Yale Repertory Theatre 2023-24 Season - NYC EPA Yale Repertory Theatre / Drama Productions Inc. | New Haven, CT
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Thursday, June 1, 2023
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Break: 1:00-2:00pm
LORT Non-Rep
$1325 weekly minimum (LORT D)
Equity actors for roles in Yale Repertory Theatre 2023-24 Season (see breakdown).
Yale Rep is committed to an inclusive casting policy and encourages all actors to audition regardless of an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, national or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression. Please refer to character breakdown and descriptions for more details.
Please prepare a 2-3-minute contemporary or classical monologue, your choice; preference for heightened or poetic language; material either by a Yale Rep commissioned writer or from a writer in a Yale Rep season very much appreciated.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center 165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
Studio B
Artistic Director: James Bundy
Associate Artistic Director: Jennifer Kiger Associate Producer: Kay Perdue Meadows Managing Director: Florie Seery
General Manager: Carla L. Jackson Casting: Calleri Jensen Davis (James Calleri, Erica Jensen, Paul Davis)
Expected to attend:
Paul Davis or Erica Jensen, Casting Directors Angela Stevenson or Sophia Feldman or Damla Coskun, Casting Assistants
See production dates in breakdown.
OTHER
There are no stage manager positions available at this time.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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.
Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms.
Directed by Sivan Battat
Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT
Dates:
First Rehearsal: August 22
First Tech Rehearsal: September 27
Previews: October 5, 6, 7, 10, 11
Opening October 12
Closing: October 28
It’s 1978 and protests are breaking out across Iran, encroaching on the suburb where a tight-knit circle of girlfriends plans weddings, trades dirty jokes, and tries to hang onto a sense of normalcy. But as the forces of revolution escalate, each woman must choose whether to join a wave of emigration or to remain in their country, where the future is uncertain. With breathtaking humanity and cutting wit, Wish You Were Here chronicles a decade of life during and after war, as best friends forever become friends long lost—scattered and searching for home,
Seeking:
NAZANIN: Late 20s-30s; pronouns: she/her; Iranian; sort of mean. An anchor in this friend group, lashes out sometimes, loves deeply.
SALME: Late 20s-30s; pronouns: she/her; Iranian; the peacemaker; religious and hijabi; attuned to her friends even when she’s absorbed in a book.
ZARI: Late 20s-30s; pronouns: she/her; Iranian; happy-go-lucky; can be a bit of a space case. Spunky, curious, playful, grows up a lot.
SHIDEH: Late 20s-30s; pronouns: she/her; Iranian; a little uptight and can be intense; very smart; a little anxious; charmingly sarcastic.
RANA: Late 20s-30s; pronouns: she/her; Iranian; the queen of cool; sophisticated; magnetic; effortlessly fun.
NEW FRIEND/Understudy Shideh: Late 20s-30s; pronouns: she/her; Iranian; mechanical engineer. Tentative, alert, a little bit sweaty. Doubles as Understudy for SHIDEH.
Directed by Mikael Burke
Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT
Dates:
First Rehearsal: October 10
First Tech Rehearsal: November 16
Previews: November 24, 25, 27, 28, 29
Opening: November 30
Closing: December 16
Meet the Bosemans Salvage: 37-year-old Senior and 23-year-old Junior, at odds under the same roof during a snowy Chicago winter. Their icy relationship is further strained as potential romances for both father and son compel them to reckon with the past. The Salvagers is a beautifully observed and humorous play about the second, third, and fourth chances that may be possible when hard truths are delivered in love.
Seeking:
BOSEMAN SALVAGE JUNIOR: Black, male-identifying, 23-year-old, an actor. Angry at the world and searching for a way out. Loves desperately.
BOSEMAN SALVAGE SENIOR: Black, male-identifying, 37-year-old, JUNIOR’S father, a locksmith. Trying to make up for lost time. Loves fiercely.
