ROOM (Broadway) - NYC EPA Run Jack Broadway LLC | New York, NY
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Friday, January 13, 2023
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Break: 2:00 - 3:00pm
Sign up for an audition appointment at
https://www.slottr.com/roomepa1/13/2023 Please include your Equity status in the notes section when signing up. We will also check Membership cards upon check in. After signing up you should receive an email with a link to cancel your time if needed. If you did not receive this email and need to cancel, please email us at:
audition@carnagancasting.com. Subject should be ROOM EPA APPT: Cancellation. We will NOT be taking signups for time slots via email.
Production (League)
The minimum base weekly salary for the positions being auditioned for is established by a collective bargaining agreement between The Broadway League Inc., on behalf of the above-named producer, and Actors' Equity Association. It is anticipated that the base weekly salary for each of the above-listed roles will range between a minimum of $2,439.15 per week (which equals an annualized base salary of $126,835.80) and a maximum of $4,000 per week (which equals an annualized base salary of $208,000).
Equity actors for roles in the Broadway production of ROOM (see breakdown).
Sides will be provided.
Pearl Studios (519)
519 8th Ave
12th Fl
New York, NY 10018
Producer: Covent Garden Productions and ShowTown Productions
Director: Cora Bissett
Script by: Emma Donoghue
Songs by: Cora Bissett and Kathryn Joseph Based on: Emma Donoghue’s novel Room General Manager: ShowTown Theatricals: Rebecca Crigler, Samuel Dallas
Casting: Jim Carnahan Casting - Jim Carnahan, CSA and Alexandre Bleau, CSA (expected to attend)
1st Rehearsal: Late - February 2023 1st Performance: Early - April 2023 Opening: April 2023
Closing: September 2023
Venue: Broadway Theatre TBA
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.
Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms.
Holding/Audition room information:
The audition room can accommodate no more than 20 individuals at a time.
The holding room can accommodate no more than 37 individuals at a time.
All roles will be understudied.
Understudy for Ma: Black. Female. 20s-30s. Ma, once a bright young woman about to embark on life at college, was kidnapped and kept in a garden shed for the past 7 years by ‘Old Nick’, an abusive loner. He has managed to hide her without trace all this time. She is abused daily. She has learnt to stay alive by navigating the erratic anger of Old Nick and to abide by Old Nick’s deluded sense of some sort of skewed relationship. Whilst in captivity, she has borne a son, Jack. Ma is a woman of incredible resilience. She somehow finds the strength to create a world for Jack which feels safe, full of routine, games, stories and play, all the while covering the depression, desperation and true horror of their situation. Her love is boundless and fierce. She faces the biggest fear of her life when she concocts a plan to get Jack and herself out of Room, but knowing she must put his and her own life on the line.
Little Jack: Black. Male. Age 5. 4’9 or under. Bright, curious, articulate, mischievous little character. Adores Ma, affectionate, loving, but once free from ‘Room’ he finds the world is a far more confusing, frightening place than inside Room. As Ma’s mental health deteriorates, he finds himself lost, fragile, angry, and detached.
SuperJack: Black. Male. SuperJack is the internal version of Little Jack, NOT a grown-up version of the boy. As such, he shares the same playful, curious, bright, funny, and thoughtful character. He effectively allows the audience into LJ’s inner world and so is working events out as he lives day by day. Great physicality, an ability to inhabit a childlike energy (without playing ‘cutesy’) and a great singing voice.
Grandma: Female. Late 50s- 60s. Gran is Ma’s adoptive mother. She has held strong to the belief that Ma is still alive and cannot believe she has her daughter back. She too has been to hell and back, and suffered not only 8 years without Ma, but the breakup of her marriage as they reacted very differently to the loss of their daughter. Gran adores Ma but is met with strong resistance from an emotionally fragile Ma, and has to navigate how to support her daughter whilst not sending her into further decline. She tries to create a ‘happy atmosphere’ which presses all the wrong buttons within Ma. A strong woman, who has to shoulder a lot of silent pain as her daughter rejects, ridicules and fights her before ultimately accepting her love.
Grandpa / Doctor: Male. Late 50’s-60s. Ma’s adoptive Father. He did not take Ma’s kidnapping well.
He lost hope in the early days and in an effort to assuage his pain, he held a funeral for Ma. He and Gran separated, unable to find common ground on the way they were dealing with their pain and grief. He struggles to even look at Little Jack, which causes a great rage in Ma, and their relationship is fraught with complex barriers. Ma cannot help but resent his handling of her absence, and he cannot help but be appalled by the presence of this little boy who is the product of rape. He goes on a journey of the soul as he learns to accept Little jack as the great little person he is, rather than an abstracted manifestation of his Daughter’s suffering.
Interviewer / Police Officer: Female. A compassionate but straight-talking Police Officer. She is the one who first deals with Ma and Jack and subsequently has to deliver the news when Old Nick is caught. The interviewer is an acerbic TV host. Possibly a celebrity type. She draws Ma in with apparent warmth, only to stick a knife in, and accuse Ma of selfishness when the interview is not going her way. She is responsible for pushing Ma over the edge, judging her as a woman and Mother.
Old Nick: Male. 40s/50s. We only ever know this character as ‘Old Nick’. A loner, arguably psychotic, loosely inspired by the real-life character of Joseph Fritzl who imprisoned his own daughter for decades. A brooding, yet disturbingly normal man who holds down a job whilst maintaining his prisoner all the while at the bottom of his garden. In some ways, Old Nick imagines he is in some sort of marriage with Ma, whether through delusion or a weak grasp on reality. He never shows emotion, is quick to anger, demands absolute control.
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