Playwrights Horizons Inc.
New York, NY

DESCRIPTION

CALL TYPE
EPA

CONTRACT
Off Broadway
$985 weekly minimum (category BB)

AUDITION DATE
Thursday, April 11, 2024
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00-2:00 pm

LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036

PERSONNEL
Playwright: Sarah Mantell
Director: Sivan Battat

Expected to attend:
Alaine Alldaffer- Casting Director
Lisa Donadio- Associate Casting Director
Emma Hart- Casting Fellow

OTHER DATES
1st Rehearsal: September 3, 2024
1st Preview: October 11, 2024
Opens: October 28, 2024
Regular Run: November 17, 2024
Extension: December 8, 2024

OTHER
www.playwrightshorizons.org

EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.

An Equity Monitor will be provided.

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 IN THE AMAZON WAREHOUSE PARKING LOT (see breakdown).

PREPARATION
Sides will be provided.

BREAKDOWN

NOTE FROM PLAYWRIGHT AND DIRECTOR: These characters use a variety of pronouns, which will be determined based on casting, but all characters are women, trans, or non-binary. A community of dykes in the broadest sense of the term. Identities have otherwise been left as open as possible on purpose–we’re casting a community.

JEN: 60s-70s, any pronouns, BIPOC. Gender identity/expression somewhere in the vicinity of butch or trans masc. Often anxious, imagines the worst. Often off doing “Jen stuff” - usually alone time spent working with their hands. Cynical, has let the tragedy of this life wear them down, but somewhere deep down a hopeless romantic.

ANI: 50s-60s, she/her, any race. Oddly quiet when we meet her. She’s spent more time alone during this collapse than the others and it weighs on her more obviously. Obsessed with surgery as a child, worked construction and demolition as an adult, now seeking anywhere that could feel like home.

SARA: 30s-40s, she/her, BIPOC. Transfeminine and high femme. The baby of the group. Loves scrunchies, color, and kitsch. A great organizer, sharp as hell, a bit shy at times. Strategic mind, revolutionary spirit. Hasn’t yet abandoned the dream of a new and better world.

MARIBEL: 50s-70s, any pronouns, any race. Often the ringleader of group activities, loves a game of cards, a game of Werewolf, and attention. Scrappy, imaginative, and a lover.

ASH: 50s-70s, any pronouns, any race. Grumpy as hell but a softy at heart. Loves their friends beyond belief, can’t bear to kill a bug. Resourceful, handy, and constantly skeptical. Will get pissed off and “just do it myself.” When won over though, they’re won over hard.

EL: 60s-80s, any pronouns, any race. Gender identity/expression somewhere in the vicinity of butch, androgynous, masc. Jen’s confidant. El has maintained a spirit of optimism somehow, or maybe it’s naivete, but regardless, somehow manages to cheer up this group at their darkest.

HOROWITZ: 50s-70s, any pronouns, any race. Usually irritable, and often the joker of the group. Probably neurodivergent. Loves to be alone, loves their quiet, loves their routines and is sensitive to anything that disrupts them. Vegan. Learning to take up space.

SALARY

Off Broadway $985 weekly minimum (category BB)

UNION

AEA