Passage Theatre Company 2025-26 Season Equity Principal Actors - Passage Theatre Company Auditions

PASSAGE THEATRE COMPANY 2025-26 SEASON - NYC EPA

Passage Theatre Company | Trenton, NJ

AUDITION DATE

Wednesday, June 11, 2025
11:00 AM - 7:00 PM (E)
Lunch 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

CONTRACT

SPT
$482 weekly minimum (SPT 4)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Passage Theatre Company’s 2025-26 Season (See breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please prepare 2 short contemporary contrasting monologues. If auditioning for LANGSTON, prepare a poem by Langston Hughes. Also, please bring your headshot and resume.

LOCATION

Ripley-Grier Studios (520)
520 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6507
Holding room - Studio 16N

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:
Ozzie Jones, director of DUTCHMAN and THE SLAVE
Brishen Miller, Executive Artistic Director and director of MULEHEADED

OTHER DATES

Call backs are tentatively scheduled for Monday June 16 and Tuesday June 17, 2025, at Passage Theatre in Trenton, NJ.

Each production has 5 performances per week, Wednesday through Sunday, for three weeks. Each opening night is Friday, following a Wednesday student matinee and a Thursday free Preview.

See breakdown for production specific dates.

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

Passage Theatre Company 2025-26 Season

DUTCHMAN and THE SLAVE

Two One-Acts - Written by Amiri Baraka
Performed as ACT I and ACT II of the same play
Rehearsal: October 7, 2025
Runs: October 31, 2025, through November 16, 2025

Casting Note: These are the playwright’s original character descriptions. Passage encourages reading both scripts and researching the work.

SEEKING:

CLAY — twenty-year-old Negro (Doubles as WALKER)

LULA — thirty-year-old white woman (Doubles as GRACE)

WALKER VESSELS – tall thin Negro about forty (Doubles as CLAY)

GRACE – blonde woman about same age as WALKER VESSELS, forties. Small, thin, beautiful. (Doubles as LULA)

BRADFORD EASLEY — tall, broad, white man, thinning hair, about forty-five

MULEHEADED (World Premiere)

Written by David Robson
Rehearsal: January 6, 2026
Runs: January 30 through February 15, 2026

SEEKING:

LANGSTON — African American in his late twenties (This is the real-life Langston Hughes, should resemble the historical figure.)

LOUISE — African American in her twenties

ZORA — African American in her late thirties (This is the real-life Zora Neale Hurston, should resemble the historical figure.)