MOJADA - NYC EPA
New York Shakespeare Festival
AUDITION DATE
Thu, Mar 14, 2019
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EST)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
Off Broadway Rate: Starting at $783/week; moving to $867 after 8/1/19
SEEKING
Equity actors for 6 roles.
Please note that, unless otherwise stated, all characters are Mexican.
See breakdown.
MOJADA will be employing an AEA PSM and ASM. Both positions have been filled at this time.
PREPARATION
Please prepare one SHORT (no more than two minutes in length) contemporary monologue.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Written by Luis Alfaro
Directed by Chay Yew
Casting: Jordan Thaler/Heidi Griffiths
Attended by Public Theater Casting Office (Jordan Thaler, Heidi Griffiths, Kate Murray, Chalin Tulyathan, Danica Rodriguez, and/or Claire Yenson)
OTHER DATES
1st Rehearsal: 5/28/19
1st Performance: 7/2/19
Closing: 8/11/19
Poss Ext: 8/25/19
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for 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.
BREAKDOWN
MOJADA is a contemporary retelling of Euripides’ play, MEDEA. A family from rural Mexico struggle to build a new life in Queens. But the memories of a traumatic journey to their new home and an unbearable family secret threaten to sever the slender threads which bind them together. MOJADA explores what happens to people and communities when they are untethered from the old ways, which have sustained them for generations, in pursuit of the constantly shifting and unforgiving landscape which is the American Dream.
Please note that, unless otherwise stated, all characters are Mexican.
SEEKING:
MEDEA: Female. Late 20’s. Mexican. She is a gifted seamstress. To the Americans she works for she is just a sewing machine but she has ancient magic in her fingers and is a true artist with thread and cloth. Although she has lived in the US for a year her heart is still in Mexico and she clings to the old ways with everything she has. Traumatized by a brutal rape on her journey to the US, she is afraid to explore the world beyond her backyard. A strong and fearless woman who has been made fragile by the trauma she has endured. When she is faced with the ultimate betrayal, her rage and ferocity bubble over and she exacts a terrible revenge which frees her from her self-imposed prison.
JASON: Male. 30’s. Mexican. He is charismatic, charming and handsome, which has enabled him to adapt quickly to life in the US. After putting his family in the dangerous hands of human traffickers, he now works in construction with the ferocity of a man determined to make amends and create a better life for his wife and son. But vanity and ambition are his Achilles’ heel, and he finds himself dangerously caught between his wife and the powerful woman he works for who promises him the world. The choices he makes trigger the tragic events which are his undoing.
TITA: Female. 60’s. Mexican. As salty as she is wise, she can be a brutal truth teller. She perhaps feels older than her sixty-something years. Her body carries the scars of a hard life lived. She is worn but enduring. A bridge between the old country and the new world she now inhabits. A healer who embodies the rituals and secrets of Mexico. She raised Medea after her mother’s death in child birth and now raises Medea’s son Acan. To all intents and purpose they are her children and she is fiercely protective of her family. A role for an actress who has both very developed comedic skills and dramatic weight.
JOSEFINA: Female. 30’s. Puerto Rican. Gutsy. Vibrant. She makes her living selling homemade baked goods from a street cart. Parked on her corner she watches the world pass by with a keen eye and sharp wit and is sensitive to the not so subtle changes of her slowly gentrifying neighborhood. To her neighbors she is funny and forthright, a reliable purveyor of gossip, but beneath her bravura she can be melancholy and serious. A survivor who has always been able to reinvent herself.
ARMIDA: Female. Late 40’s – early 50’s. Mexican. She is glamorous, powerful and calculating. She is a shrewd ambitious business woman who married money and now widowed, owns multiple buildings in the neighborhood. Over the years she has lived in the US she has built a thriving empire. Now Jason’s boss, she is grooming him in her own image. Capable of ruthlessly manipulating those around her to protect her business no matter what the cost.
ACAN: Male. To play 10 years old. Mexican. Jason and Medea’s young son. He moves cautiously between the protected world of his mother’s house and yard, and the ever expanding world now occupied by his father. Less and less interested in his mother’s old world ways he becomes increasingly taken by all of the material joys of being a kid in America. Either a soccer ball or a skate board are never far from his feet so we are looking for a young actor who is physically agile.
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 audition.
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