Actors Theatre of Louisville
AUDITION DATE
Fri, Dec 13, 2019
2:00 pm - 6:00 pm (EST)
APPOINTMENTS
Auditions will be by appointment only for all roles. To request an appointment, please complete audition request at https://tinyurl.com/gracecast
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep LORT B $969 Per week Minimum
SEEKING
Actors for upcoming Production of
GRACE
PREPARATION
Sheet music & any required sides will be provided via email before the auditions. No dancing will be requested for these auditions.
LOCATION
Actors Theatre of Louisville- Alexander Speer Building
315 W Market St
5th Fl
Louisville, KY 40202
5th floor, enter through the shared entrance with Fedex Kinkos.
PERSONNEL
Nolan Williams, Jr., Composer/Musical Director (He/Him/His)
Robert Barry Fleming, Director (He/Him/His)
Emily Tarquin, Artistic Producer (In Louisville, They/Them/Theirs)
Zachary Meicher-Buzzi, Artistic Manager (In Louisville, (He/Him/His)
Sujotta Pace, Producing/Casting Apprentice (In Louisville, She/Her/Hers)
OTHER
EPA Procedures are in effect for audition.
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of 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
Actors Theatre is working to create and maintain an environment of mutual trust where people are treated with dignity and respect. We seek an environment that is absent of intimidation, oppression and harassment and upholds our Core Values of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion, Brave Curiosity, Listening and Sharing, and Adaptability. With our Anti-Harassment Policy, Actors Theatre will prevent and correct inappropriate behavior and we ask all involved to uphold these and join us in this work.
***In reference to the information below – these are descriptions of the characters as identified in the script and in collaboration with the creative team. They are not meant to be exhaustive of who should play these roles and we seek to cast as expansively and authentically as possible. We are committed to the most inclusive representation of race/ethnicity, gender, body type, and ability on our stages.
As an ADA compliant theatre, we welcome performers of all abilities and will make all reasonable accommodations in order to cast performers, regardless of disability, in any role possible. We also recognize that most characters are written on the binary (use he/him or she/her pronouns) and we invite gender non-conforming, genderqueer, transgender, and non-binary actors to submit for the roles they most identify with. We list race/ethnicity when specific to the character but are otherwise seeking all races and ethnicities.
Please let us know if you have any questions, concerns, or if there are any accommodations we can provide to make your audition experience positive. Submit any accommodation request either in the note section of your breakdown submission or by emailing Stephanie Klapper at klappercasting@gmail.com for NY auditions or Sujotta Pace at space@actorstheatre.org for Louisville auditions.
GRACE CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS
All of the characters are African American.
All of the characters are written as male/male identified and female/female identified.
All singers must have masterful skills of musicianship and the ability to read and sing in a variety of styles of music from R&B, Broadway, Jazz, Contemporary and Inspirational.
Synopsis: Every plate holds a story in this celebration of a family’s long history with African-American cooking—inventing recipes to survive hard times, to keep memory alive, and to gather together with love. Unfolding through gorgeous original music, and with inspiration from one of the first African-American cookbooks, Grace is a soaring tribute to the strength of community and the dishes that carry a complex legacy.
PRINCIPLES:
RUTHIE (she/her, age range 30’s-40’s, African-American) A Chef/Restaurateur, Fighter, Activist. Vocal Range: F3-Ab5, soprano.
E.J. (he/him, age range 30’s-40’s, African-American) He is a Business Executive, Dreamer, Ambitious, Go-Getter. Vocal Range: A2-Ab4, baritone/barti-tenor.
HALEY/LENA (she/her, age range 25-40, African-American) Sister Girl, Writer. Vocal Range: Ab3-Gb5(Bb5), mezzo soprano/alto.
PAUL/W.E.B. DUBOIS (he/him, age range 25-35, African-American) All-knowing, Adventurer, Historian. Vocal Range: F3-C5, tenor.
MISS MINNIE/GRAN’ME (she/her, age range 50+, African-American) A Griot (a West African storyteller), Ancestral Spirit. Vocal Range: A3-F5, mezzo soprano/alto.
CHORUS:
WOMAN 1 (she/her, age range 20’s - 40’s, African-American) plays various roles Family Member 1, Family Member 2, Mattie McMichols, Dinah Herald. Vocal Range: Bb3-C6, soprano.
WOMAN 2 (she/her, age range 20’s - 40’s, African-American) plays various roles Family Member 1, Family Member 2, Mattie McMichols, Dinah Herald. Vocal Range: Ab3-Bb5, soprano.
MAN (he/him, age range 20’s - 40’s, African-American) plays various roles Family Member 1, Family Member 2, Announcer, Dewey Weakleg, Baron Whittington. Vocal Range: F3-Bb4 (C5), tenor.
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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