GOOD GRIEF - NYC EPA
Vineyard Theatre
**Note about location**
AUDITION DATES
Fri, Jul 13, 2018
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1:30 to 2:30
Sat, Jul 14, 2018
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1:30 to 2:30
Sun, Jul 15, 2018
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1:30 to 2:30
CONTRACT
Off Broadway $652.00 PER WEEK
SEEKING
Seeking actors with both comedic and dramatic chops. Transformative abilities. Good movers. See breakdown.
PREPARATION
Please prepare a contemporary comedic monologue.
Please bring a picture and resume.
LOCATION
Pearl Studios NYC (500)***
500 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6504
3rd floor
***The 500 8th Avenue building is doing construction on the lobby this weekend, July 14 & 15 from 8 am-6 pm. Entry to Pearl Studios 500 will be via the freight elevator at 269 W 35th street. We apologize for any inconvenience!**
PERSONNEL
Playwright: Ngozi Anyanwu
Director: Awoye Timpo
Artistic Directors: Sarah Stern/Douglas Aibel
Casting Director: Henry Russell Bergstein
OTHER DATES
1st Rehearsal: Saturday, September 8th, 2018
Tech: Saturday, October 6th – Wednesday, October 10th, 2018
1st Preview: Thursday, October 11th, 2018
OTHER
Personnel in attendance:
Henry Russell Bergstein, Casting Director
Serafina Tiranno-Cimisi, Casting Associate
Other Personnel in attendance is still TBD and will be updated asap
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.
BREAKDOWN
Nkechi was a good Nigerian-Ameican girl. She did everything right. Went to med school. Made plans. Then life happened. And plans changed. A first-generation coming-of-age journey of love, loss, and growing into adulthood, GOOD GRIEF follows Nkechi as she navigates Pennsylvania’s suburbs alongside her childhood crush, her would-be-philosopher brother, and her immigrant parents.
This hilarious and heartbreaking new play reunites playwright Ngozi Anyanwu and director Awoye Timpo following their acclaimed collaboration on THE HOMECOMING QUEEN.
SEEKING ACTORS WITH BOTH COMEDIC AND DRAMATIC CHOPS. TRANSFORMATIVE ABILITIES. GOOD MOVERS.
THE HEROES
N or Nkechi is our heroine. African-American Female, 20s. She is a first generation Nigerian girl/woman/goddess. She is city born but raised in the suburbs of Bucks County and is very much a product of that in the way she speaks. She is a pre-med drop out because in her heart she knows has the lonely heart of an artist. A spunky force of nature.
Matthew Jason George, aka MJG but always referred to as MJ: Latino Male, 20s. Our tragic hero. He's a slacker a thinker and a dreamer. A James Dean of the millennium. He very well may also have the heart of an artist but will not live long enough to fully realize his potential. The bad boy who’s not all that bad. The kind of guy that your parents wanted you nowhere near.
THE FAMILY
BRO: African-American Male, 20s-30s. Nkechi’s big brother. A wannabe ghetto philosopher, like Nkechi he is suburb-raised but if you didn’t know any better, you’d think he was raised in a completely different household. Their hearts are the same, but they're approaches are different.
PAPA: African-American Male, 40s-60s. Nkechi’s father. A pragmatic Nigerian Igbo Man he moved to America to raise his kids here to become doctor, lawyers and nurses. They have not done what he’s said.
NeNe: African-American Female, 40s-60s. A psych student, a nurse and N’s mother…in that order she is also Nigerian Igbo woman. She desperately wants to understand her children.
THE ONES LEFT BEHIND
JD: Caucasian Male, 20s-early 30s. he’s the boy from up the street, very realistic. The boy that every parent wants for their kids. He’s a little Zach Morris and a little Dawson. That great mix of being privileged and popular, but also really good guy.
MJ’s MOM: Latino Female, 40s-60s. She is in mourning. She also plays A Neighbor’s MOM that is the barer or bad news. Ability to wrestle or learn wrestling.
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 audition.
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