PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE - San Jose, CA EPA San Jose Stage Company | San Jose, CA
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Monday, November 6, 2023
1:00 PM - 7:00 PM (P)
To set up an audition appointment email casting@thestage.org and please include your Equity status. If you are unable to attend in-person, you can submit an audition video submission. See breakdown for instructions.
Bay Area Theatre
$562 weekly minimum (Tier 3)
Equity actors for roles in the Regional Premiere of PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE (See breakdown).
Local Bay Area actors are encouraged to audition.
San Jose Stage Company is committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion in casting and uses a color and culturally conscious approach to casting. Actors of any race, ethnicity, gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, and ability are encouraged to audition.
Please prepare a side for the character of your choosing. Sides and a copy of the script are available here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14PV5F 3mvli_Jee-bAhdjsGe5Y6F_xoQq .
PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE
Video submission instructions:
San Jose Stage Company
490 South 1st St
San Jose, CA 95113-2815
Expected to attend:
Artistic Director: Randall King
Executive Director: Cathleen King
Director: Benny Sato Ambush
Written by Anthony Clarvoe
First Rehearsal: 01/09/24
First Preview: 01/31/24
Opening: 02/03/24
Closing: 02/25/24
OTHER
www.thestage.org
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.
If you are unable to attend in-person, you can submit a video submission audition via this form:
https://forms.zohopublic.com/sanjosestagecompany/form/GeneralAuditionSubmissions/formperma/jqcln-O2MVnatlnpKL-3lhTJ5MwioFf9SyXaK_pk4pA .
SYNOPSIS: In the spring of 1955, much of the Southern US was a simmering kettle of racial segregation, civil rights repression, and worker/workplace abuses — one that was on the verge of boiling over into a full scale struggle against those economic and civil rights injustices. PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE is a compelling narrative that draws important parallels between the racial and socioeconomic struggles of the 1950s and 60s and similar issues that face contemporary American society such as immigration, voter suppression, and LGBTQ rights.
Time and place: Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, Spring, 1955
All actors sing: sometimes a cappella and also in unison accompanied by a guitar. All actors will square dance (a dance coach will be provided). All actors speak in various dialects (a dialect coach will be provided).
Mrs. Clark: CAST. African American, Female Presenting, Mid-50s. New Education Director of the Highlander Folk School. Former Charleston, South Carolina elementary school reading teacher. Wise, patient. Leads with inner strength while empowering others. This character is inspired by the historical Septima Poinsette Clark.
Mr. Carawan: White, Male Presenting, from eastern Tennessee, late 20s. Guitar-playing folk musician and activist. Gentlemanly, with clean fingernails. This character is inspired by the historical Guy Carawan. Plays the guitar well, accompanying the play’s sung songs.
May: White, Female Presenting, from eastern Kentucky, late 30s to early 40s. From eastern Kentucky’s mountains. A blacklisted factory assembly line worker and experienced labor organizer. A fiery fighter who has been through the wars. She was shot multiple times in the leg during an organizing action and now walks with an almost unnoticeable limp. Married with children but is attracted to women.
Emma: Mexican-American Tejana*, Female Presenting, from San Antonio, Texas, age 36. A labor movement leader from San Antonio, Texas. Spanish/English bilingual. Outspoken, front-line justice warrior who has been kicked out of Texas. She sometimes speaks Spanish.
* Tejanos are Texas residents culturally descended from the Mexican population of Tejas and Coahuila that lived in the region prior to it becoming the U.S. state of Texas in 1845.
Ned: White, Male Presenting, from Atlanta, Georgia, 30s to 50s. Atlanta, GA functionary of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners Union. A rabid anti-Communist, KKK-sympathizing white supremacist reporting to the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). Uncomfortable working with non-whites.
John: African American, Male Presenting, from Montgomery, Alabama, mid-to-late 20s. A well dressed civil rights activist and elected officer in the Alabama NAACP. A Minister's son and Morehouse College graduate who listens to modern jazz and wishes he lived in Paris. A “Talented Tenth”* profile. An unapologetic ‘race man’ unafraid of confrontation when necessary. * The Talented Tenth: early 20th-century term and ideology popularized by W.E.B. Du Bois for the one in ten black college-educated men cultivated for leadership in ushering forth social change for the betterment of the Black community.
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