Houston Broadway Theatre | Houston, TX
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
LOA
$839 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT) + health / pension
Equity actors for roles in AMERICAN PSYCHO (See breakdown).
Please prepare a brief 1980s-style pop/rock song, showing range. Also, bring your headshot and resume stapled together. If you are interested, but unable to attend this call, please feel free to submit at:
https://tinyurl.com/americanpsychohouston.
Pearl Studios (519)
519 8th Ave
12th Fl
New York, NY 10018
Holding room - Studio F
Director: Joe Calarco
Music Director: Michael Ferrara
Choreographer: Hope Easterbrook
Book: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Music and Lyrics: Duncan Sheik
Based on the Novel by Bret Easton Ellis
Casting Director: Geoff Josselson, CSA
Expected to attend:
Joe Calarco (Director)
Michael Ferrara (Music Director)
Geoff Josselson (Casting Director) or Gemma Josephine (Associate Casting Director)
First Rehearsal: August 4, 2025
First Performance: September 2, 2025
Closing: September 14, 2025
Venue: The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts - Houston, TX
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Equity 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.
SYNOPSIS: Based on the electrifying novel by Bret Easton Ellis and set in the epicenter of excess: 1980s Manhattan, this musical tells the story of Patrick Bateman, a young and handsome Wall Street banker with impeccable taste and unquenchable desires. Patrick and his elite group of friends spend their days in chic restaurants, exclusive clubs, and designer labels. But at night, Patrick takes part in a darker indulgence, and his mask of sanity is starting to slip.
NOTE: As this story is filled with people obsessed with having perfect bodies, all roles other than Mrs. Bateman and the Detective, will be featured in underwear or revealing clothing at points in the show.
[PATRICK BATEMAN] Male, 26. Our narrator. Immaculate, well-groomed, always has the best clothes, the best furniture, the best of everything. Treats and sculpts his body to Calvin Klein ad perfection which he simultaneously takes pride in and resents. Was raised in great privilege, making him hyper-entitled, but he often struggles with what he sees as a decaying society around him, coupling his sense of self-importance with self-disgust. Has a dark sense of humor and very dark fantasies. We need to be able to see the humanity underneath the armor he, and society, has built up around him. Strong mover. Strong pop/rock voice.
[JEAN] Female, 20s. Patrick's secretary. Compassionate and caring, which feels almost alien in this world. Always looking for connection. The only person who Patrick feels truly understands him. Strong mover. Strong pop/rock voice.
[PAUL OWEN] Male, mid 20s. Patrick's more successful colleague and can never remember who Patrick is since he is no threat. Immaculate. Classy. Self-assured. Could be a GQ cover boy. Ivy League educated. Raised in privilege. Entitled but aware of it. Comes off as more humane than the men around him. People outside of this world would like him. Strong mover. Strong pop/rock voice.
[PATRICK’S MOTHER/ MRS. WOLFE/ SVETLANA] Female, 50s. Mrs. Bateman is Patrick’s wealthy, simultaneously judgmental, supportive, and disappointed mother; Mrs. Wolfe is a real estate agent; and Svetlana is a Russian dry cleaner. All three women are hyper aware of how they present themselves to the world physically and armor themselves accordingly. Strong mover. Strong pop/rock voice.
[EVELYN WILLIAMS] Female, mid 20s. Patrick's “trophy girlfriend.” Raised in wealth. Knows how to wield power in the materialistic, entitled, perfectly groomed, circles she travels in but often resents it and longs for something more real. Knows she deserves a more true, unconditional love than Patrick can offer, but the rules of the world she lives in, demanding a perfect appearing partner, wedding, and marriage, makes her stay. Strong mover. Strong pop/rock voice.
[LUIS CARRUTHERS] Male, mid 20s. Patrick's co-worker. Always feels like he’s not quite up to snuff with his coworkers and friends. Has different tastes in music and clothes than them. Always taking stock of himself to see if he is living up to the culture’s definition of what it means to be ‘masculine’ but can’t quite pull it off. Dating a woman but secretly in love with Patrick. Strong mover. Strong pop/rock voice.
[DETECTIVE KIMBALL/ HOMELESS MAN] Male, 40s – 50s. Private Detective investigating Paul Owen's disappearance. Direct. Suspicious. Very good at his job. Al was once very successful but fell through the cracks like so many others. NON-SINGING ROLE (but singing a plus).
[COURTNEY LAWRENCE] Female, mid 20s. Ivy League. Smartest in her class but hit that ever present glass ceiling and resents it, which fuels her need to be perfect in every way. Dating Luis who she loves but also knows deep down is gay. Secretly sleeping with Patrick to satiate herself sexually. The affair also allows herself to walk a very fine self-destructive line since he dates her best friend; we should get the sense that at any moment she could do something to let her life, that she hates too often, go up in flames. Strong mover. Strong pop/rock voice.
[CRAIG MCDERMOTT/ ATM/ TOM CRUISE] Male, mid 20s. Good-looking. Patrick's co-worker. Born to wealth. Ivy League educated but he was a legacy admission, which has made him hard, needing to prove to himself that he belongs, making him obsessed with his physical appearance and acquiring material things. This armor makes him brutal especially toward women, which can explode into rage. Always ready for a fight. Strong mover. Strong pop/rock voice.
[DAVID VAN PATTEN] Male, mid 20s. Patrick's co-worker. Hyper focused on looking, acting, sounding, being, like the ultra-successful, fit, self-obsessed, chauvinistic, men in his business and social circle, which makes him scarily perfect, like he’s imitating what it means to be happy, or disinterested, or misogynistic. At times the effort makes you wonder if he’ll either burst into tears or commit a mass murder. Strong mover. Strong pop/rock voice.
[SEAN BATEMAN/ DOORMAN/ DORSIA HOST] Male, early 20s. Patrick’s younger brother, a writer, just out of college. Has been given everything on a silver platter. Tries to fight against that by being a writer and by working way too hard to give off a “downtown” vibe. Resents and is jealous of his brother. Strong mover. Strong pop/rock voice.
[SABRINA/ VIDEO STORE CLERK] Female, 20s. A sex worker. Does what she needs to survive. Always has been able to take care of herself and protect herself. Strong dancer. Strong pop/rock voice.
[CHRISTINE/ HARDBODY WAITRESS/ HARDBODY TRAINER] Female, late teens/early 20s. A sex worker. Knows the ropes, but too trusting. Strong dancer. Strong pop/rock voice.
[VICTORIA/ HARDBODY BARTENDER] Female, 20s. Victoria is Patrick’s neighbor from his building. Inherited money. Well educated. Wants the world to be a better place. Wants to be a “good neighbor.” Strong dancer. Strong pop/rock voice.
[VANDEN] Female, early 20s. A club kid. Very “of the moment.” Strong dancer. Strong pop/rock voice.
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