Theatre Espresso
CONTRACT
TYA $85.00 per performance (Tier II)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Theatre Espresso 2022 Season (see breakdown).
All stage managerial positions have been filled.
Local actors encouraged to submit.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare a one-minute monologue of your choice. Email to Artistic Director, Shelley Bolman.
Deadline: Mon, Dec 20, 2021
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Viewing auditions:
Shelley Bolman, Artistic Director
Danny Bolton, Company Manager
OTHER DATES
Rehearsal Dates: Rehearsals for all shows will be held between Jan 3 – Mar 4, 2022
Show Run Dates: All FIVE shows will be available to tour from Feb 1 - June 24, 2022. Dates that understudies will perform will always be scheduled in advance.
OTHER
All rehearsals and performances take place in the Greater Boston area.
Theatre Espresso
Address: 43 Boynton St. #1L,
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
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.
BREAKDOWN
Roles: All principal roles are cast. However, we maintain an active company of understudies to fill in throughout the season, and we are seeking to add three new understudies to our company. Dramas touring this year are listed below. Note that the gender/race of the characters are indicated where important to the story, but we will enthusiastically consider actors of any gender/identity who can believably play the role. Women or gender non-conforming actors who identify as AAPI, Black, or Caucasian are encouraged to submit to understudy multiple tracks in these shows:
American Tapestry, by Megan Cooper, Wendy Lement, and Derek Nelson
(Director: Shelley Bolman)
Carmella Teoli – Woman, any race
Mrs. Teoli/Ensemble - Woman, any race
Mrs. Wannarzyk/Ensemble - Woman, any race
Mrs. Wade/Ensemble - Woman, any race
Victoria/Ensemble - Woman, any race
Mr. Teoli/Ensemble - Man, any race
Chairman Henry - Man, any race
Samuel Goldberg/Ensemble - Man, any race
Father Milanese/Ensemble - Man, any race
Justice at War - The Japanese Internment Camps, by Mimi Katano, Wendy Lement, and Jordan Winer
(Director: Shelley Bolman)
General John L. DeWitt – Man, Caucasian
Solicitor General Fahey - any gender, any race
Mitsuye Endo - Woman, Asian
Purcell - any gender, any race
Chief Justice Stone - any gender, any race
Bailiff - any gender, any race
The Trial of Anthony Burns, by Bethany Dunakin and Wendy Lement
(Director: Shelley Bolman)
Anthony Burns - any gender, African American
Rev. Grimes/Ensemble - any gender, African American
Colonel Suttle/Wendell Phillips - Man, Caucasian
Louisa May Alcott/Ensemble - Woman, any race
Richard Henry Dana/Ensemble - Man, Caucasian
Judge Edward Loring/Ensemble - Man, Caucasian
State Senate Chairman/Ensemble - any gender, Caucasian
Uprising on King Street, by Christopher Robin Cook, Wendy Lement, and Derek Nelson
(Director: Shelley Bolman)
Captain Thomas Preston - any gender, any race
Judge Trowbridge/Phillis Wheatley & Ensemble - Woman, African American
Abigail Adams/Ensemble - Woman, any race
Mrs. Hartigan/Ensemble - Woman, any race
Sam Adams/Andrew & Ensemble - any gender, African American
John Adams/Ensemble - Man, any race
Robert Paine/Ensemble - Man, Caucasian
Richard Palmes/Ensemble - any gender, any race
Nine Who Dared, by Wendy Lement, Derek Nelson, and Clifford Odle
(Director: Shelley Bolman)
Ernest Green - Man, African American
Melba Patillo - Woman, African American
Mrs. Bates/Minnijean Brown - Woman, African American
Miss Huckaby/Ensemble - Woman, Caucasian
Nancy/Ensemble - Woman, Caucasian
Reverend Crenshaw/Ensemble - Man, African American
Governor Faubus/Ensemble - Man, Caucasian
Ben Fine/Ensemble - Man, Caucasian
President Eisenhower/Ensemble - Man, Caucasian
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.
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