Palm Beach Dramaworks 2023-24 Season - West Palm Beach EPA
Palm Beach Dramaworks | West Palm Beach, FL
Monday, April 17, 2023
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Break: 2:00-3:00pm
Please contact Pierre Tannous - ptannous@palmbeachdramaworks.org - for an audition appointment. Emails only. In your audition email, please include; your first & last name, Equity status, and your desired date/time range for scheduling. Each appointment will be 3 minutes long.
SPT
$857 weekly minimum (SPT 10)
Equity actors for roles in Palm Beach Dramaworks 2023-24 Season (see breakdown).
Please prepare one contemporary dramatic monologue, no longer than 2 minutes in length.
Palm Beach Dramaworks
201 Clematis St
West Palm Beach, FL 33401-4634
Studio Theatre
Expected to attend:
Bill Hayes - Producing Artistic Director
J. Barry Lewis - Resident Director
Pierre Tannous - Company Manager
See production dates in breakdown.
OTHER
palmbeachdramaworks.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.
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 45 individuals at a time.
The holding room can accommodate no more than 220 individuals at a time.
1st Reh: 9/19/23
Opening: 10/13/23
Closing: 10/29/23
TBA Ext: Through 11/5/23
Four New Yorkers involved in a murder investigation – face moral and ethical dilemmas in this comic
drama by the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Manchester by the Sea. The play explores
issues of racism and sexism, and whether it’s ever honorable to do the wrong thing for the right
reason.
Seeking:
Jeff: Male. Any ethnicity. 20s. A glib, talkative, wisecracking slacker hoping to get his life together
despite his history of underachievement and lack of real drive or ambition.
William: Male. Black or African American. Late 20s to 30s; A hard-working, ambitious, upstanding man
with a strong moral code, but wound a bit tight.
Dawn: Female. Any ethnicity. 20s. Bill's working class, attractive, rookie partner. Tough, enthusiastic,
but green, with a strong sense of justice.
Bill: Male. Any ethnicity. 30s. A cocky, self-assured, and smoothly superior veteran, he makes his own
rules and is a dominant, charismatic personality.
1st Reh: 11/14/23
Opening: 12/8/23
Closing: 12/24/23
TBA Ext: Through 12/31/23
A meditation on the connections between past, present, and future, and on the choice between speaking up and speaking out regardless of the consequences or remaining silent for the sake of self-
preservation. Inspired by the life of Hungarian Holocaust survivor Georgia Gabor, the play interweaves her story with that of a young American woman facing racial discrimination in this country in 2020.
Seeking:
Georgia Gabor: (role cast – seeking potential replacement) Female. Caucasian. 50s. A middle school
math teacher, a Hungarian-American Jewish Holocaust survivor living in Pasadena, California.
1969: Female. White or Latin. Late 20s to 30s. Unconventional and a bit rebellious. She is a brilliant,
excitable, loquacious historian with a quirky sense of humor and a feminist sensibility.
1993: Female. White. 30s to 40s. A fiercely maternal, warm, funny, and charismatic woman who has
designed her entire life around giving her kids the innocent childhood she was denied.
2020: Female. Asian or Asian American. 20s. A sensitive, hard-working recent high school graduate
caught up in the drama around her.
1st Reh: 1/2/24
Opening: 2/2/24
Closing: 2/18/24
TBA Ext: Through 2/25/24
Lauren Fein and her wife, Paola Munoz, are professors at a prestigious American university. They live
with Dylan, their 16-year-old African American foster son whom they’ve cared for since he was a baby.
When Professor Fein’s actions run afoul of the university’s “diversity, equity, and inclusion” policies,
her groundbreaking research, her career, and her family are all put in jeopardy.
Seeking:
Lauren Fein: Female. White. Late 40s to 60. A deeply secretive, high-functioning alcoholic. She is
intelligent and passionate about her work and is loving and warm but awkward in large social
situations.
Paola Moreno: Female. Puerto Rican or Latin. Late 30s to late 40s. Lauren’s wife. A socially savvy
professor of Theatre. She is fiercely loyal to Lauren and often tries to compensate for Lauren's faux
pas.
Dylan Fein-Moreno: Male. Black or African American. 18+ to play 15 years old. He is smart,
empathetic, and likable but bears deep hurt from having suffered brutal neglect as a child at the hands
of his biological mother.
