New Jersey Repertory Company 2025 Season - Long Branch, NJ EPA
New Jersey Repertory Company | Long Branch, NJ
Monday, August 5, 2024
10:00 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
To schedule an audition appointment or ask questions email: njrep@njrep.org . Phone calls will not be accepted - except on Monday, July 29 from noon to 3:00 PM 732-229-3166. No walk-ins.
SPT
$459 weekly minimum (SPT 4) - 2024 rates + pension/health. Housing provided for out-of-area performers
Equity actors for roles in New Jersey Repertory Company's 2025 Season (See breakdown).
Please prepare 2 contemporary, contrasting monologues (one comedic, one dramatic) totaling no more than 3 minutes. Singers should prepare a comic song and ballad – audition cut (See breakdown for character specifics, HOW MY GRANPARENTS FELL IN LOVE). In addition, each person auditioning should bring 3 Pictures with Resumes attached.
West End Arts Center
132 West End Avenue
Long Branch, NJ 07740
Free parking and entrance to the building is in the parking lot off of Sairs Avenue.
Expected to attend:
SuzAnne Barabas (Artistic Director)
Evan Bergan (Associate Artistic Director)
Joel Stone (Literary Manager)
Cary Gitter (Playwright)
Neil Berg (Composer)
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production specific dates.
Rehearsals are Tuesdays thru Sundays (daytime)
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.
Theatre’s statement: Age is not as important as the spirit of the actor. We are looking for actors who embody the sense of youth or age needed for each role. We promote inclusion in casting in regard to ethnicity, age, race, gender identity, LGBTQIA+, people with disability and all are encouraged to audition for all of the plays. Plays and dates subject to change.
Director: Joe Cacaci
Rehearsals Begin: December 17, 2024
Performances: January 9, 2025 – February 2, 2025
SYNOPSIS: The funny, heartfelt, and poignant story of a mother and daughter trying to overcome the challenges of aging and the mistakes of the past. At Deer Lakes Assisted Living Facility in Las Vegas, Nevada, Allain drops off her mother, Delphina, who has the beginning stages of dementia. When Delphina refuses to stay at the facility, memories of loss, dreams broken, and an impending eviction come to the surface in a way that may break this mother and daughter bond forever.
DELPHINA (70s) a feisty, no nonsense, headstrong, proud, elegant woman.
ALLAIN (40s) Delphina’s daughter, overwhelmed by money problems due to her gambling addiction, desperate – torn between her responsibly to her mother and her untenable financial situation.
CRYSTAL (70s) a long-time resident of Deer Lake Assisted Living. Funny, a busybody who knows
everything about everyone.
MIMI (20s-30s) A nurses-aid – Compassionate, patient and likable.
Director: Evan Bergman
March 2025
SYNOPSIS: Rachel is a widow who has embraced her situation and spends most of her time in her garden. The only chaos in her life is her debonair next-door neighbor, a retired professor of literature, Walter Parnell. Walter, in the twilight of his years, has always been a Casanova and has repeatedly proclaimed his love for Rachel. Rachel, on the other hand, has no interest in his romantic intentions, that is, until her younger friend Stacey gives into Walter's charms.
WALTER PARNELL (70s) is a man of irresistible charm and wit. He is also handsome, well-groomed and has a pleasant intelligence, and has bedded most of the widows in Westchester County.
RACHEL DAVIS (Late 60s) A pretty woman, a retired literature professor and once the Chair of her Department. She has sharp, intelligent eyes, a practical nature and is not afraid to take responsibility. She has been a widow for six years.
STACEY BARBER (50s) A very attractive woman, she has piercing eyes and wears her hair long and streaked proudly with grey. Having grown up in the late 60's, she is open-minded to any experience and at her core, she has a good nature.
Director: Lisa James
May 2025
SYNOPSIS: Squeak, Ingrid, Ray, and Ronnie, four small time grifters, meet at an isolated cabin in Washington State to pull off a heist that has all the earmarks of a disaster about to happen.
SQUEAK (Late 20-Early 30s) She is smallish, looks younger than her years. Obsessive, annoying, loyal, probably a genius, but talks too much so folks tend to tune out.
INGRID (Late 20-30s) Tough. Strong. She has been around the block but owns it.
RONNIE (35-40s) Ingrid’s boyfriend and Ray’s older brother. Not the brightest bulb on the Christmas
tree.
RAY (30-45) Ronnie’s younger brother. Smart, steely, geeky could explode at a second’s notice.
Director: SuzAnne Barabas
July 2025 - August 2025
SYNOPSIS: In 1935 Los Angeles, a gossip columnist has published rumors that Bailey Hunter, a Depression-era matinee idol is a homosexual. To combat the negative press and save his career, Bailey’s press agent concocts a scheme to have him caught in bed with a woman. The press agent has hired a prostitute, Eleanor, to play her. Waiting for a reporter and a photographer to burst into their hotel room to capture their feigned illicit romance, Bailey and Eleanor begin to reveal more and more about themselves as they undress little by little. Can the actor’s faith in the imagined and the prostitute’s hard-earned realism be reconciled before “the door bursts open and everything goes to hell”?
BAILEY (Late 20s, early 30s) Matinee idol handsome. Polite, gentlemanly, shy underneath, a bit naive. Takes his acting seriously. Able to sing both poorly and then well the first four verses of Irving Berlin’s “What’ll I Do?”
ELEANOR (Late 20s, early 30s) Attractive, smart, tough but still open, seemingly unsentimental but sympathetic when justified. Doesn’t try to disguise her New Jersey accent.
Director: TBA
October 2025
SYNOPSIS: Rovno, Poland. 1933. Charlie, a Jewish immigrant with a romantic streak, returns to the old country from America and meets the strong-minded Chava in a hat shop. As their unlikely relationship blooms, the political situation in Europe darkens. Inspired by the true story of the playwright’s grandparents, this new musical is a heartfelt exploration of love, family, and Jewish identity.
CHAVA (Early/mid-20s) A Polish Jew. Smart, strong-willed, independent, with a wry sense of humor. Vocal Requirements: Belt with a high mix (in other words, can do belting and has a soprano range). Hopefully has a bit of rich darkness to their voice.
CHARLIE (Late 20s/early 30s) A Polish Jew who immigrated to America a decade ago. A dreamer. Charmingly awkward. Vocal Requirements: Baritone with a tenor extension. Hopefully has a voice with lushness and character.
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