THE PUSHOVER Equity Principal Actors - Chain Theatre Auditions

THE PUSHOVER - NYC EPA

Chain Theatre | New York, NY

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

LOCATION

Date: Thursday, February 26, 2026

Location: Chain Theatre, 312 W 36th St, Fl 4, New York, NY 10018

Time: 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)

Lunch: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (Holding room - 3rd Floor, Lobby)

CONTRACT

PERSONNEL

LOA-NYC

Written by John Patrick Shanley

$612 weekly minimum

Expected to attend: Director: Kirk Gostkowski, Artistic Director and Founder of the Chain Theatre

Equity actors for roles in THE PUSHOVER (see breakdown).

OTHER DATES

• Rehearsals begin: March 9, 2026
• World Premiere Tech: March 26 – April 1, 2026
• Previews: April 3 & 4, 2026
• Opening: April 6, 2026
• Closing: May 3, 2026

All Equity stage managerial positions have been filled.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a monologue no more than two minutes in length and bring a hard copy of your resume with a photo.

Performances: Wednesday - Saturday at 7:00 PM, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00 PM.

OTHER

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Venue: 99-seat Off-Broadway at the Chain Theatre located at 312 W. 36th Street, 3rd Fl., New York City, NY 10018

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.

JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY

John Patrick Shanley’s plays include Prodigal Son, Outside Mullingar (Tony Award nomination), Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Savage in Limbo, Italian-American Reconciliation, Welcome to the Moon, Four Dogs and a Bone, Dirty Story, Defiance, Beggars in the House of Plenty, and Brooklyn Laundry. His theatrical work is performed extensively across the United States and around the world. For his play Doubt, he received both the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

In screenwriting, he has ten films to his credit, most recently Wild Mountain Thyme, with Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, and Christopher Walken. His film of Doubt, which he also directed and which starred Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, and Viola Davis, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. Other screen credits include Five Corners (Special Jury Prize, Barcelona Film Festival), Alive, Joe Versus the Volcano (which he also directed), and Live from Baghdad for HBO (Emmy nomination). For his script of Moonstruck, he received both the Writers Guild of America Award and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. In 2009, the Writers Guild of America honored Mr. Shanley with the Lifetime Achievement in Writing Award.

About the Chain Theatre: Chain Theatre always seeks to reflect and react to the world around us—culturally, politically, and socially. Audiences can find investment in the work at the Chain because it's about them, no matter the topic. It’s a place where artists and audiences can expand their perspectives.

The critically acclaimed Chain Theatre is a premier Off-Broadway producing organization in midtown Manhattan. Recent collaborations and premieres include the NYC Premiere of Humpty Dumpty with Eric Bogosian; World Premiere of Garbageman by Emmy-nominated Keith Huff; collaborations with Tony Award-winner David Rabe; and recent hit World Premiere productions such as This G*D Damn House (ScreenCraft Grand Prize Winner), A Will to Live, What Passes for Comedy, and MacBitches (NYT Critic's Pick).

SYNOPSIS

A play about three bad-ass women who collide and collude at a spa in New Mexico, and a bare-bones Chinese restaurant in Queens. Dangerous and hungry, their weapons and their passions bleed into each other. They speak the language of the outcast, rough and sexual, and fight to survive, and to love.

SEEKING

• Pearl Penny Chen - Female presenting. Around 40 years old, Chinese-American. Very much a New Yorker. A chef and self-made businesswoman. Fierce, yet vulnerable. This character participates in same-sex kissing during the play.
• Therapist - Male presenting. A middle-aged guy. A little tough. A little rumpled. Actors of any ethnicity are encouraged to apply.
• Evelyn - Female presenting. Any ethnicity. Around 40–50. There is something quietly ferocious about her. Boss vibes. This character participates in same-sex kissing during the play.
• Soochi - Female presenting. 20s–30s. A hustler, attractive, and a touch feral. Actors of any ethnicity are encouraged to apply. This character appears in one scene in a bra onstage.