THE HOMECOMING QUEEN - NYC EPA
Atlantic Theater Company
AUDITION DATE
Thu, Aug 24, 2017
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
Off Broadway $527 per week
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles.
Note: All these characters are Black Africans born in Nigeria
PREPARATION
Please prepare a contemporary dramatic or comedic monologue. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Atlantic Theater Administrative Offices & Studios
76 9th Ave
New York, NY 10011
5th floor. (please be sure to have photo ID)
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director, Neil Pepe
Associate Artistic Director, Annie MacRae
Director of New Play Development, Abigail Katz
Artistic Associate, David Mendizábal
Director: Awoye Timpo
Writer: Ngozi Anyanwu
Those who will be in the room at various times of the day (schedule TBD)
Awoye Timpo
Annie MacRae
Abigail Katz
David Mendizábal
OTHER DATES
1st Rehearsal: Tuesday, December 12th, 2017
Tech: Saturday, January 6th, 2018 - Tuesday, January 9th, 2018
1st Performance: Wednesday, January 10th, 2018
Opening: Monday, January 22nd, 2018
Closing: Sunday, February 11th, 2018 (with possible one week extension)
This production will take place at Atlantic Theater Company’s Stage 2
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity monitor will be provided.
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.
BREAKDOWN
KELECHI:
(Early 30's) Black African from Nigeria. Bestselling novelist and Pulitzer Finalist. She’s an Igbo gal, but also a very American woman. Hard, complicated and unwell. All though she has buried her accent into a very standard east coast American Dialect. She often unknowingly goes into her original Igbo dialect in times of duress.
GODWIN/PAPA:
(Late 50's or older) Black African from Nigeria. A Proud Igbo Man. The fading Patriarch. Traditional. He is stern, gruff but not without humor. Holds regrets in his heart. He speaks English with a heavy Igbo accent.
BEATRICE/THE GIRL:
(Late teens) Black African from Nigeria. She is a house girl. She says little but knows much, and she’s sharp as a tack. She has an Igbo accent. (CAST)
OBINA:
(Early 30’s) Black African from Nigeria. An Igbo man. He has lived many years in London, and is the former servant of the Ekejuba's. He was once small and shy. Now he's big and strong. And though has turned himself into a man of great class and wealth. His heart is still soft. He can easily code switch between a British and Igbo accent.
THE WOMEN:
(Ages range) Black African, from Nigeria. Igbo women. The gossips, the prophets, the lineage. They are daughters, aunties and mothers. They are Kelechi’s ghosts. Their numbers grow throughout the play. They are always singing, and know all things. They always speak in the Igbo language or Pidgeon English
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 audition.
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