Theatre For A New Audience
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep $926 weekly minimum (LORT C)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in WEDDING BAND (see breakdown).
NYC actors encouraged to submit.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please submit a slate (name, pronouns, name of material, and your current location) along with a short classic (non-Shakespeare) or contemporary dramatic monologue. Please submit video as a file upload at www.xcastingnyc.com/auditions. Audition videos may not exceed 2 minutes total. Please submit one copy of your headshot/resume. Submission videos will not be accepted via email, or if they are linked to an external website (such as Vimeo, Dropbox, We Transfer, YouTube).
Deadline: Mon, Feb 21, 2022
PERSONNEL
Written by Alice Childress
Directed by Awoye Timpo
Produced by Theater for A New Audience
Viewing auditions:
Casting Director: Victor Vazquez, CSA
Casting Director: Jack Doulin
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: March 22, 2022
First Preview: April 23, 2022
Opening: May 1, 2022
Closing: May 15, 2022
Possible Extension: May 22, 2022
OTHER
Script: https://xcastingnyc.co/weddingbandscript
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
COVID SAFETY: Theatre for a New Audience Covid-19 Policy: Offers are contingent on the Actor being fully vaccinated against COVID-19. By fully vaccinated TFANA means that the Actor has had their second dose of the Moderna/Pfizer vaccine or the single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at least 14 days before the first day of rehearsal. Proof of vaccination is required at the time of offer acceptance. TFANA strongly encourages a booster on top of full vaccination. TFANA reserves the right to alter this requirement to include any booster or additional doses of the vaccine as recommended or mandated by New York City public health officials and/or the Center for Disease Control. TFANA will follow all local, state, and federal guidelines as established by those authorities and the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that is currently in place between LORT and Actors' Equity Association on COVID safety and transmission mitigation. The company of Wedding Band will be a fully vaccinated company as defined by the MOU. TFANA may choose to utilize the LORT-Equity Covid Media Sideletter. A copy of the Sideletter must be signed upon execution of the contract. TFANA will notify Equity if the terms are utilized for Wedding Band.
SYNOPSIS: Set in the deep south at the end of World War I during the flu epidemic, Alice Childress’s seldom-produced masterpiece is one of American drama’s most mercilessly revealing tales of interracial love. A jewel of theatrical concision and detail, the play traces a devoted couple’s caustic confrontations with anti-miscegenation laws, vicious family racism, community disapproval and finally deadly disease and their own long-buried feelings. Wedding Band, written in the heat of the Civil Rights era, speaks with stunning clarity to the public debates of the Black Lives Matter era. Awoye Timpo directs the play’s first New York production since its New York premiere in 1972.
SEEKING:
No understudies will be cast for this production.
JULIA AUGUSTINE – Female, Black, 30s-40s, A new arrival to this community, Julia is a seamstress with an eighth-grade education. Longs for friendship and family ties, but her ten-year “illicit” relationship with Herman has made her an outcast among her people.
MATTIE – Female, Black, 30s, One of Julia’s new neighbors, Mattie is struggling to support herself and her daughter on subsistence jobs while her common-law husband is away at sea.
LULA GREEN – Female, Black, 40s-50s, Julia’s other neighbor, Lula is deeply (if unconventionally) spiritual and fiercely protective of her son.
FANNY JOHNSON - Female, Black, 50+, Julia’s landlady. Deeply concerned with being seen as a high-class representative of her race, often by distancing herself from those who may not pass muster. (THIS ROLE IS CAST)
ANNABELLE - Female, White, 30s, Herman’s sister. Annabelle might be graceful if she were not ashamed of her height (she is over 5’9”). She is nervous and fearful in this strange atmosphere. The burden of her mother’s social expectations weighs heavily on her.
HERMAN’S MOTHER - Female, White, 50+, Born to poor sharecroppers, Herman’s mother has risen above her background--though nowhere near as far as she’d like. To compensate, she tries to assume the airs of “quality” and clings to the comfort of white supremacy. (THIS ROLE IS CAST)
TEETA - Female, Black, Child, Mattie’s daughter, around 8 years old.
PRINCESS - Female, White, Child, Mattie’s charge, a 6-year-old girl. Her parents run an ice cream shop.
HERMAN - Male, White, 40s, A baker and Julia’s long-time lover. Strong, working-class, torn between his love for Julia and his duty (both financial and filial) to his mother.
NELSON GREEN - Male, Black, 20s-30s, Lula’s adopted son, Nelson is a rough looking, muscular fellow with a soft voice and a bittersweet sense of humor.
BELL MAN - Male, White, 30s-40s, A peddler, friendly on the surface. Bell Man extends credit to most of the women in the neighborhood and expects gratitude and sexual favors in return.
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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