Sparkfest 2025 Play Readings Equity Principal Actors - Amphibian Stage Productions Auditions

SPARKFEST 2025 PLAY READINGS - EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS

Amphibian Stage Productions | Fort Worth, TX

CONTRACT

SPT
$12 per hour minimum - Rehearsals
$35 per Performance (2 for each production)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in SparkFest 2025 Play Readings (See breakdown).

SUBMISSION

INSTRUCTIONS

Actors, please submit your video submissions using the following link:
Submission Link.

PREPARATION:

Please submit a short contemporary monologue, either comic or dramatic. Do not exceed 2 minutes. Video submissions will be accepted through Sunday May 4, 2025 by midnight. Deadline: 05/04/2025

SUBMIT TO

PERSONNEL

All personnel listed below will have access to view the audition submissions:
Producers: Jay Duffer, Artistic Director, Elizabeth Kensek, Managing Director, Ally Varitek, Associate Producer, Alex Voeller, Assistant Producer, Evan Woods, Marketing Director
Playwrights: Madeline Sayet, Joseph D. Valdez, Lee Cataluna
Directors: Rhiana Yazzie, Maddox Pennington, R. Réal Vargas Alanis

OTHER DATES

Callbacks will begin as early as May 7, 2025. Callbacks are virtual and by appointment only. Rehearsals and performances will take place at various times between June 14-June 22. Rehearsals are scheduled during the daytime & evenings. Performed readings will take place in the evenings on weekdays and daytime/evenings on weekends. A full festival schedule can be found on our website:
Sparkfest Website.

OTHER

www.amphibianstage.com
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

SPARKFEST 2025 PLAY READINGS

ROTATIONS OF THE SKY

by Joseph D. Valdez
Directed by Rhiana Yazzie

Synopsis: Johnny, a rising political star and single father, is forced to confront his past as he navigates the pressures of his upstart congressional campaign. Amid the cutthroat world of politics, he must also repair a fracturing relationship with his teenage daughter and care for his dying grandfather — all while trying to protect his family legacy.

SEEKING:

• JOHNNY, Navajo and Chicano male (38). An aspirational single father running for Congress. Charismatic and sharp, he appears poised, confident, and composed on the outside. However, beneath the surface, he is deeply wounded and carries many secrets. You wouldn’t know it, but he’s a man who is always running.
• GRANDPA, Navajo, male (60+). Johnny’s elderly grandfather. A World War II veteran who still carries the wounds and weight of war. Gritty, strong-willed, and full of music and memories, he continues to fight, even as he struggles in the final moments of his life.
• ANGIE, Navajo and Chicano, female (16). Johnny’s daughter and Grandpa’s great-granddaughter. A self-described activist who is at the top of her class. Driven, well-read, and usually the smartest person in the room, yet there is an emptiness inside her that she can’t quite fill.
• KIMIKO, African American, Female (38). A masterful political expert and campaign manager who hasn’t received the credit she’s due. Ivy League-educated and looking to make her mark.
• JORDAN, Mexican-American, male (16). Ambitious, imaginative, and industrious, he is the son of immigrants determined to bring his deported parents back and create a better life for his family. A dreamer.
• Stage Directions - any age, any identity

THE FISH

by Madeline Sayet
Synopsis: The water is rising and everything is at stake in this Noah's ark allegory about three Mohegan/Jewish siblings deciding what to hold onto from the past in order to survive. Both a post-apocalyptic reflection on the many generations that have had to go underwater in order to survive, and a creation story for the world to come.

SEEKING:

• Emily - Mohegan/Jewish, Female identifying, oldest sibling. Carrying the weight of the world, and belief she is responsible for her siblings.
• Jeets - Mohegan/Jewish, Female or Nonbinary, middle sibling, always trying to be the bridge between siblings, cultures, ways of seeing the world.
• Aaron - Mohegan/Jewish, Male, youngest sibling, loves books, desperately wants to leave home and meet new people.
• Mom - Mohegan/Jewish, 40s-50s, trying to imagine a future for her descendants.
• Quahog/Clam - Female. Ancient, powerful. Needs good comic timing.
• Pôtap (Whale) - Male, left off the ark. Needs good comic timing.
• Tooyupáhs (Turtle) / Puyamaq (Fish) - Any Gender, carries the world on their back. Needs good comic timing.
• Cast Also Doubles As: Noah, Jonah, Uncas, Sassacus, John Mason, Pôtap 2, 3, and 4, Grandma (Mohegan), Grandpa (Jewish), Auntie Spirits (Mohegan).
• Stage Directions - any age, any identity

STUCK IN HONOLULU

by Lee Cataluna
Synopsis: Daddy, a Polynesian elder, is brought by medical transport plane from his small island to a large hospital in Honolulu. Daddy’s roommate, Tati, is māhÅ«, (the Hawaiian concept of third gender) and Daddy has a lot of thoughts about that, much to the consternation of his daughter, Lihau, who is very concerned with appearances and performative allyship. Forced to spend long hours together battling their own pain, fear, and boredom, Daddy and Tati begin to heal in unanticipated ways in a story that is steeped in the Native Hawaiian tradition of storytelling as medicine.

SEEKING:

• Daddy – 50s-60s male, Native Hawaiian, in poor health but still thinks he’s the Big Boss.
• Lihau – 30s female, Native Hawaiian Daddy’s daughter, people-pleaser, perpetual beauty pageant contestant, overly concerned with appearances.
• Tati - 25 māhÅ« (Hawaiian concept of third gender), Native Hawaiian, assigned male at birth, although femme presenting not trans female as Tati does not identify with she/her pronouns, has had a hard life. Think TikTok influencer, Bretman Rock.
• Stage Directions - any age, any identity