CULLUD WATTAH - Atlanta, GA EPA Actor's Express Theatre Company | Atlanta, GA
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Monday, April 24, 2023
6:30 PM - 10:30 PM (E)
To schedule an audition appointment please fill out the form at: https://airtable.com/shr1um37FL1UO5fAS . If you run into difficulties or have questions, please email Casting Director Justin Kalin at auditions@actorsexpress.com or call Artistic Director Freddie Ashley at 404-875-1606 ext. 101 between 10:00 am and 6:00 pm. If you need to contact us on the day of the auditions, email will be best.
SPT
$437 weekly minimum (SPT 4)
Equity actors for roles in CULLUD WATTAH (See breakdown).
Actor's Express is fully committed to diversity, inclusion and equal employment opportunity. We are committed to principles of ethical and diverse representation in our casting. Women, women-identifying and femme performers are encouraged to audition.
Please prepare sides for the character for which you would like to be considered. Sides are available at: https://actorsexpress.com/wpcontent/uploads/2023/04/cullud-wattahsides.pdf . A reader will be provided. Please also bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actor's Express Theatre
887 W Marietta St NW Ste J107
Atlanta, GA 30318-5266
Paid parking is available in the King Plow Arts Center parking deck adjacent to the building. Please come to the Actor’s Express inner lobby/bar area to check in. Auditionees may wait in the inner and outer lobbies.
Written by Ericka Dickerson-Despenza
Expected to attend:
Director – Amanda Washington
Casting Director – Justin Kalin
Artistic Liaison – Sheila Oliver
Casting Assistant – Tyshawn Gooden
First rehearsal – August 22, 2023
Tech – September 16-17, 2023
Dress Rehearsals – September 19-20, 2023 Previews – September 21-22, 2023
Opening – September 23, 2023
Closing – October 15, 2023
Performances: Thursday-Saturday, 8pm, Sundays 2pm. 5 performances per week
Please note that Actor’s Express has committed to five-day work weeks.
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Rehearsals and performances will be held indoors at Actor’s Express. We continue to work with a safety plan that covers COVID and other communicable illnesses. Proof of full COVID vaccination is a condition of employment.
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: 150
The maximum capacity in the audition room is: 25
CULLUD WATTAH
Plum - 9. Physically frail, arithmetically sharp African American girl. Curious, intuitive and wise.
Marion - Early-mid 30s. A robust African American woman worn from caretaking. She is responsible, pragmatic and status quo. A third-generation engine assembly line worker at General Motors. A widow. Plum and Reesee’s mama.
Reesee - Late teens. A queer African American young woman infatuated with Yemoja and the spiritual nature of healing. A dancer and aspiring doula.
Big Ma - 60s. Slight build with an elegant presence. A stern but deeply loving African American woman. The widowed matriarch of the Cooper family – but only in title. A Mississippi migrant with the south in her mouth; she often talks in pictures. Rooted in a Black Southern Baptist aesthetic that she finds herself queering.
Ainee - Mid-late 30s. A 34 weeks-pregnant African American woman. Addiction survivor. Frank, humorous and slick-mouthed; a straight shooter. Fiercely maternal. The family historian and rebel interested in building political power. Marion’s older sister.
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