New York Stage and Film 2024 season plays Equity Principal Actors - New York Stage and Film Company Auditions

New York Stage and Film 2024 season plays - NYC EPA New York Stage and Film Company | New York, NY

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REVISED

Breakdown updated.

AUDITION DATE

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)

Lunch 1:00-2:00 pm

CONTRACT

SPT

For THE HEART and GAME NIGHT - $576 weekly minimum (SPT 6)

All other shows - $464 weekly minimum

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in New York Stage and Film's 2024 season (see breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please prepare a brief contemporary monologue. Bring a photo/resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Actors' Equity New York Audition Center 165 W 46th St

16th Fl

New York, NY 10036

PERSONNEL

Expected to Attend:

Pradanya Subramanyan, Producing Department

See production-specific personnel in breakdown.

OTHER DATES

See production dates in breakdown.

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.

BREAKDOWN

MOMMY, A ONE-WOMAN CHO

By Margaret Cho

Directed by Leigh Silverman & Seonjae Kim

First Rehearsal: July 16, 2024

Performance: July 18, 7pm

ROLES

MARGARET CHO - This role is precast.

WELL WELL WELL

By Brant Russell

Directed by TBA

First Rehearsal: July 16, 2024

Performance: July 20, 2024, 3pm

SYNOPSIS:

When Erik crashes Erika’s engagement party, she’s reminded of why she quit drinking in the first place. WELL WELL WELL follows two people who try to live together, try to live apart, and try to live with their changing relationships to the world and substances around them. What’s the difference between love and enabling? What’s the difference between a choice and an addiction?

ROLES

Erika Gruber (her) - 40, female

Erik May (him) - 40, male

Leaf - 20 (non-binary), also plays BARTENDER

THE MONSTERS

Written & Directed by Ngozi Anyanwu

First Rehearsal: July 23, 2024

Performance: July 27, 3pm

SYNOPSIS:

the monsters is a sibling love story that follows LIL and BIG as they reconnect, wrestle with their demons, fight with their fists. All through their love of MMAA

ROLES

Notes on casting: They are siblings. In any gender pairing. They may refer to each other as BRO or SIS or BIG and LIL.

BIG: Older, Larger, black, tattooed. Strong, but not that tough. Keeps their feelings close to the chest. A fighter. On their way out.

LIL: Younger, smaller, black. Strong, but not that tough. Scrappy. Wears their heart on their sleeve. Also a fighter. On their way up.

GENIUS

By Kate Walbert

Directed by Sheryl Kaller

First Rehearsal: July 22, 2024

Performance: July 25, 2024, 7pm

ROLES

SARA: Mid-fifties, a redhead, faded beauty. She is a journalist who early in her career had some splashy moments.

PETER: a filmmaker in his early thirties. At first glance he appears out of his element in New York—but that’s first glance.

CHARLOTTE: Peter’s wife and partner in filmmaking, seven months pregnant, also early thirties. She is a born and bred New Yorker.

BASEMENT, ILLINOIS

By Stacy Osei-Kuffour

Directed by TBD

First Rehearsal: July 23, 2024

Performance: July 23, 1pm

ROLES

CATHY RHODES: 60s.Matriarch. Black.

DON RHODES: 60s. Patriarch. Cathy's ex-husband. Black.

DREW RHODES: late 30s. Cathy and Don's eldest. Black.

HAZEL RHODES: early 30s. Cathy and Don's youngest. Black.

LEWIS: 30s/40s. Hazel's husband. Black.

JOEY: 9. Drew's son. Black.

RICK: 50s. Cathy's new boyfriend.

TULIPA

By Kate Douglas

Directed by Kate Whoriskey

First Rehearsal: July 27, 2024

Performance: July 30, 2024, 3pm

SYNOPSIS

There was a brief moment in history when a flower could ruin your life. Jessica Hecht stars in Tulipa, a riches to rags monologue set against the Dionysian backdrop of Tulipmania in the 17th century. In a world gone mad, Tulipa examines how we can find what truly nourishes us. This sensual and surprising story of self-discovery is the second collaboration between writer Kate Douglas (The Apiary) with director Kate Whoriskey (Clyde's).

ROLES

ANNE, a widow in 17th century Holland, obsessed with tulips. This role is precast. THE GARDENER / DANCER, a mover who sculpts the world around Anne with dance.

AFTER PETER

Co-conceived by: Adam Chanler-Berat and Grace McLean

Book by: Adam Chanler-Berat

Music and Lyrics by: Grace McLean

Directed by Tyler Thomas

First Rehearsal: July 30, 2024

Performance: August 3, 2024, 3pm

SYNOPSIS

After the sudden death of her collaborator, Jo goes on a quest for answers that may or may not–most likely may not–help finish the piece they were working on together. Generations of artists speak to each other across the chasm of space and time in this living requiem about the intertwining of loss and the creative process, and the ways in which art hides and reveals us.

ROLES

JO - A musical book writer who occasionally writes lyrics, has a survival job binding books, huge fan of Peter

PETER - Peter is 37. Peter is a writer, a composer. Peter lives in Brooklyn. Peter lives alone. Peter is bad at taking care of plants. Peter reads. Peter reads a lot. Peter talks very fast. Peter is a son, a younger brother, a New Yorker.