Orlando Shakespeare Theater Playfest - Orlando, FL EPA Orlando Shakespeare Theater | Orlando, FL
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Saturday, August 12, 2023
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM (E)
To schedule an audition appointment please go to:
https://auditionsmanager.com/registration.php ?AU=YtefMG1018 . For questions feel free to call at 407-447-1700 ext. 210 or email at auditions@orlandoshakes.org.
LOA
$11 per hour (2022 rates - 2023 rates pending)
Pension contribution will be made, no health contribution will be made.
Equity actors for roles in Orlando
Shakespeare Theater's Playfest 2023-24 staged reading series (See breakdown).
Orlando Shakespeare is committed to building diversity and inclusion onstage and throughout our organization. We encourage gender diverse and color conscious casting. Actors of all ethnic backgrounds and all genders are encouraged to attend our auditions, and we especially encourage actors from underrepresented groups to audition.
Please prepare 1 monologue (of your choice) not to exceed 2-minutes total. Also, please bring TWO copies of your headshot and resume stapled together.
Lowndes Shakespeare Center
812 E Rollins St
Orlando, FL 32803-1202
Holding room - Patron's room
Jim Helsinger, Artistic Director
Allison Harkness-Holt, Audition Coordinator / Company Manager
Expected to attend:
Roberta Emerson, Director of New Play Development
Nick Bublitz, Associate Artistic Director Jim Helsinger, Artistic Director (may be in and out)
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
Callbacks will be held Sunday August 20 by appointment only.
See breakdown for production specific dates. OTHER
Approximately 20 hours per week.
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.
Orlando Shakespeare Theater Playfest staged reading series
By Christopher Washington
Director: Shonn Mcloud
Afro-Surrealist Comedy
1st Reh: 10/23/2023
Performance: 10/27/2023
Margeson Theater
SYNOPSIS: With a perfect memory and perfect LSAT score, James Ezekial Williams has just arrived on the East coast for his very first day of law school. Navigating a seductive, insidious curriculum designed by the genius Professor, James attempts to juggle microaggressions, critical race theory, and love. The Facts are as Follows: is about the consumption of whiteness, the folly of exceptionalism, and the creation of one’s own personal apocalypse.
JAMES - (He/Him/His. 22. Black.) Gay. Has a very large, very sharp stick up his ass.
PROFESSOR - (He/Him/His. 40s. White.) Gay. Just as smart as he thinks he is.
ANDREW - (He/Him/His. 22. White.) Gay. Was allowed to sleep in his parents’ bed when he had nightmares.
MARCKUS - (Queer. 23. Black.) Potentially Stoned.
JESSICA - (She/Her/Hers. 20s. Any Ethnicity.) Packs her lunch with an ice pack.
By Katie Do
Director: James Tuuao
Dramatic Comedy
1st Reh: 10/23/2023
Performance: 10/28/2023
Margeson Theater
SYNOPSIS: Ellie and Kira are two Vietnamese-American actors who always find themselves in the same audition rooms. As their lives become more intertwined with the same lovers, friends, and opportunities, Ellie’s jealousy spirals into a battle with insecurity, mental health and an epic heartbreak. When fear and coincidence bring Ellie to a life and death situation, her loved ones come together to ask, who hurt you?; how have we hurt ourselves?; and, most importantly, who hurt Ellie?
ELLIE/JULIA - (She/Her/Hers. 18-29. Vietnamese-American.)
KIRA/VANESSA - (She/Her/Hers. 23-29. Half Chinese/Vietnamese and White.)
ALEX/LY/VIET WOMAN - (She/Her/Hers. 18-29. Vietnamese-American.)
WILL/SAM/CASTING DIRECTOR - (He/Him/His. 18-29. Black.)
BRENT/CHASE/PRODUCER 1 - (He/Him/His. 23-39. White.)
QUINN - (She/Her/Hers. 18-29. Vietnamese-American.)
ZACK - (He/Him/His. 18-29. Black.)
By Sandra Delgado
Director: Clare Lopez
Drama
1st Reh: 10/23/2023
Performance: 10/29/2023
Margeson Theater
SYNOPSIS: Like millions of Americans, Clara’s days are consumed with juggling work and family. Recently divorced, she’s taking care of her tween-age daughter, her aging father – and paying alimony to her under-employed ex-husband. But in the midst of all that stress, she’s got something to look forward to: a long planned for trip to Europe with her daughter Stella. In preparation, Clara, who immigrated to the US with her family as a child, decides to apply for full citizenship. She wants to be able to stand in the same customs line as Stella. But when her citizenship application is flagged, it sets off an unfathomable series of events that threaten to force her out of the only home she’s ever known. Timely and provocative, HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF STARS asks challenging questions about our country’s most fundamental values.
CLARA - (She/Her/Hers. 40s. Latina) Stella’s mother.
RUBEN - (He/Him/His. 20s. Afro-Latinx) A friend, but also Clara’s, you know, “cousin”. DAVID - (He/Him/His. 40s. White) Clara’s ex and Stella’s father.
