MARY GETS HERS - NYC EPA
Playwrights Realm | New York, NY
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Off Broadway
$729 weekly minimum (Category 1)
Equity actors for roles in MARY GETS HERS (See breakdown).
Please prepare a brief monologue of your choosing. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
Written by: Emma Horwitz
Directed by: Josiah Davis
Founding Artistic Director: Katherine Kovner
Executive Director: Roberta Pereira
Expected to attend:
Claire Yenson (Casting Director)
First Rehearsal - August 7
First Preview - September 11
Opening - September 22
Closing - October 7
Possible Extension - October 14
Rehearsals will be scheduled in a 5-day model, with 2 days off for the company. Tech will be scheduled at 7.5 hours out of 8-hour rehearsals.
OTHER
Venue: Susan & Ronald Frankel Theater at the Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space (511 West 52nd Street)
Playwrights Realm requires that all artists involved must be fully-vaccinated as defined by the CDC and share proof of vaccination. 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.
MARY GETS HERS
RADICAL PARENT INCLUSION PROJECT: The Realm’s Radical Parent-Inclusion Project (RPI) aims to confront the challenges of working parents in the performing arts by applying best practices of support. If you incur any caregiving costs by attending this EPA, please contact RPI@playwrightsrealm.org to discuss eligibility for reimbursement. For more information about the Radical Parent-Inclusion Project, please visit: playwrightsrealm.org/rpi-program.
SYNOPSIS: It’s the 10th century! A plague rages on in Germany! Everyone is turning into foam! When two hermits find an orphan named Mary, they scheme a saintly rescue mission to protect her purity at any and all costs. Mary, however, has other plans for herself. An adventurous and absurd new adaptation of Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim’s 10th century closet drama comedy Abraham, or the Rise and Repentance of Mary.
We encourage actors who identify as female, non-binary, trans and gender-variant to audition. All actors should be imaginative, language-oriented collaborators who enjoy working in a physical style.
ABRAHAM/AS CAST. 30s. Maker of schemes, an overly imaginative mind with enough control to reign his big ideas into big action. Talkative. Socially adept enough to avoid the severe punishment he would face were anyone to expose the extent to which he does not follow the abbey’s rules. Grieving, though he’d never admit it.
EPHRAIM/AS CAST. 30s. A hermit, and former orphan. A little paranoid. Existentially curious, and more desirous than even he understands. Dedicated to Abraham, and his many sinful schemes. Still waiting for God to speak directly to him. Tender to the abbey’s lavender garden.
SOLDIER/AS CAST. 20s-30s. A soldier, who travels either on foot or by horse to conquer lands he has no business conquering. Friend of Abraham’s, from when Abraham was a soldier. A scaredy cat, but only because he’s deeply empathetic. A certain swagger. Non-threatening flirt, but still a flirt. LGBTQ+ are encouraged to audition.
MASTER OF THE INN/OTHERS/AS CAST. 30s-40s. Doubles as THE MASTER OF THE INN in a rural medieval town, and manager of its restaurant. He serves meat; eat up! Schemes nefariously. Not someone you want to be stuck in an elevator with; THE LOVERS. Mary’s visitors; and A GRAVEDIGGER post-plague. Business is booming, but will he catch whatever’s causing all this death?
MARY/AS CAST. [THIS ROLE IS CAST] Seeking an actor 18+ to play an optimistic young orphan, seen between the ages of 8 and 15. Mary is kidnapped by a hermit after her parents die in a plague. Grieving, but good. A robust, imaginative mind. If she were born in this century, she’d be a stand-up comedian.
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