HOUSEHOLD SPIRITS - Chicago EPA Theater Wit NFP | Chicago, IL
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Monday, June 12, 2023
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (C)
Break: 1:00-2:00pm
CAT
$430 weekly minimum (CAT III)
Understudies: $430/week through press previews, $300 each performance week + $50/performance up to $450/week
Equity actors for roles in HOUSEHOLD SPIRITS (see breakdown).
AUDITIONS WILL CONSIST OF SIDES FROM THE SCRIPT:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ 1cDhPT7xvsXzQFrofxg5EdcaDKslCoZJX? usp=sharing
Theater Wit
1229 W Belmont
Chicago, IL 60657
Playwright: Mia McCullogh (she/her) Director: Eileen Tull (she/her)
Artistic Director: Jeremy Weschler (he/him) Casting Director: Catherine Miller (they/them) Production Manager: Matthew Chase (he/him)
TENTATIVE CALLBACK DATES: Thursday, June 22nd
FIRST REHEARSAL: Tuesday, September 19th
OPENING: Monday, October 16, 2023 CLOSING: Saturday , November 11th, 2023 Regular Run: Thu-Sat @ 7:00pm, Sun @ 2:00pm
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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.
A note on casting: Our team believes in the importance of authentic storytelling. Because of this, we encourage Jewish actors to audition for this play.
CLARA: The ghost. 30-50. Ashkenazi Jew or Sephardic Jew. Acerbic and dark. Has no filter, but does it matter? No one can hear her anyway. Still suffers from schizophrenia even though she’s dead. Knits.
ANGELA: The housekeeper late 50s-60s. Italian American. Has a NY Bronx/Queens accent. Warm and diplomatic, but doesn’t take shit from
people.
ERIK: 18+ to play 17; sullen, acerbic teenager; Half WASP/half Ashkenazi or Sephardic Jew. Son of Clara and Philip, though Angela has been his surrogate mother since he was 3 or 4. Desperately wants out of this well-to-do, elitist suburb.
PHILIP: [CAST; still need U/S] late 40s-50s.Erik’s father, entertainment lawyer.
ROX: 20, Mixed race or white/ half Ashkenazi Jew. Sophomore in college. Smart, confident, and also has the facade of a vacuous sorority girl. Rarely lets her guard down.
EVELYN: 50s, theatrical agent. Any race. Not necessarily from money, but very accustomed to money and its privileges. Mother of Rox, the second wife, newly living in the house of the previous wife, Clara, the ghost. Put together on the outside, complete mess on the inside.
LEO: 50s/60s, recently out of prison for white collar crime. Ashkenzai Jew. Shifty, but charismatic. Rox’s father, Evelyn’s ex-husband.
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