Washington, DC EPA
Voices Festival Productions | Washington, DC
Monday, September 9, 2024
11:00 AM - 7:00 PM (E)
BREAK: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
To schedule an audition appointment for the EPA, please email
cares@ebcastingco.com. If you are unable to attend the EPA, you may submit your headshot and resume at:
cares@ebcastingco.com. In either email, please include in the Subject Line: DC - Who Cares EPA [Role].
SPT
$450 weekly minimum (SPT 3)
Equity actors for roles in WHO CARES: THE CAREGIVER INTERVIEW PROJECT (see breakdown). Local Washington D.C. actors are encouraged to audition.
A brief side from WHO CARES, provided by Casting at
www.bit.ly/whocaresepa. Please bring a stapled picture/resume.
Universalist National Memorial Church
1810 16th St NW
Washington, DC 20009
Co-Written by Ari Roth, A. Lorraine Robinson, and Vanessa Gilbert
Directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer
Artistic Producing Partner: A. Lorraine Robinson
Founding Artistic Producing Partner: Ari Roth
Associate General Manager: Marvin Brown
Casting Assistant: Joey Bermudez
Daryl Eisenberg, CSA, Casting Director, Eisenberg Casting
Ari Roth, Founding Artistic Producing Partner
A. Lorraine Robinson, Artistic Producing Partner
Sigrid Edson, Producing Associate
First rehearsal: December 9, 2024
First performance: January 9, 2025
Opening Night: January 13, 2024
Closing performance: February 2, 2025
Possible Extension through February 9, 2025
See breakdown for further details.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
WHO CARES: THE CAREGIVER INTERVIEW PROJECT
Voices Festival Productions (VFP) is an independent production company based in Washington DC, which produces plays (and the occasional musical) that stimulate debate and discourse, introspection and awareness, informed by revelation of our underlying humanity in all its color and complexity, finding resonance between those living with conflict in the Middle East and closer to home, in our nation’s capital, along the seams of our nation and its very real and perceived divides. We celebrate diverse, inter-cultural voices and encounters through inter-connected performance of both provocative and introspective new works for the stage, in dialogue with our moment.
Performs Thurs @ 7:30 PM, Fri @ 7:30 PM, Sat @ 8 PM, Sun @ 3 PM.
Maximum Performances/Week: 4
Maximum Workweek Hours: 30 Hours for Actors.
Maximum Daily Hours (during rehearsal): 5 out of 6.5 hours per weekday, and 7 out of 8.5 hours per weekend day or, by unanimous secret ballot vote, on a weekday.
Tech-Dress Rehearsal Days: Two days of 8 out of 10 hours
LORRI & OTHERS - 50s, Black Female. Producing partner of theater company, convener of caregiver support group to alleviate isolation, including her own, though she doesn't readily broadcast the story of caring for her own sister, Bee (57), because it's so fresh. Values listening.
RACHEL & OTHERS - CAST 40, Black Female. DEI consultant, grew up in DC theater but doesn’t have much to do with it now; caring for her mother, a well-known DC director. Doubles as: REV. LESLIE (70s, Black) Local pastor with Southern roots caring for husband who divorced her in the midst of his condition; dispenses a wise gospel of love in the midst of much pain. CAMEOS: BEE (57) Lorri’s sister, afflicted with ALS-FTD; and TANTY (95), Kathleen’s arch, elderly Caribbean aunt (who’s also a hoarder).
KRIS & OTHERS - 32, Black Female. Paid caregiver initially Zooming in from Chicago, former Division III college basketball player, caring for Holocaust refugee psychologist with dementia, still figuring out their path; KATHLEEN (60s-70s Black) Playwright/professor who cared for highly successful, well-organized parents; now travels to NYC to care for highly disorganized, elderly aunt. Also: SELAM (30s) Ethiopian nurse.
SARAH & OTHERS - 50s/60, White Female. CEO of international NGO caring for her formerly world-traveling parents. Also plays: JUNE (40s, White) Queer Gender Studies professor poised to care for three queer parents. GERIATRIC THERAPIST (50s) specializing in Arts Therapy and Movement, and JIM’S MOM (80s) living with dementia, acerbic, often inappropriately.
THERESA & OTHERS - CAST 60s, Female. MacArthur Award winning elder justice lawyer and author; a concrete communicator and activist; Also: CECILIA (60s, Latina) former professional musician trying to return to her passion; pulled between independence and family. NURSE (60s) / HOSPICE (20s).
JIM & OTHERS - 50s, White Male. Part-time stand-up comic, affable family man. Also: PAUL (60s, White) Jewish American teacher, writer, former Broadway and Hollywood actor, now teaching theater to 7th graders in a DC Public Charter School. And Politics & Prose BOOKSTORE OWNER.
OFF-STAGE FEMALE COVER 1 - 40s-60s White Female. Covers SARAH, THERESA, & OTHERS.
OFF-STAGE FEMALE COVER 2 - 30s-50s Black Female. Covers LORRI, RACHEL, KRIS, & OTHERS.
OFF-STAGE MALE COVER - 50s White Male. Covers JIM & OTHERS.
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