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

RACE: THE MOVIE: THE PLAY - NYC EPA Revised

Producing Org TBD

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

REVISED

LOCATION

Pearl Studios (500)
500 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6504

AUDITION DATE

Friday, June 5, 2026
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)

BREAK: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

PERSONNEL

Executive Producers: JamRock Productions/Jamila Ponton Bragg
Dean Edwards, Barry Katz, Jodi Collins
Contract Producers: Bret Raybould, Cristian Duran
Off Broadway General Manager: ShowTown Theatricals / Amanda Feldman
$835 weekly minimum (Tier A - Most Favored Nations).
Writers: Dean Edwards, Bret Raybould, Cristian Duran
Director: Cristian Duran

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in RACE: THE MOVIE: THE PLAY (see breakdown). Tristate actors and actors without conflicts encouraged to audition.

OTHER DATES

All Stage Managerial positions are currently filled.
Rehearsal dates: June 8-June 17
Show dates: June 17-July 12 performances

PREPARATION

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

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 and 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, 1850s 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 character.

THE FOLLOWING ROLES ARE CAST:

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

Stretch: CAST
20s–30s 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: CAST
40–65 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: CAST
35–60 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: CAST
25–45 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: CAST
30–45 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: CAST
35–60 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: CAST
30–45 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: CAST
35–55 White male; large/brutish build; physical comedian doubles as silent racist brute, guards, merchants, and parody mascot bits.

Thanus: CAST
35–55 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.