MONTGOMERY - AN AMERICAN MUSICAL — Actors Auditions

MONTGOMERY - AN AMERICAN MUSICAL - SUBMIT FOR NYC APPOINTMENT

Theatre Now New York | New York, NY

Notice: Submission

CONTRACT

: Showcase-NY
Stipend: $1200

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in MONTGOMERY - AN AMERICAN MUSICAL (See

BREAKDOWN

).

SUBMISSION

INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your headshot and resume for consideration with MONTGOMERY – [role] as your subject. Please include links to websites and/or online performances. If chosen, you may be asked to submit a video audition and attend a subsequent in-person audition the week of October 26th, 2027. Email submission method preferred.

Deadline: Monday, October 26, 2026

SUBMIT TO

erik@tnny.org

Theatre Now New York
520 Eighth Ave, Suite 305
New York, NY 10018

PERSONNEL

Director: NJ Agwuna
Music Director: Jacinth Greywoode
Book & Lyrics: Britt Bonney and AriDy Nox
Music: Britt Bonney
Producer: Tom Morrissey, Theatre Now
Casting Director: Erik Schark

OTHER DATES

First Rehearsal: 11/16
Opening: 12/11
Closing: 12/19
Performances: 6

OTHER

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Venue: ART/NY's Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre

Equity's

CONTRACT

s 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.

BREAKDOWN

MONTGOMERY - AN AMERICAN MUSICAL

Theatre Now, a non-profit organization dedicated to new musicals, is

SEEKING

actors who sing for a developmental workshop of MONTGOMERY: AN AMERICAN MUSICAL, an original dramatic musical focusing on Claudette Colvin and the Montgomery bus boycott, to be performed at ART/NY's Jeffrey & Paula Gural Theatre. Looking for flexible, collaborative performers. Performances will be on book to allow for changes during the process. Rehearsals will be held between the first and second weeks of performances.

SYNOPSIS

With a blues, gospel and rock-infused score, MONTGOMERY puts you on the ground at the birth of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1955 Alabama, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin is arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus. Civil rights leaders want to organize a city-wide bus boycott, but they fear Claudette is too young, too poor, and too dark-skinned to unite the community. When the mild-mannered, light-skinned Rosa Parks is arrested, the boycott is on, and Claudette is all but forgotten – until a new court case gives her one more chance to make history.

Partially based on Britt Bonney's interviews with Claudette Colvin, MONTGOMERY is the recipient of an America250 grant from the NEA and a Developmental Grant from the National Foundation for Musical Theatre.

Note: these roles are subject to change. These descriptions are of the characters, not necessarily the actors playing them. Additional doubling may occur.

SEEKING:

CLAUDETTE: 18+ to play 15, cis-woman, Black. Fiery, inquisitive, and starry-eyed; wears thick red glasses and has very dark skin. Dreams of being a civil rights hero. Soprano with belt.

JO ANN ROBINSON: 40s, cis-woman, Black. English professor at Alabama State University and head of the Women's Political Council. Resourceful and relentless, her pulse beats faster than anyone else's in the room. Mezzo-Soprano. Doubles as MRS. PARKS, 42, Female-identifying, Black. Tailor, NAACP Secretary, head of the NAACP Youth Council. Disciplined and experienced activist. Soprano.

E.D. NIXON: 50s-60s, cis-man, Black. Sociable, blue-collar union man; the person everyone in town calls when a problem arises. Head of the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Baritone. Doubles as UNCLE Q.P. COLVIN, 50s, Male-identifying, Black. Claudette's uncle and de facto father. Proud and loving. Baritone.

FRED GRAY: 20s, cis-man, Black. Claudette's young and ambitious lawyer. Tenor. Doubles as NAACP teen and Reverend Abernathy.

AUNT MARY ANN COLVIN: 50s, cis-woman, Black. Claudette's great aunt and de facto mother. Strict and practical. Alto.

MARGARET JOHNSON & OTHERS: 18+ to play 15, cis-woman, Black. Claudette's gossipy neighbor and school friend; loves to insert herself into everything. Soprano.

VIOLA WHITE & OTHERS: Any age, female-identifying, Black, ensemble singing.

HILLIARD BROOKS & OTHERS: Any age, male-identifying, Black, tenor.

MAYOR GAYLE, BUS DRIVER, & OTHERS: Any age, male-identifying, Black, Tenor.