THE WHO & THE WHAT - NYC Appointments
Milwaukee Repertory Theater
APPOINTMENTS
Auditions in NYC by APPOINTMENT only – July 10 & 11, 2017
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep LORT D; $637/week AEA current min
SEEKING
Various roles.
Seeking submissions from AEA members. AEA members must submit themselves directly in order to be considered via this posting (no agent or third-party submissions).
INSTRUCTIONS
Email picture and resume ASAP for consideration.
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
By Ayad Akhtar
Director: May Adrales
Artistic Director: Mark Clements
Resident Casting Director: Frank Honts
NY Casting Director: Dale Brown
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: 8/29/17
First Preview: 9/27/17
Opening: 9/29/17
Closing: 11/5/17
Stiemke Studio Theater
OTHER
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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
Synopsis: Akhtar’s The Who & The What explores the conflict that erupts within a Muslim family in Atlanta when an independent-minded daughter writes a provocative novel that offends her more conservative father and sister. At odds with the place of women in her Muslim faith, Zarina has been writing a book about the Prophet Muhammad that aims to set the record straight. When her traditional father and sister discover the manuscript, it threatens to tear her family apart. With humor and ferocity, Akhtar's incisive new comedic drama about love, art, and religion examines the chasm between our traditions and our contemporary lives.
SEEKING:
AFZAL
Male of South Asian descent: mid-late 50’s. The loving father of Zarina and Mahwish, who emigrated to the U.S. and has made a life in Atlanta. Owner of a large fleet of taxis. Quick-witted, traditional, expansive, gregarious. and every bit the charming and benevolent immigrant patriarch. Large hearted, large mouthed, generous, emotional and volatile.
ZARINA
Female of South Asian descent: late 20’s-early 30’s: American born - brilliant, elegant, wry, wounded, stubborn and charismatic. A Harvard grad, now an aspiring writer, but also the older sister taking care of the family in the wake of her mother's passing. The guiding consciousness of the play. Afzal’s eldest daughter.
MAHWISH
Female of South Asian descent: mid-late 20’s. American born – Light and carefree. Even lovelier than her sister. Sassy, very loyal, very loving. She is eager to marry her boyfriend of ten years, but beholden to her father's will, which has it that she cannot marry her boyfriend until her older sister marries. Equally comfortable as the cheerleader in high school as she is in the mosque on Friday afternoons.
ELI
Male. Caucasian: late 20’s-early 30’s. A convert to Islam, and now an Imam in a disenfranchised part of Atlanta. Committed to community service. Able to lead a congregation as well as connect one on one with people. Grew up in a very rough and urban section of Detroit and identifies himself with the plight of the poor and urban American. He is serious, smart and sensitive, a romantic at heart, but also a certified plumber who is as comfortable with a wrench in his hand as he is with a book.
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 submit.
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