IN THE HEIGHTS - CHI ECC Dancers Marriott Theatre | Lincolnshire, IL
Notice: Audition Call Type: ECC
Thursday, May 18, 2023
10:00 AM (C)
THIS ECC WILL BE HELD FOLLOWING PRE-PANDEMIC PROCEDURES. Please see the breakdown for more information.
Dinner Theatre
$888 weekly minimum
Equity actors for chorus dancer parts in IN THE HEIGHTS (see breakdown).
All roles will be understudied.
Please be prepared to dance for 1 hour.
Actors' Equity Association - Chicago Member Center
557 W Randolph St
1st Fl
Chicago, IL 60661
Expected to attend:
Artistic Director: Peter Marston Sullivan Artistic Assistant: Sana Selemon
Full Creative Team
Director: James Vásquez
Choreographer: William Carlos Angulo Musical Director: Ryan T. Nelson
Artistic Director: Peter Marston Sullivan Executive Producer: Peter Blair
Associate Artistic Director: Katie Johannigman Artistic Assistant: Sana Selemon
Artistic Coordinator: Kavin Moore
First day of rehearsal: Thursday, January 4th, 2024 (rehearsals are typically Tuesdays - Sundays, 10am to 6pm, six days a week)
First Preview: Wednesday, January 24th, 2024
Opening: Wednesday, January 31st, 2024 (Show schedule: Wednesday-Sunday with two shows on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday)
Closing: Sunday, March 27th with 1 possible extension week
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We are also open to accepting video submissions, please check out our website at
https://www.marriotttheatre.com/about/employment-and-auditions.
ECC 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.
THIS ECC WILL BE HELD FOLLOWING PRE-PANDEMIC PROCEDURES. For this audition, rather than making a specific appointment, Equity members will sign up online to attend the ECC. On the day of the audition, the Equity monitor will read the list of members who signed up online to attend (in the order they signed up) and will distribute numbers to those present. Members who do not sign up in advance may request a number after everyone on the list has been accommodated. All members who receive a number prior to the start time of the audition will be seen. For more information on how these ECCs will run, please review Equity Chorus Call Audition Procedures (dated July 22, 2016) in the Document Library. (https://members.actorsequity.org/ecc-procedures).
Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms.
DIRECTOR NOTE: In The Heights celebrates family, both blood and chosen, while also telling the story of a community who has fought to have their voices heard. And yet, while zooming the lens in on a specific neighborhood, we all feel welcome. No matter who we are or where we come from, everyone sees themselves in a part of this story.
For me, that's a result of the heart and soul left on the stage every night by the storytellers. It demands we present ourselves in an authentic way, trust and honor our joy, pain, mistakes and achievements. As BIPOC storytellers we have been given few opportunities to lead the story from our POV. I've been lucky to 'visit' this neighborhood a few times in my career now, and every time I leave feeling more powerful and inspired to take our stories and voices further out into the world where they deserve to be heard.
I'm excited to bring this story to the Marriott. And I'm excited to meet more of the Chicago community of BIPOC actors. I remind you that this is a neighborhood. And while it is a very specific neighborhood we are building, it's full of real folks of all experiences and appearances and ages. We are looking forward to meeting YOU. What do you have to offer our neighborhood? As you prepare your audition, lead with that. Lead with you, your history and your voice. THAT is what is going to uplift and make our neighborhood sing.
A note about casting (adopted from language with consent originally created by Kevin Kantor and Emily Trarquin of Actors Theatre of Louisville): Most characters we encounter currently are on the binary and are written with he/him or she/her pronouns and you will see that in the following character descriptions. However limiting the descriptions are, our casting seeks to be inclusive as possible and we invite gender non-conforming, genderqueer, transgender, and non-binary actors to submit for the roles they most identify with. We will also list race/ethnicity when specific to the character but are otherwise seeking all races and ethnicities. Please let us know if you have any questions, concerns, or if there are any accommodations we can provide.
Seeking:
ENSEMBLE (most will cover principal tracks) BIPOC, Latine/Latinx, and/or Afro-Latinx. Residents of Washington Heights, NY.
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