NAATC 2024 Season - Cementing Our Legacy Equity Principal Actors - Naptown African American Theatre Collective Auditions

NAATC 2024 Season - Cementing Our Legacy - Indianapolis, IN EPA

Naptown African American Theatre Collective | Indianapolis, IN

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AUDITION DATE

Monday, June 3, 2024

10:00 AM - 7:00 PM (E)

Break 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment please go to:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfzEnFzBqSDBtIYzSy9mA_KGgm51Djc32kSMveBcUZVS_ydRQ/viewform .

For any questions or additional information please reach out to LaKesha or Latrice at naatcinc@gmail.com.

CONTRACT

SPT

$308 weekly minimum (SPT 1)

SEEKING

Equity actors for (NAATC) Naptown African American Theater Collective's 2024 Season (See breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please prepare 1 dramatic monologue, 1 comedic monologue, no longer than 4- minutes total. There will also be a cold read at the audition. Sides provided upon arrival at audition. Also, bring your headshot and resume stapled together. If you are unable to attend in-person auditions, please see breakdown for instructions on submitting a self-tape.

BREAKDOWN

LOCATION

Phoenix Theatre

705 N. Illinois St.

Indianapolis, IN 46204

Free parking across the street from building.

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:

Ang Bey: Director JUDY'S LIFE'S WORK LaKesha Lorene: Director - STEW

Kathi Ridley Merriweather: NAATC Board Member

Irorobeje Crystal Owhoso-Maddox: NAATC staff

OTHER DATES

CALLBACKS Friday, June 7th 2024 4pm - 7pm

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

naatcinc.org

An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

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.

NAATC 2024 Season (Naptown African American Theatre Collective) - Cementing Our Legacy Video Submission instructions:

If you are unable to attend these in-person auditions, you may submit a video audition. Please submit your headshot, resume and video submissions to: naatcinc@gmail.com Videos must be filmed horizontally on a blank background, in a quiet location.

Please slate your name, location, and Equity status “I’m non-Union, I’m an Equity actor”. Upload your video submission as an unlisted youtube link.

Submit one dramatic monologue and one comedic monologue no longer than 4 minutes in length total. Video submissions due by June 4, 2024.

JUDY'S LIFE'S WORK by Loy A. Webb

1st Rehearsal September 24, 2024

Preview night October 17, 2024

Open October 18, 2024

Closing November 3, 2024

SYNOPSIS: Xavier is a budding business owner with big dreams, a complicated past and a sister who is both his heart and his headache. Can the siblings work through their deferred dreams to build a legacy? Or will grief tear them apart?

SEEKING:

Xavier (X): 43, Black Man. Charlie’s older brother. A determined man with a complicated past. He’s passionate about his boxing and resentful of his childhood and

complicated relationship with his mother.

Charli: Early 30s Black woman. X’s younger sister. A brilliant pre-med student who was very close to her mother.

Camille: Early to mid-30s, Black woman. Love interest of Xavier. Business minded, manipulative, very focused on coming up at all costs.

STEW by Zora Howard

1st February 18, 2025

Preview night March 13, 2025

Open March 14, 2025

Closing March 30, 2025

SYNOPSIS: Family traditions are passed through generations. But how can you break a tradition that is now coming through the bloodline? More than food is cooked in this stirring drama filled with hilarious commentary of four Black women navigating the journey of loss and hope.

SEEKING:

Lil’ Mama: Pre-teens, Black girl/woman. Sweet, not naive, but close. VERY Gen-Z (more centered on self).

Nelly: 18-25, Looks like they can be a teen Black woman. Married, sharp tongued and growingly weathered.

Lillian: 30s, Black woman. Eldest sister, responsible one.

Mama: A Mature Black Woman, Don’t Ask Her Age, Black woman. Matriarch, wise and loving. Sharp with a hint of sweetness.