THE UNBELIEVERS Equity Principal Actors - Manhattan Theatre Club Auditions

THE UNBELIEVERS - NYC EPA

Manhattan Theatre Club | New York, NY

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

LOCATION

Thursday, April 9, 2026
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St, 16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

PERSONNEL

Playwright: Nick Payne
Director: Knud Adams
Casting Directors: David Caparelliotis & Kelly Gillespie
Casting Assistant: Malaika Fernandes
Contract: LORT Non-Rep $1144 weekly minimum (LORT B)

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:

Seeking Equity actors for roles in THE UNBELIEVERS (see breakdown). All roles will be understudied.

OTHER DATES

1st Rehearsal: Tue, Sept 15
Tech: Tue, Oct 6
1st Preview: Tue, Oct 13
Opening: o/a Thu, Nov 5
Clear Through: early January 2026

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

THE UNBELIEVERS

SEEKING:

MIRIAM WRIGHT: 40s-50s. British. Mother of Margaret, Nancy, and Oscar, who has gone missing. Warm, but has some bite. Grounded and practical, even in the face of the terror and despair of a missing child. We watch her humor and sense of self calcify and warp as the years wear on and he is not found. Doggedly determined not to give up her hope.

DAVID WRIGHT: 40s-50s. British. Ex-husband of Miriam. Father of Margaret and Oscar. Emotional and less successful at managing his feelings than Miriam is. But that also allows him to process events and be more clear-eyed about them than she is able to be. A present and available father.

MARGARET WRIGHT: 17-25. British. Daughter of Miriam and David. Oscar’s sister. Bright and loving and not finished growing up. Bewildered and devastated by the loss of her brother, she is further unmoored by the fact that she also loses a large piece of her mother to her fixation on his disappearance. Heartbroken, but she keeps going.

NANCY GOMEZ: Early 20s-late 20s. British. Non-binary. Miriam’s child from her first marriage to Karl. A university student whose sense of humor and irony are both well-developed. Lost, in a classic mid-20s kind of way. Rattled by Oscar’s disappearance, though, and finds their cynicism challenged by the lure of the spiritual/supernatural.

REV. KARL GOMEZ: 40s-50s. British. Miriam’s ex-husband and Nancy’s father. A cool London vicar. Several years sober. Thoughtful. A natural peace-maker. Sly sense of humor. Good at reading a room; recognizes his limitations in this difficult situation.

PC ELIZABETH HAWKINS / LORRAINE: 40s-50s. British.

PC HAWKINS: Calm and clear. Accustomed to walking people through facts and procedures of police work, without letting emotion muddy the conversation.

LORRAINE: David’s current wife. Warm and invested in putting people at ease. Chatty.

PC JAY SHAH / ANIL: 40s. British.

PC SHAH: Works with PC Fisher. PC Fisher is the lead detective; he takes a back seat to her.

ANIL: A professor. Chair of the Society for Psychical Research’s spontaneous cases committee. Intent and enthusiastic. Detail-oriented.

PC ANGELA FISHER / MIA: 30s. British.

PC FISHER: Professional, kind. Has the slightly detached warmth of a person who has difficult conversations for a living.

MIA: A member of the Society for Psychical Research’s spontaneous cases committee. She's kind and warm. Drawn to Nancy. Attempts to lead a séance to reach Oscar.

BENJAMIN: 30s. British. Margaret’s boyfriend. A sweet, brainy guy who is researching the decline in the puffin population. Not a geek, just a nice man in an awkward family situation.