Arena Stage
AUDITION DATE
Fri, Jul 26, 2019
10:00 am (EDT)
APPOINTMENTS
Please submit a headshot and resume to Casting@arenastage.org. Actors must be available for Auditions on Friday, July 26 (10am to 6:30pm) & Callbacks on Sat.July 27 (9am to 2pm)
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep LORT B+; $1,064/weekly minimum
SEEKING
Actors for various roles. Local Washington, DC actors are strongly encouraged to submit.
PREPARATION
Audition sides from the play will be shared once your appointment is confirmed.
LOCATION
Arena Stage
1101 6th St. SW
Washington, DC 20024
PERSONNEL
By August Wilson
Director: Tazewell Thompson
Casting Director: Victor Vazquez
OTHER DATES
1st rehearsal: 3/3/2020
Runs: 4/3/2020 - 5/3/2020
OTHER
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of 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.
BREAKDOWN
This is a local call. Seeking Washington DC Actors for the following roles:
FLOYD BARTON
35. Black, African American. A man with an electric ripe dream. A blues singer/guitarist with big aspirations and flaws; passionate and hopeful, with an exuberant bravura-- knows how to do the right thing for a little while, but then that little while runs out.
HEDLEY
59. Black, African American. Walks the machete's edge between dignity and rage. Keeps, butchers, and sells chickens. Suffers from tuberculosis and possible dementia, desirous and disturbed. No one really knows his story, but we know he’s been through a lot. Lives mentally in a past and future fantasy.
LOUISE
48. Black, African American. A hearty woman who describes herself as forty-going on sixty. The matriarch with astringent wit and tamped-down tenderness. All-seeing, all-knowing, she's the independent and lively landlady of the tenant house where the play takes place. She doesn’t rock the boat, but issues wise warnings; a realist. A bold major E chord personality.
VERA DOTSON
27. Black, African American. Stoic. Not swayed by romance. Forlorn and self-knowing. Strong willed. Faithful, and wary; has been given the run-around by her ex-boyfriend Floyd, but continues to take him back.
RED CARTER
30s, Black, African American. Floyd’s friend and drummer. An expansive, laid-back fellow. Superstitious, simpler, steadier, balanced. From Alabama. Likes to have a good time, but is in the middle of 7 years bad luck because he broke a mirror.
RUBY
25. Black, African American. Free-spirited niece of Louise. Stubborn, young, and fatally attractive, won’t belong to anyone, but needs someone to help care for her unborn child.
CANEWELL
35. Black, African American. One of Floyd’s closest friends. An edgy and quick tempered harmonica player. Tired of playing second fiddle to Floyd. Edgy, wary, and dissatisfied, thinks he knows best. Layers of joy, passion and pain.
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 audition.
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