SELLING KABUL Submission - Playwrights Horizons Inc. Auditions

SELLING KABUL - EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS

Playwrights Horizons Inc.

CONTRACT

Off Broadway Salary TBA (currently $656 weekly minimum - Cat AA)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in SELLING KABUL (see breakdown).

SM and ASM positions are filled for this production.

INSTRUCTIONS

PREPARATION: A short monologue. A personal introduction would be appreciated, but not required. Total video not to exceed 5 minutes. Please submit tapes in Vimeo or Unlisted YouTube format along with headshot and resume preferably as a PDF. Please state union status in subject line. Video auditions due by August 20th @ 6pm EDT.

Deadline: Fri, Aug 20, 2021

SUBMIT TO

PHCastingSubmissions@phnyc.org

PERSONNEL

SELLING KABUL by Sylvia Khoury
Director: Tyne Rafaeli

Viewing auditions:
Casting Directors: Alaine Alldaffer
Associate Casting Director: Lisa Donadio

OTHER DATES

First Rehearsal: Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Tech: Friday, November 12- Tuesday, November 16, 2021
First Preview: Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Opening: Around Monday, December 6, 2021
Regular Run End: Thursday, December 23, 2021
Maximum Extension: Sunday, January 16, 2022

OTHER

Venue: The Sharp Theater at Playwrights Horizons

NOTE: Playwrights Horizons is requiring that all artists be vaccinated.

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.

BREAKDOWN

AVAILABLE ROLE:

TAROON: Early 30s. Male. Afghan. Afiya’s younger brother. Once set on following in the family trade of becoming a tailor, his now-wife Bibi encouraged him to interpret for the Americans in Kabul, in hopes of unseating the Taliban and ushering a new era of peace for their country. When the Americans pulled out of Afghanistan, he was left with a promise of a visa—a promise that remains unfulfilled, to great personal peril. Naïve, idealistic, and with no small amount of bravado, Taroon has been hiding primarily in his sister’s home. At the top of the play, he awaits news of the birth of his first child.

THE FOLLOWING ROLES ARE CAST. ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR POSSIBLE UNDERSTUDIES AND REPLACEMENTS.

AFIYA: Early- mid-30s. Female. Afghan. An honest woman struggling to remain uncompromised in a deeply compromised situation—the moral center of the play. A serious, capable, and unfailingly good woman quietly keeping her family safe while hiding a deep well of shame. She shares her home with her brother, Taroon, and her husband, Jawid—and both relationships are deeply complicated. On one hand, she is furious with Taroon for putting himself and his family in danger by interpreting for the Americans, but does everything in her power to keep him safe from the Taliban—including hiding him in her apartment for months at a time. On the other hand, she is deeply unsettled by the actions Jawid has taken to try actualize their hope of having a child—which has included an agreement with the Taliban to make them army uniforms, hoping to use this extra income for fertility treatments. CAST

LEYLA: Late 20s. Female. Afghan. Afiya’s neighbor and childhood friend, who works for Afiya and Jawid’s tailor shop with her husband, Amir. The two couples are like family to each other, and live across the hall from each other. Leyla is clever and quick-witted, and enjoys playing flighty and dramatic in counterpart to her closest friend Afiya’s deep seriousness. She is also a new mother to her son, Nabil, who is six months old. She is a deep and true friend to Afiya. CAST

JAWID: Late 30s. Male. Afghan. A tailor by profession. He has chosen to protect his family by working for the Taliban, and has benefited from the small creature comforts this permits him. He feels extremely guilty about this decision, but never speaks of this shame. He is deeply in love with his wife, Afiya. CAST

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.