HOUSE OF TELESCOPES - NYC EPA
Pipeline Theatre Company | Brooklyn, NY
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
BREAK: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Transition
$583 weekly minimum (Year 2)
Equity actors for roles in the world premiere of HOUSE OF TELESCOPES (see breakdown).
Signifiers of gender pluralism used in this breakdown do not reflect the expanse of language available to LGBTQIA2S+ precolonially and/or today. We welcome any performers who identify broadly with these terms and/or communities to submit. We encourage trans and non-binary performers to audition for characters who are cisgender.
Please bring in a one-minute contemporary monologue. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
Playwright: Kairos Looney
Director: Lyam Gabel
Pipeline Theatre Co-Directors: Janice Amaya,
Kristy Bodall, Natalie Gershtein, Philip Santos Schaffer
Casting: Bass/Valle Casting
Casting Director: Gama Valle
Casting Associate: Gregory Jafari Van Acker
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Gama Valle, Casting Director
Gregory Jafari Van Acker, Casting Associate
Lyam B. Gabel, Director
First Rehearsal: on/about Feb 22nd, 2024
First Preview: on/about March 22nd, 2024
Opening: on/about March 31st, 2024
Closing: April 21st, 2024
www.pipelinetheatre.org
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.
HOUSE OF TELESCOPES
SYNOPSIS:
Fable has buried herself in a historical opera she’s writing for lost trans-ancestors. Meanwhile, her
mother accidentally conjures a homesick demon, her best friend is addicted to martyrdom, and her
sister wants to fix everything yesterday.
FABLE - 30s, Transfemme Person of Color. In the impossible but common position of being a trans elder and possibility model even though she is only in her 30s. She’s asked constantly to care for those around her before caring for herself; she navigates between the world of her family of origin, the world of her queer family, and the spirit realm of trans people come, gone, and on their way. Musicologist and aspiring medium searching for trans ancestry and writing an opera in the moment before heading to grad school. Both vulnerable and straightforward.
SUZ - Late 20s, Cisgender. Femme. Poly and queer. Fable’s sister. The self-appointed peace-keeper of the family, who would like to fix everything.
TY - Late 20s to 30s, Queer. Dry wit and playful. A partner of Suz’s. Doubles as PHYLLIS EMSAssistant Instructor.
LILA - 30s, Non-binary. Tattoo artist. Self-assured joker. At once confident and frazzled, she contributes immense, unnoticed domestic labor. Unclear if chosen family conflict would ever resolve without her intervention. Ari’s partner. Suz’s college friend.
SHERMAN - 20s. White. Non-binary, “masc-ish”. The baby queer of the household. Just coming into themselves and struggling to name and analyze early experiences with transphobia, chosen family, and gender euphoria. Neurodivergent and nerds out/infodumps as a love language. Studying to be an EMT. Possibly in early stages of a medical transition, but this is never a subject of conversation or reveal. The text calls for a kiss with the actor playing Doobs.
DOOBS - 20s. Non-binary. Smooth despite social anxiety. Kind of a stoner. A performance artist. A sweetheart of Sherman’s. The text calls for a kiss with the actor playing Sherman.
JACKSON - 18+ (to play 17). He. Cis-assumed. Fable’s half-brother. A lacrosse jock. Struggling against internalized phobias to accept his sister’s transition and his own queer feelings.
DAPHNE - Late 50s. Cisgender. Fable’s mother. Deeply caring but struggling to understand and accept Fable’s transition. Unraveling.
GUS - Late 50s. Cisgender. Fable’s stepdad. Works on a gas rig. A good listener. Doubles as CHRIS, an EMS Substitute Instructor who makes a transphobic statement in Sherman’s class.
ARI - 40s. Butch lesbian or non-binary. Black. A carpenter. Owns the house that Fable, Lila andSherman live in and operates as the dad of the household. Doubles as YOSEF, an EMS instructor.
CARTOGRAPHERS [5] - A multigenerational group of gender plural predecessors. These individuals could identify as trans, non-binary, gender-nonconforming, gender-fluid, or any number of other genders that we have not named. Each of the cartographers has their own unique personality full of equal parts weight, queer magic, and sass. They watch over Fable. These performers will double as students in an EMT class.
SAVED THINGS - A physical performer and singer who will operate a wearable puppet full of loved objects from a past life. A well-meaning trickster.
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