RACE: THE MOVIE: THE PLAY Equity Principal Actors - Producing Org TBD Auditions

RACE: THE MOVIE: THE PLAY - NYC EPA

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AUDITION DATE

LOCATION

Friday, June 5, 2026
Pearl Studios (500)
500 8th Ave
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
New York, NY 10018-6504

BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM

PERSONNEL

Executive Producers: JamRock Productions/Jamila Ponton Bragg

CONTRACT

Tristate actors and actors without conflicts encouraged to audition.

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:

• Jodi Collins - Executive Producer
• Erica Hart - Casting Director

PREPARATION

Please prepare a 1-minute comedic playful theatrical monologue that embraces the tone of parody. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

OTHER DATES

Rehearsal dates: June 8-June 17
Show dates: June 17-July 12 performances
Wednesday-Monday
Tuesdays off – Six show week.

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.

BREAKDOWN

RACE: THE MOVIE: THE PLAY

SYNOPSIS:

Race: The Movie: The Play follows a white chauffeur named Wyatt Saveyer who serves as the driver for a brilliant black musician named Gene Yus on a concert tour through the 1850s Deep South in this witty, screwball comedy; a parody of Oscar-bait white savior movies like Django…,, 12 Years A Slave, in the style of Monty Python parodies. A Soho Playhouse review called the play a ‘Mel Brooks for the modern era’.

NOTE: All roles require comic timing and an understanding of parody. This play depicts a concert tour in the Deep South, 1850's in the parody style of the 'Oscar bait white savior movies'.

SEEKING:

Ray Cist:

Male 45-60 White wealthy 'plantation-owner energy'; smarmy. He is a charming, awful slaveowner who represents genteel racism, entitlement, and historical denial.

Gene Yus: Understudy

Male 35-50 Black male; refined, commanding, 'musically' credible. He is a brilliant, hyper-accomplished black musician whose intellect, pride, and exhaustion drive the emotional spine of the play.

Wyatt Saveyer: Understudy

Male 30-45 White / presenting as an Italian-American (attitude and look) with physical comedy stamina. Loud, ignorant but ultimately redeemable. Winds up being the chauffeur to Gene and is the white-savior parody engine of the show.

Jen Trifier: Understudy

Female 25-40 White, mixed race or 'ethnically ambiguous' who transforms quickly across character types. A pop-culture, white-liberal, and broad sketch style characters.

THE FOLLOWING ROLES ARE CAST:

Gene Yus 35–50 - CAST

Black male; refined, commanding, musically credible. Brilliant, hyper-accomplished Black musician whose intellect, pride, and exhaustion drive the emotional spine of the play.

Wyatt Saveyer 30–45 - CAST

White / Italian-American-presenting male; physical comedy stamina. Loud, ignorant but ultimately redeemable driver; the white-savior parody engine of the show.

Stretch 20s–30s - CAST

Black male; skinny/fresh-faced preferred; comic-musical energy. Young enslaved aspiring songwriter/rapper with bad “bars” who becomes Gene’s unlikely creative partner.

Damea 40–65 - CAST

Black; big presence. Tyler Perry/Madea-style plantation matriarch parody with huge authority and comic force. Character is portrayed in drag.

Barker, Wyatt Devil, Warden 35–60 - CAST

White male; villainous/authority figures; strong mustache/character look. Doubles as racist menace, showman energy, and absurd institutional power.

Attendant, Tuwoke, Narrator/Movie Fun Facts, Female Writer, Junebug 25–45 - CAST

Black female; strong character-comedy with direct-address skills. Versatile comic; doubles as woke satire, narration, workplace roles, and ensemble punchlines.

T’Challa-Latte, Freeman, Chinstrap 30–45 - CAST

Black male; handsome/regal presence; with strong parody skills. Versatile; doubles as Black authority, utopian superhero parody, and ensemble slave-field commentary.

White Darryl, Marty, Judge 35–60 - CAST

White male; strong Southern/low-status comic range, broadly comic. Doubles as racist functionaries, poor white resentment, and corrupt legal authority.

D-Jango, Random Voiceover 30–45 - CAST

Black male; jacked/physically imposing; strong voiceover/comic timing. Action-hero parody who later twists into absurd body-takeover satire; also handles meta narration.

Salesman/Merchant, Max Hayte, Guard, Mick E 35–55 - CAST

White male; large/brutish build; physical comedian doubles as silent racist brute, guards, merchants, and parody mascot bits.

Thanus 35–55 - CAST

Any race, likely male-presenting; physically big or vocally imposing. Purple-space-villain parody whose plan turns slavery into comic-book apocalypse stakes.

Pianist - CAST

Any adult Any race/gender; a strong live pianist and comic accompanist. Onstage musical engine providing underscoring, stings, transitions, and meta commentary throughout.