The Orchard Project | New York, NY
Thursday, March 13, 2025
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
LOA
$680 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT)
Equity actors for roles in a workshop of FIVE NOTES (See breakdown).
Please prepare a short cut of a contemporary pop/rock song that shows your style and vocal range. Please bring a stapled headshot and resume.
Ripley-Grier Studios (520)
520 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6507
Holding room - Studio 17X
Producer: Orchard Project by Special Arrangement with Michael Shulman and Colin Callender
Director: Michael Greif
Book: Karen Zacarias
Music & Lyrics: Gloria Estefan & Emily Estefan
Music Supervisor: Alex Lacamoire
Casting: The Telsey Office
General Management: The Orchard Project
Expected to attend:
Casting Director(s): Kristian Charbonier & Alex Cortinas
Workshop dates: on or about April 12-April 25, 2025
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
NAMBÍ - character portrayed is female, 18+ to play 16, Latinx. A dutiful, hard-working teen with an extraordinary gift. The only child of an unstable ganchera mother. Things have gotten harder and more volatile since Nambí's father left. She is an anxious perfectionist; her need to have order in the midst of a landfill is palpable. Violin playing skills a plus.
SOFÍA - character portrayed is female, 18+ to play 16, Latinx. Nambí’s fun, flighty best friend. Her mother is a likable hairdresser, and her dad runs a small store out of the crowded family home. She has three older sisters and six nieces and nephews, all of whom live in the small family house. Feeling lost in the family shuffle, Sofía seeks attention elsewhere. Violin playing skills a plus.
BLANCA - character portrayed is female, 18+ to play 16, Latinx. Nambí’s wry, sardonic, other best friend. A soccer player who needs to bang on things. Her doting ganchero father/welder is kind and religious. Blanca lost her faith and moorings after the death of her mother from a hit-and-run and has not dealt with her grief. Drum playing skills a plus.
NUNU - character portrayed is male, 19, Latinx. Guileless, unhoused older boy who works as a ganchero in the landfill and whose mind follows a different rhythm. He reads the world but not the room. Nunu is his own family but longs for more. Cello playing skills a plus.
JOSÉ - character portrayed is male, 18+ to play 16, Latinx. Flirty bad-boy who is really a teddy bear. José’s dad is a ganchero who adores Phil Collins; his older brother Tito is an addict. Like Sofía, José is trying hard not to fall into bad family traps. Saxophone playing skills a plus.
DANI - character portrayed is male, 18+ to play 17, Latinx. Grandson of a well-to-do family of famous musicians from Favio's hometown. His grandfather played the same harp he now plays and takes care of like his own child. Unlike the other teens, Dani reads music and has already developed a true musician’s discipline. Harp playing skills a plus.
MÓNICA - character portrayed is female, late 30s-late 40s, Latinx. Nambí’s needy and codependent mother, a ganchera who once had other dreams. She has become increasingly angry and difficult since Nambí’s father left them. She recognizes Nambí’s musical dreams but can’t find a way to support them.
FAVIO - character portrayed is male, 30s-50s, Latinx. Earnest, eager, nerdy, oversharing, environmental engineer and musician who gets fired from one job to discover he’s better at another. After his sustainable trash recycling program in Cateura fails, he begins teaching music lessons to the kids in the community, which evolves into the world-famous Recycled Orchestra. Guitar playing skills a plus.
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