Studio Theatre | Washington, DC
LORT Non-Rep
$1000 weekly minimum (LORT D) - above scale
Equity actors for roles in PARADISE BLUE (See breakdown).
Please submit your headshot and resume for consideration at:
https://forms.gle/H2zhF14aj2F6ACEa6.
Deadline: 11/18/2024
Artistic Director: David Muse
Playwright: Dominique Morisseau
Director: Raymond O. Caldwell
Music Coordinator: William Knowles
Casting Director: Katja Zarolinski, CSA
Audition date: TBD
Rehearsal Date(s): April 1, 2025
Preview Date(s): April 30, 2025
Opening Date(s): May 4, 2025
Closing Date(s): June 8, 2025
Extension Date(s): June 22, 2025
Venue: Studio Theatre, Washington DC
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 submit.
SYNOPSIS: Detroit, 1949. Welcome to Paradise Club, a jazz joint that’s seen better days. Trumpet-playing owner Blue hears the promise of city developers and the chance to outrun his demons. But if he sells, where will that leave his house band or his best girl, who has dreams of her own? So when hardboiled widow Silver sashays into Paradise looking for some business and some pleasure, this makeshift family finds themselves on different sides of the fight for Paradise. From Studio favorite Dominique Morisseau (Pipeline, Skeleton Crew), a music-filled play about community, resilience, and finding your own music.
[BLUE] Black man, 30s-early 40s. Proprietor of Paradise Club. Handsome, mysterious. Quietly dangerous. Aloof. A hard shell and a hard interior. Battling many demons. A gifted trumpeter. PLAYS JAZZ TRUMPET.
[CORN (AKA CORNELIUS)] Black man, late 30s-early 50s. Slightly chubby. Easygoing and thoughtful, a real sweetheart with a weakness for love. The piano man. PLAYS JAZZ PIANO.
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