UNCLE VANYA - NYC EPA Lincoln Center Theater | New York, NY
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00-2:00 pm
LORT Non-Rep
$1867 weekly minimum (LORT A+)
Seeking Equity actors for roles in UNCLE VANYA (see breakdown).
Please prepare the sides for the character you are interested in. Sides will be available on the morning of the audition at the audition site. If you're auditioning for the role of Yefim please prepare 16 bars of a song of your choosing on the violin in the folk/contemporary style.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center 165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
DIRECTOR: LILA NEUGEBAUER
WRITER: ANTON CHEKHOV -
TRANSLATION BY HEIDI SCHRECK
CASTING DIRECTOR: DANIEL SWEE
CASTING ASSOCIATE: CAMILLE HICKMAN
Each of the following are expected to be in attendance at the EPA - one in the A.M. and one in the P.M. However, the exact schedule is yet TBD:
Casting Director: Daniel Swee
Casting Associate: Camille Hickman
1ST REHEARSAL: February 27, 2024
1ST PERFORMANCE: April 2, 2024
OPENING: April 24, 2024
CLOSE: June 16, 2024
OTHER
LCT is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, & access in all areas of its structure and operations as attention to these goals makes it stronger and helps better serve the artists, staff, crew, audience, and community at large. LCT welcomes candidates who are fully committed to joining a theater that is proactively focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Applicants from populations underrepresented in theater and who align themselves with LCT’s values and goals are encouraged to apply.
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.
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VANYA – 40s-50s. Male identifying. Any ethnicity. Never married. He and his niece Sonya have worked tirelessly to maintain the family’s working farm. He’s come to feel that he’s wasted his life toiling for his brother-in-law, Serebryakov, and is now resentful of all the professor’s achievements. Full of regret, easily frustrated. Believes he is in love with Yelena. ROLE IS CAST
ASTROV - Early 40s. Male identifying. Any ethnicity. A doctor. Attractive, but beginning to be worn down by the stresses of his work and by his drinking. Despite his dissatisfaction with life and his sometimes cynical world views, he’s an impassioned advocate for the environment. Likes spending time at the farm with his friend, Vanya. Attracted to Yelena. ROLE IS CAST
YELENA – Late 30s - 40s. Female identifying. Any ethnicity. Serebryakov’s younger wife and longtime friend of Vanya. Charismatic, clever, she’s aware of the effect she has on people. Devoted to her husband and his needs but feels unstimulated and restless in the country. She’s struggling with the role she has chosen in the world and is looking for distraction. ROLE IS CAST
SONYA – 30s. Female identifying. Any ethnicity. Serebryakov’s daughter from his first marriage and Vanya’s niece. Has been faithfully working on the family farm alongside Vanya and has been dutifully sending all the earnings to her father, although, by rights, the farm belongs to her. Generous, selfless, unafraid of hard work, she knows how hard the world is, but has always maintained a sense of hope. ROLE IS CAST
SEREBRYAKOV: 60s – 70. Male identifying. Any ethnicity. A once wealthy and celebrated university professor who is now retired and lives in the city on the earnings of his late first wife’s working farm. Recent illness has begun to alter him from a vibrant and charismatic man to an irritable, demanding invalid, self-involved, and very aware of his growing age. ROLE IS CAST
MAMA VOINITSKI: 60s - 70s. Female identifying. Any ethnicity. Mother of Vanya (and of Vanya’s late sister, the first wife of Serebryakov) Feels more kinship to her former son-in-law the Professor than to Vanya. Considers herself a progressive thinker, she reveres all things intellectual and has little patience for Vanya’s feelings. ROLE IS CAST
MARINA – 60s - 70s. Female identifying. Any ethnicity. Has been nanny to family members for many years and is loved and valued by all of them. Wise, perceptive, and candid. ROLE IS CAST
WAFFLES – 50s-70s. Male identifying. Any ethnicity. A broke former landowner who now lives on the farm, he’s godfather to Sonya’s and a faithful family friend. A very decent person who is essentially satisfied with his lot in life and never complains. Plays the guitar. ROLE IS CAST
YEFIM: 18-60, Male identifying. Any ethnicity. Works as a general handyman on the house and works on the farm. Must play violin well (folk/contemporary style). Please prepare 16 bars of a song of your choosing on the violin in the folk/contemporary style.
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