THIS IS REAL Equity Principal Actors - Target Margin Theater Auditions

THIS IS REAL - NYC EPA

Target Margin Theater, Inc. | Brooklyn, NY

AUDITION DATE

Monday, November 17, 2025
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CONTRACT

LOA-NYC
$651 weekly minimum - 2024 rates - pending negotiations.

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in THIS IS REAL (See breakdown).
There are no Equity stage manager positions available.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a brief (not more than two minutes) prose monologue from any play written before 1938. Also, bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Target Margin Theater
232 52nd St
Brooklyn, NY 11220
Auditions will take place in our 2nd floor studios. Holding room - Yellow Studio.

PERSONNEL

Director: David Herskovits
Design Team: Marika Kent, Normandy Sherwood
Producer: Adam M. Kassim
Expected to attend:
Director: David Herskovits
Producer: Adam M. Kassim
Company & Community Manager: Alyssa Haddad-Chin

OTHER DATES

First Rehearsal: Monday, January 26, 2026
Preview Performances begin: Sunday, March 1, 2026
Final Performance: Saturday, April 4, 2026

OTHER

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BREAKDOWN

THIS IS REAL

Target Margin Theater is aggressively inclusive. We are especially committed to an ethnically diverse cast. Older and younger BIPOC and multi-ethnic actors are encouraged to audition. We also seek actors of all genders, sexualities, ages, physical abilities, and categories beyond what we know today! Experience with classical drama is helpful. We are an experimental theater company, and actors must be comfortable with unorthodox approaches and unusual treatment of text. We seek actors who are comfortable trying things without knowing why.

THIS IS REAL is a devised work based on the writing of Jean Genet. It will draw on multiple sources, including Our Lady of the Flowers, Prisoner of Love, The Balcony, and others. Our goal is to challenge our culture in the United States today with a spirit as transgressive as Genet’s. Company members should be comfortable dealing with issues of Sex, Power, Violence, and Bizarre Role Playing.

This will be an ensemble play. Cast members will need to be willing and ready to contribute to an open and inclusive process, and to adjust to the dynamic evolution of the piece. We will re-imagine Genet’s work in our contemporary American moment.

We are seeking two actors (any gender) to join our principal ensemble for a total cast size of 7. Actors will shift and share roles often, depending on the sections we choose for adaptation. As with any devised work, the shape of this will be largely determined by our collaborative process.

All other Tracks with the same breakdown have already been cast.

SEEKING:

REPRESENTATIVE TRACKS 1 and 2 (note that these will evolve in our development process): any gender; Solange, Our Lady, Judge, Carmen, Roger, Irma.

• Solange: a worker who has tenacious drive
• Our Lady: a human with an enormous heart seeking a place in the world
• Judge: a person who is not a judge, but loves enforcing the law
• Carmen: a prostitute who knows what time it is
• Roger: a middle-aged plumber with dreams
• Irma: a human who runs a brothel