Profile Theatre | Portland, OR
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
1:00 PM - 9:00 PM (P)
Please send your top three preferred audition availability times in one-hour blocks to
casting@profiletheatre.org.
SPT
$545 weekly minimum (SPT 5)
Equity actors for roles in SAMSARA (see breakdown).
Please prepare two contrasting contemporary monologues. Auditions should be no longer than 5 minutes in length.
21 ten Theatre
2110 SE 10th Ave
Portland, OR 97214
Playwrights: Lauren Yee
Artistic Director: Josh Hecht
Line Producer: Colin Herring
Stage Directors: Ajai Tripathi and Jamie Rea
Company Manager: Sierra Brambila
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Casting Director: Tamara Carroll
Rehearsal Dates - December 30, 2024 - January 25, 2025
Previews - January 23 - 24
Opening - January 25
Closing - February 9
NOTE: If you are offered a role, you must be willing to take a COVID test as documentation of a negative test result which is required 72 hours prior to the first rehearsal. Profile will provide and/or pay for this and any additional tests necessary to the scope of participation.
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.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
SYNOPSIS: Katie and Craig are having a baby… with a surrogate… who lives in India. A month before the baby’s due date, Craig reluctantly travels to Ahmedabad, where he meets Suraiya, their young, less-than-thrilled surrogate. As all three “parents” anxiously wait for the baby to be born, flights of fancy attack them from all sides, in the form of an unctuous Frenchman and a smart-mouthed fetus. A whimsical take on modern-day colonialism.
KATIE, 30s-40s, female, Caucasian, the more assertive partner in the relationship, maybe a little tightly wound? Fantasizes about passion, romance, and impulsivity as an escape from the reliable, pragmatic, unglamorous reality of her life as a non-profit arts administrator, married to a reliable, if somewhat unadventurous man.
CRAIG, 30s-40s, male, Caucasian, her husband - a construction worker, but also plays bass in a band that’s kind of a big deal… amongst their friends. Earnest and well-intentioned, he is content to let Katie take the lead in their relationship and feels somewhat lost and untethered when they are apart.
SURAIYA, 18, female, Indian, their surrogate (Doubles as BABY). Driven and pragmatic; surrogacy is a means to an end to achieve her goal of attending medical school. Doing her best to stay detached from the child currently inhabiting her body… not always successfully.
AMIT, appears to be the same age as Suraiya, male, Indian, a fetus. Spirited, curious, new to consciousness but ready to make bold choices based on limited information. Willful, impetuous, and foul-mouthed, he will not abide being ignored. (Doubles as FATHER-TO-BE, INDIAN WOMAN IN LABOR, SURROGATE 1, MAILMAN, MOTHER)
FRENCHMAN, any age, male, very French, a figment of Katie’s imagination - and idealized version of the seductive, French leading man whose singular purpose is to induce spontaneous swooning. (Doubles as two DOCTORS, SURROGATE 2)
[Note: BABY and MOTHER speak a couple of lines in Gujarati. Also, of the two DOCTORS in the play, the first is an American doctor and the second is a white British doctor living in India]
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