CYMBELINE (OBway) - NYC EPA
National Asian American Theatre Company | New York, NY
Monday, August 12, 2024
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Off Broadway
$736 weekly minimum (Tier 2) 2023-24 rates - 2024-25 rates pending.
Equity actors for roles in CYMBELINE (all Femme, all Asian/Asian American version of CYMBELINE) (See breakdown).
Femme, Asian/Asian American actors are encouraged to audition.
Please prepare a 1-minute Shakespearean monologue. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
Written by William Shakespeare
Translated by Andrea Thome
Directed by Stephen Brown-Fried
NAATCO Co-Founder and Actor-Manager: Mia Katigbak
NAATCO Creative Producer: Peter Kim
NAATCO Managing Producer: Mona Moriya
Expected to attend:
Nia Smith: Casting Assistant at tbd casting co.
Rehearsals start on or about December 12, 2024
Previews: on or about January 17 - 22, 2025
Opening: on or about January 23, 2025
Run: on or about January 24 - February 15, 2025
Venue: Lynn F. Angelson Theater
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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.
NAATCO’s mission is to assert the presence and significance of Asian American theatre in the United States, demonstrating its vital contributions to the fabric of American culture. We present the following repertory:
- European and American classics as written with all Asian American casts;
- Adaptations of these classics by Asian American playwrights; and
- New plays – preferably world premieres – written by non-Asian Americans, not for or about Asian Americans, but realized by an all Asian American cast.
- Development and production of new plays by Asian American playwrights that incorporate other performative arts and media.
About the play: The Off-Broadway Premiere of Andrea Thome's modern translation of one of Shakespeare's most complex plays. Thome's update brings the play's language into the present, highlighting new resonances and providing a more accessible version of Shakespeare's play for today's audiences. One of Shakespeare's final plays, Cymbeline tells the story of the British king Cymbeline and his daughter, Imogen. It is a tale of deceit and jealousy, with accusations of infidelity that often draw comparisons to Othello and The Winter's Tale.
Femme, Asian/Asian American actors are encouraged to audition.
TRACK 1: Arviragus / as cast (character identifies as male, 20s to 30s) The younger of two brothers. A dreamer, active, outdoorsy. Excited to play make-believe. Positive. Good-hearted and noble by nature.
TRACK 2: Guiderius / as cast (character identifies as male, 20s to 30s) The older of two brothers. Athletic and energetic, heroic, does not realize that he’s heir to the kingdom, but shows all the nobility and kingliness of an ideal future monarch.
TRACK 3: Imogen / as cast (character identifies as female, 20s) Has spent her life as a princess in a castle, and sometimes chafes under the restrictions that has created. Passionate, incredibly clever (sometimes too clever for her own good), inquisitive and spirited, doesn’t suffer fools, a life force.
TRACK 4: ROLE HAS BEEN CAST. Posthumus / as cast (character identifies as male, 20s) An orphan who has lived his whole life not knowing his true roots. Noble, incredibly idealistic, naive to the dangers of the world. Good hearted but easily swayed by villains. Inquisitive and introspective. Passionate. Yearning.
TRACK 5: Belarius / as cast (character identifies as male, 50s) A loving father, a philosopher, loves the outdoors. Reminiscent of Emerson or Thoreau. An exile. Deeply good hearted, insightful. Also, a warrior.
TRACK 6: ROLE HAS BEEN CAST. Cymbeline / as cast (character identifies as male, 50s) The King. A seasoned politician and monarch, but sometimes impulsive. Has never fully healed from the disappearance of his two sons as infants decades ago. His need for supporters blinds him to the treachery that surrounds him. Threatened by the independence of his daughter.
TRACK 7: ROLE IS ON OFFER. Pisanio / as cast (character identifies as male, 20s to 40s) A deeply loyal servant. Driven by duty and honor. Deeply good. Willing to give his own life for the life of his master.
TRACK 8: Lucius / as cast (character identifies as male, 30s to 40s) A wise and strategic politician and general. Was once friends with Cymbeline, and now his chief adversary. Tactical and smart. A military man.
TRACK 9: Cloten / as cast (character identifies as male, 20s to 30s) The son of the Queen and high on the privilege that confers. Brutish, temperamental, selfish. An incel, misogynist, with the capacity for violence. Thinks he’s far smarter and more capable than he actually is.
TRACK 10: Cornelius / as cast (character identifies as male, 20s to 40s) A dutiful chemist. Has a good heart but is forced to follow the orders of a deeply wicked queen. Resourceful, and creative in finding covert ways to remain good while seeming to follow orders. A little geeky.
TRACK 11: Iachimo / as cast (character identifies as male, 30s) Sexually hungry. Machiavellian. Italian. Innovative in his treachery. Has had to struggle and hustle his whole life, and so has developed the rough, hard edges born of that life. Objectifies women. Has anger and hostility in him. Doesn’t hesitate to lie when it will result in advancement. Ignoble.
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