2025 Bay Area Playwrights Festival Equity Principal Actors - Playwrights Foundation Auditions

2025 BAY AREA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL - EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS

Playwrights Foundation | San Francisco, CA

CONTRACT

Special Agreement
$18.07 per hour - 2024 rates

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in 2025 Bay Area Playwrights Festival (See breakdown).

SUBMISSION

INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your headshot, resume and a two-minute max contemporary monologue at:
Submission Link. Equity video submissions will be accepted between Saturday, March 15th, 2025, at 4pm PT and Sunday, March 23rd, 2025, at 11:59pm PT.
Deadline: 03/23/2025

SUBMIT TO

Jessica Bird Beza - Executive Artistic Director of Playwrights Foundation

PERSONNEL

AeJay Mitchell - Artistic Producer of Playwrights Foundation
See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

Playwrights Foundation Website
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

2025 BAY AREA PLAYWRIGHTS FESTIVAL

JUSTICE IS JUST ASLEEP

Written by Ruben Grijalva
Directed by Susie Damilano
Performance Date: March 24, 2025
First Rehearsal: March 16, 2025

SEEKING:

• JANELLE: Woman, Latina, late twenties.
• BRIANNA: Woman, Any Race, late twenties.
• CLAY/MARSHALL/CHIEF JUSTICE/THE INTRUDER: Man, Any Race, late twenties.
• THE JUSTICE/DOLORES: Woman, Latina, sixties.
• THE OTHER JUSTICE/OFFICER DOUGLAS/THE CANDIDATE: Man, White, sixties.

DRIVING THE GIRLS

Written by Cat Brooks
Director TBD
Performance Date TBD (Between May 12-17, 2025)
First Rehearsal TBD

SEEKING:

• Mary: Woman, Biracial, Early 20s
• Krissy: Woman, Dark Skin Black Woman, Early 30s
• Deb: Woman, Latina, Late 20s.
• Angel: Woman, Non- Black POC, Late 20s.
• Joey: Man, Black, Mid 30s.

UNTITLED HYPER-CONTEMPORARY ELIZABETHAN ROMANCE TO AVENGE THE GENERATION OF SOUNDCLOUD RAPPERS LOST TO THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC OR, THE ROSALINE PLAY

Written by Leigh M. Marshall
Director TBD
Performance Date TBD (Between Aug 11 - 19, 2025)
First Rehearsal TBD

SEEKING:

• ROSALINE: Woman, Global Majority, 30s
• THE BOY: Man, Global Majority, 20s
• THE ARTIST: Man, Global Majority, 20s
• THE MOGUL: Man, White, 50s-60s
• THE LITTLE STAR: Woman, White, 20s
• THE VOICE: Woman, Global Majority, 40s-50s

OPINION EMPORIUM

Written by Sloka Krishnan
Director TBD
Performance Date TBD (Between October 27 - November 8, 2025)
First Rehearsal TBD

SEEKING:

• TRACK 1: Pickpocket Masc, BIPOC, Teens-20s
• TRACK 2: (Amy, Customer) Woman, Any Ethnicity 30s
• TRACK 3: (Teakettle, Voice, Escalator, Store Attendants) Transfem, any ethnicity, 20s-30s
• TRACK 4: (Drumstick, Ethel, Grout) Transmasc, of color, 20s
• TRACK 5: (Security Guards) Any age and Any Gender