East West Players | Los Angeles, CA
Updated Preparation.
Monday, January 6, 2025
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM (P)
SPT
$570.53 weekly minimum (SPT 5)
$378.40 weekly minimum - On Call
Understudy rate + Pension and Health.
Equity actors for on-call understudy roles in CAMBODIAN ROCK BAND (See breakdown).
Please come in prepared to do the Sides and music provided for each track. For Sides please email
casting@eastwestplayers.org.
Evolution Studios
10816 Burbank Blvd
North Hollywood, CA 91601
Holding room - Studio C
Director - Chay Yew
Music Directors: Jane Lui and Matt MacNelly
Artistic Director: Lily Tung Crystal
Associate Artistic Producer: Tyree Marshall
Casting: Allen Lucky Weaver
Expected to attend:
Artistic Director: Lily Tung Crystal
Producer: Tyree Marshall
Director of Production / Casting Director: Andy Lowe
Casting Director: Allen Lucky Weaver
Rehearsals Begin: 1/21/25
Tech: 2/4/25
Opening: 2/16/25
Closing: 3/9/25 (with 2-week extension until 3/23/25)
https://www.eastwestplayers.org
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
SYNOPSIS: Lauren Yee’s award-winning play-with-music is equal parts comedy, history, mystery and rock concert. The story centers on the resilient bond of family and the enduring power of music which thrusts us into the life of a young woman trying to take down a Khmer Rouge war criminal thirty years after her father fled Cambodia.
ALL PRINCIPAL ROLES ARE CAST -
DUCH: AANHPI, Cambodian, 30s/40s/maybe 50s. The physicality and presence of a spirited emcee and trickster. Vivacious, funny, mischievous. A leader. Incredibly educated and charming, but with a darkness underneath it all. The ability to suddenly transform into a terrifying and sadistic monster. We’re seduced by him in Act 1, before finding out he’s a war criminal in Act 2. Justifies his actions by saying he’s only following orders, but we see that he is haunted. Hides his true passions in order to amass great destructive power.
CHUM: AANHPI, Cambodian, 51 and 18 years old. Neary’s lovable, well-meaning, and wary father in 2008 full of charisma and dad jokes, purposefully withholding his history from Neary, and just trying to bring her back to safety in America. Unsettled by her interest in the dangerous Khmer Rouge. We also see him as a sincere, optimistic young man in the 1970s, caught between fleeing Cambodia and sticking with his beloved band The Cyclos. More of a fighter than we may initially expect. MUSIC: Lead guitar, vocals. Serves mainly as an actor but instrumental skill is a necessity.
NEARY/SOTHEA: AANHPI, Cambodian-American, 26, (doubles as SOTHEA). NEARY: Headstrong, intelligent, and ambitious. Grew up in Massachusetts and has spent the past two years investigating war crimes in Cambodia. There is also a vulnerable quality about her — she’s a little lost because she hasn’t figured out a part of her own history. She’s a strong young woman, but also a child wanting to connect with her father. MUSIC: Lead vocals (powerful belter who can let loose vocally, and with personality), may play tambourine. Serves as both an actor and a singer.
POU: AANHPI, Cambodian, can be of any gender identity, 20s-30s (also plays S21 GUARD). A bandmate in The Cyclos. MUSIC: Keyboard, vocals. Serves mainly as a musician.
TED/LENG: AANHPI, Cambodian, 20s, (doubles as TED, Neary's supportive Thai-Canadian boyfriend). Chum’s best friend and bandmate in the 1970s, frontman for the band who focuses on the group's professional future as a way to avoid thinking about Cambodia's political turmoil and what it might mean for him. Will do anything to survive and can control the room, despite being conflicted by moral choices. Underneath his bravado, we find he's a bit of a coward. MUSIC: Bass guitar, vocals. Serves mainly as an actor but instrumental skill is a necessity.
ROM: AANHPI, Cambodian, can be of any gender identity, 20s-30s (doubles as JOURNALIST). A bandmate in The Cyclos. MUSIC: Drums/percussion. Serves mainly as a musician.
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