City Theatre Company, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA

DESCRIPTION

CALL TYPE
EPA

CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep
$807 weekly minimum (LORT D)

AUDITION DATE
Monday, April 29, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM

APPOINTMENTS
Auditions may be scheduled in advance by emailing Artistic Assistant Melva Graham at [email protected] with your name, pronouns, cell phone, and desired audition time. All audition requests must be submitted 10am Friday, April 26th. The theatre will see auditions for un-scheduled AEA members and non-equity performers on the day of auditions, if time allows.

LOCATION
City Theatre Pittsburgh
1300 Bingham Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203

The waiting room will be in the theater’s main lobby, please enter though the big red doors to check in.

PERSONNEL
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Clare Drobot, Co-Artistic Director
Monteze Freeland, Co-Artistic Director
Melva Graham, Artistic Assistant & Community Coordinator

See breakdown for production-specific personnel.

OTHER DATES
See breakdown for production-specific dates.

OTHER
www.citytheatrecompany.org

If a performer is unable to attend the in-person call, video submissions will be accepted.

An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

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 attend every audition.

Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.

SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in City Theatre Company 2024-2025 Season (see breakdown).

No roles will be understudied.

PREPARATION
Performers should prepare a contemporary comedic or dramatic monologue of up to 3 minutes in length and bring a current headshot and resume to the audition. See breakdown for video submission instructions.

BREAKDOWN

CITY THEATRE COMPANY 2024-25 SEASON

VIDEO SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
Please limit your video submission to not exceeding 3 minutes. This time limit includes your slate (your name, pronouns if that is your practice, name of play and character you will be performing).

Please upload your video audition to YouTube as an unlisted video (Vimeo or similar video sharing sites that allow securely sharable links are also acceptable) and provide a link for viewing. Please do not share via WeTransfer, Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud or other file sharing platforms.

Email submissions should be sent to [email protected] and should include the video link, your contact information, and separate attachments of your headshot and resume. Video submissions are due by Tuesday, April 30th.

POTUS, OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE
By Selina Fillinger
Directed by Meredith McDonough
First Rehearsal – Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Tech – Tuesday, September 17-Friday September 20, 2024
First Preview -- Saturday, September 21, 2024
Opening Night – Friday, September 27, 2024
Closing – Sunday, October 13, 2024

SEEKING:
HARRIET (She/Her, Any ethnicity, mid 40s-mid 50s) – His chief of staff. Overwhelmed. Overworked. Constantly putting out fires.

JEAN – (She/Her, Any ethnicity, mid 40s-mid 50s) His press secretary. Harriet’s partner-in-crime. Bernadette’s ex-girlfriend. Cut-throat.

STEPHANIE – (She/Her, Any ethnicity, mid 30s-mid 40s) His secretary. Fears she’s losing her job to Dusty. Takes drugs for the first time when crisis hits. Not a good idea.

DUSTY (She/Her, Any ethnicity, any age) – His dalliance. Carefree. Seeks pleasure. An unexpected constant in this crisis.

BERNADETTE (She/Her, White, 40s-50s) – His sister. Edgy. Knows her way around a crisis. Seen and done it all and proud of it. Jean’s ex-girlfriend. Doesn’t get along with her siter-in-law. Looking for a pardon from her big brother (pretty much says it all).

CHRIS (She/Her, Black, 20s-40s) – A journalist. Knows there’s dirt on POTUS trying her best to dig it up.

MARGARET (She/Her, Black, 50s) – His wife. The First Lady. A diva. More Mariah Carey than Michelle Obama. She commands every room she walks into.

THE WICKHAMS: CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY
by Lauren Gunderson and Margot Melcon
Directed by Kyle Haden
First Rehearsal – Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Tech – Sunday, November 24 – Friday, November 29, 2025 (Wednesday and Thursday OFF)
First Preview – Saturday, November 30, 2024
Opening Night – Friday, December 6, 2024
Closing – Sunday, December 22, 2024

SEEKING:
MRS. REYNOLDS (She/Her, Any ethnicity—Late 50s, early 60s) The housekeeper at Pemberley, knows all and sees all, has been on staff since Darcy was a child, a mother figure to the household.

BRIAN (He/Him, Any ethnicity, early 20s to early 30s)—A footman, in love with technology and inventions, sincere and earnest, perhaps a bit arrogant.

