Theatre Now New York | New York, NY
Equity actors for roles in THE SUSTAIN (see breakdown).
Please submit your headshot and resume to
erik@tnny.org with Subject line “The Sustain - [role]” along with any links to websites and/or online performances. Select actors may be asked to submit self-taped auditions prior to in-person callbacks in early August.
Deadline: 08/01/2025
Director: NJ Agwuna
Music Director: Dave Klodowski
Producer: Tom Morrissey
Book & Lyrics: Alice Jankell and Pamela Weiler Grayson
Music: Aaron Drescher
Casting Director: Erik Schark
First rehearsal: 9/2
Performances: 9/17-9/21
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.
NOTE: Theatre Now, a non-profit company dedicated to the development and production of new musicals, is seeking actors for a 3-week workshop culminating in 6 public performances of THE SUSTAIN, an intimate musical about love, sex, and friendship in an assisted living facility. With an indie rock score, a multigenerational cast, and interwoven stories, this original musical reveals the individual desires, fears and stories of the often invisible elderly. Performances will be on book as we’re primarily focused on the development of the piece and want to allow for changes during the process.
HARRY - 60 to 75 years old to play 80s, white male. Retired record producer, recently widowed, struggling with how to move on to a new love. Guitar skills a plus. Baritone/Tenor, Confident rock star edge with a folky falsetto, Eb3-G4
VIVIAN - 60 to 75 years old to play 80s, Black female. Retired high school principal. Reluctantly uses a walker. Smart and fiercely independent. Funny and can be witheringly sarcastic. Alto/Soprano with sultry lows and wailing soulful belt up to G5, F3-G5
LILY - 60 to 75 years old to play 80s, white female. Ex-opera singer, lively and engaged. Glamorous and fun. Mezzo/Alto, G3-G4
PAULINA - 40 to 50 years old, Puerto Rican female. From Ponce, Puerto Rico. An aide at Hillside. Gentle, caring and supportive. Also an empty nester and a bit of a worrier. Mezzo/Alto, G3-C5
SHELLY - 50 to 60 years old, any ethnicity, female. Director of Hillside Residential Living Facility. Very good at her job, but also has to deal with her own aging father. Empathetic but frustrated. Pop/Folk Alto, Eb3 - Eb5
LORI - 40 to 50 years old, white female. Harry's daughter. Hard-working businesswoman. Tries to compensate for her absence by being controlling. Pop/Folk Alto, Eb3- Eb5
OLD MAN IN THE WHEELCHAIR - 70 to 85 years old to play 90s, any ethnicity, male. Lost in a reverie of his youth. Light Baritone/Tenor, F3-G4
BETTY - 60 to 75 years old to play 80s, any ethnicity, female. Sweet and a little flighty. Behaves erratically. It's unclear whether she does or doesn't have dementia. Alto
ETHAN - 18 to 25 years old to play 16, any ethnicity, male. Caucasian or mixed ethnicity. LORI'S son and HARRY'S grandson. Shy teenager obsessed with his phone. Baritone/Tenor
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