Magic Theatre and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre 2024 Season General - San Francisco, CA EPA
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Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Monday, January 29, 2024
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM (P)
To set up an audition appointment please email: auditions@magictheatre.org. We will respond with a time slot with 48 hours.
Bay Area Theatre
$689 weekly minimum (Tier 4) - Magic
$500 weekly minimum (Tier 2) - Lorraine Hansberry
Equity actors for the General auditions for Magic Theatre and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre 2024 Season (See breakdown).
Prepare 2 contrasting monologues that you feel represent you as an artist. We want to get to know you. This can come in any form you choose whether they are contemporary or classical monologues. Please note that a classical monologue is not required. Audition slots will be 4 minutes each.
Magic Theatre
Fort Mason Center
2 Marina Blvd, Bldg D
San Francisco, CA 94123
See breakdown for specific production personnel.
LORRAINE HANSBERRY THEATRE Stephanie Shoffner, Managing Director
Expected to attend:
MAGIC THEATRE
Sean San José, Lead Director
Danny Duque-Estrada, Lead Producer Stephanie Holmes, Director of
Communications
LORRAINE HANSBERRY THEATRE Margo Hall, Artistic Director
Julius Rea, Production Manager
See breakdown for specific production dates.
OTHER
MAGIC THEATRE
LORRAINE HANSBERRY THEATRE
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.
Magic Theatre and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre 2024 Season General
The Magic Theatre and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre encourages actors of all races, ethnicities, genders, ages, body types, and physical abilities to audition. Everyone is encouraged to audition but we are rightfully centering BIPOC artists in our upcoming season - and also reflecting the worlds, backgrounds, cultures represented and written about in the three plays. Please come introduce yourself and share with us your amazing talent. Local actors are encouraged to audition.
Written by Ashley Smiley
Directed by Raelle Myrick-Hodges
First Rehearsal 1/30/24
First Tech Rehearsal 2/23/24
First Performance 2/26/24
Closing 3/17/24
Possible Extension 3/24/24
UNC/PAPADEUX - (This role has been precast) Male identifying, 30-40. Any Ethnicity MOMS/DELCINA - (This role has been precast) Female Identifying, 20-40. Black. LEX/BABYGIRL - (This role has been precast) Female Identifying, 20-40. Black.
TONY/CAESAR - (This role has been precast) Any Gender, 30-40. Any Ethnicity. ERIN/KOLDKUTZ - (This role has been precast) Any Gender, 20-40. Any Ethnicity. BRUT/CORI - (This role has been precast) Any Gender, 20-40. Any Ethnicity. NAIMI/SLOOSH - (This role has been precast) Female Identifying, 20-40. Black.
PLEASE NOTE: The cast will be the same for GARUDA’S WING and RICHARD II. Productions are subsequent of one another.
Written by Naomi Iizuka
First Rehearsal 5/07/24
First Tech Rehearsal 5/31/24
First Performance 6/5/24
Closing 7/21/224
Possible Extension 7/28/24
SYNOPSIS: Garuda’s Wing is a new play by Naomi Iizuka. This is a ghost play of interpersonal intimacy and international investigation. This mystery, intergenerational, global spellbinder is an exploration, shrouded in mystery, entangled in the effects of colonization. Garuda’s Wing is magical in that it is a play that is both a spellbinding trance and one that spans continents and time. This play begins in Borneo. It takes us to Jakarta. And in the midst, we travel through generations, histories, and bloodlines. The play involves a search, unearthing, murder, on the personal familial intimate level as well as connecting to the large global colonial plane. Iizuka possesses the ability to create intimate human portraits, while simultaneously evoking the layers of revolution and colonial effects - a stunning and magnetic feat, even in reading alone.
ELLEN OGURA, a primatologist . Female Identifying.
MICHAEL SUAREZ, a photojournalist. Male Identifying.
PAUL SUAREZ, also a GHOST, a botanist. Male Identifying.
DIAH OGURA, a law student. Female Identifying.
ALICE WILSON-LEE, the owner of a wellness retreat. Female Identifying
GRACE KIBAWA, a representative of a multi-national pharmaceutical company. Female Identifying.
Translated by Naomi Iizuka from the original text by William Shakespeare for Play On Shakespeare.
First Rehearsal 7/23/24
First Tech Rehearsal 8/16/24
First Performance 8/21/24
Closing 9/8/24
Possible Extension 9/15/24
SYNOPSIS: Richard II is Shakespeare’s examination of the destructive powers of privilege. The company from the world premiere of Garuda's Wing will perform a new, lean production of Iizuka’s Play On version of Richard II shaped to this company. Not modernized, just new. Play On Shakespeare has created an entire library of new versions of the entire Shakespeare canon with some of the greatest living writers. The Magic Theatre is matching this translation of RICHARD II with a cast filled with the folx typically outside of Shakespeare text and productions. This will feature BIPOC, Women, and Queer folx throughout and rightfully centered, embodying the original story and context, created for now!
Please Note: All Roles open to any Ethnicity and Gender Expression. Most roles will be doubled with smaller roles/As Cast. Character Descriptions are from Shakespeare’s Original Character DESCRIPTIONS.
KING RICHARD II
JOHN OF GAUNT, Duke or Lancaster, Richard’s Uncle
HENRY BOLINGBROKE, Duke of Hereford, son of John of Gaunt.
THOMAS MOWBRAY, Duke or Norfolk.
DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER, Widow of Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester, Uncle to the King.
LORD MARSHALL
DUKE OF AUMERLE, York’s son.
GREEN, Favorite of Richard.
BUSHY, Favorite of Richard.
BAGOT, Favorite of Richard.
DUKE OF YORK, Richard’s Uncle.
QUEEN, Richard’s Wife
EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND
LORD ROSS
LORD WILLOUGHBY
SERVANT
HENRY ‘HOTSPUR’ PERCY, Northumberland’s son.
LORD BERKELEY
CAPTAIN
EARL OF SALISBURY
BISHOP OF CARLISLE
SIER STEPHEN SCROOP
QUEEN’S LADY 1
QUEEN’S LADY 2
GARDENER
LORD FITZWATER
DUKE OF SURREY
ABBOT OF WESTMINISTER
DUCHESS OF YORK
SIR PIERS EXTON
GROOM
KEEPER
LORRAINE HANSBERRY THEATRE
At this time, all other productions needing actors are to be determined. Character/show breakdowns will be communicated later to interested performers and those contacted by LHT for a callback.
First rehearsal: August 13, 2024
Opening/Closing: September 20, 2024/October 6, 2024
Performances: Thursday, Friday, @ 8 pm, Saturday, and Sunday, @4 pm, Run time: 90 minutes.
SYNOPSIS: The Black Feminist Guide to the Human Body, details an intimate examination into aging and health disparities for Black women as well as the American medical system's impact on Black bodies and spirits. By combining collective prayers, spiritual dance and a soulful mixtape, this piece offers a community guide as a love song to Black women.
If possible, each member of the cast should be able to dance and/or sing. Or at least sway and hum. They all need to live or try desperately to live in their bodies.
Dr. Beatrice Bea Free: Black woman, 50s. Professor of Black feminist studies. She wears a white tank top with blue jean shirt, or tailored white shirt, and black pants. She's barefoot. She in mine/mind.
Cee Cee: Black woman, any age. | Girly youthful energy. Joyful, innocent, singer/dancer, strong yet soft and beautiful, and very alive. She's wearing a flowing dress with a tight top is body and Bea's alter ego.
Dee: Black woman, any age. | Tired, tender, tame but witty. Very real. Her sharpness masks her vulnerability and righteous anger. She is spirit and Bea's other alter ego.
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