Casting Call: Where Dead Women Go To Dance - Theatre Prometheus

Theatre Prometheus is casting for the World Premiere production of Where Dead Women Go To Dance by Stephen Spotswood, directed by Lauren Patton Villegas. This is a paid project. All actors will receive a $500 stipend.

AUDITIONS:

Please prepare a 60-90 second contemporary monologue – comedy OR drama. Please submit your self-tape, headshot and resume via the following Google form by Friday, May 22nd: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSctU9wUwKAxtoRqIo2fFFC8bpHj71w3DXcHZ9Auqf0c12km2Q/viewform?usp=header

CALLBACKS:

Callbacks will take place in person at a location TBD on Saturday, June 13th. Actors will be notified either way if they are called back by May 31st.

Theatre Prometheus is a non-union theatre company based in Washington, DC.

Theatre Prometheus encourages all people to submit and does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender (including gender identity and expression), sexual orientation, body size, disability, or religious affiliation.

REHEARSALS/PERFORMANCES:

Production and rehearsals will take place this fall at Montgomery College Arts Center, and the schedule is as follows:

Workshop of script with the playwright: July 11-12

Rehearsals Begin: Week of July 27th, weeknights and weekends

Load In: September 9th-11th (Flexible over weekend)

Tech Begins: September 12th

Opening: September 25th

Closing: October 17th

Strike: October 18th

SUMMARY:

When Kim uses one of her grandmother’s old witchy recipes to bring her best friend Ellen back from the dead, the two are forced to grapple with their past and future. Their unique situation leads to both comedic and thoughtful musings on their lives and what happens when things don’t go exactly as planned.

CONTENT WARNINGS:

Discussions of suicide and internalized transphobia. Blood effects will be used on stage.

CHARACTERS:

Kim – trans woman; 20s+ (age flexible); any ethnicity. Grew up as the granddaughter of an old witchy woman and has begun dabbling with such witchiness herself in a “cottage core semi-sexy librarian” sort of way. Has settled into comfortability with herself and her life, but her struggles with her identity growing up have left their mark.

Ellen – cis woman*; 20s+ (age flexible, of an age with Kim); any ethnicity. Has grunge and punk tendencies, spends the play grappling with her life (and death) as well as her friendship with Kim.

*Note that Theatre Prometheus is open to submissions for this role from non-binary or gender non-conforming performers who are comfortable being referred to in character with she/her pronouns

ANY QUESTIONS? Email prometheusauditions@gmail.com!