ELÉCTRICO Equity Principal Actors - Casa 0101, Inc. Auditions

ELÉCTRICO - LA EPA

Casa 0101, Inc. | Los Angeles, CA

AUDITION DATE

Monday, August 25, 2025
2:00 PM - 10:00 PM (P)
BREAK: 5:00PM - 6:00PM

CONTRACT

SPT
$393.14 weekly minimum (SPT 1)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in ELÉCTRICO (see breakdown).
Local Los Angeles area actors are encouraged to audition.

PREPARATION

Please prepare two contrasting monologues, each 1 to 2 minutes long. You may be asked to do cold readings from the script in the audition room. Also, please bring your headshot and resume.

LOCATION

Casa 0101 (2102 E 1st)
2102 E 1st St
Los Angeles, CA 90033

PERSONNEL

Producer/Theatre Company: Emmanuel Deleage / Casa 0101 Theater
Artistic Director: Josefina Lopez
Expected to attend:
Emmanuel Deleage (Executive Producer)
Josefina Lopez (Writer)
Corky Dominguez (Director)
Edward Padilla (Casting Director)
Angelica Ornelas (Stage Manager)

OTHER DATES

Rehearsal Date(s): September 1, 2025, to October 8, 2025
Preview Date(s): October 9, 2025
Opening Date(s): October 10, 2025
Closing Date(s): November 2, 2025 — with possible extension through November 9, 2025
Performances: Fridays and Saturdays at 8 pm, Sundays at 3 pm

OTHER

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.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

BREAKDOWN

ELÉCTRICO

SYNOPSIS: This production of ELÉCTRICO at CASA will be a World Premiere. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants were targeted by lynch mobs in the United States, particularly in the Southwest. La Matanza (The Slaughter) was a period of intense violence against Mexicans in Texas, including lynchings and extrajudicial killings. This play written by Josefina López looks at this extremely shocking period and she creates a story about a white passing electrician in 1908, after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in a town close to the Mexican border. The electrician is thrown in the middle of a racial struggle between whites and Mexicans as he attempts to remove the lynched corpse of a Mexican man from a power pole, in order to restore the electricity. The Mexican man was fighting for his land rights, then was murdered, and now the electrician feels obligated to return the body to his widow.

SEEKING:

[Raymond Brown] – 40s, Mexican/White Male
An electrician who is sent to a small town in Texas to fix the electricity. He is white but his secret is that he is Mexican, the product of a white man raping a Mexican woman. He struggles with alcohol and is a widower who has no family or community. He is heart-broken with a death wish. Appears to be physically fit to climb up and down poles.

[Adela Borrego] - 40s, Indigenous/Mexican Female
A widow who pleads for Raymond to bring the body of her husband back to her so she can give him a proper burial so his soul can rest. She becomes enraged by her husband’s killings and fights back by assisting Raymond.

[Sheriff Andrew Stevens] - 30s, White Male
Texan, arrogant, stern, afraid the Mexicans will rebel against the whites because they are outnumbered.

[Gerald Painter] - 40s, White Male
Texan, owner of the Imperial Hotel and Saloon, greedy businessman who uses his best Saloon Girl to get secrets out of Raymond.

[Jack Powers] - 30s, White Male
Texan, crude, ignorant, helps as a BARTENDER & GUARD and is a witness to the Sheriff and Gerald’s actions, is part of a white mob.

[Maria Teresa Borrego] - 30s, Tejana/Mexican Female
Adela’s sister-in-law, married to Bernardo who begins to lose hope and her faith in God.

[Justino Borrego] - 40s, Tejano/Mexican Male
Adela’s husband who decides to fight for his land rights. He appears as a ghost to witness his wife’s suffering and his funeral.

[Bernardo Borrego] - 30s, Tejano/Mexican Male
Justino’s brother and Maria Teresa’s husband, a cowboy and rancher. He also appears as a ghost. Doubles as [Pablo], a Mexican Cowboy.

[Darlene Tracy] - 30s, White Texan Female
Cunning and clever, a Saloon Girl employed by Gerald to get Raymond drunk so he can reveal his secrets to her and report back. She also appears as a ghost and memory, [Eliza Brown] Raymond’s wife.

[Juan Carlos] - 30s, Mexican Male
A farmer who attends the meeting Justino called to unify the remaining Tejanos/Mexicans to fight for their land rights fifty years after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. He helps Adela and Maria Teresa because there are no men left at their ranch. He also plays guitar and sings the corrido of El Eléctrico at the end of the play.

[Luz] - 30s, Mexican Female
Attends the meeting Justino organized. Has strong opinions and works for Adela and Maria Teresa.

[Don Miguel] - 50s, Mexican Male
Attends the meeting, announces the lynching of Bernardo. Doubles the role of a PRIEST who presides over Justino’s funeral.