CLYDE'S - Self-submissions for NYC audition Denver Center for the Performing Arts | Denver, CO
Notice: Submission
LORT Non-Rep
$1075 weekly minimum (LORT D)
Equity actors for roles in CLYDE'S (See breakdown).
The production will not be understudied.
Bass/Valle Casting encourages people of all ages, abilities, and gender identities to apply.
Please complete the form in the link below by 06/01/23 for an opportunity to be invited to audition in person. The Bass/Valle Casting and/or The Casting Collaborative team will be reviewing all digital submissions.
https://airtable.com/shrU2Ie6dKBFGWWTT .
Deadline: 06/01/2023
Artistic Director: Chris Coleman
Playwright: Lynn Nottage
Director: Jamil Jude
DCPA Casting: Grady Soapes, CSA- DCPA Director of Casting
NYC Casting: Bass/Valle Casting
Casting Director: Gama Valle
Audition dates:
AUG: 6/6/23 & 6/7/23 (by appointment only)
PRODUCTION DATES:
FIRST REHEARSAL: 9/26/23
OPENING: 11/3/2023
CLOSING: 11/26/23
OTHER
All performers must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, as defined by the CDC, with a first booster (if eligible) by first rehearsal as a condition of employment. Vaccination requirements are subject to change according to CDC guidance.
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.
The Denver Center intends to lead all decisions from selecting each play to the final bow, with empathy and respect. We acknowledge that race, gender, ethnicity and physical abilities of the actors on stage have meaning and we want to be mindful of that throughout our practices. Our casting process will be led with thoughtfulness and appreciation of the artists we encounter and any level of discrimination will not be tolerated. We do not want to assume that the space you are entering or have entered is fully inclusive of your needs, but instead want to create an environment and expand our conditions that allows for your multi-faceted personhood to thrive and feel welcome.
ABOUT THE PLAY:
In this feisty new comedy by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Sweat, Ruined), you’ll become a fly on the wall of Clyde’s, a roadside sandwich shop, in all its gastronomical glory.
At Clyde’s, formerly incarcerated individuals cook up meals that range from sublime to soul-crushing. Even as the surly shop owner tries to keep them under her thumb, their kitchen mentor, Montrellous, guides them on a quest to create the perfect sandwich – and reclaim their lives.
Clyde’s is an extraordinary work that dances effortlessly between moments of searing pain and outrageous humor. It’s a work Variety calls “a flavor-bomb of a new comedy.” It’s the sustenance you didn’t know you needed — until now.
This production will not be understudied
CLYDE – 30-50, female-identifying, Black. Owner of the truck stop who gives second chances to incarcerated individuals; leads a firm and tight ship with the goal of changing the lives of her employees. Loud, brassy, and doesn’t tolerate nonsense, and will call you out.
MONTRELLOUS – 40-50s, male-identifying, Black. Mindful cook at the sandwich stop who served many years in prison. A sensei in the kitchen, he worships his food, and has high respect from the line cooks in the shop.
RAFAEL – 20-30, male-identifying, Latiné. Formerly incarcerated romantic who loves food and works as a line cook at the stop.
LETITIA – 20-30, female-identifying, Black. Recently released from prison, she is trying to regain her footing and start a new life while working as another line cook at the stop.
JASON – 20-30, male-identifying, white supremacist, tattooed-faced, and quite moody who is new to working at the stop.
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