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Call Type
Equity Principal
Time(s)
Equity Principal Auditions
Saturday, December 12, 2015
9 AM to 5 PM
lunch 12:30 to 1:30
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Contract
SPT
$309/wk plus health, pension, transportation
Location
Passage Theatre Offices
5 South Broad Street
Trenton, NJ 08608
(between Stockton and Montgomery)
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Seeking
Equity actors for various roles.
These characters are highly verbal, used to engaging with big ideas and unwilling to back down from a fight.
see breakdown for more info.
Preparation
Please prepare a 2 minute monologue (or two contrasting 1 minute monologues).
Bring picture and resume.
Other Dates
Trenton, NJ rehearsals: April 12-May 4 (30 hrs/week rehearsal)
Trenton, NJ performances: May 5-May 22 (4-show performance week)
Possible Extension: May 26-May 29
Other
www.passagetheatre.org
ALL REHEARSALS AND PERFORMANCES ARE IN TRENTON, NEW JERSEY. Actors should be local to New Jersey or the Philadelphia area.
Personnel
Playwright: Bruce Graham
Director: Michelle Tattenbaum
Artistic Director: June Ballinger
Casting Director: Chelsea Adams (at EPA)
· A monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Appointments
AEA members email passagetheatrecasting@gmail.com. Equity Members without appointments will be seen as time permits.
Performers of all ethnic and racial background are encouraged to attend.
Always bring your Equity Membership Card to auditions.
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Breakdown
These characters are highly verbal, used to engaging with big ideas and unwilling to back down from a fight.
Synopsis: A wealthy white businessman and a struggling black single mom ride the same bus week after week. As they get to know each other, the threads that tie them together tighten, catching them in a complex web of racial bias, moral ambiguity, and revenge. Bruce Graham’s fearless and incisive play takes a no-holds-barred look at hidden and not-so-hidden racism within us all.
Seeking:
RAY
late 40s-early 60s, Caucasian. Ray worked his way up to a life of luxury on Philadelphia's Main Line, but he is disenchanted with his corporate existence and ready to leave it all behind. For what, he doesn't know. He's a man searching for purpose, and when he finds it, he's driven to the point of self-destruction. Gentle and self-deprecating when we first meet him, he is also a master manipulator and capable of deep fury.
ROZ
late 40s-early 60s, Caucasian. Naturally elegant and disarmingly forthright, Roz always tells it like it is. She enjoys stirring the pot and sinks her teeth into an intellectual debate -- and sometimes her aggression gets away from her. Pragmatic and irreverent, but under it all, she is fueled by a giant heart and a desire to help people.
CHRISTOPHER
20s, Caucasian. An optimist, Christopher is a peacemaker by nature -- he often mediates the people around him. He's succinct, impulsive and charismatic. He's highly educated, which has produced in him an idealism that hasn't yet been beaten down by a world in which idealism holds little sway.
MOLLY
20s, Caucasian. Liberal, hopeful, a bit starry-eyed. She's smart as a whip -- smarter than she gets credit for -- but she's no shark, which means she's prone to getting eaten alive by people like Roz. She is making discoveries for the first time and has a tendency to regurgitate the politics of her social media feed.
SHATIQUE
20s-early 30s. African American. Ambitious and aspirational, she would do almost anything to give her son a better life. Her life hasn’t been easy so far, and the challenges have worn her down into a pragmatist, but she hasn't given up the fight -- it's just quieter than it might once have been. Steadfastly loyal.
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