PROSPEROUS FOOLS Equity Principal Actors - Theatre For A New Audience Auditions

PROSPEROUS FOOLS - NYC EPA

Theatre For A New Audience | New York, NY

AUDITION DATE

Thursday, February 27, 2025
2:30 PM - 10:30 PM (E)
BREAK: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep
$1011 weekly minimum (LORT C)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in PROSPEROUS FOOLS (see breakdown). No roles will be understudied.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a contemporary monologue of your choosing. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Polonsky Shakespeare Center
262 Ashland Pl
Brooklyn, NY 11217

PERSONNEL

Text: Taylor Mac
Director: Darko Tresnjak
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Jack Doulin, Casting Director

OTHER DATES

First Rehearsal: April 28th
Tech: Tues May 27th
First Preview: June 1st
Open: June 12th
Close: June 29th
Possible extension: July 27th

OTHER

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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

PROSPEROUS FOOLS

SYNOPSIS: Written by and starring the MacArthur genius and incomparable force of theatrical nature Taylor Mac, Prosperous Fools, inspired by Molière’s Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, is a brilliant and courageous exploration of philanthropy and its hypocrisies; a retooled comedy of manners for an age with no manners.
NOTE: All genders, and ethnicities are encouraged to audition.

SEEKING:

ARTIST: Character is male. Between 40 and 60. Pure and naive. NOTE: Taylor Mac is playing the ARTIST, but people are still welcome to come and audition for the role.

INTERN: Character is female. 20s. Nerdy but caustic.

PHILANTHROPOID: Character is female. Between 40 and 60. The theater’s Artistic Director.

#@$%$ (THE OLIGARCH): Character is a white male. Between 50 and 70. A philanthropic billionaire. Think of someone who might run the Kennedy Center.

STAGE MANAGER: Character is female. Any age. May double as a dancer/supernumerary/Piccolo Player (off-stage voice). Very few lines but very good at noises and voices.

POT-BELLIED CHILD: A small pot-bellied child with a lisp. Any gender. 10 years old or younger. NOTE: The actor need not have a “pot-belly,” it will be conveyed by a costume piece; any body type will be considered.

####: Character is female. A movie star turned humanitarian. Between 30 and 60. Flamboyantly self-absorbed.

THREE FEMALE BALLET DANCERS: Female presenting. Classically trained ballerinas. 20s to mid 30s.

ONE MALE BALLET DANCER: Male presenting. Classically trained. 20s to mid 30s.