Casa 0101, Inc. | Los Angeles, CA
Friday, January 24, 2025
1:00 PM - 9:00 PM (P)
Break 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
SPT
$323 weekly minimum (SPT 1)
Equity actors for roles in MUJERES ON THE VERGE... (See breakdown). Local Los Angeles area actors are encouraged to audition.
Four (4) short plays, running during Women's History Month in March 2025.
Please prepare a 1-to-2 minute contemporary monologue. Also, please bring your headshot and resume.
Casa 0101 (2102 E 1st)
2102 E 1st St
Los Angeles, CA 90033
Producer/Theatre Company: Emmanuel Deleage/Casa 0101 Theater
Artistic Director: Josefina Lopez
Writers: Lindsey Haley, Mariana Herrera, Maria Martinez, and Raquel Salinas
Directors: Olivia Chumacero, Jacqueline Guido, Karla Ojeda, Vilma Villela
Casting Director: Edward Padilla
Expected to attend:
Emmanuel Deleage (Executive Producer)
Jacqueline Guido (Director)
Mariana Herrera (Director)
Karla Ojeda (Director)
Rehearsal Date(s): January 25, 2025 to February 27, 2025
Opening Date(s): February 28, 2025
Closing Date(s): March 23, 2025
Performances: Fridays and Saturdays at 8 PM, Sundays at 3 PM
Venue: Casa 0101 Theater, 2102 E. First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
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.
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MUJERES ON THE VERGE...
A strong ensemble cast of talent for this production of four (4) short plays, running during Women's History Month in March 2025.
SYNOPSIS: LA NOCHE DE ANOCHE - MARIA retires early to pursue her dreams of becoming a writer. MARIA’s dreams are derailed when she becomes a full-time caregiver for her mother, LUZ. The physical and emotional demands of caregiving come to a head when VANESSA, MARIA’s daughter, visits from college and witnesses the changes in the family dynamics including the isolation of her mother, the absence of her father, and the physical and emotional deterioration of her mother. MARIA’s resistance to remedy the situation addresses the overwhelming stress and anxiety that many caregivers experience.
[MARIA]
Female-bilingual-Chicana, 50-60 years old. MARIA retired from an important and demanding high-level administrative job to fulfill her dreams of becoming a writer. However, MARIA has become a 24/7 caregiver for her mother, LUZ, who suffers from dementia. Maria’s obsession with caring for her mother and abandonment of herself and her husband has resulted in the separation in her marriage and the deterioration of her emotional and physical self.
[LUZ]
Female-bilingual-Mexican, 80-90-year-old woman who suffers from dementia. LUZ was an independent widow until she became unable to care for herself. She now lives with her daughter, MARIA.
[VANESSA]
Female-bilingual-Chicana, 20-24-year-old college student. Vanessa is the daughter of MARIA and granddaughter of LUZ. VANESSA has been away to college and is back home for the Summer and surprised to see the changes at home but mostly the transformation on her mother, MARIA, and her parents’ situation.
SYNOPSIS: PLEITO - Chicana Seniors and former Pachucas have a 50+ year score to settle that involves a love triangle between themselves and the saxophonist of an East L.A. explosion sound band.
[LA RED]
Latina, fluent in Spanglish, a gregarious red-headed Chicana and former pachuca from Boyle Heights in her 70s. Raised a daughter as a dedicated single mother and retired from working at the Post Office for 30 years. Now a resident of an Assisted Living facility, she is forced to face her nemesis, the woman who changed the trajectory of her life.
[LUPITA]
Latina, fluent in Spanish, a very religiously well-groomed Chicana and former high-end pachuca in her late 70s who was raised in Montebello. Widow with several children, she raised in the middle-class neighborhood of Downey with her husband, a former saxophonist for an East Los Angeles explosion sound band from the 1960s, turned line worker in the aerospace industry. She’s a temporary new arrival at an Assisted Living facility that she resents. She not only drudges having to make new friends but will have to come face to face with the woman who her dead husband betrayed over 50 years ago.
