9 KINDS OF SILENCE - NYC EPA
Play Company, The | New York, NY
Friday, April 21, 2023
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
LOA-NYC
$730 weekly minimum
Equity actors for roles in 9 KINDS OF SILENCE (See breakdown).
Please prepare a short contemporary dramatic monologue, or a narrative based/stream of consciousness monologue, or contemporary soliloquy that shows the inner thoughts of a character. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
Author/Director: Abhishek Majumdar
Founding Producer: Kate Loewald
Executive Producer: Rob Bradshaw
Expected to attend:
Casting Director: Victor Vazquez/xcasting
First Rehearsal: 8/1/23
First Preview: on or about 9/6/23
Opening: on or about 9/17/23
Closing: 10/8/23
Extension: 10/15/23
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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.
Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical
mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas
are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the
extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and
dressing rooms.
Holding/Audition room information:
The maximum capacity in the holding room is: 80
The maximum capacity in the audition room is: 52
[MOTHER] - 60s+, female-identifying, Middle Eastern or South Asian. Muslim. She has lived, faced
wind, cold, heat, longing and desperation. Has fought and survived the world. Comfortable with
silences. Works as a military typist for an unnamed government. Looks far. Thinks far. Breathes close.
Exists with a sense of gusto– a sense of humor. In the play, brings a mix of textual and movement
language, movement that is not polished, but which expresses the desperation to understand another
person in the absence of words. Sings a few times to affect the story in raw ways, not a trained
performer by any means.
[SON] - 30s-40s, male-identifying. Middle Eastern or South Asian. A soldier returning to homeland
after decades. Has limited eyesight (low-vision); potentially blind. Agnostic. Looking for meaning in a
world where previous frames like nation and religion have ceased to make sense. Speaks as if he is
speaking a new language, as if he no longer has faith in language. Strong sense of smell. Deeply
invested in silences. Strong movement language.
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