LIBERATION - NYC EPA
Roundabout Theatre Company | New York, NY
Monday, July 29, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:30-2:30 pm
LORT Non-Rep
$1100 weekly minimum (LORT B)
Equity actors for roles in LIBERATION (see breakdown). All roles will be understudied.
NYC actors encouraged to audition.
Please prepare the side for your character provided at the EPA, and bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Ripley-Grier Studios (520)
520 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6507
16L (waiting room) 16K (audition room)
Producer: Roundabout Theatre Company
Artistic Director: Scott Ellis
Director: Whitney White
Playwright: Bess Wohl
Casting: Jillian Cimini (Casting Director), Neal
Buckley (Casting Associate)
One of the following is expected to attend:
Jillian Cimini (Casting Director)
Neal Buckley (Casting Associate)
First rehearsal: 1/2/25
First preview: 1/31/25
Opening: o/a 2/20/25
Max run: 4/13/25
Venue: Laura Pels Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre
roundabouttheatre.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.
1970. Six women—strangers—gather in a basement gymnasium at their local community center, determined to shake up their lives and the world around them. Fifty years later, one of their daughters tries to piece together what the hell happened.
From Tony Award® nominees Bess Wohl (Grand Horizons) and Whitney White (Jaja’s African Hair Braiding) comes a provocative, revealing, and irreverent jolt of a play about what really goes on when women meet behind closed doors.
Lizzie – Female identifying. Flexible age - 20s-40s. White. A journalist, searching to understand choices made in the past so she can find a way to live with the present-day complications of motherhood, ambition, and heterosexual marriage. The actor cast will play Lizzie in the present and her mother in the past. In the present, she is searching, curious, insistent, and secretly navigating a deep and crippling sense of loss. As her mother in the 1970s, she is ambitious, hopeful, optimistic, brave and profoundly conflicted. As both, she is a woman striving to step into her true self, if only she could figure out how. This role will require nudity.
Margie – Female identifying. 50s-60s. White. A midwestern homemaker, mother of two grown boys, and wife of a man who neither appreciates her or notices her thinly sublimated rage. Her husband is retired now and she is looking for a way to get out of the house so she doesn't stab him. Maybe she's kidding... Maybe she's genuinely homicidal. (She's not even sure herself.) Important: she is not a doormat, and could have done many things if she had been given the chance. For now, she must settle for making an excellent cheese ball. This role will require nudity.
Susan — Female identifying. Early 20s. White. A radical, queer free spirit living out of her car with a pet bird and a fragile relationship to her own mental health. Her way of seeing the world is utterly brilliant, completely unique, and at times deeply painful. She has profound visions, she has frightening dreams-- all in all, she is ahead of her time, which makes it very hard to live at all. This role will require nudity.
Celeste – Female identifying. Late 30s. Black. Harvard/Radcliffe educated, editor and writer. Left her life as a New York City writer and activist and came home to this stifling midwestern town to care for her sick mother, who is slowly dying. She is grounded, precise and at times guarded-- in part as she is on a journey with being open with her sexuality and where she sits at the intersection of queerness and blackness. This role will require nudity.
Isidora – Female identifying. 30s. White. An Italian immigrant who came to the U.S. at age 12, was abandoned by her mother and raised by nuns, and later got married to an American-- but only to get a green card (and maybe a credit card too). She is brash, proud of her sexuality and sensuality, opinionated and bitterly desperate for action. Hard to tell at times whether what's motivating her is optimism or nihilism. Or maybe it's just plain rage. This role will require nudity.
Dora – Female identifying. Mid 20s. White. A prim, midwestern good girl, whose neat hair and sensible pumps belie a fierce ambition and growing determination to claw her way up the professional ladder. Her character goes through drastic growth and change as she will mature from a quietly deferential, competent secretary to a successful, globe-trotting marketing maven over the course of her life. Ultimately she will find the courage to resist the conventions of her upbringing. This role will require nudity.
Joanne – Female identifying. Early 30s. Black. She's got four obstreperous young sons and an unhelpful husband to deal with, on top of working a full time job. She cannot get on board with women fighting to work outside the home when she's already been working outside the home her whole life--and would change places with a bored housewife any day of the week. She's direct, perceptive and unafraid to call out hypocrisy wherever she finds it. (This actor will also play Lizzie in a single scene with Bill.)
Bill – Male identifying. Late 20s- early 30s. White. Bill is smart, clean-cut, athletic, down-to-earth. A hard-working young lawyer with a healthy sense of ambition, and an equally strong sense of justice. He's got the chance of a lifetime to move to New York for a job opportunity, but is also head-over-heels in love with Lizzie. He's an optimist who truly believes in the promise of equal partnership between men and women, and that, with love, anything is possible. He's also deeply scared that Lizzie will break his heart.
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