Pushcart Players
CONTRACT
TYA $550.25 weekly minimum
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in a new play with music, LIFT EVERY VOICE: A LETTER TO THE EDITOR (see breakdown).
Performers who are Disabled and Nondisabled, Black, Asian, Native, Latino, Arab, White and Multi-Racial, Female-identifying, Male-identifying, and Non-binary are encouraged to apply.
Pushcart Players does not discriminate in practices or employment opportunities on the basis of an individual's race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, or disability.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare a brief monologue of your choosing. Email your headshot/resume along with your video submission with VOICE submission in subject line.
Deadline: Sat, Apr 30, 2022
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
Tylie Shider - Playwright
Paul Whelihan - Producing Artistic Director / Director
OTHER DATES
Staged readings beginning in June 2022
Play opens in the 2022-23 Season (opening date to be determined)
Season is year-round (most performances between October 2022 and June 2023, limited summer engagements)
Actors must be available for daytime / weekday engagements and be able to participate as ACTOR / ASM. Limited short-term out-of-town touring; primarily day tours from central location in Verona, NJ.
OTHER
https://pushcartplayers.org/
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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
The play which centers on events and causes leading to America's Civil Rights Movement will be added to the Pushcart repertoire in the 2022-23 season. The story centers on Junebug, a 12-year-old boy in the 1960’s South, who learns of James Meredith’s attempt to enroll as the first African American at the University of Mississippi. When the editor of “The Oxford Eagle,” a local newspaper, expresses her negative opinions on integration, Junebug takes matters into his own hands and confronts these views, speaking out for equality and inclusion. A series of staged readings will begin in June of 2022.
ROLES:
URALEE JAMISON (female presenting, late 20's to early 30's, alto/mezzo-soprano) Black American, dorm maid at Ole Miss, mother of Junebug, a strong, loving maternal figure.
NINA GOOLSBY (female presenting, 30's to 40's or older, alto / soprano) White American, stolid editor of The Oxford Eagle, a local newspaper in Oxford, MS; does not support segregation in schools.
JUNEBUG aka S.T. JAMISON JR. (male presenting, 18+ to play 12 year old boy, tenor) Black American, student, voracious reader, but he is growing up fast because he has to in the Jim Crow south, son of S.T. and Uralee Jamison.
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 submit.
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