NEW YORK STAGE & FILM 2019 SEASON **Revised** Equity Principal Auditions - New York Stage & Film Company Auditions

New York Stage & Film 2019 Season - NYC EPA

New York Stage & Film Company

**Revised Breakdown has been updated for the play LIGHTNING (or The Unbuttoning)**

AUDITION DATES

Mon, May 06, 2019

10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)

Lunch 1:30 to 2:30

Tue, May 07, 2019

10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)

Lunch 1:30 to 2:30

CONTRACT

SPT SPT 9-$700/wk min, SPT 7 - $546/wk min, and SPT 3 - $346/wk min. Plus R/T Transportation, Housing, Pension/Health

SEEKING

Equity actors and actor/singers for various roles in the upcoming season. See breakdown.

PREPARATION

Prepare EITHER
1) A brief monologue; or
2) A brief song; or
3) A very brief monologue and brief song. If singing, bring sheet music.

Bring picture and resume, stapled together.
TOTAL AUDITION TIME NO MORE THAN 2 MINUTES

LOCATION

Pearl Studios NYC (500)

500 8th Ave

New York, NY 10018-6504

4th floor

PERSONNEL

Producing Directors: Mark Linn-Baker, Max Mayer, Leslie Urdang
Artistic Director: Johanna Pfaelzer
Executive Director: Thomas Pearson
Incoming Artistic Director: Chris Burney
Casting: Tesley + Company

Personnel anticipated in attendance:
Madison Sylvester (Telsey + Company) and/or Liz Carlson, Artistic Producer

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

New York Stage and Film 2019 Season

Main Stage Powerhouse Theater
SPT 9-$700/wk min, R/T Transportation, Housing, Pension/Health

the bandaged place
Playwright: Harrison David Rivers
Director: David Mendizábal
Casting: Telsey + Company, Adam Caldwell, Will Cantler and Karyn Casl

First Rehearsal (NYC) - Monday, June 3, 2019
Rehearsal continues in Poughkeepsie - Monday, June 17, 2019
First Performance – Thursday, June 27, 2019
Final Performance - Sunday, July 7, 2019

JONAH IRBY
A 24-year old African-American manboy. He is ELLA’S biological father, but not her guardian. A dancer

GERALDINE IRBY
A 58-year old African-American woman. JONAH’S grandmother and ELLA’S great grandmother and guardian

ELLA IRBY
An 8-year old African-American or multi-racial girl. JONAH’S daughter

SAM YATES
A 24-year old man of any ethnicity. ELLA’S ballet instructor

RUBEN TORRES
A late twenty or thirty-something African-American or Latino man. JONAH’s ex-boyfriend
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LIGHTNING (or The Unbuttoning)

Playwright: Beth Henley
Director: TBD
Casting: Telsey + Company, Adam Caldwell, Will Cantler and Karyn Casl
First Rehearsal – Monday, June 24, 2019
First Performance – Thursday, July 18, 2019
Final Performance – Sunday, July 28, 2019

NET
Female, any ethnicity, she could be 18, or she could be 38, she is feral, innocent, fierce, sympathetic, vulnerable. Able to handle a lot of language.

DOLLARHIDE STAR
Male, any ethnicity, he's 30's or 40's, a charismatic spinner of yarns, sympathetic, charming, desperate and lost inside.

THE REAL WIFE
Female, any ethnicity, she's probably in her 30's, straight ahead, no nonsense, keeps her own council.
Any ethnicity for all roles

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Martel Theater
SPT 3 - $346/wk min, R/T Transportation, Housing, Pension/Health

ANNIE SALEM: AN AMERICAN TALE
Adapted from the novel by Mac Wellman
Book: Rachel Chavkin
Music: Heather Christian
Lyrics: Heather Christian and Rachel Chavkin
Director: Rachel Chavkin
Casting: Telsey + Company, Rebecca Scholl

First rehearsal – Tuesday, June 25, 2019
First performance – Friday, July 5, 2019
Final performance – Sunday, July 7, 2019

Jack Scan - The narrator, as incurious as a cueball at the outset, wears a baseball uniform

Annie Salem/Sophronia Philbert - The prettiest girl in town, wears a field hockey outfit.

