REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES - Equity video submissions (principal)
Producing Org TBD | ,
Notice: Submission
Development Agreement
$1350 weekly minimum (Tier 3)
Equity actors for principal roles in REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES (See breakdown).
NYC actors are encouraged to submit.
FOR PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS SEE BREAKDOWN. Please submit your headshot, resume and video audition at:
www.xcastingnyc.com/auditions. Your video must be submitted as a file upload using this form. Submission videos will not be accepted via email or if they are linked to an external website (such as Vimeo, Dropbox, We Transfer, YouTube). Please upload as an .MP4 file, NOT .MOV. If your file is .MOV, please convert to .MP4. We will not be able to view files that are uploaded as .MOV.
Deadline: 12/12/2022
Producers: Barry & Fran Weissler and Jack Noseworthy
Director and Choreographer: Sergio Trujillo Book: Lisa Loomer
Music and Lyrics: Joy Huerta and Ben Velez Music Supervisor: Nadia DiGiallonardo Casting Assistant: Patrick Maravilla of Stewart/Whitley
Viewing submissions:
Casting Directors: Victor Vazquez, CSA of X Casting & Duncan Stewart, CSA and Benton Whitley, CSA of Stewart/Whitley
May 8, 2023 – June 4, 2023
Location: NYC TBD
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 submit.
Set in the sweltering East LA summer of 1987, Ana, a first-generation Mexican American, prepares for post-high school life as she impatiently awaits acceptance to Columbia University in NYC. When Ana finally tells her family of her dreams to live outside their tight knit community, she meets resistance from her mother, Carmen, who thinks Ana should stay in Boyle Heights, get married, have a few babies, and definitely lose a few pesky pounds. Even as she obtains encouragement from her friend, Henry, Ana’s college plans begin to rip at the seams when Carmen insists that she work at her older sister’s absurdly hot garment factory. During the longest summer of her life, Ana finds herself stuck doing manual labor alongside a group of curvy, funny, and extremely gossipy Latinas who spend their days discussing marriage, sex, and dashed dreams while speedily hiding from “La Migra” at the sight of every passing van. She chronicles her experiences with these women as they sweat together in the summer heat and feverishly try to meet a nearly impossible production deadline that would make or break the factory. From this group of unassuming seamstresses, Ana begins to patch together the complexities of womanhood, feminism, and her own immigrant identity, as she prepares to unstitch herself from her family’s expectations and pen her own story.
If you have access to your own accompaniment, please submit one or two short contrasting songs in the style of Latin pop, Latin R&B, ranchera, English or Spanish folk music. Song submissions can be in either English or Spanish.
If you do not have your own music or accompaniment, we invite you to use the following:
Female Identifying Performers (music sheet, piano accompaniment, teaching track):
https://xcastingnyc.co/rwhcanasong
Male Identifying Performers (music sheet, piano accompaniment, teaching track):
https://xcastingnyc.co/rwhchenrysong
ANA: Female-identifying, 18 years old. Mexican. Bi-lingual (Spanish & English). A budding activist, smart, passionate, impulsive, big hearted, and, okay, maybe a bit righteous. The first US citizen in her family. Ana has big dreams and some guilt about that too. Curvy and fine with it. Alto/Mezzo with a strong belt.
CARMEN: Female-identifying, 51 years old. Mexican. Bi-lingual (Spanish & English). Full of laughter, stories, and chisme. Irreverent in her speech but stubborn and old fashioned in her ideals. Ana got her curves from her. Alto/Mezzo with a strong belt.
ESTELA: Female-identifying, 30 years old. Mexican born, grew up in Los Angeles. Bi-lingual (Spanish & English). A hard worker, suppressing her talent and ambition to take care of her family. She has a wry sense of humor, and she’s curvy too. Alto/Mezzo with a strong belt.
PANCHA: Female-identifying, 40s. Mexican. Bi-lingual (Spanish & English). Wise, wry, outspoken, with big curves. Alto/Mezzo with a strong belt.
ROSALÍ: Female-identifying, 30s. Salvadoran. Bi-lingual (Spanish & English). Warm, romantic, a lover of pop culture, trying to be slim at any cost. Alto/Mezzo with a strong belt.
IZEL: Female-identifying, 17 years old. Indigenous Guatemalan, a refugee with few words, but she takes it all in. Sensitive and impressionable, resilient, with a great laugh. Alto/Mezzo with a strong belt. Bi-lingual (Spanish & English), a plus if fluent or familiar with K’iche.
MRS. SPITZ: Female-identifying. 40s. Latina, light skin, passes as white/Caucasian. Bi-lingual (Spanish & English). Blonde, tough, a businesswoman above all else.
RAÚL: Male-identifying. 50s. Mexican. Bi-lingual (Spanish & English). A house painter, a loving father and husband, a dreamer, much stronger than his circumstances have allowed.
HENRY: Male-identifying. 18 years old. BIPOC. Bi-lingual a plus (Spanish & English). A smart, perceptive, a bit nerdy, ambitious, funny. Strong tenor voice.
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