New York Stage and Film 2025 Season (Plays) Equity Principal Actors - New York Stage and Film Company Auditions

NEW YORK STAGE AND FILM 2025 SEASON (PLAYS) - NYC EPA

New York Stage and Film Company | New York, NY

AUDITION DATE

Monday, June 2, 2025
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00-2:00 PM

CONTRACT

SPT
SPT Tier 6 - $605 weekly minimum
SPT Reading - $16/hour for 29 hours guaranteed

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in New York Stage and Film's 2025 season plays (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

Producer: New York Stage and Film
Artistic Director: Ian Belknap
General Manager and Producer: Gabrielle Clark
Casting: The Telsey Office
See production-specific personnel in breakdown.
Expected to attend:
Artistic Director/Producer: Ian Belknap

OTHER DATES

See production dates in breakdown.

OTHER

https://www.newyorkstageandfilm.org/
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

VIDAS PRIVADAS

Written by Christina Pumariega
First rehearsal: July 8, 2025
Performances: July 11, 2025

SYNOPSIS:

A sizzling, bilingual reinvention of Noël Coward’s PRIVATE LIVES by Christina Pumariega, where Cuban-American exes collide as rival political campaigners across Ibiza and Miami in a passionate, witty exploration of identity and love.

CAST

BREAKDOWN

CESAR CRUZ - Male.
AMERICA CRUZ - His wife.
CELIA MECHOSO - A woman.
CLAYTON STARK - Her husband.
STANISLAV - A handyman.

THE TEE TEE AND LA LA SHOW

Written and Directed by Donja R. Love
First rehearsal: July 8, 2025
Performances: July 12, 2025

SYNOPSIS:

A fearless new play by award-winning playwright Donja R. Love (SUGAR IN OUR WOUNDS, SOFT), following two queer teens navigating survival, identity, and chosen family on the streets of New York, told with biting humor and lyrical power in Love’s signature voice.

CAST

BREAKDOWN

TEETEE - male-presenting, he/they; 19
LALA - trans/non-binary, female-presenting, she/they; 17
*BLEEP* - male-presenting, he/him; between 20s-50s

GERTRUDE

By Caryl Mensch Directed by Liz Flahive
First rehearsal: July 8, 2025
Performances: July 12, 2025

SYNOPSIS:

This isn’t Hamlet’s play. It’s his mom’s.

CAST

BREAKDOWN

GERTRUDE - Hamlet's mother.
HAMLET - Gertrude's son.
OPHELIA/FRANCES - The Ophelia. DOUBLE CAST WITH: A handmaiden.
BERNADETTE - A pregnant handmaiden.
CLAUDIUS - Gertrude's husband. Hamlet's uncle (and step-father).
POLONIUS - Ophelia and Laertes' Father.

STOKELY

By Nambi E. Kelley
Directed by Kent Gash
First rehearsal: July 22, 2025
Performances: July 25, 2025

SYNOPSIS:

A galvanizing new work from award-winning playwright Nambi E. Kelley, STOKELY (THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION) is a lyrical, time-bending exploration of the life and legacy of civil rights leader Kwame Ture (formerly Stokely Carmichael), set in his final days in Guinea. Weaving memory, music, and revolution, Kelley honors his activism, contradictions, and unwavering fight for Black liberation.

CAST

BREAKDOWN

STOKELY - young child and up, male, a gregarious, charismatic, tall and handsome Black man who plays himself from a young boy to adulthood. Also plays himself at the end of his life, KWAME TURE, age 57.
MAY CHARLES - 70s, female, Stokely firecracker mother. She is sturdy and precise, completely terrified of the unknown, has a wicked sense of humor; Also plays a younger version of herself, MABEL.
ADOLPHUS CARMICHAEL - 40s, male, Stokely's staunch and hardworking father, could also cover BAYARD RUSTIN, JIMMY BALDWIN, DR. KING, MALCOLM X, A WHITE BOY, REPORTER, ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, SEKOU TOURE, KWAME NKRUMAH.
TANTE ELAINE - mid 30s, female, Stokely's stern and seemingly humorless aunt, could also cover FANNIE LOU HAMER, MIRIAM MAKEBA, A LADY FREEDOM RIDER, JOHN DIMILIO, JOHN MOODY, DIANE NASH, A WHITE GIRL.
CECELIA CARMICHAEL - mid 40-50s, female, Stokely's beloved grandmother; could also cover ELLA BAKER, GLORIA RICHARDSON, TEACHER, PAULIE, GENE DENNIS, JOCKO, REPORTER.
ENSEMBLE WILL ALSO COVER: Students, Freedom Fighters, Bus Riders, Mourners, etc.

I SAID EVOLUTION

By Noelle Viñas
Directed by Liz Carlson
First rehearsal: July 22, 2025
Performances: July 26, 2025

SYNOPSIS:

While Lidia is at a bucolic artist’s residency, her brother Mo interrupts with a literal get outta jail ask… a callback to a weirdass game they used to play as kids. Damn, what is it about fucking siblings? Over the course of the next year, the whole world between two queer siblings is rendered raw with resentments, desperate confessions, dark humor, and devastating love. As each interaction compounds, can the love between them be strong enough to find new roots when toxic soil is all they’ve known? And will these two even survive apart?