Uncle Krebs/Zephania Newland - A strange uncle, political radical

Cousin Hup/Edward Francis - A suspicious cousin, political radical, runs a junkyard

Gaby/77ilith - A disgruntled Midwestern chick and performance artist with a violet streak in her hair

Grandmother/Sarah Washington - A grandmother and spirit guide

Goshenite Man/George Henry, of the Tribe of Goshen - A preacher, the leader of his nomadic community

Ensemble 1 (FEMALE)/Tall Pointy Hat/Teacher/CWolf the Dreamer

Ensemble 2 (MALE)/Shorty Pointy Hat/404Oof/Truant Officer

Zero - Jack's dog…
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THE ELEMENTARY SPACETIME SHOW
Music and Lyrics: César Alvarez
Book: César Alvarez with Emily Orling
Director: Sarah Benson
Casting: Telsey + Company, Rebecca Scholl

First Rehearsal - Monday, July 1, 2019
First Performance - Friday, July 12, 2019
Final Performance - Sunday, July 14, 2018

All of the roles other than Alameda and Bone Woman can be played by any race, gender or ethnicity, though the cast will be mostly female, femme and non-binary. We are looking in particular for performers who present as gender complex, possess comedic skills, and are strong movers and singers (any style). Also looking for performers who play instruments other than piano, guitar and uke. Circus skills and stupid human tricks are a bonus.

Alameda (female, femme or non-binary) – A severely depressed teenager.

Frankie - A guide-friend.

MC – impresario/game show host

Nurse Kathy

Precious - A glittery androgynous rock star

Robot

Mom (not Alameda's real mom)

Dad (not Alameda's real dad)

A Princess

Bone Woman (female) – a mystical wild woman

Undead Wolf – Cute and fuzzy

Mosquito – a mosquito

Preacher - Maybe a white man, maybe not.

Alameda 2 - Another version of Alameda

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GODDESS
Conceived by: Saheem Ali
Music and Lyrics: Michael Thurber
Book: Jocelyn Bioh
Additional Lyrics: Mkhululi Z. Mabija
Director: Saheem Ali
Casting: Telsey + Company, Laura Wade

First Rehearsal - Tuesday, July 16, 2018
First Performance – Friday, July 26, 2019
Final Performance – Sunday, July 28, 2019

AHMED: the M/C hype man of Moto Moto; Middle Eastern/African descent, late 20’s

OMARI: Muslim, Middle Eastern/African descent, university graduate, talented, idealistic, plays the sax, late 20’s

KAMAU: Muslim, Middle Eastern/African descent, his father

SITI: Muslim, Middle Eastern/African descent/ his mother

CHE CHE: Muslim, his fiance, Middle Eastern/African descent, mid 20’s

NADIRA: sultry, beautiful, tragically-tainted jazz singer at the club, African descent, late 20’s/ early 30’s

RASHIDA: a waitress/ bartender/ den mother at the club, African descent, 30’s

MADONGO: promoter/ manager of the club, brutish, a bully, African descent, late 30’s/ early 40’s

BALOZI: a seer, ageless and timeless

THE TRIO: backup singers at Moto Moto

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Shiva Theater
SPT 3 - $346/wk min, R/T Transportation, Housing, Pension/Health

…and the horse you rode in on
Playwright: Zach Helm
Director: Kate Whoriskey
Casting: Telsey + Company, Adam Caldwell, Will Cantler and Karyn Casl

First Rehearsal – Monday, June 10, 2019
First Performance – Thursday, June 20, 2019
Final Performance – Sunday, June 23, 2019

BEN PARK
18-25, brilliant, on medication since a teenager, hacktivist, quasi-journalist, manic reader, rap/spoken word enthusiast, humanist, feverish romantic. Any ethnicity.

