TEMPESTUOUS ELEMENTS - WASHINGTON, DC EPA
ARENA STAGE
Arena Stage
1101 6th St SW
Washington, DC 20024
Thu, Aug 17, 2023
10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (EDT)
Break: 1:00-2:00pm
Appointments are on a first come first serve basis. Sign-ups will start at 9:30am. Current Equit members will have priority in signing up. EMC/non-Equity performers may be seen if time permits. NO UNOFFICIAL LISTS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
LORT Non-Rep
$1151 weekly minimum (LORT B+) - Fichandler Stage
Equity actors 18+ for roles in TEMPESTUOUS ELEMENTS (see breakdown).
All roles will be understudied.
Prepare 2 contrasting short monologues. Auditions may not exceed 3 minutes total. Please bring a copy of your headshot and resume stapled together. Please have headshot and resume on your phone ready to upload to an online form. Always bring your equity card to EPAs.
Joseph Pinzon, Artistic Associate – Casting (expected to attend)
Melissa Singson, Artistic Development Coordinator (expected to attend)
Hana Sharif, Artistic Director
Kia Corthron, Writer
Psalmayene 24, Director
Teresa Sapien, Associate Artistic Director
First Rehearsal: 1/16/24
First Preview: 2/16/24
Opens: 2/22/24
Closes: 3/17/24
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.
Born into slavery in North Carolina, Anna Julia Cooper was a visionary Black feminist and educator in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, and only the fourth African American woman to earn a doctoral degree. Tempestuous Elements—the 11th in Arena Stage’s Power Play cycle—shines a light on Cooper’s tumultuous tenure as Principal of Washington, D.C.’s historic M Street School where she fought to keep Black education alive, despite the racism, gossip and sexism that threatened to consign her efforts to obscurity.
[ANNA] ALREADY CAST – A Black woman, mid-40s. A high school teaching principal: intelligent, patient, straightforward.
[MINERVA and as cast] – A Black woman, 30s to 40s. A strict but fair high school teacher.
[HUGHES and as cast] – A white man, 40s or 50s. The D.C. school superintendent, a man who tries to exude patience, but is very opinionated and of the certainty that he is always right.
[LUCRETIA (also LULA, JOSEPHINE, ANNIE)] ALREADY CAST – A Black woman, late teens to early 20s. Doubles as a vulnerable high school student, a clever young phys. ed. teacher, and an intelligent child of 11 or 12.*
[JOHN (also LAWRENCE, CHARLES, and SILAS)] – A Black man, 20s to 30s. Will double as high school students and an intelligent high school teacher and writer.
[HANNAH (also NELLIE and MISS PATTERSON and as cast)] ALREADY CAST – A Black woman 40s. Doubles as a high school teacher, a retired high school teacher, and a formerly enslaved person in her 30s.
[FRANCIS (also MR. TURNER, ATWOOD and as cast)] – A Black man, 30s. Doubles as a young minister, a high school teacher, and a physician. (Francis should appear a good decade younger than his wife Lottie.)
[MARY (also RUTH, IVY and as cast)] – A Black woman, 30s, a confident, outspoken woman. Will double as high school students.
[CATHERINE (also MRS. COOK and as cast)] – A Black woman, 20s to 30s. Will double as a high school student and a retired teacher.*
[W.E.B DuBOIS (also Hiram and as cast)] – A Black man, 30s. W.E.B. DuBois, who appears for one scene: a confident speaker. Will double as a high school student.
[LOTTIE and as cast] – A Black Woman, 50s. A retired teacher. Very patient, still very dedicated to the profession. (Will briefly double as high school student Abigail in the opening scene)
One of the two asterisked (*) characters should be able to play a European classical instrument at least somewhat proficiently.
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