CASSIE (She/Her, Any ethnicity, early 20s to early 30s)—The new housemaid, a village girl, an orphan who came from less than nothing. The opportunity to work at Pemberley means security she has never had, and she takes this job very seriously. She is sometimes maybe too eager and a bit headstrong.

MR. FITZWILLIAM DARCY (He/Him, Any ethnicity, late 20s to mid 30s)—Head and owner of Pemberley.

MRS. ELIZABETH DARCY (She/Her, Any ethnicity, mid 20s to early 30s)—Mistress of Pemberley.

GEORGE WICKHAM (He/Him, Any ethnicity, late 20s to mid 30s)—Grew up at Pemberley, son of the former steward, once a soldier, has been in and out of trouble (of his own making) his whole life.

LYDIA WICKHAM (She/Her, Any ethnicity, late teens to early twenties)—A bright, warm, and charming personality, if sometimes a bit much, eloped with Wickham at 15 and is now somewhat trapped in this marriage.

THE REAL JAMES BOND...WAS DOMINICAN?

City Theatre Presents The DNAWORKS production of THE REAL JAMES BOND...WAS DOMINICAN?

Written and Performed by Christopher Rivas

Directed by and Developed with Daniel Banks

First Rehearsal/Tech: January 14-January 17, 2025

First Preview -- Saturday, January 18, 2025

Opening Night – Friday, January 24, 2025

Closing – Sunday, February 16, 2025

SEEKING:

Chris—CAST

BIRTHDAY CANDLES
by Noah Haidle
Directed by Marc Masterson
First Rehearsal – Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Tech – Tuesday, March 4 – Friday, Marc 7, 2025
First Preview – Saturday, March 8, 2025
Opening Night – Friday, March 14, 2025
Closing – Sunday, March 30, 2025

SEEKING:
Twelve roles, six actors (any ethnicity), one goldfish

Please note—we meet the characters in this play throughout the span of their lives. We are seeking transformative actors who can play characters at a variety of ages.

ERNESTINE ASHWORTH (She/Her, Any Ethnicity) – Travels from age seven to one hundred and seven. In that time, she will be a daughter, a girlfriend, a wife, a mother, a friend, an aunt, a mother-in- law, a widow, a second wife, a grandmother, a great grandmother, and a great-great grandmother.

ALICE/MADELINE/ERNIE (She/Her, Any Ethnicity) ALICE – Selfless. Strong. Ernestine’s mother. /

MADELINE – Troubled. Bemused. Beautiful. Erudite. Ernestine and Matt’s daughter. / ERNIE – Ethereal. Vivacious. She doesn’t walk, she glides. Alex’s daughter.

KENNETH (He/Him, Any Ethnicity) – Ernestine’s awkward and annoying next-door neighbor.

MATT/WILLIAM (He/Him, Any Ethnicity) MATT – Chiseled jawline. A middle linebacker on the high school football team. Ernestine’s boyfriend then husband. / WILLIAM – Thirteen. Grand.

BILLY (He/Him, Any Ethnicity) – Sensitive. An ear for music. Ernestine and Matt’s son. / JOHN – A man woken up in the middle of the night. Played by actor playing Billy.

JOAN/ALEX/BETH (She/Her, Any Ethnicity) – JOAN - Anxious. Very anxious. Billy’s wife. / ALEX – Takes no bullshit. Billy and Joan’s daughter. / BETH – John’s domestic partner, she quit smoking ten years ago and hasn’t been in a good mood since.

KING JAMES
By Rajiv Joseph
Directed by Monteze Freeland
First Rehearsal – TBD, (at earliest Tuesday, April 8, 2025)
Tech –Tuesday, April 15 – Friday, April 18
First Preview – Saturday, April 19, 2025
Opening Night – Friday, April 25, 2025
Closing – Sunday, May 11, 2025

SEEKING:
SHAWN, He/Him, black, (ages 21, 27, 31 and 33), obsessed with Lebron James, has ambitious goals in life, and real talent to make them come true, empathetic, and supportive, or tries to be.

MATT, He/Him, white, (same), obsessed with Lebron James, has ambitious goals in life, and is seeking the approval of his parents, has a sense of entitlement that gets him in trouble and prevents him from building the life he wants for himself. Not always a good friend.

SALARY

LORT Non-Rep $807 weekly minimum (LORT D)

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