SPEAKEASY STAGE COMPANY 2023-2024 SEASON (PLAYS) - BOSTON EPA
SPEAKEASY STAGE COMPANY
Calderwood Pavilion - Boston Center for the Arts
527 Tremont St
Boston, MA 02116-6306
Wed, May 17, 2023
10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (EDT)
Break: 12:30-1:30pm
To request an Equity audition appointment, please email your full name, Equity status, contact information, and the shows for which you would like to be considered, along with your headshot and resume attached as one PDF document titled LAST NAME, FIRST NAME (2023).” Please also include your availability during the audition window. Please email this to auditions@speakeasystage.com.
NEAT
$579 weekly minimum (NEAT Category 6)
Equity actors for roles in SpeakEasy Stage Co 2023-24 Season's plays: “POTUS: OR, BEHIND EVERY GREAT DUMBASS ARE SEVEN WOMEN TRYING TO KEEP HIM ALIVE” (see breakdown).
Actors of color are encouraged to audition, and all roles are open to inclusive casting. SpeakEasy Stage Company shall conduct all auditions/interviews in a manner that promotes fair consideration to persons of all races, ethnicities, national origins, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and ability statuses. SpeakEasy Stage Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
For COST OF LIVING only: Video submissions will also be accepted from non-local artists. Please email your audition, a PDF of your headshot and resume, and an answer to the question “what about this play resonates with you?” to auditions@speakeasystage.com by May 17, 2023.
Auditions will take place in person. Auditions should be no longer than 5 minutes. Actors may read one or more scenes from the season’s plays, perform one or two monologues, or prepare a combination of scene(s) and monologues(s) from other sources of their preference. SpeakEasy suggests, if not performing scenes, choosing two contrasting monologues. Production scripts can be accessed by contacting SpeakEasy at auditions@speakeasystage.com.
Expected to attend:
SpeakEasy Producing Artistic Director: Paul Daigneault
Front Porch Artistic Director: Dawn M. Simmons
Huntington Casting & Producing Associate: Rosalind Bevan
SpeakEasy Community & Artistic Programs Manager: Alex Lonati
SpeakEasy Artistic Fellows: Paulina Martz and Alex Leondedis
See production dates in breakdown.
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For these auditions, no nudity or any form of sexual contact will be required as part of an actor’s audition. We will not ask prospective participants to perform violence or sexual contact as part of an audition without disclosing this expectation in the audition notice or invitation. SpeakEasy Stage Company seeks to foster an environment of communication, safety, respect, accountability, and the health, safety, and well-being of institutions and its participants.
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.
by Selina Fellinger, directed by Paula Plum
Rehearsals begin August 21st, 2023
Performances run September 15th, 2023 – October 7th, 2023
TBD Extension to October 14th, 2023
Seeking:
Characters can be cis or trans. Age is flexible. Beauty is subjective. So long as they’re fast, fierce, and hilarious.
HARRIET, Any Ethnicity, 40’s-60’s: His chief of staff. Ultra-competent, Harriet has been doing most of the presidential work for years. She signs his documents, cleans up his messes, and dreads every word that comes out of his mouth.
JEAN, Any Ethnicity, 40’s-60’s: His press secretary. Maybe not always in-the-loop, but just as hands-on in the presidential clean-up.
STEPHANIE, Any Ethnicity, 20’s-30’s: His secretary. Barely competent, Stephanie is more concerned with losing her job than doing it. Gradually - through the help of some hallucinogens - she reveals another side of herself.
DUSTY, Any Ethnicity, 20’s-30’s: His dalliance. A gorgeous, not-as-naive as she appears, farm-girl who thinks POTUS has invited her to the Oval Office to celebrate some… personal news.
BERNADETTE, White, 30’s-60’s: His sister. Just-out-of-jail, POTUS’ lesbian sister (with a love connection in the White House) is banking on a pardon from her brother but incapable of letting go of her drug-dealing past.
CHRIS, Black, 30’s-50’s: A journalist. Her friendly relationship with the women in the White House isn’t going to stop her from making her big break.
MARGARET, Black, 40’s-70’s: His wife. The First Lady. She’ll be walking the tightrope of appearance and reality while checking the polls on her new “down-to-earth” Croc heels.
by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Melinda Lopez
Rehearsals begin January 1st, 2024
Performances run January 26th, 2024 – February17th, 2024. TBD Extension to February 24th, 2024
NOTE: These roles have been cast. Submissions will be considered for replacement roles only.
Roles cast:
KEITH, Black, Mid-to-late thirties: A single father and a mortgage broker living in Idaho. A gay man struggling to keep his adoptive foster daughter. Shares a similar sadness with Ryan.
RYAN, White, Mid-to-late thirties: A single father and a factory worker living in Idaho. A man working through his recent divorce and applying for a loan to buy his family’s property back. Shares a similar sadness with Keith.
by Martyna Majok, directed by Alex Lonati
Rehearsals begin February 12th, 2024
Performances run March 8th, 2024 – March 30th, 2024
TBD Extension to April 6th, 2024
Seeking:
EDDIE, Any Ethnicity, Late 40’s: An unemployed truck driver. He is a man who understands that self-pity and moping are privileges for people who, in their lives, have friends and family who unconditionally love them and will listen to their shit. Anything he tells you, he hopes will be entertaining or funny or interesting because he knows you’re not obligated to stay and listen to him. When he slips into sadness, he bounces back fast. He would have made a great uncle.
ANI, Any Ethnicity, Early 40’s: Ani is a woman whose world has not extended very far beyond North Jersey and just you try to say something to her and watch what happens. She has her own ways and she is fine with those ways and those that do not agree don’t need to stick around - as many haven’t. She can seem brusque or intense to some people. A cat that resists being pet - until it wants to be. She is in a wheelchair. Severe incomplete spinal cord injury. Quadriplegic. Though some of the fingers of one hand are partially functioning. Ani’s full name can be Ania Lucja Skowronska-Torres or Ani Luz Hernandez-Torres or Ani Li-Torres or Ānanda Singh-Torres, amongst many options. Casting note: Ani’s full name will be chosen to suit the actress playing her.
JESS, Any Ethnicity, Mid 20’s: First generation child of an immigrant. Does not come from wealth, nor does she try to seem it. Has a hard time keeping her feelings and opinions to herself. Which has gotten her in trouble. Still, she can’t help it. Or doesn’t want to. She will put up a fight when she needs - and sometimes even when she doesn’t or perhaps shouldn’t. Can take care of herself. Though perhaps wishes this was not always the case.
JOHN, Any Ethnicity, Mid 20’s: John is beautiful. He has cerebral palsy. A kind of halted way of speaking. Otherwise, he is determinedly polished. Comes from wealth and wears it, undeniably.
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