KIN Equity Principal Actors - Making Our Space Theatre Co. Auditions

KIN - NYC EPA

Making Our Space Theatre Co. | Brooklyn, NY Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)

Lunch 1:00-2:00 pm

CONTRACT

Showcase-NY

$800 stipend

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Making Our Space’s production of Kin by Bathsheba Doran. (See breakdown.)

PREPARATION

Please prepare a contemporary comedic or dramatic monologue no more than two minutes max. Choose material in line with the role or roles you are interested in. Irish dialects not necessary for initial auditions (but will be asked for in callbacks).

LOCATION

Actors' Equity New York Audition Center 165 W 46th St

16th Fl

New York, NY 10036

PERSONNEL

Director: Spencer Whale

Artistic Directors: Ellie M. Plourde, Eli Mazursky

Associate Artistic Director: Sophia Castuera

OTHER DATES

Callbacks 7/30-7/31at the Drama League in NYC

First rehearsal 11/4/2024

Tech 12/1/2024-12/4/2024

Opening 12/5/2024

Closing 12/22/2024

16 performances

OTHER

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Performances at The Chain Theater’s MainStage (312 W 26th St. 4th Flr New York, NY 10018)

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

LINDA - Irish, 55-65. Sean’s mother. Lives in Ireland. Borderline alcoholic; bottomless pit of need. Wicked sense of humor. What makes her a bearable and even inspiring personality is that wrestling with her self-pity is an indomitable spirit. May appear, at first, to have given up on life, but hasn’t. Has a strong Irish dialect.

ADAM - 55-65. Anna’s father. Still in excellent physical condition. High-ranking military official; reliable guardian of secrets. Intimidating. Born on the East Coast, but lives in Texas. Reports to DC on a regular basis. Latine actors encouraged to audition.

MAX - Irish, 55-65. Linda’s brother. Lives in Ireland. Not the sharpest tool in the box, not the dullest. Born working class, climbed to the middle, making a decent life for himself as a clothing importer. Lives with his wife, whom he adores. Lives six hours from his sister. This was his wife’s design. Has a strong Irish dialect.

KAY - 55-65. A dying woman, full of life. Full of showmanship and entirely authentic. Born in Texas; currently in DC. Adam’s former lover. BIPOC actors encouraged to audition.

RACHEL - 30s. Former girlfriend of Sean’s. Recovering addict. Beautiful. One who has weathered the storm and now fears nothing. BIPOC actors encouraged to audition.

SIMON/GIDEON

Simon: 40s. Professor. Charismatic. Self-obsessed.

Gideon: 30s. From North Carolina. Masculine. Works with his hands. A flirt, but not a sleaze. BIPOC actors encouraged to audition.

These roles have been cast. Not seeking understudies.

ANNA - CAST. Late 20s/30s. Ivy League-educated. Now an adjunct in the English department at Columbia University. Hard worker. Quietly ambitious. Strong sense of obligation towards others; tendency to put their needs before her own. Her mother died when she was 16 years old.

HELENA - CAST. Late 20s/30s. Anna’s oldest friend. Talented but difficult actress. Born in the South; lives in New York. The pain of under-employment, poverty and rejection is beginning to translate into her looks as well as her spirit. Her accent is faded, but has not disappeared.

SEAN - CAST. Irish. Late 20s/30s. Personal trainer. Born and raised in rural Ireland, living in New York. A loner -- in part, because he’s shy (which he doesn’t know). Complex emotionally, but not one to look inward. Feels guilt at straying so far from home, but dreads returning every Christmas. Kind. Enthusiastic.