St. Louis Black Repertory Company - St. Louis, MO EPA
St Louis Black Repertory | Saint Louis, MO
Monday, September 18, 2023
1:00 PM - 9:30 PM (C)
Dinner Break: 4:45PM - 5:45PM
To set up an audition appointment please contact: Brian McKinley, 314-730-9408, BrianM@theblackrep.org, M-F, 1-4
SPT
$512 weekly minimum (SPT 5)
$459 weekly minimum (SPT 4)
Equity actors for St. Louis Black Repertory
Theatre Company's 2023-24 season (see
breakdown).
Please prepare one song AND one monologue OR two monologues. Also, please bring your headshot and resume.
St Louis Black Repertory Company
813 N Skinker Blvd
St Louis, MO 63130
Parking located on Vernon Ave
Expected to attend:
Ron Himes - Producing Director/Director
Geovonday Jones - Director
Colin Healy - Accompanist
See breakdown for production specific dates.
OTHER
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.
St. Louis Black Repertory Theatre Company
Rehearsal December 12, 2023
Preview January 10-11, 2024
Opening January 12, 2024
Closing January 28, 2024
CORETTA KING - 37, African American
MARTIN LUTHER KING - 35, African American
RALPH ABERNATHY - 39, African American
HOSEAH WILLIAMS - 39, African American
ANDREW YOUNG - 33, African American
JIMMIE LEE JACKSON - 23 African American
LYNDON JOHNSON - 57, White
JOHN LEWIS - 25, African American
JAMES FORMAN - 37, African American
ENSEMBLE - 20+, to play various roles.
Rehearsal January 30, 2024
Preview February 14, 2024
Opening February 16, 2024
Closing March 10, 2024
FLY LEWIS - Middle aged African American
Rehearsal February 13, 2024
Preview March 13-14, 2024
Opening March 15, 2024
Closing March 31, 2024
JULIA AUGUSTINE - Female, Black, 30s-40s, a new arrival to this community, she is a seamstress with an eighth-grade education; longs for friendship and family ties, but her ten-year illicit relationship with Herman has made her an outcast among her people.
MATTIE - Female, Black, 30s, one of Julia's new neighbors, she is struggling to support herself and her daughter on subsistence jobs while her common-law husband is away at sea.
LULA GREEN - Female, Black 40s-50s, Julia's other neighbor, Lula is deeply (if unconventionally) spiritual and fiercely protective of her son.
FANNY JOHNSON - Female, Black, 50+, Julia's landlady; deeply concerned with being seen as a high-class representative of her race, often by distancing herself from those who may not pass muster.
ANNABELLE - Female, White, 30s, Herman's sister; she might be graceful if she were not ashamed of her height (she is over 5'9); she is nervous and fearful in this strange atmosphere; the burden of her mother's social expectations weighs heavily on her.
HERMAN'S MOTHER - Female, White, 50+, born to poor sharecroppers, she has risen above her background - though nowhere near as far as she'd like; to compensate, she tries to assume the airs of quality and clings to the comfort of white supremacy.
TEETA- Female, Black, around 8, Mattie's daughter.
PRINCESS - Female, White, 6, her parents run an ice cream shop.
HERMAN - Male, White, 40s, a baker, and Julia's long-time lover; strong, working-class, torn between his love for Juilia and his duty (both financial and filial) to his mother.
NELSON GREEN- Male, Black, 20s-30s, Lula's adopted son, he is a rough-looking, muscular fellow with a soft voice and a bittersweet sense of humor.
BELL MAN - Male, White, 30s-40s, a peddler, friendly on the surface; he extends credit to most of the women in the neighborhood and expects gratitude and sexual favors in return.
Rehearsal April 16, 2024
Preview May 15-16, 2024
Opening May 17, 2024
Closing June 9, 2024
THE POET- Male, 40-60, A poet who dresses in rags and has a sense of tattered handsomeness. He needs and wants everything and every woman but has never quite lost his sense of humor. G2-F4
LUNDANDA- Female, 30-40, wife of wives to the Wazir of Police, born a princess in her own right in a neighboring kingdom. Rich, bright, and bored with her life. She takes a romantic interest in the Poet and works to bring him to power. F#3-B4
MARSINAH - Female, 15-25, The Poet's beautiful daughter. She has lived her life in the streets but has maintained her innocence and retains a sense of humor. She falls in love with the Mansa. Hungry and ragged.
THE MANSA- Male, 20-30, The newly acceded leader to the throne. A handsome and romantic youth who falls in love instantly with Marsinah but hides his identity. C3-Ab4
WAZIR OF POLICE- Male, 30-45, The new Commander of the Royal Camel Corps and appointed executioner in Timbuktu. Androgynous, murderous, and corrupt. A2-F#4
M'BALLAH OF THE RIVER- Male, 55-70, A king among pirates and brigands. He has traveled to Timbuktu to undo a curse that lost his son. Imposing, tall, fierce.
ENSEMBLE- Citizens of Timbuktu; Vendors and Merchants; River Pirates; Guards; Antelopes; Birds in Paradise.
Rehearsal May 21, 2024
Preview June 19-20, 2024
Opening June 22, 2024
Closing July 14, 2024
KING - 36, Male, he is the spiritual son of King Hedley from Seven Guitars; he is engaged in life and death struggles with a scar to prove it.
RUBY - 61, King’s mother and blues singer.
TONYA - 35, King’s girlfriend who is pregnant and wants to have an abortion because she does not want to bring a baby into this corrupt, crazy world.
STOOL PIGEON - 65, a harmonica player also seen in Seven Guitars; he is now a newspaper-collecting history carrier.
MISTER- 30s, the son of Red Carter from Seven Guitars; a cocky street punk with a streak of
kindness.
ELMORE- an old hustler who exudes an air of elegance and confidence born of his many years
wrestling with life; knows the secret of King's true patrimony.
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