Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse 2023 Season - Vineyard Haven, MA EPA
Martha's Vineyard Playhouse | Vineyard Haven, MA
Saturday, April 29, 2023
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Break: 1:30 - 2:30pm
Contact auditions@mvplayhouse.org for an appointment slot.
NEAT
$500 weekly minimum NEAT (Tier A / Category 5)
Equity actors for roles in Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse 2023 Season (see breakdown).
Please prepare a short monologue (2 minutes) from a contemporary play.
Martha's Vineyard Playhouse
24 Church St
Vineyard Haven, MA 02568
Personnel in attendance:
MJ Bruder Munafo, Artistic Director
Michele Ortlip, Casting Director
See production dates in breakdown.
OTHER
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.
Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical
mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas
are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the
extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and
dressing rooms.
Holding/Audition room information:
The audition room can accommodate no more than 10 individuals at a time.
The holding room can accommodate no more than 30 individuals at a time.
2023 Season: The dates under each show are from first rehearsal through final performance.
By Mona Mansour / Directed by Johanna McKeon
June 12 – July 15 (1st rehearsal June 13. There will be 12 performances from June 30 - July 15). 5
week actor contract
SHE (a woman in her 40s, hopefully half Middle Eastern)
HE (a young man in his early 20s)
THE ARAB (Middle Eastern man, ideally, 30s)
THE AMERICAN (working class, African American or white, mid 20s)
By Dr. Deborah Plummer / Directed by Treva Offutt
July 10 – 23 (1st week of rehearsal, July 10 – 15 on Zoom. There will be 4 performances from July 19
– 22). 2 week actor contract
White Man – age 30’s-60’s, a newscaster type
Black Man – age 30’s-60’s, a newscaster type
Felicia / Gladys – age 40-s-50’s, Black
Yvonne – age 40’s-50’s, Black
Debbie, age 40’s-50’s, Black (THIS ROLE IS CAST)
Young Debbie/Gayle, age 20’s-30’s, Black (THIS ROLE IS CAST)
Susie/Various Friends, age 40’s-50’s, White (THIS ROLE IS CAST)
By Jennifer Lane, Directed by Louis Tyrell
July 17 – September 7 (1st rehearsal July 30, performances from July 22 – August 5) 3 week actor
contract
WYATT GRIMES Any ethnicity 30's. Male. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
MERRYN THOMAS Any ethnicity 30's. Female. THIS ROLE IS CAST.
Conceived & Directed by Scott Barrow / Based on the Poems by Eve Rifkah
July 24 – August 26 (1st rehearsal, July 25. There will be 12 performances from August 11-25. 5
week actor contract
Note on the casting. This is a devised piece and will change to fit the performers in the ensemble.
Every actor will play multiple roles, some close to type, some not. We are looking for a diverse
ensemble of physical actors of all ages to drive both the narrative of the play as well as to facilitate and
create the theatrical event itself. Strong language and physical skills are essential as the play's
language is often elevated and poetic, at times abstract, and at times colloquial and modern; shifting
as the play does between the headspace of the characters and the reality of living at the Penikese
Leprosarium where they are quarantined.
ALL ENSEMBLE IS AS CAST and WE WILL CONSIDER ALL AGES, GENDERS, and ETHNICITIES
FOR ALL TRACKS
Dr. Parker/Walton Keene - 30’s-70’s - Patient, driven, doctor scientist. A loving husband trying
valiantly to justify his life's work with a government who won't support him and patients he can't cure.
Also the former explorer Walton Keene - a big as the moon personality who loves to tell a good story.
Mrs. Parker – age 30’s-70’s- A former woman of society, now working four jobs on a remote island
off Cape Cod. Good-hearted, she eventually grows to love her new home and its inhabitants.
Morris Goldblatt/Frank Pina - age 25-55 - Morris is a Russian Jew who is abandoned by his family
but though devastated, never loses hope. Frank is a rough, longshoreman and fisherman.
Mary Martin/Betsy the cook - age 20’s-50’s - Brutally mean to the other patients, she refuses her
diagnosis and eventually goes insane. Also the jovial, unflappable Betsy the cook. Playing an
instrument is a plus.
Archibald Thomas/Iwa Umezakia (Speaks some Japanese) any gender identity. 20’s-50’s - Both Archie, 15 years old, an upbeat ball of energy and radio engineer, and the recluse Iwa who
befriends the birds and tries repeatedly to escape
Isabelle Barros /Joseph Needham – ages 40’s (THIS ROLE IS CAST)
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