The Acting Company 2023-24 Season - NYC EPA Revised The Acting Company | New York, NY
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
REVISED
Updated email for video submission.
Thursday, June 1, 2023
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
LOA
$739 weekly minimum (Ref. LORT) + pension/health and 1 week of vacation + per diem while on tour.
Equity actors for roles in The Acting Company's 2023-24 Season (See breakdown).
We welcome all! We invite BIPOC actors, LGBTQIA+ actors, non-binary and trans actors, and actors with disabilities to audition.
Local NYC actors are encouraged to audition.
Please prepare a single 2 minute classical monologue (heightened language, verse, could be Shakespeare, Greek, French, etc). Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together. If you are unable to attend the EPA, you are welcome to submit your headshot/resume and monologue to: ActingCompanyOdysseyCasting@gmail.com and
OdysseyCastingActingCompany@gmail.com .
Pearl Studios (500)
500 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6504
Holding room Studio 406
Expected to attend:
Devin Brain, Producing Director
Laura Schutzel, CSA - Casting Director
EPA also on 6/2
SCHEDULE for ODYSSEY: July 2023 - March 2024
Rehearsal (NYC): July 31 - August 20th Tech (Marin Theater): August 21st - 30th Marin Theater Run: August 31st - September 24th (September 5th Opening)
Fall Tour: September 25th - November 19th
Off-Broadway Run: Winter 2024 TBD
*The schedule will include occasional student matinees before noon.
See breakdown for schedule details for the Reading Series.
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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.
Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms.
The Acting Company 2023-24 Season:
COMPANY / SEASON:
The Acting Company is the only professional theater principally dedicated to the development of young classical actors. Founded in 1972 by John Houseman and Margot Harley from the first graduating class of the Drama Division of The Juilliard School, The Company has launched the careers of some 400 actors, including Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, David Schramm, Keith David, Rainn Wilson, Lorraine Toussaint, Frances Conroy, Harriet Harris, Jeffrey Wright, Hamish Linklater, Jesse L. Martin, and Roslyn Ruff, while bringing high-quality professional theater to hundreds of communities from coast to coast.
THE ACTING COMPANY is seeking a DIVERSE and GLOBALLY REPRESENTATIVE COMPANY OF ACTORS FOR THESE PRODUCTIONS.
Theatrical Adaptation by Lisa Peterson, based on Emily Wilson’s Translation
Directed by: Lisa Peterson
The Acting Company begins our 2023-24 season with a bold new theatrical adaptation by Lisa Peterson. This new play is the next step in The Acting Company’s mission to strengthen and develop artists through bold productions that tour the country. This production will rehearse in NYC, play at Marin Theater in San Francisco, and tour the Nation for six weeks, before landing in NYC for an off broadway run in early 2024.
SYNOPSIS: What will you do to go home again? Lisa Peterson’s adaptation of The Odyssey brings new life to this ancient epic. Four young women trapped in the limbo of a refugee camp retell Odysseus' struggles to return home as they grapple with their own search for a home. A production based on the revelatory new translation by Emily Wilson, its bold theatricality brings new humor and grace to a story we all think we know.
ANOUD — 18+ to play a young woman from Tunisia (formerly Carthage). Creative, full of ideas, but also pushy, and stubborn. She studied the Odyssey in school, and she loves it. Though it troubles her. She’s an organizer, a planner, and a natural director.
ZEE — 18+ to play a tough young person from East Africa—Sudan or Rwanda. Lost her/their mother during the journey to Greece. She’s/they're hurt, angry, and not inclined to play. Dangerous.
BÉA — 18+ to play a young woman from the Middle East. Playful, sharp, funny. Always surprising. A chameleon; a little bit goofy. A musician with a beautiful singing voice, capable of accompanying herself on a guitar or other instrument.
HANA — 18+ to play a young woman from Albania. Delicate, thoughtful, with sharp eyes, always watching. She’s been wounded—both emotionally and physically. She’s battered.
Between them, they Double as Athena, Zeus, Telemachus, Menelaus, Calypso, Circe, Odysseus, the Cyclops, Penelope, and various gods, sailors, swineherds, and suitors.
Understudy / Swing - Covering all 4 above roles
READING SERIES: In the Fall and Winter, The Acting Company produces a four-show reading series in NYC. Each one is a single-day event, 5 hours of rehearsal + a performance. The series is comprised of titles that showcase the company’s mission of bold interpretations of canonical classics + exciting new classics. This season will include plays like Hamlet, modern adaptations of The Witch of Edmonton, etc.
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