NAATC 2024 Season - Cementing Our Legacy - Indianapolis, IN EPA
Naptown African American Theatre Collective | Indianapolis, IN
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Monday, June 3, 2024
10:00 AM - 7:00 PM (E)
Break 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
To schedule an audition appointment please go to:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfzEnFzBqSDBtIYzSy9mA_KGgm51Djc32kSMveBcUZVS_ydRQ/viewform .
For any questions or additional information please reach out to LaKesha or Latrice at naatcinc@gmail.com.
SPT
$308 weekly minimum (SPT 1)
Equity actors for (NAATC) Naptown African American Theater Collective's 2024 Season (See breakdown).
Please prepare 1 dramatic monologue, 1 comedic monologue, no longer than 4- minutes total. There will also be a cold read at the audition. Sides provided upon arrival at audition. Also, bring your headshot and resume stapled together. If you are unable to attend in-person auditions, please see breakdown for instructions on submitting a self-tape.
Phoenix Theatre
705 N. Illinois St.
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Free parking across the street from building.
Expected to attend:
Ang Bey: Director JUDY'S LIFE'S WORK LaKesha Lorene: Director - STEW
Kathi Ridley Merriweather: NAATC Board Member
Irorobeje Crystal Owhoso-Maddox: NAATC staff
CALLBACKS Friday, June 7th 2024 4pm - 7pm
See breakdown for production specific dates.
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.
NAATC 2024 Season (Naptown African American Theatre Collective) - Cementing Our Legacy Video Submission instructions:
If you are unable to attend these in-person auditions, you may submit a video audition. Please submit your headshot, resume and video submissions to: naatcinc@gmail.com Videos must be filmed horizontally on a blank background, in a quiet location.
Please slate your name, location, and Equity status “I’m non-Union, I’m an Equity actor”. Upload your video submission as an unlisted youtube link.
Submit one dramatic monologue and one comedic monologue no longer than 4 minutes in length total. Video submissions due by June 4, 2024.
1st Rehearsal September 24, 2024
Preview night October 17, 2024
Open October 18, 2024
Closing November 3, 2024
SYNOPSIS: Xavier is a budding business owner with big dreams, a complicated past and a sister who is both his heart and his headache. Can the siblings work through their deferred dreams to build a legacy? Or will grief tear them apart?
Xavier (X): 43, Black Man. Charlie’s older brother. A determined man with a complicated past. He’s passionate about his boxing and resentful of his childhood and
complicated relationship with his mother.
Charli: Early 30s Black woman. X’s younger sister. A brilliant pre-med student who was very close to her mother.
Camille: Early to mid-30s, Black woman. Love interest of Xavier. Business minded, manipulative, very focused on coming up at all costs.
1st February 18, 2025
Preview night March 13, 2025
Open March 14, 2025
Closing March 30, 2025
SYNOPSIS: Family traditions are passed through generations. But how can you break a tradition that is now coming through the bloodline? More than food is cooked in this stirring drama filled with hilarious commentary of four Black women navigating the journey of loss and hope.
Lil’ Mama: Pre-teens, Black girl/woman. Sweet, not naive, but close. VERY Gen-Z (more centered on self).
Nelly: 18-25, Looks like they can be a teen Black woman. Married, sharp tongued and growingly weathered.
Lillian: 30s, Black woman. Eldest sister, responsible one.
Mama: A Mature Black Woman, Don’t Ask Her Age, Black woman. Matriarch, wise and loving. Sharp with a hint of sweetness.
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