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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
9:30 AM to 5:30 PM
Lunch 1 to 2
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Contract
Off Broadway
Expected salary: $593/week minimum.
Location
Actors' Equity Association NYC Audition Center
165 West 46th Street
16th Floor
New York, NY 10036
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Seeking
Equity actors for various roles in THE DEATH OF THE LAST BLACK MAN IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD
NOTE: All actors must have a strong facility for language, rhythm and musicality.
updated 5/25: The Character Breakdown has been updated
Preparation
Sides will be provided.
Actors may perform a side or a brief contemporary monologue.
Please bring a picture and resume, stapled together.
Other Dates
First Rehearsal: September 27, 2016
Announced Run: October 25, 2016 through December 4, 2016 (possible four-week extension).
Other
General Manager: Gilbert Medina
Casting Director: Telsey + Company—Will Cantler & Karyn Casl
Personnel
Artistic Director: Paige Evans
Associate Artistic Director: Beth Whitaker
Author: Suzan-Lori Parks
Director: Lileana Blain-Cruz
Signature casting associate: Joe Ward (in attendance at EPA)
- EPA Rules are in effect.
- A monitor will be provided.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
Updated 5/25/16
The character breakdown below has been updated.
THE DEATH OF THE LAST BLACK MAN IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD: A woman tries to feed her husband a fried drumstick. Dragons roam a flat earth. The last Black man in the whole entire world dies again. And again. Careening through memory and language, Parks explores and explodes archetypes of Black America with piercing insight and raucous comedy. A riotous theatrical event, The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World hums with the heartbeat of improvisational jazz.
**NOTE: All actors must have a strong facility for language, rhythm and musicality.
SEEKING:
BLACK MAN WITH WATERMELON
Male, black, 30s-40s. An everyman caught in a space between life and death where he dies repeatedly.
BLACK WOMAN WITH FRIED DRUMSTICK
Female, black, 30s-40s. Wife of Black Man with Watermelon. An everywoman trying to bring her husband back to her.
LOTS OF GREASE AND LOTS OF PORK
Male, of African heritage, 20s-30s. Rough around the edges, plain-spoken.
YES AND GREENS BLACK-EYED PEAS CORNBREAD
Female, of African heritage, 20s-30s. Rough around the edges, plain-spoken.
QUEEN-THEN-PHARAOH HATSHEPSUT
Female, of African heritage, 30s-50s. Regal, elegant, powerful.
BEFORE COLUMBUS
Male, of African heritage, 30s-60s. A source of wisdom and history.
OLD MAN RIVER JORDAN
Male, of African heritage, 50s-80s. A source of wisdom and history.
HAM
Male, of African heritage, 30s-60s. A source of wisdom and history.
AND BIGGER AND BIGGER AND BIGGER
Male, of African heritage, 20s-30s. A young man living in poverty, filled with boiling rage.
PRUNES AND PRISMS
Female, of African heritage, 20s-50s. Tightly-wound.
VOICE ON THUH TEE V
Male, of African heritage, 30s-60s. A TV newscaster, polished, elegant.
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