Kansas City Actors Theatre 2023-24 Season - Kansas City, MO EPA
Kansas City Actors Theatre | Kansas City, MO
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Sunday, January 22, 2023
5:00 PM - 10:00 PM (C)
No break scheduled.
Sign up online by January 16:
click here auditions@kcactors.org
SPT
$600 weekly minimum (Tier 6)
Equity actors for roles in Kansas City Actors Theatre 2023-24 Season.
KCAT maintains a strong commitment to the Kansas City artistic community and encourages local submissions.
KCAT is promoting a fully vaccinated workplace. All employees must be fully vaccinated prior to first day of employment and productions will follow CDC and AEA recommended protocols during rehearsals and performances.
KCAT is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion and conscious casting, and we encourage performers of all races and ethnicities, gender identities, sexualities, abilities, and ages to audition for our productions. Please let us know if you require special services, assistance, or disability specific modifications to fully participate.
Please prepare 2 contrasting contemporary monologues, no more than 4 minutes total.
Union Station
30 W Pershing Rd
Kansas City, MO 64108-2410
Lower Level.
Expected to attend:
John Rensenhouse (Artistic Chair)
Gary Heisserer (Board President)
Darren Sextro (director of LITTLE WOMEN) Cinnamon Schultz (director of GASLIGHT) other members of the KCAT Artistic Committee
DATES
Season 19:
LITTLE WOMEN
first rehearsal May 2nd, 202
runs May 24 - June 11, 2023
GRAND HORIZONS
first rehearsal July 25th, 2023
runs August 16 - September 3, 2023
SKELETON CREW
first rehearsal August 22nd
runs September 13 - October 1, 2023
GASLIGHT (ANGEL STREET)
first rehearsal December 26th
runs January 17, 2023 - February 4, 2024
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An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination.
Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a 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.
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.
Holding/Audition room information:
The audition room can accommodate no more than 180 individuals at a time.
The holding room can accommodate no more than 30 individuals at a time.
MARMEE/AUNT MARCH - Female, any ethnicity. 50+. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
MEG MARCH - Female, any ethnicity. 30s-40s. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
JO MARCH - Female, any ethnicity. 30s-40s. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
BETH MARCH - Female, any ethnicity. 30s-40s. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
AMY MARCH - Female, any ethnicity. 20s-30s. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
HANNAH/MRS. MINGOTT/MESSENGER - Female, any ethnicity. 40+. THIS ROLE IS CAST. LAURIE - Male, any ethnicity. 20s-30s. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
MR. LAURENCE/ROBERT MARCH/DOCTOR - Male, any ethnicity. 50+. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
BROOKS/MR. DASHWOOD/PARROT - Male, any ethnicity. 40s. Brooks is a sometimes stiff and awkward tutor, a well-educated and sensitive rule-follower. Dashwood is a publisher, a businessman in a man’s world, fancies himself a nice guy (and isn’t). The Parrot is a musty and disgusting bird, a demon in parrot form.
BILL - Male, any ethnicity. 70s. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
NANCY - Female, any ethnicity. 70s. Retired librarian. Bright, kind, frustrated, yearning to be a “full person.”
BEN - Male, any ethnicity. 35-45. Their elder son. An attorney, husband, and expectant father. Responsible and resents it.
BRIAN - Male, any ethnicity. 30-35. Their younger son. A high-school drama teacher. Charming, needy, a pleaser.
JESS - Female, any ethnicity. 25-35. A newly-credentialed family therapist. Smart, strong-willed, observant. Pregnant. Afraid of losing herself in the roles of Wife and Mom.
TOMMY - Male, any ethnicity. 25-35. Flirty, attractive, adventurous, not interested in personal drama. CARLA - Female, any ethnicity. 50+. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
FAYE - Female. 55-60. Black. Working-class woman. Tough and a lifetime of dirt beneath her nails. Somewhere, deep compassion.
DEZ - Male. 25-30. Black. Working-class young man. A hustler, playful, street-savvy, and flirtatious. Somewhere, deeply sensitive.
SHANITA - Female. 25-30. Black. Working-class young woman. Pretty but not ruled by it. Hard working. By-the-books. Believes in the work she does. Also, pregnant. Somewhere, a beautiful dreamer.
REGGIE - Male. 35-40. Black. White-collar man. Studious. Dedicated. Compassionate. The Foreman. Somewhere, a fire brims.
All roles require British dialects.
MRS. MANNINGHAM - Female, any ethnicity. 34. Once a beauty, now has a haggard, wan, frightened air, with rings under her eyes that tell of sleepless nights and worse.
MR. MANNINGHAM - Male, any ethnicity. 45. Good-looking and perhaps a little too well-dressed. Suave and authoritative, with a touch of mystery and bitterness.
NANCY - Female, any ethnicity. 18-25. A self-conscious, pretty, cheeky girl.
ELIZABETH - Female, any ethnicity. 50. Stout, amiable, subservient.
DETECTIVE ROUGH - Male, any ethnicity. 50+. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
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