Palm Beach Dramaworks 2023-24 Season - NYC EPA Palm Beach Dramaworks | West Palm Beach, FL
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
SPT
$857 weekly minimum (SPT 10)
Equity actors for roles in Palm Beach Dramaworks' 2023-24 Season (See breakdown).
Please prepare a two-minute dramatic contemporary monologue. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center 165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
Expected to attend:
Bill Hayes - Producing Artistic Director Christopher Demos-Brown - Playwright
See breakdown for production specific dates.
OTHER
https://www.palmbeachdramaworks.org/
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition. An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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.
1st Reh: 9/19/23
Opening: 10/13/23
Closing: 10/29/23
TBA Extension: Through 11/5/23
LOBBY HERO SYNOPSIS: Four New Yorkers involved in a murder investigation - a slacker security guard in a Manhattan apartment building, his by-the-book boss, a rookie cop and her macho partner - face moral and ethical dilemmas in this comic drama. This play explores issues of racism and sexism, and whether it's ever honorable to do the wrong thing for the right reason.
JEFF: Male. Any ethnicity (20s) Glib, talkative, quirky, wisecracking slacker hoping to get his life together despite his history of underachievement and lack of real drive or ambition. An unlikely security guard with modest goals. Would like to get his own apartment & find a girlfriend. Has a crush on Dawn.
DAWN: Female. Any ethnicity (20s) A rookie cop with a strong sense of justice. Eager, resilient, but a bit naive. In a relationship with Bill, her macho, married partner on the job, who uses their dynamic to get what he wants. Has a dangerous temper.
1st Reh: 11/14/23
Opening: 12/8/23
Closing: 12/24/23
TBA Extension: Through 12/31/23
THE MESSENGER SYNOPSIS: Inspired by the life of Hungarian Holocaust survivor Georgia Gabor, a teacher, this play interweaves her story with that of a young American woman facing racial discrimination in America, 2020. Connections between past, present, and future, and a choice between speaking up and speaking out, regardless of the consequences, or remaining silent for the sake of self-preservation affect the lives of everyone in this piece.
“2020”: East Asian-American Female (early 20s). She has a balance of depth and sense of humor - 2020 is a sensitive, hard-working recent high school graduate, very much caught up in the drama around her. She has a teenager's sense of snark, but never imagined straying too far from the path that has been set out for her.
1st Reh: 1/2/24
Opening: 2/2/24
Closing: 2/18/24
TBA Extension: Through 2/25/24
Lauren Fein and her wife, Paola Muñoz, 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 DEI policies, her groundbreaking research, her career, and her family are all put in danger.
DYLAN FEIN-MORENO: Male. African or African-American (18+ to play 15 years old). Smart, empathetic, and likable but bears deep hurt from having suffered brutal neglect as a child at the hands of his biological mother. At times, he has outbursts of cruelty toward his parents.
PAOLA MORENO: Female. Latinx (Late 30s-late 40s). Lauren Fein’s wife. A socially-savvy Theatre/Film professor, originally from Puerto Rico (she speaks with a slight accent). Charismatic, dynamic, socially at ease (the opposite of Lauren) and beloved. Fiercely loyal to Lauren and often tries to compensate for Lauren's bluntness. NOTE: Ease with Spanish language: has phrases in Spanish in the script.
CHIKEZIE CHI NWEZE /JUDGE MARVIN HOWARD: Male. African or African-American (Late 30s early 50s). CHI: A Nigerian biologist, works with Dr. Lauren Fein on sickle cell research. A mentor to Dylan and close friend & colleague of Lauren & Paola. Funny, traditionally-minded, loyal. At times is perplexed by American attitudes & behavior. JUDGE HOWARD: A hard-nosed African-American judge who plays by the rules. Lauren’s professional & personal life hangs in the balance. NOTE: Has facility with a Nigerian accent and standard American accent.
1st Reh: 3/5/24
Opening: 3/29/24
Closing: 4/14/24
TBA Extension: 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.
BIFF: Male. Any Ethnicity (Late 20s-late 30s). The Lomans' older son. The once-confident and ever popular former high school football star. He has failed to live up to his potential - disappointing his father in the process. He is broken by the discovery of his father's extramarital affair and is a self saboteur.
HAPPY: Male. Any Ethnicity (mid 20s- early 30s). The Lomans' younger son. He's an ambitious but attention-seeking womanizer, vying for his father's approval and idolizes his older brother. He's bought into the American Dream but uses his corporate success as a tool to convince others of his affluence and power.
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