People's Light
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep $750 weekly minimum (LORT D) Travel & housing provided for out of town actors.
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in MUSHROOM (see breakdown).
Philly, NYC & Northeast actors encouraged to submit.
COVID SAFETY: PEOPLE’S LIGHT WILL REQUIRE COVID 19 VACCINATIONS FROM ALL ARTISTS IN THE PRODUCTION GROUP. THIS IS A CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT. Team members will be required to submit a photo of their vaccine card. People's Light is also hoping to work without masks in the rehearsal room.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please submit a contemporary monologue and submit via the submission form online at www.xcastingnyc.com/auditions. Audition videos may not exceed 2 minutes. Please submit one copy of your headshot and resume. Submission videos will not be accepted via email, or if they are linked to an external website (such as Vimeo, Dropbox, We Transfer, YouTube). Video must be submitted as a file upload.
Deadline: Thu, Nov 25, 2021
PERSONNEL
Written by Eisa Davis
Directed by David Mendizabal
Produced by People’s Light
Victor Vazquez, CSA (viewing auditions)
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: August 16, 2022
Tech: September 13-20, 2022
Previews: September 21-24, 2022
Opening: Sunday, September 25, 2022
Closing: October 23, 2022
OTHER
Location: Malvern, PA
Script: https://xcastingnyc.co/mushroom
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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
SYNOPSIS: Over 40% of all the mushrooms we eat in this country come from a tiny region of Pennsylvania around the town of Kennett Square. MUSHROOM centers on the lives, loves, families and working conditions of the Mexican and Central American mushroom pickers there, examining the recent strains placed on this cultural community. It uses a series of experiments in form and non-linear storytelling to explore immigrant experiences, the characters' dreams and fears.
MUSHROOM began in collaboration with People’s Light in 2013. The commission was for the playwright to imagine a new play grounded by stories of people living in its radius of Chester County. Davis was immediately drawn to the mystery of the area’s mushroom industry—who are the people who have moved these fungi from farm to table for decades? And what are the challenges they face given their gender, family history, sexuality, income, immigration status? Continued community conversations have been crucial to carve the fictional work into a shape that reflects those realities and dreams. An experiment in narrative, mapping instances where compassion and justice might intersect, the overall intention of the play is to center the experiences of a particular set of working people, to recognize and celebrate their personhood.
NOTE: The play is in both English and Spanish, there are a few sections in Malayalam, K’iche, and Spanish where there will be no translation.
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN :
There will be no understudies cast.
[EDIT] 20s, Non-white Latina woman. Born in Mexico City.
[NATARAJAN, aka RAJ] 30s, South Asian man, born in Thanikkudam, Kerala, India. Suffered a recent divorce and soothes his loneliness with conspicuous consumption.
[LETY] 40s, Non-white Latina woman, Spanish speaking. A mushroom worker.
[RAIN] 30s, Afro-Mexican femme/woman/non-binary individual. Spanish speaking. African descended. A restorative justice facilitator and migrant worker.
[THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT] 20s, Non-white Guatemalan/Central American/ indigenous Latina woman. Spanish speaking. A spark. A very human vessel for the knowledge and history the characters are unaware of or afraid to voice.
[IGNACIO] 40s, Non-white Latino man. Born in Guanajuato, Mexico. *THIS ROLE IS CAST*
[TYLER] 30s, Non-Latino white man. Born in Chester County, PA. *THIS ROLE IS CAST*
[EPIFIANO] 30s, Non-white Latino man, born in Guanajuato, Mexico. *THIS ROLE IS CAST*
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 submit.
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