New Jewish Theatre 2024 Season (Plays) - St. Louis, MO EPA
New Jewish Theatre | Saint Louis, MO
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
2:00 PM - 10:00 PM (C)
BREAK: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
To set up an appointment contact Hannah Ryan at hryan@jccstl.org OR by calling 314-442-3283 between 10am and 2pm M-F
SPT
$361 weekly minimum (Tier 2)
Equity actors for roles in New Jewish Theatre's 2024 Season (Plays) (see breakdown).
Performers of all races, ethnicities, gender identities, sexualities, abilities and ages are encouraged to audition.
Please prepare two brief contrasting monologues. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Jewish Community Center
2 Millstone Campus Dr.
St. Louis, MO 63146
Wool Theatre/Black Box Theater/Meeting
Room inside the Arts and Education Building.
ALL MY SONS by Arthur Miller Directed by Gary Wayne Barker
WE ALL FALL DOWN by Lila Rose Kaplan Directed by Rebekah Scallet
RED by John Logan Directed by Becks Redman
TRAYF by Lindsay Joelle Directed by Aaron Sparks
Auditions for the musical FIRST DATE will take place at a later date.
ALL MY SONS:
1st Rehearsal: Monday, February 26,2024
Opening: March 21
Closing: April 7th
WE ALL FALL DOWN
1st Rehearsal: Monday May 6, 2024
Opening: Thursday May 30
Closing: Sunday June 16
RED
1st Rehearsal: Monday July 1, 2024
Opening: Thursday July 25
Closing: Sunday August 11
TRAYF
1st Rehearsal: Monday August 19, 2024
Opening: Thursday September 12
Closing: Sunday September 29
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.
Joe Keller: CAST 50s-60s (He/Him), Patriarch of the Keller family and businessman who manufactured faulty airplane parts for use in World War II planes. Denies his knowledge that the parts were faulty and lets his partner and former neighbor Steve Deever take the blame.
Kate Keller: 40s-50s (She/Her) Wife of Joe, and mother of Chris and his brother Larry who has been “missing in action” for three years. Unlike the rest of her family, she refuses to believe that Larry is dead. “A woman of uncontrolled inspirations and an overwhelming capacity for love.”
Chris Keller: CAST late 20s/early 30s (He/Him) Joe and Kate’s son, Larry’s brother. Changed by the war, morally upright, empathetic, and compassionate.
Ann Deever: CAST mid to late 20s (She/Her) Steve Deever’s daughter, Larry’s former girlfriend, Chris’s current fiancé. Compassionate, loving, realistic.
George Deever: CAST early 30s (He/Him) Ann’s brother, ashamed of his father. Served in the war and works as an attorney in NYC.
Dr. Jim Bayliss: CAST late 30s/early 40s (He/Him) The Kellers neighbor and a successful Doctor.
Sue Bayliss: CAST late 30s/early 40s (She/Her) Wife of Jim, speaks her mind and is always interested in the neighborhood gossip.
Frank Lubey: CAST late 20s/early 30s Another neighbor to the Keller’s, described as “A pleasant, opinionated man, uncertain of himself, with a tendency toward peevishness when crossed, but always wanting it pleasant and neighborly.”
Lydia Lubey: CAST mid to late 20s (She/Her) Wife of Frank Lubey and mother of three. Happy and well adjusted.
Bert: (He/him) an eight-year-old neighborhood boy who plays games with Joe. Joe made Bert a deputy and told him the Keller house has a prison in the basement.
(Note: Religion is listed for character informational purposes, not identity requirements)
Linda - Brilliant. Strong-willed. Sometimes Childlike. Always Theatrical. Holds her cards and her feelings close. A Psychologist. Jewish. White. 60s.
Saul - A Complex Equation of Emotional and Ordered. Sometimes Lovely. Sometimes Volatile. A recently retired History Professor. Jewish. White. 60s.
Sammi - The Older Daughter. A Good Girl who moved across the county to find herself. A History Teacher in San Francisco. Jewish. White. Early 30s
Ariel - The Younger Daughter. Sometimes on her own planet. Sometimes the most present of anyone. Lives at home. An Almost Yoga Teacher. Jewish. White. Late 20s.
Ester - Linda’s Assistant. Enthusiastic. Organized. A Graduate Student in Psychology. Christian. African-American. Late’s 20s.
Nan - Saul’s older sister and Linda’s best friend from college. A Civil Rights Lawyer. Practical. Principled. Hardened. A New Yorker. Jewish. White. 60s.
Beverly - Their Former Neighbor. Sincere. Chatty. Christian. White. 60s.
Mark Rothko: He/Him, 50+, Abstract expressionist painter, demanding, intense workaholic.
Ken: He/Him Early to late 20s, Rothko's new assistant. Eager, ambitious and nervous, wants to impress.
Zalmy: He/Him, 19, Chasidic Jew from Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Intelligent, curious, hungry for life.
Schmuel: He/Him, 19, Chasidic Jew from Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Loyal, earnest, hungry for love.
Johnathan: He/Him, late 20s. Gentile living in Manhattan. Charismatic, impulsive, hungry for purpose.
Leah: She/Her, late 20s. Secular Jew living in Manhattan. Hungry for all of the above.
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