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Downtown Urban Arts Festival will provide a $100 stipend on the date of the performance. Actors will be paid for rehearsal time at a rate of $18/hr for up to 6 hours of rehearsal time.
Equity actors for roles in the one-act play ARRIVALS UNTIL THE DEPARTURE (See breakdown). This production is designed to center queer and trans voices onstage and behind the scenes and will include identity-conscious casting. Actors of a variety of racial, ethnic, and gender identities are encouraged to apply.
Please submit your headshot, resume, and audition video at:
submission link. Please prepare a 1-minute contemporary monologue.
Deadline: 03/17/2025
Director/Producer: Mars Berger
Writer/Producer: Bilal Morsi
Further auditions will take place virtually by appointment from March 21-23 and callbacks will take place in person at The Attic @ The Tank on March 29. Rehearsals will take place weekly from mid-April through early June 2025. The show will be performed at the Downtown Urban Arts Festival on June 18, 2025.
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.
SYNOPSIS: Arrivals Until the Departure follows the journey of Amina, a transgender Muslim woman, who has recently left her unsupportive home and is living on a bench in Central Park. Throughout the show, Amina encounters the arrivals of a story-telling ghost, a drug dealer, a talking dress, and eventually, her mother, all of whom reflect her own struggles with identity and survival. This show transcends time to explore the ways religion silences marginalized voices and the tangled process of queer actualization in a hostile world.
Amina (20s/F): A young transgender woman from a traditional Muslim household. Playful and sensitive under a world-weary armor. A recent runaway, Amina struggles to hold onto her identity and reality in a world designed to discard her.
Ghost (60s/F): An older hijabi woman who reveals herself to Amina at the start of the play. Laced with sharp wisdom and a hidden guilt from the past.
Dealer/Dress/Intercom/Man (30s/X - Any gender): Various satirical figures of authority, real and imagined. The Drug Dealer and Dress characters are two sides of the hustler mentality of sheer survival. The Man is a sincere but distant voice of tradition.
Mother (40s/F): Torn between maternal love and traditional Muslim family values, Amina’s mother is a strong-willed but quiet woman. Suspicious of Amina's queerness but willing to repress conflict at all costs, their bond is ready to boil over with words unspoken.
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