NEDRA SALVAGE: Black, male-identifying, 39-year-old, JUNIOR’S mother, a postal worker. Trying to make up for past mistakes. Loves out loud.
ELINOR DEWITT: Person of color, female-identifying, 32-year-old, a substitute teacher. Meets people where they are. Loves compassionately.
PAULINA KENSTON: Person of color, female-identifying, 21-year-old, a waitress. Sees people as they are. Loves authentically.
Directed by Liz Diamond
Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT
Dates:
First rehearsal: January 23
First tech: February 29
Previews: March 8, 9, 11, 12, 13
Opening: March 14
Closing: March 30
Three old friends and a neighbor. A verdant backyard on a summer afternoon. Tea and catastrophe. Caryl Churchill’s convention-defying play, Escaped Alone, sets in comic and devastating counterpoint the consolations of a good chat and the looming weight of disasters both intimate and global.
Seeking:
NOTE: The play is set in a provincial English town in the present, in Sally’s back garden. All characters are British and in their 70s. Ethnicities may vary.
MRS JARRETT: (70s – British) Acquainted with Sally and the others but not part of their friend group. Working-class, formerly served as a school crossing guard. Observant, curious. Steps out of the action several times over the course of the play to describe what happened in the aftermath of various apocalyptic events which she alone survived.
VI: (70s – British) An old friend of Sally’s and Lena’s. Lower middle class. No-nonsense, direct. Holds strong opinions about the need for women to face their fears head on. The mother of a grown son from whom she is now estranged. Was imprisoned for six years some time ago for killing her husband, an act judged to have been committed in self-defense.
SALLY: (70s – British) An old friend of Vi’s and Lena’s, hosting them for tea in her back garden. A cheerful and energetic retiree, she warmly welcomes Mrs Jarrett to join the gathering despite the reservations of the others. She is expert at keeping the conversational ball in the air, but has a crippling phobia of a cats, which causes her to panic whenever they are mentioned.
LENA: (70s – British) An old friend of Sally’s and Vi’s. A sweet tempered, timid, woman who struggles with depression and agoraphobia. Gamely participates in the conversation but finds Vi’s hearty efforts to encourage her to get out more deeply distressing.
Directed by Eric Ting
Yale Repertory Theatre, 1120 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT
Dates:
First Rehearsal: March 19
First Tech Rehearsal: April 18
Previews: April 26, 27, 29, 30 and May 1
Opening: May 2
Morning Student Matinees: May 14, 15, 16
Closing: May 18
In the wake of the Chinese Exclusion Act, an unlikely family carries invented biographies and poems of longing on an arduous journey from rural Taishan to Angel Island Detention Center, in hopes of landing in San Francisco Bay. Intimate and epic, The Far Country examines the true cost of selling the past for the promise of a brighter future.
Seeking:
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NOTE: AAPI performers encouraged to audition.
GEE and as cast: male-identifying, 40s/50s, Chinese American; strategically mercurial; can be gregarious and affable one minute, then broody and calculating the next.
MOON GYET and as cast: male-identifying, 20s, Chinese American; sincere, thoughtful. Keeps contained a deep well of sorrow until he cannot.
LOW and as cast: 40s/50s female-identifying, Chinese American; passionate and plain-spoken. As full of love as she is of heartache.
YUEN and as cast: 20s, female-identifying, Chinese American; practical but improbably optimistic and adventurous; her youthful energy has wisdom in it.
YIP/ONE and as cast: 30s/40s male-identifying, Chinese American; an efficient interpreter; doubles as ONE, a storyteller who is many people of many dispositions all at once.
TWO and as cast: 40s/50s, male-identifying, Chinese American; a storyteller who is many people of many dispositions all at once.
HARRIWELL/INTERPRETER and as cast: 40s/50s, white, male-identifying, honest and direct.
DEAN/INSPECTOR and as cast: 30s/40s, white, male-identifying, has all the power, so he doesn’t have to prove it.
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