Undermain Theatre 2023-24 Season Equity Principal Actors - Undermain Theatre Auditions

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Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Saturday, May 20, 2023

11:00 AM - 6:30 PM (C)

Lunch 2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment please email Operations Manager Paul Semrad, at: opsmanager@undermain.org. Please include your name and union status in the subject line. In the email state your preferred date and time slot. You may also call the Undermain office at 214 747-1424 and speak to Paul Semrad or Tony Ramirez.

CONTRACT

SPT

$293 weekly minimum (SPT 1)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Undermain Theatre's 2023-24 Season (see breakdown).

Local Dallas actors are encouraged to audition.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a monologue from a classic or contemporary play of no more than 3 minutes in length. No self-written material, please. Also please bring your current headshot and resumé (8” x 10” and stapled, please). Members of Actors’ Equity Association will be asked to present their membership card at auditions.

BREAKDOWN

LOCATION

Undermain Theatre

3200 Main St

Dallas, TX 75226-1562

PERSONNEL

Operations Manager - Paul Semrad

Expected to attend:

Producing Artistic Director - Bruce DuBose Managing Producer - Anthony Ramirez

See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

www.undermain.org

An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

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.

Undermain Theatre 2023-24 Season

BONDAGE

by Star Finch

September 28th - October 15th, 2023

Rehearsals begin September 5th, 2023

Set on during pre-emancipation era, @ 1860 on a small island in the South. With the onset of puberty, Zuri, a house slave, must use her wits to outsmart the twisted desires of a drunken master and a sadistic mistress on a haunted plantation.

SEEKING:

ZURI - a slave of the house in her late teens or early twenties, African American or bi-racial. AZUCAR - 45 to 65. A slave of the house and governess, African American or bi-racial. EMILY - late teens, early twenties, only daughter of the master of the house, Caucasian. PHILLIP - 35 to 55, Master of the house and plantation. Father of Emily, Caucasian. RUBY - 40 to 60, sister of Phillip and aunt to Emily. Caucasian.

NO MAN’S LAND

by Harold Pinter

November 9th - December 3rd, 2023

Rehearsals begin October 10th, 2023

Set in a house in London’s Hampstead Heath, in NO MAN’S LAND two men face each other over a drink. Do they know each other, or is each performing an elaborate character of recognition? Their ambiguity—and the comedy—intensify with the arrival of two younger men, the one ostensibly a manservant, the other a male secretary.

SEEKING:

HIRST - 65 -75, poet and owner of the Hampstead manor. Open to any ethnicity. SPOONER - 65-75, a visiting poet, a bohemian. Open to any ethnicity.

FOSTER - in his 30s, a secretary to Hirst. Open to any ethnicity.

BRIGGS - in his 40s, a valet to Hirst. Open to any ethnicity.

THIS TIME

by Brian Dang

February 29th - March 17th, 2024

Rehearsals begin January 30th, 2024

Jane, Hester, and Peregrine work as maids in a 1900s manor, unable to say what they want to say, stealing moments away from work to hold time with each other they form a deadly love triangle.

SEEKING:

JANE - 18 to 25, a maid, open to all ethnicities.

HESTER - 55 to 70, a maid, open to all ethnicities.

PEREGRINE - 35 to 50 a maid, open to all ethnicities.

THE PERSIANS

by Aeschylus, adapted by Ellen McLaughlin

May 2nd - 26th, 202

Rehearsals begin April 2nd, 2024

Its focus is the Battle of Salamis, won by the Greeks against an overwhelming Persian force in 480 B.C., eight years before the plays premiere in 472 B.C. and also a battle in which Aeschylus himself fought. The Persians concentrates on the demise of the Persian empire, lamented by the Persian queen Atossa, by the folly of her son Xerxes which caused the empire's downfall. The play also includes the appearance of the ghost of Xerxes' father, Darius, who declaims the ruin of his once-great empire.

SEEKING:

CHAIRMAN - can be male or female, or non-binary - 35 to 55+, open to any ethnicity. GENERAL - Commander of the Persian army, male - 40 to 55, open to any ethnicity. ADMIRAL - Commander of the Persian navy, male - 40 to 55, open to any ethnicity. HERALD - a soldier reporting from the battle, male - 25 to 40, open to any ethnicity. ATOSSA - Queen of Persia, female, 35 to 55, open to any ethnicity.

DARIUS - former King of Persia who returns from the dead, male, 50 to 65, open to any ethnicity. XERXES - Current King of Persia, son of Darius, male or non-binary, 25 to 35, open to any ethnicity.