QUEENS Equity Principal Actors - Manhattan Theatre Club Auditions

QUEENS - NYC EPA

Manhattan Theatre Club | New York, NY
REVISED
Updated Preparation.

AUDITION DATE

Thursday, June 26, 2025
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep
$1144 weekly minimum (LORT B)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in QUEENS (see breakdown).

PREPARATION

Actors should prepare EITHER a two-minute contemporary monologue, OR one of the provided sides. You may find the Sides at this link:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/urqg173euszc1g6dxqj4e/AKBeySnXH4jGul3bLf-eRqo?rlkey=j4kqmjzm7h6d060dws2awmswt&st=bh nwsve5&dl=0. Copies of the Sides will also be available from the Equity monitor. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036

PERSONNEL

Playwright: Martyna Majok
Director: Trip Cullman
Casting Directors: David Caparelliotis, Kelly Gillespie, Joe Gery
Casting Assistant: Joe Gery

EXPECTED TO ATTEND

Casting Director: David Caparelliotis
Casting Director: Kelly Gillespie
Casting Director: Joe Gery
Casting Assistant: Malaika Fernandes

OTHER DATES

1st Rehearsal: September 16, 2025
1st Preview: October 14, 2025
Opening: o/a November 5, 2025
Clear through: January 13, 2026

OTHER

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EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

BREAKDOWN

QUEENS

SYNOPSIS: From Pulitzer Prize winner Martyna Majok (Cost of Living, Sanctuary City) comes an epic drama about hunting for the American Dream, finding family, and facing the ghosts you left behind. In an illegal basement apartment in Queens, multiple generations of immigrant women fight to launch a new life. But when a young Ukrainian woman comes searching for the mother who abandoned her years ago, she forces a reckoning with the impossible choices the women made to survive. Directed by Trip Cullman (We Had A World, Choir Boy), Queens chronicles the strivers who sacrificed whole worlds for the chance at something remarkable.

SEEKING:

RENIA [CAST] - female. Polish. Early 40s. An immigrant woman in search of security and a piece of the American dream to call her own. Determined and opportunistic. Works hard; looks forward, not back. The daily fight to make ends meet and feel visible in a country that is not her own hardens her. She’s a survivor, but at what cost?

PELAGIYA - female. Belarusian. Mid 30s-early 40s. One of the longest-term residents of the Queens apartment where the women live, and the one in charge - until Renia usurps that role. Sharp, dry, constantly on alert. Exacting, likes to be in control. Very direct. Turns on a dime. We see her health decline over the course of the play.

AAMANI [CAST] - female. Afghan. Late 30s-early 40s. Measured, grounded, a straight-shooter, but has the soul of an artist. Along with Pelagiya, one of the longest-term residents of the apartment where the women live, and she holds the memory of all the women who have been through. Left a lover and a career in the humanities behind in Afghanistan, and she holds those memories as well.

ISABEL [CAST] - female. Honduran. Mid 30s-early 40s. High-strung, combative, defensive. She has left a daughter behind in Honduras, and now must go back because her mother is dying. Scared of making the wrong decision, no matter what she chooses. Her life in America isn’t perfect by any means, but she will miss it, in her unsentimental way.

INNA [CAST] - female. Ukrainian. 20s. A young woman who has escaped the terrible mail order bride relationship which brought her to America, and has come to Queens in search of her mother, who immigrated without her when she was a young child. Angry, hurt, and in need of some kindness - if she can remember how to accept it. She has learned to be suspicious and defensive, but she’s still very young, and maybe it’s not too late to undo some damage.

LERA [CAST] - female. Ukrainian. 30s. Inna’s friend in Ukraine. Looking for a path to a better life by trying to attract a foreign husband. Her optimism is tempered by cynicism, but she is still hopeful. Relies on Inna, and vice versa.

AGATA - female. 30s/40s. Polish. An immigrant who has settled fairly comfortably into American life, with a partner, and eventually a house in the suburbs. Supported Renia when she first came to America, and has struggled to move past Renia’s betrayal of her. A forceful personality. Cool and not one to turn the other cheek.

GLYNIS [CAST] - female. Honduran-American. Late teens/early 20s. Isabel’s daughter, who traveled to America from Honduras on her own at 12. Tough, street-smart. Hides her vulnerability, but not as well as she thinks she does. Wants to do the right thing. Needs to survive.