SALLY & TOM (Public Theater) - NYC EPA New York Shakespeare Festival | New York, NY
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Off Broadway
$1403 weekly minimum (Cat. DD)
Equity actors for roles in SALLY & TOM (See breakdown).
Please prepare one short (no more than two minutes in length) contemporary monologue. Bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
SALLY AND TOM
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center 165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
Written by Suzan-Lori Parks
Directed by Steve H. Broadnax III
Expected to attend:
Public Theater Casting Office (Jordan Thaler, Heidi Griffiths, Kate Murray, Chalin Tulyathan)
First Rehearsal: February 20, 2024 First Preview: March 28, 2024
Closing: April 28, 2024
Furthest Possible Ext: May 26, 2024
OTHER
Venue: Martinson Theater
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition. An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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SYNOPSIS: Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, the author of last season’s The Harder They Come, returns to her artistic home with an edgy dramedy that celebrates the craft of theater while taking a hard look at history. The off-off-off-Broadway theater troupe Good Company is putting on a play about Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson. Writer Luce is cast as Sally; her romantic partner, and the play’s director, Mike, is cast as Tom—really, people, what could possibly go wrong? In association with Minneapolis’s acclaimed Guthrie Theater, this funny, ferocious new work is about art, politics, and the contradictions that make all of us. Directed by Steve H. Broadnax III, SALLY & TOM is an unmissable New York premiere from one of our finest and most daring playwrights.
[OFFSTAGE UNDERSTUDY WOMAN]: 30 to 40 years old. Female presenting. Black. Every actor doubles both as their character in Sally & Tom as well as the part (or parts) they play in The Pursuit of Happiness, the play within the play. The first name is their character; the second is the character's name in the play within the play. LUCE/SALLY: An actress who is also the writer and Mike's partner. A leader of the company. She plays the role of Sally Hemings. MAGGIE/MARY: An actress who is also the company's publicist and fight director. She plays Sally Hemings' sister, Mary.
[OFFSTAGE UNDERSTUDY MAN 1]: 25 to 35 years old, Male Presenting. Black. Every actor doubles both as their character in Sally & Tom as well as the part (or parts) they play in The Pursuit of Happiness the play within the play. The first name is their character; the second is the character's name in the play within the play. KWAME/JAMES: An actor who is almost famous. Plays the role of James, Sally Hemings' brother and Thomas Jefferson's valet. DEVON/NATHAN: A fledgling actor, also doing lights and sound for the production. A turn in the circumstances gives Devon an opportunity that no one planned. Plays the role of Nathan, another servant in the Jefferson household.
[OFFSTAGE UNDERSTUDY MAN 2] 30’s. 30 to 40 years old, Male identifying. White. TALL. Every actor doubles both as their character in Sally & Tom as well as the part (or parts) they play in The Pursuit of Happiness, the play within the play. The first name is their character; the second is the character's name in the play within the play. MIKE/TJ: An actor in the company as well as the director of The Pursuit of Happiness. Also the partner of the author. Plays the role of Thomas Jefferson. GEOFF/COOPER: Perhaps a bit of an unlikely actor in the company, he is also doing sets and clothes for the play within the play as well as playing an assortment of white male visitors to Monticello. He tries hard.
THE FOLLOWING ROLES ARE CAST:
[LUCE]: CAST An actress who is also the writer and Mike's partner. A leader of the company. She plays the role of Sally Hemings.
[MIKE]: CAST An actor in the company as well as the director of The Pursuit of Happiness. Also the partner of the author. Plays the role of Thomas Jefferson.
[MAGGIE]: CAST An actress who is also the company's publicist and fight director. She plays Sally Hemings' sister, Mary.
[KWAME]: CAST An actor who is almost famous. Plays the role of James, Sally Hemings' brother and Thomas Jefferson's valet.
[GINGER]: CAST The dramaturg, also playing Patsy.
[SCOUT]: CAST The stage manager, also playing Polly.
[DEVON]: CAST A fledgling actor, also doing lights and sound for the production. A turn in the circumstances gives Devon an opportunity that no one planned. Plays the role of Nathan, another servant in the Jefferson household.
[GEOFF/COOPER]: CAST Perhaps a bit of an unlikely actor in the company, he is also doing sets and clothes for the play within the play as well as playing an assortment of white male visitors to Monticello. He tries hard.
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