Geffen Playhouse | Los Angeles, CA
LORT Non-Rep
$1100 weekly minimum (LORT B)
Equity actors for roles in FURLOUGH'S PARADISE (See breakdown). All roles will be understudied.
Please submit your headshot and resume for consideration.
Deadline: 09/26/2024
aea.epa.geffen@gmail.com
Phyllis Schuringa
Geffen Playhouse
10886 LeConte Ave.
Los Angeles, 90024
Playwright: a. k. payne
Director: Tinashe Kajese-Bolden
First Rehearsal: March 18, 2025
First Preview: April 16, 2025
Opening: April 24, 2025
Closing: May 18, 2025
www.geffenplayhouse.org
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SYNOPSIS: Cousins Sade and Mina used to be inseparable. Now leading very different lives, they return to their childhood town for the funeral of their mother and aunt. While Sade is on a three-day furlough from prison and Mina experiences a brief reprieve from her career and life on the West Coast, the two try to make sense of grief, home, love, and kinship. As the clock ticks down, the cousins grapple with their conflicting memories of the past and their shared hopes for the future. Poetic and theatrical, Furlough’s Paradise explores family dreams of a utopia yet to be realized.
Casting Note: These actors may identify as non-binary and/or as women; these actors also may just be themselves, i.e., these actors may refuse to subscribe to any label about their body and instead may simply wish to breathe with the deep awareness of gender as an infinite spectrum.
MINA: Whose name means ‘love,’ an only child, a cousin, born 1991, mid 20s-mid 30s, moves with the illusion of having everything under control, cares deeply, radical, yet to find her truest self (on the verge of this), the responsible one, grounded with expensive taste, has forgotten the sound of her own laugh, feels where she’s been under her skin but cannot show it, a Black girl becoming grown, perhaps a woman dreaming towards more true language.
SADE: Whose name means ‘honor earns a crown’ or ‘rain,’ Mina calls her ‘de,’ an only child, a cousin, born 1991, mid 20s-30s, quick-wit, infinite sense of humor and self, cares deeply for her communities, a dreamer, logical and calculating, has a very clear map to freedom, has grown up in prison, tough edges: seemingly unshakable, infinitely tender, rocked in instances of injustice. At the start of the play, she has convinced herself that by blood she has no family, feels where she’s been with every breath, has learned to be very loud when she can, a Black girl becoming grown, perhaps a woman dreaming towards more true language.
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