Second Stage Theater | New York, NY
Friday, July 25, 2025
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
LORT Non-Rep
$2020 weekly minimum (LORT A+)
Equity actors for roles in MARJORIE PRIME (see breakdown).
All roles will be understudied.
Please prepare the sides for the character you are interested in. Sides will be available on the morning of the audition at the audition site.
Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
DIRECTOR: ANNE KAUFFMAN
WRITER: JORDAN HARRISON
CASTING DIRECTOR: DANIEL SWEE
CASTING ASSOCIATE: CAMILLE HICKMAN
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
1st REHEARSAL: October 21, 2025
1st PREVIEW: November 20, 2025
OPEN: December 8, 2025
CLOSE: February 15, 2026
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.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
MARJORIE - 80s+. Sharp and sardonic, despite her recent challenges with dementia. While she tends to be clear-eyed and unsentimental, Marjorie is still marked by the loss of her son many decades ago and the more recent loss of her husband. She recently moved out of her longtime home and into the home of her daughter Tess and son-in-law Jon, which contributes to her disorientation. She and Tess have historically had an edgy way with one another.
WALTER - 30s. A young career man from 1998. Bright-eyed, handsome, warm – a charming “wooer.” Boyish, but still masculine. In love with Marjorie (he treats her like an equal, not like an elderly woman with dementia in need of care). A good listener. An innocent who is quick to learn irony.
TESS - M50s - E60s. Marjorie’s daughter. Skeptical, smart, well-read. A worrier. Judgmental, of herself most of all. Shares caregiving duties with her husband Jon. Despite her best intentions, she falls into a kind of bickering loop with her mom. Battling depression, but not without humor. Fragile but forceful.
JON - M50s - M60s. Tess’s husband, Marjorie’s son-in-law. He married up when he married Tess. Formerly a barnstorming hippie, now an upper middle class procurer of lattes. Warm, caring, tolerant. Thinks more of others than himself. His ease with Marjorie sometimes drives a wedge between his wife and himself. He gets frustrated with Tess’s tendency to see the worst in things, but he’s good at covering this frustration. Thinks of it as his secret mission to heal Tess’s family of the dysfunctions caused by their long-buried grief.
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