MEGAN PARK
Ben's Mom, over 45, widow, brilliant, career nurse, heart-broken a hundred times, incisive, empathic, wise.

DAVID HARVEY
Career DOJ prosecutor, 30 - 45, smart, arrogant, righteous, duplicitous, emotionally invested in winning at everything.

JUDGE JULIA GANZ
Federal magistrate judge, over 45, with her own pace, an acute listener, detached from real world via career/academia, rational, but with hubris.

MARCO EMPACATO: aka PAC-10
Ben's current roommate, under 30, born and bred gangbanger, Salvadoran and Chicano, brilliant, MS/La Nuestra former 'accountant' separated from the others until trial, avid reader, practical, calm and relaxed without fail, as if he's trying to leave his gang stress behind.

ROJAS
Career prisoner/regional gang leader of La Nuestra, well over 40, company man, typically above the fray, avid reader, practical, shrewd, uses legend and threat as a weapon.

BIG KEITH
2nd trip in prison, under 35, gang leader, Ben's roommate from transfer, aspiring rapper, sub-culture aficionado, intimidatingly perceptive, loyal, unafraid of repercussion.

HUGO (VO)/Stage Directions
under 30, insecure and nerdy, one of the best computer security specialists in the world, yet still desperate to be liked

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THE BEST WE COULD (a family tragedy)
Playwright: Emily Feldman
Director: Daniel Aukin
Casting: Telsey + Company, Adam Caldwell, Will Cantler and Karyn Casl

First Rehearsal – Monday, July 15, 2019
First Performance – Thursday, July 25, 2019
Final Performance – Saturday, July 27, 2019

EMMA, 30s

PEG, Emma’s mother

LOU, Emma’s father

MIKE, Lou’s best friend

MAPS—The Stage Manager, and all the other characters not named here. Maps has a casual relationship with the audience and she speaks to the characters in the play with a friendly authority a la Thornton Wilder’s Stage Managers. She loves and pities the people in the play the way that the Stage Manager in Our Town loves the people of Grover’s Corners.

RESIDENCY (no public performances)
SPT 7 - $546/wk min, R/T Transportation, Housing, Pension/Health

LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE
A new musical adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s novel Like Water for Chocolate
Book: Lisa Loomer
Music: La Santa Cecilia
Director: Michael Mayer
Casting: Jim Carnahan Casting

Tita (F) - Late teens to early 20’s. Sensitive, beautiful, and passionate, capable of great love and extraordinary meals.

Pedro (M) - Twenties. Handsome, tender, and fiery. Better with wild horses than with words.

Mama Elena (F) - Late forties. Dominates her world with an iron will and a certain ironic charm. Upper class, of German and Mexican descent.

Nacha (F) - Fifties or sixties. Wise and ironic. A loving healer. A cook. Indian.

Chencha (F) - Twenties. A servant. A great talker and very funny. Indian.

Gertrudis (F) - Twenties. A free spirit, sexual, and a true compañera in the Revolution. Of Mexican, European, and African descent.

Rosaura (F) - Twenties. Proper and conventional despite her fat and her flatulence.

Dr. John Brown (M) - Thirties. A man of science, but also a student of alchemy, patient and kind. Anglo.

Father Ignacio (M) - Fifties. Conservative and correct. Spanish descent.

Captain Juan Alejandrez/Armando Guittierez (M) - Thirties. A revolutionary in Pancho Villa’s army. Rugged and political and sexy./ Forties. A musician of African descent, romantic but proud.

Sergeant Treviño (M) - Thirties. Impetuous, funny, but no fool when it comes to politics. Nacha’s son.

Paquita Lobo (F) - Forties. A nosy and delightfully pretentious neighbor who relishes in impropriety while professing to keep it at bay. A Francophile.

Don Pascal (M) - Forties. Pedro’s father, torn between love for his son, the constrictions of his class, and a terrible past.

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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.