CHICKEN AND BISCUITS - Dallas EPA Uptown Players | Dallas, TX
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Sunday, March 19, 2023
4:00 PM - 11:00 PM (C)
To schedule an audition appointment, go to: http://bit.ly/ChickenBiscuitsauditions . Video Submissions also accepted. You may find Video Submission information on the webpage with the sign-up sheet.
LOA
$440 weekly minimum (Ref. LORT)
Equity actors for roles in CHICKEN AND BISCUITS (See breakdown).
Local Dallas actors are encouraged to audition.
Please prepare the sides from the script which can be found on the webpage where you will also sign-up for an audition slot: http://bit.ly/ChickenBiscuitsauditions . Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together. The auditions and callbacks will follow all COVID protocols, including vaccination and COVID testing requirements. Masks must be worn by everyone in the building.
Uptown Players
1327 Motor Circle
Dallas, TX 75207
Written by Douglas Lyons
Expected to attend:
Producers: Jeff Rane and Craig Lynch Stage Manager: Renee Dessommes Director: Akin Babatunde
Callbacks will take place on Monday, March 20 from 6pm to 10pm.
Rehearsals: July 3, 2023
Opens: July 28
Closes: August 13
Four performances per week.
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An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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: 12
The maximum capacity in the audition room is: 33
BANEATTA MABRY (Late 40s-50s, African-American) An upstanding and stern Christian woman. Mother to Kenny and Simone, and wife to Reginald. She’s overbearingly full of love, but quite uptight and stubborn in her religious ways.
BEVERLY JENKINS (Early 40s-50s, African-American) Baneatta’s younger sister. The “fun Aunt” who’s always in a push up bra catering to what the kids want, but never what they need. A single mother and the life of the party. She's a savage, classy, not so bougie, but definitely ratchet when necessary.
BRIANNA JENKINS (40s-50s, African-American) Baneatta and Beverly’s half sister through an affair. She didn’t know her Father, but has come to his funeral to learn more about him. Sweet, open and collected.
REGINALD MABRY (50s, African-American) Baneatta’s faithful husband and the new pastor of their home church. He’s the peace-maker of the family. Reginald is a ball of love, with a side of corny Dad jokes.
SIMONE MABRY (30s, African American) Kenny’s older sister and Baneatta’s favorite. She followed the “right path. She’s pulled, slightly shady, and fierce on the exterior, but internally wounded from a recent failed engagement.
KENNY MABRY (Mid-Late 20s, African-American) Baneatta and Reginald’s youngest child. He’s proudly queer, but cowers in the presence of his mother. Kenny bites when he needs to, but at the end of the day he just wants to be loved.
LOGAN LEIBOWITZ (Mid- Late 20s, White) Kenny’s neurotic and dramatic Jewish boyfriend of 4 years. He often spins himself into a tizzy, but always wants to be there for Kenny. Logan's weed pen is his crutch for tough times.
LA’TRICE FRANKLIN (16-18) African-American) Beverly’s daughter. She's nosy, loud and in everyone else's business but her own. She shows love, but in her own Gen Z manner. She's sarcastic to the bone.
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