Staged Dreams
CONTRACT
Off Broadway Equity Off-Broadway Level 2 - 3-Week Staged Reading Salary - $550/Week
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in WE WON’T SLEEP (see breakdown).
All stage managerial positions have been filled.
Performers of all racial and ethnic backgrounds, gender identities and expressions, and performers living with both visible and invisible disabilities are encouraged to audition.
INSTRUCTIONS
SEE PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS IN BREAKDOWN. Please submit your headshot, resume, and video to the form provided at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd85yXvUYPPNTl-UD5AF2L9cAvGOvb2Nd7WL3th-PIx52ndpQ/viewform .
Deadline: Thu, Oct 28, 2021
PERSONNEL
Music and Lyrics by Ari Afsar
Book by Lauren Gunderson
Director: Erin Ortman
Choreographer: Yusha-Marie Sorzano
Casting: Tara Rubin Casting
Viewing auditions: Claire Burke, CSA
OTHER DATES
Production Dates:
November 29-December 17
NYC
OTHER
Please alert us of any accommodations you need to audition in a supported and safe space.
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
PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS :
Please prepare a pop song of your choosing or the provided tracks.
Link to tracks: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/q25j5c313wf03s8/AABSBbmTqn0owDCDHJeq-DWma?dl=0
Link to voluntary self-identification form (not required):https://www.cognitoforms.com/TaraRubinCasting/WeWontSleepContentDisclosure
WE WON'T SLEEP
*Elements of this play center gendered themes and many of the roles have binary gender expressions. The Jeannette creative team is open to any gender identity in any role, understanding that all gender is a performance.
Jeannette Rankin - 30s, female/femme of center, ambitious, smart, strong, socially intelligent, queer (but not out.) She has an unstoppable energy in everything she does, hopeful, headstrong. A damned good politician. Intimacy is required.
Wellington Rankin - 30’s, male/masculine of center, Jeannette’s younger brother, a powerful local lawyer, entitled, takes over any room he’s in, the favorite son in a family of women, overconfident, ambitious, a boxer, loves his sisters but also loves being rich and influential.
Edna Rankin - 20s, female/femme of center, Jeannette’s younger sister, smart, funny, keen, married, young mother, the glue of the Rankin family. She runs that house. And though she is more cautious than Jeannette, she is equally strong. They share dedication and unflappable faith in family.
Greenwich Martin - 30s/40s, female/femme of center, a queer woman from New York, practical, savvy and thoughtful, emotional, a people person, a leader, a strategist, a suffragist. Intimacy is required.
Olive Rankin/Febb – 60’s female/femme of center, Jeannette’s Mother, a stalwart strong woman with a contentious relationship with Jeannette, a worrier, powerful and refined but reserved, not easily comfortable being vulnerable or outwardly loving / late 50s, female/femme of center, a chipper, warm, proud mother of a large Tennessee family.
Fiorello Laguardia - 30s, male/masculine of center, charming, boisterous New York Congressman. Emotionally open, straightforward, full of agency and feeling, but also likes to be at the center, in power and in the spotlight.
8 Company Members - All ages and gender identities, energetic movers, both in body and spirit. Satellites, Suffragists, Anna, Anti-Suffrage Woman, Debate Moderator, Competitors, Page, Male Voices/Congressmen, Chief of Staff, Aide, Leader of the House, Reporters, Harry T Burn.
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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