WRITERS THEATRE 2021-22 SEASON Submission - Writers Theatre Inc Auditions

WRITERS THEATRE 2021-22 SEASON - EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS

Writers Theatre Inc

CONTRACT

CAT $860 weekly minimum

SEEKING

Equity actors for principal and understudy roles in Writers Theatre 2021-22 Season (see breakdown).

INSTRUCTIONS

Please email 2 contrasting one-minute monologues.

Deadline: Mon, Oct 18, 2021

SUBMIT TO

casting@writerstheatre.org

PERSONNEL

Associate Artistic Director, Geoff Button
Interim Artistic Director, Bobby Kennedy

OTHER DATES

Wife of a Salesman by Eleanor Burgess
Directed by Jo Bonney
1st Rehearsal: 2/2/22
Runs: 3/3/22 - 4/3/22

Athena by Gracie Gardner
Directed by Jessica Fisch
1st Rehearsal: 4/6/22
Runs: 5/5/22 - 7/17/22

Pearl's Rollin' With the Blues
Created by Felicia P. Fields and Ron OJ Parson
Directed by Ron OJ Parson
1st Rehearsal: 5/24/22
Runs: 6/23/22 - 7/24/22

OTHER

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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

WIFE OF A SALESMAN

What if a 1950s housewife from a particularly well-known American play drove from Brooklyn to Boston to confront her husband’s mistress? Would the encounter be explosive? Or would the two women discover they have more in common than one might assume? Taking inspiration from Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, this world premiere play imagines how a potentially combustible confrontation brings themes of marriage, duty and division to the surface—and the ways in which the world has, and hasn’t, changed across generations.

Wife/Heather - Any ethnicity, female, early 40s (U/S only)

Mistress/Violet - Any ethnicity, female, late 20s to early 30s

Radio/Jim - Any ethnicity, male, 40s-50s.

Radio/Angela - Any ethnicity, female, early 30s.

ATHENA

Mary Wallace and Athena are both seventeen-year-old fencers training for Nationals. Mary Wallace lives in a house in New Jersey, loves marine biology and practices at home. Athena lives in an apartment in New York City, takes acne medication and Athena is not her real name. Follow their journey from competitors to confidantes as they form a bond navigating the milestones of adolescence, training together only to learn the future is only certain for one of them.

Mary Wallace - Any ethnicity, female, mid-to-late teens.

Athena - Any ethnicity, female, mid-to-late teens.

Jamie - Any ethnicity, female, mid-to-late teens.

PEARL'S ROLLIN' WITH THE BLUES

Singing the Blues is what Pearl was born to do, and she can’t wait to be back in front of a crowd with her band. For Pearl, it’s about the music—where it’s been, where it is and where it wants to be. She’s made it her mission in life to take the stage and share how the Blues paved the way for generations of musicians to come.

This script is currently in development and tracks have not yet been specified, but we are happy to review submissions from African American blues singers for both principal and understudy consideration. If you play an instrument and are able to accompany yourself, that is preferred.

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.