Lyric Theatre Of Oklahoma | Oklahoma City, OK
Thursday, October 17, 2024
3:00 PM - 8:00 PM (C)
URTA
$675 weekly minimum (Tier 1)
Equity actors for roles in MOTHER ROAD (See breakdown). Lyric encourages and will consider actors from diverse backgrounds and genders for all roles in all productions. There are no Equity stage managerial positions available at this time.
Please prepare a 1-minute modern monologue and bring a non-returnable headshot and resume.
Lyric Theatre and Thelma Gaylord Academy building
1801 NW 16th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73106
3rd floor - Room 310
Director: W Jerome Stevenson
Book: Octavio Solis
Expected to attend:
Michael Baron - Producing Artistic Director
Ashley Wells – Executive Producer/WAITRESS Director
W Jerome Stevenson – MOTHER ROAD Director
Callbacks on October 19, 2024, 1 pm - 4 pm
First Rehearsal 3/12/25
Open 4/2/34
Close 4/19/25
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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 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.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
William Joad (White, 70s), a bitter, sour, bigoted old man who’s too damn stubborn to die; an old farmer from Oklahoma hiding liver cancer while looking for his kin, Tom Joad was his first cousin, ill, paid for Roger's law school, former drinker, initially against illegal immigration, strong ties to his memories of the dust bowl, father abandoned family, calls Martin an ‘anchor baby’.
Martín Jodes (Latinx, 20s-30s), a Mexican-American young man looking for a home but who always seems to find trouble instead, documented, related to William (at least 1/4 white), Tom Joad was his great grandpa, worked as a laborer, knows farmwork, calls out injustice.
Seven Chorus Members, from whom the following characters emerge:
Roger Graves (White, 50s) Will’s friend and lawyer, investigates and travels in search of Martin in service to William, good lawyer and a helluva businessman but not a farmer, sees William as a replacement father, private civil transactional lawyer (Doubles as State Trooper, and Ranch Hand 3).
State Trooper (White, 30s-40s) targets Latinx people in roadside stop and fights with Martin and Mo.
Mo (Latinx, 20s-30s) Martín’s migrant worker 'cousin', scrappy and funny, defiant and deeply intuitive about the land, queer Chicana from Fresno, wants to take the farm organic.
Amelia (Latinx, 20s-30s) Martín’s love, also a migrant worker, both romantic and gritty, appears out of time in non-realistic moments, she and her family work the fields, wants to be an engineer.
James (African-American, 30s-40s) Martín’s friend from his rough youth, was in Juvee with Martin, speaks in quasi-poetry, in the diversion program at Juvee, got the holy call, hears God in nature, calls himself Pastor Crazyman (Doubles as Fry Cook).
Fry Cook (African-American, 30s-40s) content in his roadside cafe, disapproving of tourists.
Ivy (30s-40s) Waitress whose family also traveled out west from Oklahoma but settled along the way, becomes William's mother in the dustbowl memory, Midwestern/western, uneducated, New Mexico/Okie type with a worn nametag and worn eyes (Doubles as Officer Hamilton).
Officer Hamilton (30s-40s) helpful officer who processes Mo’s release and flirts with Mo.
Abelardo (Latinx, 50s-60s) a motel clerk with a duty to his father's wishes (Doubles as Ranch Hand 2).
Father of Abelardo (Latinx, 30s-40s) deeply distrustful of los Oklahomas, appears only to Abelardo, covered in sawdust and much younger than Abelardo (Doubles as Curtis).
Curtis (Latinx, 30s-40s) a Choctaw ranch hand who accidentally shoots William but ultimately seeks forgiveness.
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