Voices Festival Productions
CONTRACT
SPT $500 weekly minimum for production; $250 for 10-hour rehearsal and reading (SPT Tier 5)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Voices Festival Productions' Fall Residency at Woolly Mammoth Theatre’s Rehearsal Hall (see breakdown).
Local actors are encouraged to submit
INSTRUCTIONS
Please submit a video of a contemporary monologue of no more than two minutes, and upload with a digital resume/headshot. Please make the subject line “FIRST NAME LAST NAME, VIDEO SUBMISSION.” Videos may be sent via YouTube or Vimeo link. Submission deadline is July 25, 2022 at 5pm EDT.
Deadline: Mon, Jul 25, 2022
SUBMIT TO
info@voicesfestivalproductions.com
PERSONNEL
Viewing submissions:
Playwright/Founding Producing Partner, Ari Roth
Artistic Producing Partner, A Lorraine Robinson
Director, John Vreeke
Casting Associate, Asha Moses
OTHER DATES
First rehearsal (virtual workshop): August 15, 2022
First rehearsal (in person): August 23, 2022
First performance: Sept 29, 2022
Closing performance: October 23, 2022
OTHER
www.voicesfestivalproductions.com
Both works will be presented in the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Rehearsal Hall.
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
MY BRIEF BUT CALAMITOUS AFFAIR WITH THE MINISTER OF CULTURE & CENSORSHIP OR DEATH OF THE DIALOGIC IN THE AMERICAN THEATER by Ari Roth
Directed by John Vreeke
Production Dramaturgy & Cultural Consultation: Adam Ashraf El-Sayigh
There will be 1 female understudy covering female roles of EILAT & MIRI
1 female understudy covering the female role of Virginia
And 1 male understudy covering the role of SAMAD and AD
SEEKING:
VIRGINIA B. LAWRENCE/DIRECTOR/ AL JAZEERA HOST 2/ BOARD PRESIDENT: Black. Executive Director for External Affairs at a mid-size theater company. Also director. 40s. A woman of rigor and yoga practice. Has never been to the Middle East, but grew up in the black church, receiving degrees from Historically Black and Predominantly White Universities, which has informed a perspective. As have more recent events.
AD: (FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR UNTIL RECENTLY) White. First Generation German-Jewish-American child of refugees. Late 50s when all this started, now 60. DC-based, Chicago-born playwright/adapter/producer, drawn to the 3rd rail, with a mission of cultural bridge-building, forging from separate histories, a common story. Often that’s resonated. Not so much at the moment. Can take a punch, though it’s harder the second time.
MIRI REKEV/AL JAZEERA HOST 1/BOARD MEMBER 1/AD'S MOTHER/MANAGING DIRECTOR/OLD SUBSCRIBER: Right-Wing Minister of Culture & Sport for the State of Israel (until recently); former Brigadier General of the IDF. 40s to 50s. Often treated derisively by Israeli media; the treatment here should be less satirical. Identifies as Moroccan-Jewish (Mizrachi), as distinct from Eastern-European (Ashkenazi). Played by an American actress who may or may not be an Immigrant of Color in real life which this isn’t. But is she Jewish? Is the AD? Doesn’t have to be. But why is that? She’ll ask that.
SAMAD HUSSEIN/ISRAELI DIRECTOR/BOARD MEMBER 2: Palestinian-Muslim actor of stage and screen; son of educator and restaurant manager. Divorced with kids. Studied theater at university. Commutes to Tel Aviv from Northern Israel for most of his theater, TV, and film gigs. Strong Arabic dialect. Late 30s to 50. Played by American-Arab actor; strong, proud, covering a vulnerability. Has taken many punches.
EILAT HERZOG: White, Jewish Israeli TV and theater actress, political activist and playwright. Lives in Tel Aviv. 40s. Descendent of Center-Left, Zionist national leadership. Began career as a celebrated TV teen star, becoming politically radical with strong, anti-Occupation, and evolving anti-Zionist ethos; increasingly well-known in international theatre circles. Played by non-Jewish American who “passes” because, in the production within the play, she’s Irish with brown hair.
Stage Reading of APOLOGIES TO LORRAINE HANSBERRY (YOU TOO, AUGUST WILSON) by Rachel Lynett
Directed by A. Lorraine Robinson
Most characters we encounter currently are on the binary and are written with he/him or she/her pronouns and you will see that in the following character descriptions. However limiting the descriptions are, our casting seeks to be inclusive as possible and we invite gender non-conforming, genderqueer, transgender, and non-binary actors to submit for the roles they most identify with, specifically JULES, YAEL, and LORENZO. Please let us know if you have any questions, concerns, or if there are any accommodations we can provide.
SEEKING:
JULES: she/her/hers, 30s, Black works at the community garden, food engineer.
LORENZO: he/him/his, Black, 30s, works as a game developer.
ALICE: she/her/hers, 30s, chef, Black Lorenzo's wife in part I and Jules' wife in part II.
YAEL: she/her/hers, Afro-Latinx, JULES' girlfriend, 30s was working as a social worker.
IZAAK: he/him/his, Black, artist, 30s, lives on the block, mostly Lorenzo's friend in part I and Lorenzo's boyfriend in part II.
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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