New Peter Macklin/Scott Schwartz Project (OBway) Equity Principal Actors - Directors Company Auditions

AUDITION DATE

Monday, August 11, 2025
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

CONTRACT

Off Broadway
$818 weekly minimum (Cat. 1)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in New Peter Macklin/Scott Schwartz Project - Title TBA (See breakdown).
All roles will be understudied.
All Equity stage managerial positions have been filled.

PREPARATION

Please prepare to read Sides for the role you are interested in. Side will be available at the audition site on the morning of the audition.
Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Pearl Studios (500)
500 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6504
Holding room - Studio 407

PERSONNEL

Producers: The Directors Company - in association with Jonathan Demar
GM: Michalos Management
Writer: Peter Macklin
Director: Scott Schwartz
Casting: Judy Bowman CSA
Expected to attend:
Judy Bowman - Casting Director
Peter Macklin - Writer

OTHER DATES

1st REHEARSAL: 9/15 (daytime rehearsals)
TECH: 10/6
PREVIEW: 10/13
OPEN: 10/27/2025
CLOSE: 11/16 (no extension)

OTHER

EPA Procedures are in effect for this 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.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

BREAKDOWN

SYNOPSIS: A theatrically bold political thriller inspired by real events. Set against the backdrop of a once-sporting organization’s radical transformation, the play explores how conviction, fear, and power can ignite a movement — and how that fire continues to shape the American conversation. Through quick-shifting and multicharacter storytelling, the play examines how belief becomes weaponized — and who pays the price.

NOTE: For the roles Actor 1, 2, 3 & 4: Roles range from broadly comedic to genuinely and deeply dramatic depending on context in the play. Quick transformations that happen onstage in front of the audience. Comedic timing/clown training/sketch comedy along with dramatic training are all pluses.

SEEKING:

ACTOR #1: White Female (50s - 70s). Southern, a bit odd and strange. Off the beaten path, edgy and desiccated; as part of the ensemble in telling this story plays Ila Carter (Harlon Carter’s mother), Captain George Wood Wingate, Texas Ranger, A nurse, President Eisenhower, convention attendee, Reporter, NRA member, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan. Great comedy chops & creativity. See NOTE above.

ACTOR #2: BIPOC male (20s - 50s). Someone with a strong point of view, both comedic and edgy; as part of the ensemble in telling this story plays William Conant Church, a reporter, Wayne LaPierre, convention participant, NRA member, Salvador Pena, Clifford Allen Perkins, Border Patrol Agent, Maxwell Rich, Lieutenant General Joseph Swing, Mary Carter, & Townsperson. A strong ability with character voices and wild, comedic character interpretations. See NOTE above.

ACTOR #3: Black female (30s - 50s). Strong, grounded, but also playful; as part of the ensemble in telling this story plays NY Attorney General Letitia James, Charlton Heston, townsperson, Neal Knox, Texas Ranger, a reporter, Judge Mullaly, convention participant, Laredo Times reporter, third boy, defense team, Adjunct General Jones, NRA member. See NOTE above.

ACTOR #4: White male (50s - 70s). Hard, uncompromising, strong but also neurotic and sometimes needy; as part of the ensemble in telling this story plays Horace Bronson Carter (Harlon’s father), Old Guard NRA member, newspaper reporter, NRA member, Vice President Nixon. See NOTE above.

RAMON CASIANO: Latinx, Male. (18+ to play 16.) Born in the US, speaks Spanish in the production. Ramon Casiano was a Mexican-American kid, murdered by Harlon Carter. Confident, a little tough/street smart, and is a good kid minding his own business. Access to both swagger and vulnerability. While Ramon comes onstage towards the end of the play, his role is profoundly important. He quite literally takes the play away from Harlan and puts himself in his rightful place in the play (and history). The whole play prior jets towards Ramon's entrance and bombshell arrival. With Ramon's heartfelt speech, dramatic scene and presence throughout the rest of the play, Ramon makes their mark.

HARLON CARTER: CAST. White Male (40’s - 60’s). Harlon Carter is the man responsible for making the NRA into what it is today. Sense of humor, charisma, vitality, intelligence, dynamic.

UNDERSTUDIES:

UNDERSTUDY #1: To cover HARLON CARTER & ACTOR #4. White Male (40s - 60s). Harlon Carter is the man responsible for making the NRA into what it is today. Sense of humor, charisma, vitality, intelligence, dynamic. ACTOR #4: As part of the ensemble in telling this story plays Horace Bronson Carter (Harlon’s father), Old Guard NRA member, newspaper reporter, NRA member, Vice President Nixon. See NOTE above.

UNDERSTUDY #2: To cover ACTOR #2 & RAMON CASIANO. Latinx male (20s). Speaks Spanish, speaks English with no accent. ACTOR #2: As part of the ensemble in telling this story plays William Conant Church, a reporter, Wayne LaPierre, convention participant, NRA member, Salvador Pena, Clifford Allen Perkins, Border Patrol Agent, Maxwell Rich, Lieutenant General Joseph Swing, Mary Carter, & Townsperson. See NOTE above. RAMON CASIANO: Latinx, Male. (18+ to play 16) Born in the US, speaks Spanish in the production. Ramon Casiano was a Mexican-American kid, murdered by Harlon Carter. Confident, a little tough/street smart, and is a good kid minding his own business. Access to both swagger and vulnerability. While Ramon comes onstage towards the end of the play, his role is profoundly important. He quite literally takes the play away from Harlan and puts himself in his rightful place in the play (and history). The whole play prior jets towards Ramon's entrance and bombshell arrival. With Ramon's heartfelt speech, dramatic scene and presence throughout the rest of the play, Ramon makes their mark.

UNDERSTUDY #3: To cover ACTOR #1: White Female (50s - 70s). Southern, a bit odd and strange. Off the beaten path, edgy and desiccated; as part of the ensemble in telling this story plays Ila Carter (Harlon Carter’s mother), Captain George Wood Wingate, Texas Ranger, A nurse, President Eisenhower, convention attendee, Reporter, NRA member, Charlton Heston, Ronald Reagan. Great comedy chops & creativity. See NOTE above.

UNDERSTUDY #4: To cover ACTOR #3: Black female (30s - 50s). Strong, grounded, but also playful; as part of the ensemble in telling this story plays NY Attorney General Letitia James, Charlton Heston, townsperson, Neal Knox, Texas Ranger, a reporter, Judge Mullaly, convention participant, Laredo Times reporter, third boy, defense team, Adjunct General Jones, NRA member. See NOTE above.