SoHo Repertory Theatre Inc. | New York, NY
Thursday, October 3, 2024
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
LOA-NYC
$1360 weekly minimum
Equity actors for roles in GREAT PRIVATION (see breakdown). All Stage Managerial positions are currently filled.
Please prepare a 90-second contemporary monologue. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
Written by Nia Akilah Robinson
Directed by Evren Odcikin
Director of Soho Rep: Caleb Hammons
Director of Soho Rep: Cynthia Flowers
Director of Soho Rep: Eric Ting
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Casting assistant: Nia Smith
First Rehearsal: Jan 28
Tech: Feb 18 - 23
Final Dress: Feb 25
First Preview: Feb 26
Company Opening: March 9
Closing: March 23
Pot. Extension: April 6
https://sohorep.org/
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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
The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) is about Grave Robbing in the early 1800s. Grave Robbing during the Cholera outbreak. Grave Robbing in Philadelphia. Robbing of Black bodies for medical research. Black bodies that were commodified even after death. Black bodies that never got their rest.
In 1832, a mother and daughter keep vigil at a grave behind the African Baptist Church in Philadelphia. Today, at a summer camp on the same grounds, another mother and daughter navigate a new, but not so different landscape. Alongside them, two distinct male figures move in and out of both sets of lives, threatening to unearth dark truths — or to help create them. As timelines collide and secrets and lives become buried and revealed, a reckoning comes calling to them all: the roots to our ancestors are not as long as we may think.
The Great Privation (How to flip ten cents into a dollar) is a darkly comic appraisal of the value of our bodies in death, our responsibility to time, and the role joy plays in our collective resistance.
Each actor plays a character in 1832, and also a descendent of that character in modern day. The vocal and physical switch between those characters is essential to the meaning of the play.
The play goes many places including very dark ones, but remains a comedy. That healing comedic energy and joy sustains all the way to the end. For all actors, comedic timing and physical comedy ability are key. We need folks who are not afraid to laugh when tears or rage are warranted, and understand that comedy can be a great tool for activism and healing.
Black, 16. In both timelines, she is a high school student. In 1832, she is funny, busy, and intense. Modern day, she is hyperactive, bubbly, and slightly hood-whimsical. She has found her political voice and is not afraid to use it.
Black, 32. Charity’s mother. In 1832, she is a business owner. Private, in control, and funny. In modern day, she works at a sleepaway camp as a counselor. She is seemingly open, but is suspicious of others. She can be loud.
Black, 32. In 1832, he works at the Medical school and manages and processes stolen bodies for research. He is smart and unapologetic. In modern day, he is the head counselor at a sleep-away camp through a recent promotion. Loveable, shy, and sometimes silly. While at work, he tries to be serious and by-the-book.
White, 25. In 1832, he is a very successful medical student. He is outgoing and lacks empathy. He is polite, but is not above a direct threat. In modern day, he is queer. Major musical theater energy — he talks a lot, believes himself to be a good ally, and is clueless of his impact.
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