MAGIC Theatre
AUDITION DATES
Tue, Sep 06, 2022
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm (PST)
Wed, Sep 07, 2022
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm (PST)
APPOINTMENTS
Magic Theatre requires all of its employees and hired artists to be fully vaccinated. Please be prepared to email proof of vaccination when inquiring about an audition slot. Appointments can be made by emailing auditions@magictheatre.org. We will respond with a time slot within 48 hours.
CONTRACT
Bay Area Theatre $689 weekly minimum (Tier 4)
SEEKING
The Magic Theatre is seeking actors for 3 world premiere plays in our 2022/2023 season. All rehearsals and performances are taking place at our location in San Francisco.
The Magic Theatre encourages submissions from actors of all races, ethnicities, genders, ages, body types, and physical abilities. Everyone is encouraged to submit but we are rightfully centering BIPOC artists in our upcoming season- and also reflecting the worlds, backgrounds, cultures represented and written about in the three plays. Please come introduce yourself and share with us your amazing talent. Local actors will be prioritized in our casting and are strongly encouraged to audition!
PREPARATION
Bring 1-2 minutes of something that you feel represents yourself as an artist. We want to get to know you. This can come in any form you choose whether it is a contemporary or classical monologue, a story, a song, etc. … No accompanist will be present. If you choose to sing a song, please sing a cappella. Audition slots will be 4 minutes each.
LOCATION
Magic Theatre
Fort Mason Center
2 Marina Blvd, Bldg D
San Francisco, CA 94123
3rd floor; All auditions will take place in Magic’s Lobby
PERSONNEL
Expected to attend:
Sean San José, Artistic Director
Karina Fox, Casting Director
OTHER DATES
See production dates in breakdown.
OTHER
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
THE TRAVELERS By Luis Alfaro
Directed by Catherine Castellanos
First Rehearsal, Tuesday, January 17th 2023
First Tech: Friday, February 10th 2023
Opening: Saturday, February 18th 2023
Closing: Sunday, March 5th 2023
Extension Closing: Sunday, March 12th 2023
Luis Alfaro is an essential part of the Magic Theatre’s recent history (4 productions, 3 world premieres in the last decade) and will be at the center of the future of the works we generate here. Continuing Alfaro’s amazing work that is emblematic of our State- the immigrant life, the city rearing, the migrant roots- he aims to make a new play that reflects on the state of our state, and therefore our country. In The Travelers, Alfaro sets us inside a near abandoned Catholic monastery, as he explores the disconnect to community through a cast of men in search of connection and corazon with intimate honesty and inspired humor. These travelers are emblematic of our communities of the Central Valley as they seek some soul connection in our State that is building prisons over schools and forgoing any sense of faith over fear mongering. This premiere is focused on an all male appearing group of actors, and will be designed by an all Femme team, led by director Catherine Castellanos. Alfaro’s Bay Area works include premieres at the Magic Theatre: Oedipus el Rey, Bruja, This Golden State: Delano; and with several local Bay Area theatres: Alleluia, The Road, Electricidad, and more. Alfaro is part of the Artistic Leadership at Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles and on the Faculty at USC, among his many positions and titles.
A company of 6 actors will play ensemble characters, including some singing of hymns, choral, and church songs in script.
Each of the ensemble characters have arrived at the nearly empty monastery in the play and have each taken their own separate path to the church, not the “typical” path of devotion, but more through poverty, desperation, and escape. All are Latinx/Filipinx men in their 20s-40s.
THE N LOVERS By Marc Anthony Thompson
Directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe & Sean San José
Opening, Tuesday, April 4th 2023
First Tech: Friday April 28th 2023
opening: Saturday, May 6th 2023
Closing, Sunday, May 21st 2023
Extension Closing: Sunday, May 28th 2023
Marc Anthony Thompson is a world renowned composer, songwriter, musician, performer- who has spent the past two decades creating new performance pieces for the stage with the great Roger Guenveur Smith. In his first full fledged play, Marc Anthony takes us into the incredible and inspired true story of the Crafts- a couple who miraculously escaped from chattel slavery from a plantation in Georgia to freedom in Boston. Their story has been revered and recorded, including in the couple’s own account Running a Thousand Miles to Freedom. So rather than create a historical biography of this real legend, this piece uses it as an exploration of Race through a nouveau minstrel show, with song, scenery and subject matter- but completely controlled and through the lens of Black creation.
ELLEN CRAFT: (20s-30s, Black) Following the historical figure fair skinned Black, female appearing
*Ellen Craft in real life was light skinned Black woman who was able to “pass” as White woman that helped her and her husband’s escape from slavery.*
ENSEMBLE MEMBERS: (20s-40s, Black) Seeking a 3 person ensemble. Range of characters, nouveau vaudeville satirical dark humor. Singing and Movement are a part of the production. Trans-femme, queer femme black performers encouraged to audition.
JOSEPHINE'S FEAST By Star Finch
Directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, June 20th 2023
First Tech, Friday, July 21st 2023
Opening: Saturday, July 29th 2023
Closing: Sunday, August 13th 2023
Extension Closing, Sunday August 20th 2023
Star Finch is a leader in Campo Santo- the Magic Theatre’s Home Resident Company- and is a Playwright in Residence at the Magic. Star is a Mellon Foundation/HowlRound Theatre Commons Resident with Crowded Fire and Campo Santo.
JOSEPHINE: The role of Josephine has been pre-cast
UNCLE TONY: The role of Uncle Tony has been pre-cast
KHALIL: Black, mid 20s, a DJ, flirt, still finding his way.
SAMI: Black, mid-late 20S, 1st born, soft-butch, doctoral student, always in control
AMAYA: Black, early-mid 20s, sensitive, aesthetician, secretly on fire
LANI: Black ,mid-late 20s, new age free-spirit, observant
Everyone entering the audition venue (i.e., venue employees, Equity members, nonmembers, casting personnel, creatives, producers, musicians, COVID Safety Managers, etc.) will be required to undergo a symptom check and provide one of the following prior to entry into the venue:
Proof of a negative PCR test result taken no earlier than 48 hours prior to entry into the audition venue.
(OR)
Proof of two negative antigen test results (e.g., the first taken the night before and the second taken no less than 2 hours) prior to entry into the venue. Results of non-proctored at-home antigen tests will not be accepted.
Two-ply cloth face masks, surgical masks, singer’s masks and respirators (N95, KN95 or KF94) will be allowed for face coverings. Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas are not acceptable face coverings. Everyone in the holding room and audition room will always wear a face covering as described above, except for the actor when they are actively auditioning. The time spent unmasked should be as minimal as possible. Face coverings must be worn correctly (covering the nose and mouth). Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
We encourage 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.
San Francisco County currently has a high risk level for COVID19. If the risk level for San Francisco County stays at high or is trending upwards and may rise to High (Orange) we will contact members with appointments at least 48 hours before the first audition appointment time to let them know there is a chance that the auditions may need to be postponed or cancelled. All members with appointments will be notified at least 24 hours in advance if the auditions must be postponed or cancelled.
No more than 75 persons will be allowed in the holding space at one time.
No more than 50 persons will be allowed in the audition room at one time.
No more than 6 persons will be allowed in the elevator at one time.
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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