YOU SEEM SAD Equity Principal Actors - WP Theater Auditions
WP Theater
YOU SEEM SAD (ROLE OF SADAKICHI) - NYC EPA
Theater: WP Theater | New York, NY
AUDITION DATE
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Break: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
CONTRACT
CONTRACT
Off Broadway
$859 weekly minimum (cat. 1)
SEEKING
Equity actors for the role of SADAKICHI in YOU SEEM SAD (see
BREAKDOWN
).All Stage Managerial positions are currently filled.
PREPARATION
Please prepare a brief monologue. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
LOCATION
Ripley-Grier Studios (305)
305 W 38th St
New York, NY 10018-2902
PERSONNEL
Director: May Adrales
Playwright: Leah Nanako Winkler
EXPECTED TO ATTEND
Morning: Rebecca Martinez, BOLD Associate Artistic Director
Afternoon: Jakob Carter, Executive Producer
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: March 9, 2027
First Preview: April 3, 2027
Opening: April 18, 2027
Announced Closing: May 2, 2027
Extension 1 Closing: May 9, 2027
Extension 2 Closing: May 16, 2027
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition. An Equity Monitor will be provided.
Equity's
CONTRACT
s 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
SADAKICHI
Age: 20s
Ethnicity: Japanese (m)
Kind, cool, ambitious, logical, unpretentious, optimistic, inspired, inquisitive. A working-class farmer and an ex-Marine. Sadakichi is a man of action and conviction who refuses to lose his sense of idealism and love for adventure. He walks the walk and talks the talk and is determined to help build a better Japan post WWII. Sadakichi loves life. He loves the world. He is also smitten with Keiko – though he should never come off as desperate. He carries no bag. Everything fits into his pockets, including a small notebook and pencil.
BELOW ROLES ARE CAST
KEIKO
Age: 20s
Ethnicity: Japanese (f)
Stubborn, strong willed, snobby, beautiful, prideful with a pitch-black sense of humor that definitely roots from severe depression. In another world, she would have been a cosmopolitan, funny mean girl with big ambitions – but instead she is acerbically resigned to living life with the limitations of being a woman whose family has lost all their assets in a post-WWII Japan. A survivor of the 1945 atomic bomb attack in Nagasaki city.
STUDENT 1
Ethnicity: Hafu (Japanese national and white American mixed race, f)
We follow bits of her life from ages 20-30 in NYC from 2006-2016. She is a good friend with a high threshold for uncomfortable behavior. She has a tendency to dismiss her feelings. She is passionate and serious about what she does but has a hard time taking care of herself. There is a darkness living inside of her that she often offsets with humor.
STUDENT 2
Ethnicity: Korean American (f)
Note: Doubles multiple characters
Common ground for everyone she portrays is a big heart – and a level head.
STUDENT 3
Ethnicity: Any race (m)
Note: Doubles multiple characters
Common ground for everyone they portray is a sly nature with an undercurrent of anger when appropriate.