CAST

BREAKDOWN

LIDIA MACHADO – (she/hers/ella) femme but works with her hands. A woman who hardly knows how to stop being the referee, stop giving advice, stop being a mom. She's worked hard for the ease that she has now. Maybe she's more comfortable when life is a struggle. Like she should fit in in Cole Valley but she just doesn't. Mid 30s.
MAURICIO MACHADO – (he/they flex) a soft intellectual who can get really hardcore. A working-class motherfucker who takes a lot of pride in it. Gen Z. Pushing back on masculinity while also being masculine. He's the Latino at the metal concert. Early 20s.

MANAKIN

By Dave Harris
Directed by Taylor Reynolds
First rehearsal: July 22, 2025
Performances: July 26, 2025

SYNOPSIS:

A genre-bending dark comedy by award-winning playwright and poet Dave Harris, MANAKIN unfolds as a surreal family wedding that spirals into myth, memory, and generational reckoning. With razor-sharp language and riotous humor, Harris fuses ancient tragedy, ritual, and the absurd to explore legacy, masculinity, and the long tunnel of family inheritance.

CAST

BREAKDOWN

SON - A Son.
FATHER - A Father.
MOTHER - A Mother.
STAGE DIRECTIONS/SATAN/GODMOTHER - A plea for Satan to speak. Satan speaking. DOUBLE CAST WITH: A Godmother.
GREAT GRANDMOTHER - A Great Grandmother.
GREAT GRANDFATHER - A Great Grandfather.
GRANDMOTHER - A Grandmother.
GRANDFATHER - A Grandfather.
DAUGHTER - A Daughter.

SEARCHING FOR MR. MOON

By Rich Topol and Willy Holtzman
Directed by Max Mayer
First rehearsal: July 22, 2025
Performances: July 27, 2025

SYNOPSIS:

From the moment of the birth of his daughter, Rich Topol searches for a father to replace the one he lost and finds two - his renowned father in law Lukas Foss and himself. With themes of family and mortality, the play also explores what it means to juggle being an artist and father at the same time. This funny and poignant tale is filled with Foss’ musical genius, which underscores this Everyman’s journey.

CAST

BREAKDOWN

PERFORMER - This role is precast. Richard Topol – the one who “plays all the parts”. A father, and a son. A poetic, comedic, glass half-full guy with a fatalist streak.

THE PUSHOVER

Written and Directed by John Patrick Shanley
First rehearsal: July 29, 2025
Performances: August 3, 2025

SYNOPSIS:

A psychological drama that follows two ex-lovers caught in the throes of extortion, bribery, and a messy affair.

CAST

BREAKDOWN

PEARL PENNY CHEN - Around 40. She/Her. Chinese American. A Pushover. Gay. A chef.
EVELYN - 40s-50s. She/Her. Something magnificent and ferocious about her.
SOOCHI - 20s-30s. She/Her. Attractive. A touch feral.

PENN LIVE ARTS FALL READING SERIES

LOCATION

Philadelphia, PA

FALLS

By Colm Summer
First rehearsal: September 30, 2025
Performances: October 2 and 4, 2025

SYNOPSIS:

When a young father is diagnosed with Parkinson’s, he does everything to protect his relationship with his son. As his condition deteriorates and their roles are reversed, his every expectation of fatherhood falls away. Will he lose himself or - worse - his son, in the process? FALLS is a play about fatherhood, care, and forgiveness. Set in rural Ireland, FALLS features no tremors, no trauma, and a lot of Dad jokes - this is not-your-mother’s Parkinson’s play. Told in a series of falls, it examines how we get hurt, and sometimes, how we can catch one another before we get hurt.

CAST

BREAKDOWN

FATHER - 45-slightly older. He/Him. Irish. We watch him age.
SON - 30-45. He/Him. Irish. We watch him grow from a child into a man.

LAGNIAPPE

By C.A. Johnson
First rehearsal: September 30, 2025
Performances: October 3 and 5, 2025

SYNOPSIS:

It takes place in the Bunche Village, once home to sharecroppers now home to their suburban descendants 15 minutes outside New Orleans in 2008. It follows the lives of several people in the small community who visit, work, or live in a local store. Harrowing and hilarious, Lagniappe is a story about longing and loving.

CAST

BREAKDOWN

AN - Vietnamese American man, 68, hard-working, opinionated to a fault.
SHIRLEEN - Black woman, 59, honest, once pious, tired, the opposite of lonely.
PEANUT - Black boy, 16, ambitious, loyal, really trying.
DALILAH - White girl, 16, raised in this neighborhood, a sharp-tongued survivor, very alone.
MR. ALPHONSE - Black man, 40s, an addict, former musician, spinning.
ELMER - Black man, 30, an insurance salesman, a good son and father, often unmoored.