Perisphere is seeking to cast the following roles for our 2025 season. All roles are paid a stipend of $1,100. Currently we are unable to consider AEA performers. Rehearsals and performances will take place at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD.
TO BE CONSIDERED: Submit your headshot, resume, and a link to your self-tape using
this Google form by September 29th.
For the self-tapes, please tape yourself performing a 90-second contemporary monologue.
Callbacks will be throughout the fall and winter as needed. We will be in touch ASAP if we would like to see you further for a role in the season.
The America Play by Suzan-Lori Parks
Director: Gerrad Alex Taylor
Company Meeting: There will be a meeting of the entire artistic and production company before rehearsals start at a mutually beneficial time for all company members sometime during the first week of November
1st rehearsal: December 9, 2024
Technical Rehearsals: January 23 – 26, 2025
Dress Rehearsals: January 28 & 29, 2025
Preview: January 30, 2025
Opening: January 31, 2025
Closing: February 15, 2025
Rehearsals will take place weekends and evenings no more than 5 days a week. There will be no rehearsal December 23-January 5. Performances run January 31, 2025-February 15, 2025.
BREAKDOWN
THE FOUNDLING FATHER: The central character of the play. He is a gravedigger, born into a family of African-American “diggers,” turned actor who performs as Abraham Lincoln in reenactments of Lincoln’s assassination. His role reflects themes of identity, history, and performance. He is deeply immersed in the role of Lincoln, using it to explore and cope with his own sense of displacement and heritage. Black. Male-identifying.
LUCY: The Foundling Father’s wife. She is practical and supportive, often contrasting with her husband’s obsessive immersion in his role as Lincoln. Her character represents the grounding force in the family and reflects the struggles of maintaining personal identity amidst historical and theatrical roles. Black. Female-identifying.
BRAZIL: The child of the Foundling Father and Lucy. He is a symbol of innocence and the future. Black. Male-identifying.
2 ACTORS: They play amusement park visitors in Act One and assume the roles in the passages from Our American Cousin in Act Two. These actors will also serve as understudies to the Foundling Father and Lucy. Black. One male-identifying and One female-identifying.
Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh, by Joel Gross
Director: Lizzi Albert
Company Meeting: There will be a meeting of the entire artistic and production company before rehearsals start at a mutually beneficial time for all company members sometime during the month of March.
1st rehearsal: April 28, 2025
Technical Rehearsals: May 29 – June 1, 2025
Dress Rehearsals: June 3 & 4, 2025
Preview: June 5, 2025
Opening: June 6, 2025
Closing: June 21, 2025
Rehearsals will take place on evenings and weekends no more than 5 days per week. Performances run June 6-21.
BREAKDOWN
ALEXIS DE LIGNE: A handsome young aristocrat with showily progressive principles, who grows into a battle-hardened soldier. Ardent, charismatic, and in the end, brave. Male-identifying. Any ethnicity. Mid-20s-early 40s.
MARIE ANTOINETTE: Awkward, vulnerable, sheltered, imperious. Female-identifying. Any ethnicity. 20s-30s.
ELISABETH VIGÉE LE BRUN: Beautiful, passionate, worldly, resilient. Female identifying. 20s-40s. Casting for replacement or understudy only.
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