Passage Theatre Company
CONTRACT
SPT $375 weekly minimum (SPT 3) + health, pension, transportation, and housing
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Passage Theatre Company's 2022-23 Season (see breakdown).
INSTRUCTIONS
SEE PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS IN BREAKDOWN. Email your headshot/resume and video submission with the title of the show(s) you are auditioning for in the subject line.
Deadline: Fri, Jul 8, 2022
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Viewing auditions:
Artistic Director/Director of CLEAN SLATE: C. Ryanne Domingues
Composer of CLEAN SLATE, Kate Brennan
Author of CLEAN SLATE, David Lee White
Director of BLUES IN MY SOUL, Ozzie Jones
OTHER DATES
See production dates in breakdown.
Please note that you will be notified by email if we would like you to attend the live callbacks in Trenton. Please check your SPAM folder for updates.
OTHER
www.passagetheatre.org
All workshops, rehearsals, and performances for Blues in My Soul and a bright light will be held at the Mill Hill Playhouse in Trenton, NJ. Clean Slate is a co-production between Passage Theatre and Rider University. Therefore, Clean Slate will rehearse at Rider University and have a one-week run there before transferring over to Passage for brush-up rehearsals and a two-week run at the Mill Hill Playhouse.
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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS:
If you are auditioning for A BRIGHT LIGHT, please prepare a 2-minute monologue (or two contrasting 1-minute monologues).
If you are auditioning for CLEAN SLATE, please prepare a 2-minute monologue (or two contrasting 1-minute monologues) along with a brief cut of a contemporary musical song. You may also use the accompaniment at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rmpDfx-PJ4MwVGXxIE0BD597JEftwdl_ .
If you are auditioning for BLUES IN MY SOUL, please prepare a 2-minute monologue (or two contrasting 1-minute monologues) along with a brief cut of a blues song, accompanying yourself on the guitar.
BLUES IN MY SOUL: THE LEGEND AND LEGACY OF LONNIE JOHNSON, by David Robson
Directed by Ozzie Jones
Dates:
July 10: Callbacks
September 19 - October 12: Rehearsals (30 hrs/week rehearsal)
October 13 & 14: Previews
October 15: Opening
October 30: Closing
(The first week's performance schedule is Thurs, Fri. & Sat. at 7:30pm and Sun @ 3pm. Following weeks' schedules are Fri. & Sat. at 7:30pm and Sat. & Sun. at 3pm.)
It's 1959. Chris, a local DJ, gets word that legendary jazz and blues musician Lonnie Johnson is working a low-wage job at a Philly hotel, forgotten. Once found, Lonnie, an early guitar hero who influenced the likes of Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, T-Bone Walker, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, B.B. King, and Eric Clapton, is reluctant to return to an industry that exploited and segregated his work before casting him aside. As the two men meet, conflicts arise, forcing each to reconcile issues of authenticity, injustice, and legacy. Based on a true story, Blues in My Soul is a celebration of an unsung American legend and the music that inspired generations.
SEEKING:
CHRIS: Caucasian radio disc jockey in his thirties or forties. Sings and plays guitar.
LONNIE: African American bluesman in his late fifties or early sixties. Sings and plays guitar.
CLEAN SLATE
Book by David Lee White, Composed and lyrics by Kate Brennan
Directed by C. Ryanne Domingues
Dates:
July 18: Callbacks
August 16-19: 29-hour Developmental Workshop and Staged Reading
January 24 - February 23: Rehearsals at Rider University (30 hrs/week rehearsal)
February 24-26: Performances at Rider University
(Rider University's performance schedule is Fri. & Sat. at 7:30pm and Sat. & Sun. at 3pm.)
February 28 - March 9: Brush-up Rehearsals at Passage Theatre
March 10-19: Performances at Passage
(Passage's performance schedule is Thurs. at 11:00am, Fri. & Sat. at 7:30pm and Sat. & Sun. at 3pm.)
A new musical, created for young adult performers and audiences, that tells the story of a group of disaffected high school students who are sent to a rehabilitation camp that may, or may not, also be haunted by the souls of former campers who have gone missing. When the new owners of the Clean Slate camp begin to institute rules and regulations that threaten the freedom of the students, they are forced to band together and enter a cursed forest in order to find their way out. CLEAN SLATE is a story of radical empathy about the mistakes we make when we try to “heal” young people and the need to remember who we used to be in order to move forward. (This audition is for both a 29-hour developmental workshop of the piece and the full production.)
SEEKING:
Note: Most characters we encounter currently are on the binary and are written with he/him or she/her pronouns and you will see that in the following character descriptions. However limiting the descriptions are, our casting seeks to be inclusive as possible and we invite gender non-conforming, genderqueer, transgender, and non-binary actors to submit for the roles they most identify with.
SARAH/COUNCIL MEMBER 1: Female, adult, any race/ethnicity. Andi’s foster mother.
GINA/COUNCIL MEMBER 2: Female, adult, any race/ethnicity. Andi’s other foster mother.
OSWALD: Any gender identity, any race/ethnicity. The Mayor of the town. Charismatic, but sinister.
A BRIGHT LIGHT
Dates:
November 15-18: 29-hour developmental workshop
April 12-15: 29-hour developmental workshop and public staged reading
A Black man on the journey of becoming a father meets a Black mother who has lost a child to suicide. Based upon interviews with those in the Trenton community, a bright light follows these two characters as they navigate their mental health and adjust to new ways of living. (This audition is for two developmental workshops and one public staged reading of the piece.)
Seeking:
Man: 30s-early 40s, Black, community organizer, new father, searching for answers, represents joy.
Woman: 30s-early 40s, Black or Latinx, a mother who lost her child to suicide, searching for answers.
OTHER PEOPLE THEY MEET: Black or Latinx, any age, any gender.
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 submit.
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