Aurora Civic Center Authority | Aurora, IL
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (C)
BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
LOA
$784.20 weekly minimum (LOA ref. COST)
Equity actors for roles in TRUE WEST and COVENANT (see breakdown).
All Stage Managerial positions are currently filled.
Please bring ONE copy of Headshot/Resume.
Please prepare 1 two-minute or 2 one-minute contemporary dramatic monologue(s).
Actors' Equity Association - Chicago Member Center
557 W Randolph St
1st Fl
Chicago, IL 60661
Jim Corti (he/him) – Director of True West, Artistic Director for Paramount Theatre
Malkia Stampley (she/her) – Director of Covenant
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Trent Stork (they/them) – Artistic Producer & Casting Director for Paramount Theatre
Elena Gerk (she/her) – Artistic & Casting Associate for Paramount Theatre
First Rehearsal: June 16, 2025
Tech Begins: July 8, 2025
First Public Performance: July 16, 2025
Opening Night: July 25, 2025
Closing Night: August 31, 2025
First Rehearsal: September 1, 2025
Tech Begins: September 23, 2025
First Public Performance: October 1, 2025
Opening Night: October 10, 2025
Closing Night: November 16, 2025
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EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
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.
A NOTE from Casting:
Most characters we encounter currently are on the binary and are written with he/him or she/her pronouns. However limiting the descriptions are, our casting seeks to be inclusive as possible and we invite gender non-conforming, genderqueer, transgender, and non-binary actors to submit for the roles they most identify with.
We will also list race/ethnicity when specific to the character but are otherwise seeking all races and ethnicities.
Please let us know if you have any questions, concerns, or if there are any accommodations we can provide.
The Aurora Civic Center Authority (parent company to Paramount Theatre) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, familial status, sexual orientation, national origin, ability, age, or veteran status.
By Sam Shepard
Jim Corti (he/him) – Director of True West, Artistic Director for Paramount Theatre
Trent Stork (they/them) – Artistic Producer & Casting Director for Paramount Theatre
Elena Gerk (she/her) – Artistic & Casting Associate for Paramount Theatre
First Rehearsal: June 16, 2025
Tech Begins: July 8, 2025
First Public Performance: July 16, 2025
Opening Night: July 25, 2025
Closing Night: August 31, 2025
AUSTIN: Male, Early 30s. A squeaky-clean Ivy League graduate who works as a screenwriter. Austin has a wife and children in Northern California but is working at his mother's house in Southern California while she is away in Alaska. By all accounts, he is a success.
LEE: Male, Early 40s. Austin's brother. Lee is a beer-swilling desert rat and petty thief who has come to their mother's house to loot the neighbors of household appliances. He is the exact opposite of his brother in looks, sensibility, and degree of success.
SAUL KIMMER: Male, Late 40s. A slick Hollywood producer. He is as sincere as anyone who is motivated only by profit can be.
MOM: Female, Early 60s. An absurdist vision of a powerless mother. Mom thinks Picasso is coming to town and quietly asks Austin not to kill Lee.
This show contains moments of verbal and physical altercations. Each physical fight between the brothers escalates as the play progresses. Austin at one point chokes Lee with a telephone cord while their mom watches. There are also a few moments when sexual/crude gestures are made.
By York Walker
Malkia Stampley (she/her) – Director of COVENANT
Trent Stork (they/them) – Artistic Producer & Casting Director for Paramount Theatre
Elena Gerk (she/her) – Artistic & Casting Associate for Paramount Theatre
First Rehearsal: September 1, 2025
Tech Begins: September 23, 2025
First Public Performance: October 1, 2025
Opening Night: October 10, 2025
Closing Night: November 16, 2025
RUTHIE: Female, Black, 19. The innocent one, obsessed with love or the idea of it and desperate to have it. Has a slight country southern accent.
VIOLET: Female, Black, 19. Ruthie's best friend, the unexplained black sheep of her family and loves her older sister, Avery, fiercely. Has a slight country southern accent.
AVERY: Female, Black, 24. Dreams of seeing the world outside of this town, a woman coming into her own and terrified. Great with detailed physicality and movement--Avery becomes possessed and is also catatonic. Has a slight country southern accent.
MAMA: Female, Black, 40-50s. Violet and Avery’s mother, full of regret, the only thing holding her world together is her love for Avery and her belief in God. A very spiritual and traditional pentecostalist. Great mover. Has a slight country southern accent.
JOHNNY “HONEYCOMB” JAMES: Male, Black, 24. Great guitar player, local celebrity, awkward teen turned ladies’ man. Has been in love with Avery since he was 12 years old. Music style is 1930s southern blues. Has a slight country southern accent.
Set in 1936, this show follows the relations of a small-town Georgian family and the results of making a deal with the devil. There are moments where characters sing hymns, witness a cross being turned upside down, blood is visualized on stage, possession is simulated, and a prop chair is dropped from the ceiling. This show does contain topics that may be triggering to some, such as: miscarriages, adultery, religion, physical abuse, murder, gun violence, and occult practices. While these topics are not all shown on stage, many of them do occur in character monologues. The character Avery does become possessed and catatonic on stage; this requires many characters to physically move her. Avery is kissed on the cheek by Johnny numerous times and shares a kiss with Ruthie at the end of the show.
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