Chikezie Chi Nweze / Judge Marvin Howard: Male. Nigerian, Black or African American. Late 30s to
50. Chi is funny and long-winded. Judge Howard is a no-nonsense jurist. Speaks with a Nigerian
accent.
Dean Marilyn Whitney: Female. Black or African American. 40s to 50s. Brilliant and politically astute.
Marilyn is polished but can be funny and crass around those she knows well.
Melanie Jones: Female. White. 30s. She is a steadfast warrior in service to the University's DEI
(diversity, equity, and inclusion) policies.
Evan Reynolds: Male. White. 40s to 50s. Snarky, talkative, hilarious, and a bit past his prime. Always
reading the lay of the land. A fellow theatre professor, he is Paola's closest confidant.
Buddy McGovern: Male. White. 70s. A charming, brilliant southern gentleman who knows he is a bit of
an anachronism. Speaks with a Southern accent that ranges from slight to full-on Scarlet O'Hara.
Judge Lorraine Miller: Female. Any ethnicity. 40+.
Zoe: Female. White. Mid 20s to 30. Beautiful. Potentially doubled with Judge Miller or Melanie Jones.
1st Reh: 2/27/24
Opening: 3/29/24
Closing: 4/14/24
TBA Ext: Through 4/21/24
This Pulitzer Prize-winning, groundbreaking play changed American theatre in the person of its
everyman tragic hero, Willy Loman, a dime a dozen, disappointed, disillusioned, and delusional
traveling salesman with a skewed vision of the American Dream. All he wanted, the playwright wrote
in his memoir, was “to count.” Or as Willy’s wife, Linda, implores, “Attention must be paid.”
Seeking:
Willy Loman: Male. Any ethnicity. Late 40s to 60s. An aging salesman who suffers from depression
and anxiety as a result of his dissipating career, his estranged relationship with his oldest son, Biff,
and his guilt over an extramarital affair.
Linda Loman: Female. Any ethnicity. Late 40s to 60s. Willy Lomans' long-suffering, even-tempered
wife.
Biff Loman: Male. Any ethnicity. Late 20s to late 30s. The Lomans' older son. The once-confident and
ever-popular high school football star has failed to live up to his potential.
Harold 'Happy' Loman: Male. Any ethnicity. Late 20s to early 30s. The Lomans' younger son. He's an
ambitious but attention-seeking womanizer.
Uncle Ben: Male. Any ethnicity. 35+. Willy's older brother. Ben appears only in Willy's memories and
fantasies and represents the American Dream success story.
Charley: Male. Any ethnicity. Late 40s to 60s. A true friend and neighbor to The Lomans. A modest
and generous spirit.
Bernard: Male. Any ethnicity. Late 20s to late 30s. Charley's son, this once-nerd becomes a hard-
working, intelligent lawyer.
The Woman: Female. Any ethnicity. 30s. Willy's seductive mistress, whose attention and admiration
inflate Willy's fragile ego.
Howard Wagner & Stanley: Male. Any ethnicity. 30s. Howard is a hard-hearted businessman with little
respect for Willy. Stanley is a friendly waiter at Frank's Chop House.
Jenny & Letta: Female. Any ethnicity. 20s. Jenny is Charley's secretary. Letta is a young prostitute.
Miss Forsythe: Female. Any ethnicity. 20s to 30s. Young prostitute.
1st Reh: 4/30/24
Opening: 5/24/24
Closing: 6/9/24
TBA Ext: Through 6/16/24
In 1967, feisty Sarah Schorr, a 25-year-old from rural Canada, goes to work as secretary for 81-year-
old Francis Biddle, the patrician former US Attorney General. Inspired by the playwright’s experiences as Biddle’s secretary, the piece is a tender yet unsentimental portrait of two disparate people
navigating their vast differences.
Seeking:
Judge Francis Biddle: (role cast – seeking potential replacement) Male. White. 60s+. A charismatic,
but rigid aristocratic curmudgeon whose once brilliant mind betrays him in his old age.
Sarah Schorr: (role cast – seeking potential replacement) Female. White. Late 20s to late 30s. A
fresh-faced, albeit, “green” secretary from Saskatchewan.
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