Penumbra Theatre 2024-25 Season - St. Paul, MN EPA Penumbra Theatre | Saint Paul, MN
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (C)
Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
To schedule an audition appointment please email: casting@penumbratheatre.org .
SPT
$850 weekly minimum (SPT 9)
Equity actors for roles in Penumbra Theatre's 2024-25 Season (See breakdown).
Performers of all races and ethnicities are encouraged to audition.
Please prepare two contrasting 2-minute monologues from contemporary African American canon. Please provide a headshot and resume upon arrival for your audition.
Penumbra Theatre
270 Kent St
Saint Paul, MN 55102-1744
Expected to attend:
Sarah Bellamy, President
Lou Bellamy, Founder and Artistic Director Emeritus and Director of BLACK NATIVITY and PARADISE BLUE
Ron Schultz, Associate Director of Production
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production specific dates.
OTHER
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.
Previews on the Tuesday and Wednesday before opening night, curtain is at 7:30pm After opening*, Wednesdays - Fridays curtain is at 7:30pm
Saturdays curtain is at 2pm and 7:30pm
Sundays curtain is at 4pm
Penumbra Theatre 2024-25 Season Season Performance schedule:
Written by Langston Hughes
Directed by Lou Bellamy
First rehearsal: 11/19/24
Opening on 12/5/24
Closing on 12/22/24
(*This production will also have performances on Tuesday, 12/10/24 at 7:30pm, and on Tuesday, 12/17/24 at 7:30pm)
SYNOPSIS: Langston Hughes' Black Nativity tells the story of the Nativity from an African American perspective through a combination of scripture, poetry, dance and song with griot style narration.
NARRATOR, (Pre-cast) 50 - 70 years old
SOLOIST, (Pre-cast) 50 - 70 years old
SOLOIST, (Pre-cast) 50 - 70 years old
MALE DANCER, (Pre-cast) 18 - 30 years old
FEMALE DANCER, (Pre-cast) 18 - 30 years old
Written by Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Lou Bellamy
First Rehearsal: 1/14/25
Opening on 2/13/25
Closing on 3/9/25
SYNOPSIS: Paradise Blue is a play by Dominique Morisseau set in 1949 Detroit that explores the destruction of the Black business community in Paradise Valley due to a Housing Act. The play is about Blue, a talented jazz club owner who plays the trumpet, and his decision to sell his club to gentrification. The play also features Blue's girlfriend Pumpkin, who cooks and cleans at the club, as well as Corn, the pianist, and P-Sam, the drummer. The play's plot also includes a mysterious woman from Louisiana who may have murdered her husband
PUMPKIN - (Pre-cast) Black woman. Late 20s. Pretty in a plain way. Simple. Sweet. Waitress, cook, and caretaker of Paradise Club. A loving thing with a soft touch. Adores poetry.
BLUE - (Pre-cast) Black man. Early to mid 30s. Handsome. Mysterious. Sexy. Quiet danger. Aloof. A hard shell and a hard interior. Battling many demons. A gifted trumpeter.
CORN - (Pre-cast) Black man. Late 40s to Early 50s. Slightly chubby. (aka Cornelius) Easygoing and Thoughtful. A real sweetheart with a weakness for love. The piano man.
P-SAM - (Pre-cast) Black man. Mid to Late 30s. Busybody. Sweet-talker. (aka Percussion Sam) Hustler. Always eager for his next gig. The percussionist.
SILVER - Black woman. Mid to Late 30s. Mysterious. Sexy. Charming. Spicy woman. Gritty and raw in a way that men find irresistible. Has a meeeeaaaannn walk.
Written by Donja R. Love
Directed by Lamar Perry
First Rehearsal: 3/25/25
Opening on 4/24/25
Closing on 5/18/25
SYNOPSIS: Two lovers are separated at sea. In search of his lost companion, one man crosses an ocean guided only by his yearning and the coaxing of the wind, sun, moon, and a trickster fish. Love’s newest fable is an achingly poignant and sometimes funny meditation on the passage of time and the persistence of love – a hopeful prayer that what we seek finds us.
Man 1. (Pre-cast) Will Double as The Dirt, The Fish, The Moon, The Sun, and The Found. Man 2. Will Double as The Seeker.
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