WE HAD A WORLD Equity Principal Actors - Manhattan Theatre Club Auditions

WE HAD A WORLD - NYC EPA Revised Manhattan Theatre Club | New York, NY

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

REVISED

Updated Preparation with link to Sides.

AUDITION DATE

Thursday, August 22, 2024

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)

Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep

$807 weekly minimum (LORT D)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in WE HAD A WORLD (See breakdown).

No roles will be understudied.

PREPARATION

Please prepare EITHER a two-minute contemporary monologue, OR one of the provided sides. Sides may be found here:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/5lfez686q5vy835rcb4la/AEE97JyWNoF7guzavCLrM9o?rlkey=7vth1jl6hnot6bp5b4juf9rtg&st=r3xk9dek &dl=0 .

Sides will also be available at the audition. Also, bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Actors' Equity New York Audition Center 165 W 46th St

16th Fl

New York, NY 10036

PERSONNEL

Playwright: Joshua Harmon

Director: Trip Cullman

Casting Directors: David Caparelliotis & Kelly Gillespie

Expected to attend:

Casting Directors: David Caparelliotis, Kelly Gillespie, Joe Gery

Casting Assistant: Malaika Fernandes

OTHER DATES

1st Rehearsal: 1/28/25

1st Preview: 2/25/25

Opening: 3/19/25

Clear through: Early May 2025

OTHER

www.manhattantheatreclub.com

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.

BREAKDOWN

WE HAD A WORLD

SYNOPSIS: A dying woman calls her grandson and asks him to write a play about their family. “But I want you to promise me something,” she says. “Make it as bitter and vitriolic as possible.” Harmon recreates thirty years of family fights, monstrous behavior, enormous cruelty, and enduring love.

SEEKING:

RENEE: 60s-90s. Josh's grandmother. A broad. Opinionated. Loving, but definitely not your sweet, cozy, cookie-baking granny. She takes joy in sharing her love of culture with Josh, and doesn't believe in the idea of age appropriate. There's darkness here that she covers over with glamour.

ELLEN: 30s-60s. Josh's mother. Ascerbic, funny, no-nonsense. Overworked, underappreciated. Sitting on a lot of anger. Her relationship with her mother is difficult, and she struggles not to let her feelings affect Josh's relationship with her.

JOSH: 5-30s. Funny, wry, enthusiastic. A great talker, even a bit of a showman. Our narrator. Gay. Quick-witted. Trying to sort through his childhood memories of his mother and grandmother, as an adult, to make sense of what came after.