SYLVIA, SYLVIA, SYLVIA Equity Principal Actors - Geffen Playhouse Auditions

SYLVIA, SYLVIA, SYLVIA - Submit for LA Appointments

Geffen Playhouse | Los Angeles, CA

Notice: Submission

CONTRACT

PERSONNEL

• Playwright (LORT Non-Rep): Beth Hyland
• $1,144 weekly minimum (LORT B)
• Director: Jo Bonney
• Casting Director: Phyllis Schuringa

SEEKING

Equity actors for Understudy roles in SYLVIA,

OTHER DATES

(SYLVIA, SYLVIA — see breakdown). In-person auditions will be held in Los Angeles on or around January 8, 2026. They will request self-tapes first. Please submit your headshot and resume for consideration to be invited to submit a self-tape audition for the Understudy positions.

First Rehearsal: January 23, 2026
First Preview: February 4, 2026
Opening: February 12, 2026
Deadline to submit: December 15, 2025
Closing: March 8, 2026

SUBMIT TO

OTHER

Submit materials to:
aea.epa.geffen@gmail.com or visit
www.geffenplayhouse.org

Phyllis Schuringa

Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Geffen Playhouse 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.

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BREAKDOWN

SYNOPSIS

Sally, a once-celebrated novelist grappling with writer's block and overshadowed by her husband Theo’s rising literary fame, seeks solace and inspiration in the iconic Boston apartment once inhabited by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. But when eerie encounters begin to blur the line between inspiration and madness, Sally is forced to question what’s real, what’s imagined, and what her art may truly cost her. A darkly funny, gripping world premiere from rising playwright Beth Hyland, this tragicomic thriller explores creativity, obsession, and our ghosts that refuse to be ignored.

Recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Major support for this world premiere production provided by the Edgerton Foundation New Play Production Fund.

SEEKING

Understudies for:

SALLY: CAST. (Early 30s)
Very funny, very fast, with a real depth and vulnerability that she attempts to cover over. Uses humor both as a shield and as a weapon. Her brain moves incredibly quickly — super sharp, super verbal. Occasionally attempts to perform a cool-girl nihilism despite being anxious and obsessive; also suffers from the classic writer's combination of deep insecurity mixed with moments of superiority.

THEO: CAST. (Early 30s)
Gentle, boyish, neurotic, somewhat knowingly performing the role of self-conscious writer. Uncomfortable with traditional masculinity, yet performing a recognizable type of left/liberal/artistic-space manhood. Charming in his sweet, self-effacing nature, but there's something underneath that makes us wonder if we can trust him.

SYLVIA: CAST. (30s)
The most intense, the most vibrant, the highest highs and the lowest lows. Art and love and ambition and joy and suffering pour out of her — everything goes outward. High-status and elegant in a mid-20th-century way; in the scenes set in the present, she feels like she's from another time. Equally capable of deep tenderness and viciousness.

TED: CAST. (30s)
Dialect: British accent. Darkly magnetic, a self-styled Heathcliff: immensely charismatic with a sense of genuine danger about him. Brilliant, completely dedicated to his work, and very consciously embodying the role of The Artist. A deeply compelling stillness — mysterious, gnomic, self-contained — with occasional unpredictable outbursts of violence.