PAPI - (He/Him/His. 70s. Latino.) Clara’s father and Stella’s abuelito.
STELLA - (She/Her/Hers. 12-17. Latina/White.) Clara and David’s daughter.
VEGA/CHAVA - (She/Her/Hers. 50s-60s. Latina.) An immigration attorney/Ruben’s neighbor.
By Paris Crayton III
Director: Angel Bates Creeks
Drama/Comedy
1st Reh: 10/30/2023
Performance: 11/03/2023
Margeson Theater
SYNOPSIS: Set two days after the 1963 March on Washington, John Malachi Curtis, and his best friend, William Cochise Brown, return home to Mississippi to unpack all of the emotions left over from the March, only to find, John's son, Ezekiel, has been attacked during a sit-in protest. Betty, John's wife, wants to leave Mississippi for good but the promise of land and remnants of love makes John unwilling to do so. Only Some of God's Children or Mississippi Magnolias is a story of five different flowers just waiting to bloom.
JOHN MALACHI CURTIS - (He/Him/His. 50s. African American.) A strength that can’t be measured lies deep within him. If only he could reach it. Holding on to a promise and a secret. Husband of Betty.
BETTY CURTIS - (She/Her/Hers. Late 50s. African American.) - Has lived her entire life running. Wants a better life for her family. Is having a hard time believing in beauty. Wife of John.
WILLIAM “COCHISE” BROWN - (He/Him/His. 50s. African American.) Discharged from WWII suffering from PTSD and searching for his place in the world. Husband of Hattie Mae.
HATTIE MAE BROWN - (She/Her/Hers. 50s. African American.) A local known singer who still has the courage to dream. Larger than life who isn’t afraid to say what she feels. Wife of Cochise.
EZEKIEL “ZEKE” CURTIS/MAN - (He/Him/His. 20s - 40s. African American.) The embodiment of enough if enough. Is willing to die for what he believes is right. Son of Betty and John.
BOY - (He/Him/His. 9. African American.) Still full of imagination and believes he can do anything.
By Angela J. Davis
Director:TBD
Drama
1st Reh: 10/30/2023
Performance: 11/04/2023
Margeson Theater
SYNOPSIS: In the spring of 1994, a plane crash will take the life of an African president and ignite a raging killing spree that the world will later recognize as the Rwandan genocide. The person who is next in line for the presidency is a university professor by training and an advocate for women and girls’ education. AGATHE is inspired by the overlooked story of Agathe Uwilingiyimana, who served as Rwanda’s president for just fourteen hours and whose bravery and foresight are a beacon for all time. Fusing poetry and elements of magic realism with gripping docudrama, AGATHE is a full-length play.
AGATHE UWILINGIYMANA - (She/Her/Hers. 40s. African.) Sober and Understated. A Rwandan university professor by training, now a high ranking officer in the country’s fragile coalition government. Although a member of the Hutu majority, firmly committed to the elimination of ethnic and gender barriers.
CARRIE - (She/Her/Hers. 20s. Canadian.) A junior peacekeeper and struggling idealist.
LUCAS/ANNOUNCER - (He/Him/His. 18 - 25. African.) Lucas: Agathe’s son. Scowling and restless. Announcer: A race-baiting, hip-hop loving radio personality.
ADDIE - (She/Her/Hers. 50-60. Canadian.) A commanding officer in the U.N. peacekeeping mission. Blue-capped, graying, and robust, but deeply affected by the ravages of civil war and increasingly prone to moments of vertigo.
MBAYE DIAGNE/COLONEL - (He/Him/His. 30s-50s. African.) A Senegalese army captain on temporary assignment to the U.N. Mission in Rwanda. Handsome and wildly charismatic, a spirited jokester and consummate tactician. Colonel: A Rwandan military official with genocidal intentions and impeccable manners.
By Diana Burbano
Director: Edmarie Montes
Dramedy
1st Reh: 10/30/2023
Performance: 11/04/2023
Margeson Theater
SYNOPSIS: Beheading Columbus follows two sisters down a trail of DNA deception and makes them face race and colorism in the Latinx community and in their own family. Lana looks white, Susi doesn’t and that’s been a point of conflict their whole life. Through DNA testing they discover that Lana has a white father. The DNA test also reveals that Susi, who is mixed race, has genes for the Alzheimers that are destroying their mother. Add to that, they discover that the previously unknown other father is a fertility doctor who has sired at least 40 mixed race children. Through love and a massive sense of humor, the sisters work at decolonizing themselves from the inside out.
SUSI - (She/Her/Hers. Early 40s. Biracial Latina.) Sharp, witty, trying to hide seething anxiety. LANA - (She/Her/Hers. Early 30s. Biracial Latina.) Smart, fun, ambitious, confident. MARK - (He/Him/His. Late 40s. White.) Handsome but going to seed, wry and self deprecating.
DR. DOVER/THERAPIST - (He/Him/His. 50s-70s. White.) Charming, patrician, elegant. SIBLINGS/MAMA - (She/Her/Hers. 20s - 70s. BIPOC.) Versatile, funny, and tragic.
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