEASON - WEST ORANGE, NJ EPA

AUDITION DATE:

Friday, September 20, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

APPOINTMENTS:

To schedule an appointment email
casting@lunastage.org with an approximate time you would like to be seen.

CONTRACT

:
SPT
$361 weekly minimum (SPT 2)

SEEKING:

Equity actors for roles in Luna Stage Company's 2024-25 Season (see breakdown).

PREPARATION:

Please prepare a monologue, approximately 2 minutes in length OR two contrasting 1 minute pieces. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION:

Luna Stage Company
555 Valley Rd
West Orange, NJ 07052
Luna Stage is a 5-minute walk from the Highland Avenue NJ Transit train station. If driving, we have a parking lot off of Hazel Avenue.

PERSONNEL

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Ari Laura Kreith (Artistic Director)

OTHER DATES

LONELY PLANET

by Steven Dietz
Rehearsals beginning October 2024
Previews begin November 14
Opening November 16
Closing December 8

A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

by Samuel D. Hunter
Rehearsals beginning January 2025
Previews begin February 6
Opening February 8
Closing March 2, 2025

THE RIPPLE, THE WAVE THAT CARRIED ME HOME

by Christina Anderson
Rehearsals beginning April 2025
Previews begin May 1
Opening May 3
Closing May 25, 2025

OTHER

www.lunastage.org
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

BREAKDOWN

LUNA STAGE COMPANY 2024-2025 SEASON

LONELY PLANET by Steven Dietz

SEEKING:

• Jody - a man in his 40s (Role is cast)
• Carl - a man in his early-30s (Role is cast)

SYNOPSIS: In the early 1990s, down an old city street, inside a small map store, a pile of chairs begins to form. Two best friends, Jody and Carl, manage the ever-growing mountain of chairs while taking care of each other and navigating the dark reality that looms in the outside world—a reality Carl faces in their neighborhood every day and one Jody is afraid to see. A funny and heartwarming story of friendship, love, and survival during one of the world's hardest moments, Lonely Planet continues to show us that “Friendship, not technology, is the only thing capable of showing us the enormity of the world” - Steven Dietz, playwright.

A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD by Samuel D. Hunter

SEEKING:

• Keith - male, mid-to-late 30s, black
• Ryan - male, mid-to-late 30s, white (Role is cast)

SYNOPSIS: Ryan is undereducated, awful with money, and reeling from a painful divorce with the mother of his child, while Keith is polished, financially savvy, and the gay single caretaker of a foster daughter. When Ryan seeks Keith’s help to secure a loan and buy back twelve acres that formerly belonged to his family, the two men bond over their love of their daughters, as well as “a specific kind of sadness” that emerges in the gap between their dreams and their realities. A heartrending yet hopeful play about two men's parallel desires to build a secure foundation for their families even as everything around them is falling apart.

THE RIPPLE, THE WAVE THAT CARRIED ME HOME by Christina Anderson

SEEKING:

• Janice - the daughter, black
• Helen - the mother, black
• Gayle - the aunt, black
• Edwin - the father, black

SYNOPSIS: Tony-nominated playwright Christina Anderson brings us a poignant, transporting, and quietly subversive story of racial justice, political legacy, and family forgiveness. Janice’s childhood was steeped in her parents’ activism as they fought for the integration of public swimming pools in 1960s Kansas and taught scores of Black children to swim. But Janice later steps away from her parents’ politics and starts her own life and family far away—until she’s pressed into speaking at a ceremony honoring her father. The ripple, the wave that carried me home is a moving exploration of a family’s response to injustice and a daughter's reckoning with her political inheritance.