[MRS. SANCHEZ]
Latina, fluent in Spanglish, a sexy Chicana and former pachuca grandma in her late 70s, who grew up in East L.A. She’s a resident of an Assisted Living facility, sharp, quick-witted and has not lost her appetite for sex as she encourages her friend to pursue a relationship with a new male resident.
[MRS. RAMIREZ]
Latina, fluent in Spanglish, an easy-going and malleable Chicana and former pachuca grandma in her late 70s who grew up in Boyle Heights and must now play peacekeeper between two women who are unfolding the resentments of their pasts.
[JASMINE]
Latina, a young streetwise Chola in her late 20s, Nursing Assistant at the Assisted Living facility. Resident of Boyle Heights, she’s caring, rough around the edges, loves and has a strong relationship with the Seniors she is in charge of but has a low level for BS. Using her street smarts, she has to keep two fighting female residents from not only breaking a hip but killing each other during heated fights, resulting in her getting a lesson on how life was like for the women 50 years ago and the limited choices they had.
[PAULINE]
Latina, Lupita’s daughter, an upper middle-class Chicana professional in her 30s-40s. She’s her mother’s caretaker and must now temporarily place her in an Assisted Living facility while she takes a month-long tour of Europe. The visit to the facility with her mother tests her positivity, patience, and guilt.
[EDDIE]
Latino, a polite, well-groomed Chicano and former pachuco in his 70s who grew up in East L.A. His good looks and charm not only reignite the female residents' sensuality but cause one of the facility’s biggest fights.
[MR. MONTES]
Latino, a Gay Chicano in his 50s. Administrator of an Assisted Living facility who enjoys the challenges of working with Seniors and is ready to address the challenges with a sense of humor and great care.
SYNOPSIS: FAN CLUB - Four friends who wrestle with menopausal issues, while the youngest, Sonia, grapples with the difficult decision of growing her business or keeping a relationship in which her partner demands she have a baby.
[SONIA]
Female, late 30s. Ambitious. Cuban and speaks with a Cuban accent. She is the owner of ‘La Tempestad,’ a patio bar. She is currently in a relationship with Marco. Sonia’s feelings of loneliness are compounded amidst menopausal symptoms when she must choose between her dream or her conservative boyfriend’s demands of a traditional marriage. Sonia is friends with both Terry and Anna.
[MARCO]
Male. Sonia’s boyfriend. Cuban American, mid 30s. He is handsome, well-dressed, and a bon vivant; he is suave, smooth, and in control. His charm and good looks allow him to circumvent personal growth and responsibility. Marco is invested in Sonia’s success and wants to impregnate Sonia to continue to live a life of leisure. Disinterested in working, he takes advantage of Sonia’s rising success. He is having a sexual relationship with Diana, Terry’s friend.
[TERRY]
Female. A good looking, sexy, sassy, sarcastic, outspoken mid 40s Latina. She is vain and flirtatious, confident and savvy. She is a four-time ex-divorcee. Terry has understood that relationships do not translate to happiness. Terry enjoys drinking and using substances but willfully ignores this use. Terry is a long-time friend of Anna.
[ANNA]
Female. A professional Latina, mid 40s, attractive. Anna is guileless and gullible. A widow, Anna is a romantic and is searching for love. She likes to think of herself as ‘politically correct’. She enjoys drinking and smoking but is discreet about her habits.
[DIANE]
Female. Sophisticated, upper-class, 50-ish. Good looking and well dressed. Liberated in her lifestyle and opinions. Very articulate. Diana is an ‘Americanized’ Latina. She is confident and uninhibited.
[RAUL]
Male. La Tempestad Patio Bar ‘server.’ Raul is Mexican, mid 20s, handsome, muscular, and sexually appealing. He is aware of his effect on women and pursues this interest. Raul’s secretly dreams of becoming a boxer. He is Spanish-speaking dominant and speaks English with a thick accent.
Written and performed by Raquel Salinas
SYNOPSIS: One woman's journey of self-discovery through the labyrinth of sobriety.
[CHALIA] CAST. Female-bilingual-Chicana 50-60 years old.
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