Red Bull Theater | New York, NY
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Off Broadway
$800 weekly minimum (Tier 2)
Equity actors for roles in Molière’s THE IMAGINARY INVALID (See breakdown). Actors of color are encouraged to audition. Actors with classical training are encouraged to audition.
Please prepare one classical monologue. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
Expected to attend:
Nathan Winkelstein: Associate Artistic Director/Casting Director of Red Bull Theater
See breakdown for production-specific personnel.
See breakdown for production-specific dates.
www.redbulltheater.com
Red Bull Theater adheres to all current Equity COVID-19 Safety Protocols, as well as any state, local, and federal public health requirements. 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
Producer: Red Bull Theater
Playwright: Molière
Adaptor: Jeffrey Hatcher
Director: Jesse Berger
1st Rehearsal: Monday April 21, 2025
Tech: May 14-19, 2025
Previews: May 21 - June 1, 2025
Opening: June 2
Closing: June 15
Possible extension weeks thru: June 29
Rehearsal Venue: MTC
Performance Venue: New World Stages, Stage 5
ARGAN: THIS ROLE IS ALREADY CAST. (50s-60s). The imaginary invalid of the title. A well-off gentleman who, since the loss of his wife, has become more and more a hypochondriac. Although picky, panicky, thin-skinned and solipsistic, he has a good heart. Deep down, he cares about his daughter's happiness even though he tries to marry her off to a doctor so he can have access to free healthcare 24 hours a day.
TOINETTE: (30s-50s) Argan's housekeeper. Ostensibly a servant, she runs the place. She's clear-eyed about her employer's faults, outspoken and devoted to Angelique. Funny, smart, wise-cracking and wise. A clown with a shape-shifter’s ability to assume voices and crazy characters. Toinette is the show’s whirling female Groucho.
ANGELIQUE: THIS ROLE IS ALREADY CAST. (20s) Argan's daughter. A beautiful ingénue with a passion for her boyfriend Cléante that makes her almost ungovernable. Loves her father and finds it impossible to stand up to him, but by the end of the play, she will. Sings well.
CLÉANTE: (20s-30s) Angelique's boyfriend. Handsome, dopey, passionate, and kind-hearted, but he can't see what's in front of him. Cléante isn’t very bright, but his heart is in the right place. A hero in his own mind. Sings well.
THREE DOCTORS: THIS ROLE IS ALREADY CAST. 1. DOCTOR PURGON (40s-60s) Gruff, deadpan, matter of fact. No bedside manner whatsoever. He enters, he barks out a prescription, he leaves. He's a busy man. 2. MONSIEUR FLEURANT (40s-60s) The man who comes to perform evacuations on Monsieur Argan. A driven, technocratic automaton whose sole desire is to administer an enema on time and with great vigor. 3. DR. DIAFOROUS (40s-60s) An oily operator, social-climbing, avaricious, smarmy, gifted at passing the buck. In denial about his idiot son.
THOMAS DIAFOROUS: (20s-30s) The idiot son. At first glance, he might not seem as stupid as he is, but as the play will prove, he is really stupid. Stupid, selfish, cowardly and entitled. A passive nepo who has spent most of his life in school and still can't pass a test. He memorizes everything, from how to greet people to how to make small talk. Dependent on his father, scared of strangers, and uncomfortable around human beings.
BÉLINE: (30s) Argan's wife. Beautiful, charming, elegant, sleek. The perfect trophy wife if the trophy is a complete sociopath. She married Argan for his money and is hoping he dies very, very soon. She's having an affair with the lawyer, Monsieur De Bonnefoi, so we occasionally see a shuddering passion behind her cool, pearl and diving neckline façade.
MONSIEUR DE BONNEFOI: (30s-40s) A lawyer, handsome, silky, smarmy, a schemer. He is Béline's lover and is doing everything he can to make sure she inherits everything when Monsieur Argan dies. A dapper, larcenous gigolo.
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