City Theatre Company 2018-19 Season - Pittsburgh PA EPA
City Theatre Company, Inc.
AUDITION DATE
Sun, Mar 11, 2018
10:00 am - 7:00 pm (EST)
Lunch 1 to 2
APPOINTMENTS
Advanced appointments will not be given. AEA Actors can sign up for audition slots day-of beginning at 9:30am.
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep LORT D; starting salary $676/week
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles in the upcoming 2018-19 Season. See breakdown.
City Theatre is committed to non-traditional casting and encourages actors of all backgrounds to audition. Understudies will not be cast.
PREPARATION
Bring Headshot/Resume
Please prepare a contemporary monologue under 2 minutes.
LOCATION
City Theatre
1300 Bingham St
Pittsburgh, PA 15203-1500
PERSONNEL
Artistic Producer: Reginald L. Douglas (attending auditions)
Managing Director: James McNeel
OTHER
If unable to attend the EPA, picture and resumes may be mailed to:
City Theatre Company
Attn: Casting
1300 Bingham Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
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.
BREAKDOWN
THE REVOLUTIONISTS
by Lauren Gunderson
Directed by Jade King Carroll
First rehearsal Tuesday, August 14
Tech Tuesday, September 4 – Friday, September 7
Previews Saturday, September 8 – Thursday, September 13
Opening Friday, September 14
Closing Sunday, September 30
SEEKING:
OLYMPE DE GOUGES – 30’s, female, any race. A badass activist playwright and proud feminist. Theatre nerd, excitable, passionate, witty, a showman. Requires comedic skill, heart, and ease with heightened language.
MARIE ANTOINETTE – 30’s, female, any race. A badass former queen of France. Bubbly, graceful, opinionated, totally unaware, unintentionally rude, and oddly prescient. Never had a real friend. Has a big heart and bigger laugh. Also plays FRATERNITE in a mask. Requires comedic skill, heart, and ease with heightened language.
MARIANNE ANGELLE – late 20’s – 30’s, female, Black. A badass free Caribbean woman living in Paris. A spy. Tough, classy, vigilant, the sanest one of them all. Requires comedic skill, heart, and ease with heightened language.
CHARLOTTE CORDAY – 20’s, female, any race. A badass country girl and assassin. Very serious and passionate, hardened by righteousness, full of verve and vigor, has a voice that won’t be silenced. Also plays FRATERNITE in a mask. Requires comedic skill, heart, and ease with heightened language.
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PIPELINE
by Dominique Morisseau
Directed by Reginald L. Douglas
First rehearsal Tuesday, October 2
Tech Tuesday, October 23 – Friday, October 26
Previews Saturday, October 27 – Thursday, November 1
Opening Friday, November 2
Closing Sunday, November 18
SEEKING:
NYA – 30’s-40’s, female, Black. Single mother trying to raise her teenage son on her own with much difficulty, but doing her damndest. A good teacher at a not-great public school inspiring her students in a stressed environment. Strong but burning out. She may be holding it together by only a thread, but she is still holding it together nevertheless.
OMARI – teens, male, Black. Nya’s son. Smart, astute, passionate, charming, sensitive and tough. Tender and honest at his core, but fueled with a rage he can’t seem to release. Wrestling with his identity between private boarding school education and being from a so-called urban community.
JASMINE – teens, female, Black or Latina. Omari’s girlfriend who attends a private boarding school, but is from a so-called urban environment.. Sensitive and tough; a sharp bite and a soft smile. Profoundly aware of herself and her environment, and in touch with the poetry of her own language and power of her opinions.
XAVIER – 30’s-40’s, male, Black. Nya's ex-husband; Omari's father. A marketing executive who is financially stable, but emotionally impoverished. Struggling to connect to his son, but not giving up. Sensitive and tough.
LAURIE – 40’s-50’s, female, White. A pistol of a woman. Teaches in a predominately Black, so-called urban community, and can hold her own against the toughest of students and in the toughest of circumstances. Stressed, but smiling. Doesn't bite her tongue. You don’t mess with her.
DUN – early-mid 30’s, male, Black. Security guard at a public high school in a so-called urban environment. Genuine, thoughtful, optimistic. Charismatic with women and trying to be a gentleman in a stressed environment. It's not easy.
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THE ROOMMATE
by Jen Silverman
Directed by Reginald L. Douglas
First rehearsal Tuesday, February 5
Tech Tuesday, February 26 – Friday, March 1
Previews Saturday, March 2 – Thursday, March 7
Opening Friday, March 8
Closing Sunday, March 24
SEEKING:
SHARON - 54, female, any race. Timid Iowa City homemaker full of curiosity and loneliness. Eager for a new lease on life in the aftermath of a failed marriage and the departure of an adult son who wants nothing to do with her. Charming, big hearted, funny, there is a bite behind her smile. Searching for more.
ROBYN - 56, female, any race. A gay, vegan slam poet who moved to Iowa from the Bronx because she likes to grow things. Charming, confident, witty, sly like a Cheshire cat, intriguing. Always searching for more.
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THE BURDENS
by Matt Schatz
Directed by Tyne Rafaeli
First rehearsal Tuesday, March 12
Tech Tuesday, April 2 – Friday, April 5
Previews Saturday, April 6 – Thursday, April11
Opening Friday, April 12
Closing Sunday, May 5
SEEKING:
MORDY BERMAN – 30’s, male, any race. A single Jewish struggling songwriter in Los Angeles. Equal parts charming and self-deprecating. Funny, big-hearted, a good guy.
JANE BERMAN – 30’s, female, any race. A married Jewish mother of three in New Jersey. A successful attorney with a desire for more than her family and job can provide. Smart, confident, kind, means well, but sometimes forgets how.
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WE ARE AMONG
US by Stephen Belber
Director TBA
First rehearsal Tuesday, April 16
Tech Tuesday, May 7 – Friday, May 10
Previews Saturday, May 11 – Thursday, May 16
Opening Friday, May 17
Closing Sunday, June 2
SEEKING:
KHADIJA – 26, female, Afghan. The daughter of a brutally murdered Afghan man. Newly arrived to America, but fairly Americanized. Confident, kind, open.
LAURA – 40’s, female, white. A former military contractor and single mother. Strong, thoughtful, and caring. Carries her secrets with care, caution, and razor blades.
SHAR – 30’s, female, Vietnamese. An up-and-coming reporter with an intense ambition and lazar sharp conviction. Proud, assertive, self-reliant. Imperfect, but trying.
BEAU – 21, male, white. Laura’s son. Lives at home. Smart, big-hearted, lost, trying hard to figure it out. A charmingly odd duck.
TAYLOR – 40’s, male, Black. Former Army Special Forces, now a cop. Has charm, swag, and heart for days. Committed to doing what’s right for him. A ladies man turned family man.
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 audition.
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