Penumbra Theatre 2024-25 Season Equity Principal Actors - Penumbra Theatre Auditions

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AUDITION DATE

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (C)

Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment please email: casting@penumbratheatre.org .

CONTRACT

SPT

$850 weekly minimum (SPT 9)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Penumbra Theatre's 2024-25 Season (See breakdown).

Performers of all races and ethnicities are encouraged to audition.

PREPARATION

Please prepare two contrasting 2-minute monologues from contemporary African American canon. Please provide a headshot and resume upon arrival for your audition.

LOCATION

Penumbra Theatre

270 Kent St

Saint Paul, MN 55102-1744

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:

Sarah Bellamy, President

Lou Bellamy, Founder and Artistic Director Emeritus and Director of BLACK NATIVITY and PARADISE BLUE

Ron Schultz, Associate Director of Production

See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

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An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

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.

Previews on the Tuesday and Wednesday before opening night, curtain is at 7:30pm After opening*, Wednesdays - Fridays curtain is at 7:30pm

Saturdays curtain is at 2pm and 7:30pm

Sundays curtain is at 4pm

BREAKDOWN

Penumbra Theatre 2024-25 Season Season Performance schedule:

BLACK NATIVITY

Written by Langston Hughes

Directed by Lou Bellamy

First rehearsal: 11/19/24

Opening on 12/5/24

Closing on 12/22/24

(*This production will also have performances on Tuesday, 12/10/24 at 7:30pm, and on Tuesday, 12/17/24 at 7:30pm)

SYNOPSIS: Langston Hughes' Black Nativity tells the story of the Nativity from an African American perspective through a combination of scripture, poetry, dance and song with griot style narration.

SEEKING:

NARRATOR, (Pre-cast) 50 - 70 years old

SOLOIST, (Pre-cast) 50 - 70 years old

SOLOIST, (Pre-cast) 50 - 70 years old

MALE DANCER, (Pre-cast) 18 - 30 years old

FEMALE DANCER, (Pre-cast) 18 - 30 years old

PARADISE BLUE

Written by Dominique Morisseau

Directed by Lou Bellamy

First Rehearsal: 1/14/25

Opening on 2/13/25

Closing on 3/9/25

SYNOPSIS: Paradise Blue is a play by Dominique Morisseau set in 1949 Detroit that explores the destruction of the Black business community in Paradise Valley due to a Housing Act. The play is about Blue, a talented jazz club owner who plays the trumpet, and his decision to sell his club to gentrification. The play also features Blue's girlfriend Pumpkin, who cooks and cleans at the club, as well as Corn, the pianist, and P-Sam, the drummer. The play's plot also includes a mysterious woman from Louisiana who may have murdered her husband

SEEKING:

PUMPKIN - (Pre-cast) Black woman. Late 20s. Pretty in a plain way. Simple. Sweet. Waitress, cook, and caretaker of Paradise Club. A loving thing with a soft touch. Adores poetry.

BLUE - (Pre-cast) Black man. Early to mid 30s. Handsome. Mysterious. Sexy. Quiet danger. Aloof. A hard shell and a hard interior. Battling many demons. A gifted trumpeter.

CORN - (Pre-cast) Black man. Late 40s to Early 50s. Slightly chubby. (aka Cornelius) Easygoing and Thoughtful. A real sweetheart with a weakness for love. The piano man.

P-SAM - (Pre-cast) Black man. Mid to Late 30s. Busybody. Sweet-talker. (aka Percussion Sam) Hustler. Always eager for his next gig. The percussionist.

SILVER - Black woman. Mid to Late 30s. Mysterious. Sexy. Charming. Spicy woman. Gritty and raw in a way that men find irresistible. Has a meeeeaaaannn walk.

UNTITLED FABLE

Written by Donja R. Love

Directed by Lamar Perry

First Rehearsal: 3/25/25

Opening on 4/24/25

Closing on 5/18/25

SYNOPSIS: Two lovers are separated at sea. In search of his lost companion, one man crosses an ocean guided only by his yearning and the coaxing of the wind, sun, moon, and a trickster fish. Love’s newest fable is an achingly poignant and sometimes funny meditation on the passage of time and the persistence of love – a hopeful prayer that what we seek finds us.

SEEKING:

Man 1. (Pre-cast) Will Double as The Dirt, The Fish, The Moon, The Sun, and The Found. Man 2. Will Double as The Seeker.