Luna Stage 2018-19 Season - NYC EPA
Luna Stage Company
AUDITION DATE
Fri, Jul 27, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 12:30 to 1:30
CONTRACT
SPT $288/week
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles in the 18-19 season. See breakdown.
PREPARATION
Prepare a brief contemporary monologue. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
Expected in attendance:
Ari Laura Kreith (Dir of Pirira), Christina Gorman (Writer of Roan & The Gates), Ari Laura Kreith (Dir of Heartland)
OTHER
www.lunastage.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.
BREAKDOWN
Performances: Th/Fri at 7:30, Sat at 8 and Sun at 3
** = in attendance at the EPA
PIRIRA
Director: Ari Laura Kreith**
Playwright: J.Stephen Brantley
First Rehearsal: 9/11/18 First Preview: 10/4/18 Closing: 10/28/18
ERICKA: 30s, female, American, Black or Latina. Recently appointed funds manager for a small NGO in Malawi. A former financier who grew up in Brooklyn, Ericka is determined, distrustful, and headstrong to a fault. A pragmatist who believes in the power of logic to change the world.
JACK: 40s, male, American, Caucasian. Civil engineer drilling borewells for a small NGO in Malawi. Having lost a child in his native California, Jack has dedicated himself to saving lives in sub-Saharan Africa. A former punk musician who plays acoustic guitar. ALREADY CAST
GILBERT: 20's, male, Malawian, Black, straight. Works the early shift at a wholesale florist in Manhattan. A college student new to New York, Gilbert is reserved, even deferential, until pushed too far. An aspiring rapper with a Malawian dialect. ALREADY CAST
CHAD: 30's, male, American, gay, not Black. Works the early shift at a wholesale florist in Manhattan. A lapsed activist with hipster tendencies, Chad is funny without being bitchy, outrageous but never camp. A big flirt with a very broken heart. ALREADY CAST
About PIRIRA
Winner: New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Premiere of a Play
As the African nation Malawi erupts in riots around them, American aid workers Jack and Ericka take shelter in the storage room of a struggling NGO. Half a world away, Malawian student Gilbert and his gay co-worker Chad begin another day in the back room of a Manhattan florist. This powerful new play explores the challenges of international aid across interpersonal borders, and how we bridge seemingly impossible cultural divides.
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THE ASSIGNMENT
Director: Dan Swern
Playwright: Camilo Almonacid
First Rehearsal: 11/6/18 First Preview: 11/29/18 Closing: 12/16/18
HELEN PAYNE-African-American, early 60’s, Professor of English Composition for over 20 years. Dedicated teacher who students respect (and fear).
JULIAN J. TORRES- Latino, large presence, 39 years old, was a wild child growing up. New to college, has a willingness to achieve in all his studies. Sometimes he can come off as being overly ambitious (even naive) because he’s trying to make up for lost time.
ABOUT THE ASSIGNMENT
Julian J. Torres is an ebullient and loquacious 39-year-old college re-entry student trying for a new start and a better life after a troubled youth. English teacher Helen Payne is impressed despite herself, and mentors Julian until a writing assignment reveals that they were once on opposite sides of a similar violent act. As the holidays approach, the two struggle to find reconciliation and forgiveness.
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ROAN @ THE GATES
Director: Michelle Tattenbaum
Playwright: Christina Gorman**
First Rehearsal: 1/8/19 First Preview: 1/31/19 Closing: 2/24/19 *possible 1-week extension
NAT—Female. Late 30s/early 40s. Black. Civil rights attorney, specializing in LBGTQ cases. Roan’s wife.
ROAN—Female. Late 30s. White. NSA Information Infrastructure Analyst. Nat’s wife.
ABOUT ROAN @ THE GATES
How far would you go to do the right thing? Against a backdrop of Cambridge Analytica and fake news, Roan @ the Gates is a fictional investigation into cyber-security inspired by the shadowy figure of Edward Snowden's girlfriend. Roan, an NSA Analyst, isn't even allowed to tell her wife the location of her next business trip. When her personal life collides with national security, it launches launches
a beautiful and high-stakes adventure that illuminates the cost of secrecy.
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HEARTLAND
Director: Ari Laura Kreith**
Playwright: Gabriel Jason Dean
First Rehearsal: 3/12/19 First Preview: 4/4/19 Closing: 4/28/19 *possible 1-week extension
NAZRULLAH: 27. Afghan, math teacher at the Blue Sky school in Afghanistan
GETEE: 29. Afghan-American, Harold’s adopted daughter, an English teacher at the Blue Sky in Afghanistan
HAROLD: Late 60s. American, retired professor at University of Nebraska
ABOUT HEARTLAND
Dr. Harold Banks is a retired professor of Comparative Literature and Afghan Studies, waiting for his adopted daughter to return from teaching in Afghanistan. When Nazrullah, an Afghan refugee, arrives in Nebraska bearing Harold's daughter's copies of The Diary of Anne Frank and The Old Man and the Sea, the two men become unlikely roommates. Set in both Maidan Shar and Omaha, Heartland is the story of a family, a secret, and an extraordinary friendship.
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 audition.
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