PHILLIS IN BOSTON - Boston, MA EPA Producing Org TBD | ,
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Monday, June 5, 2023
10:00 AM - 9:00 PM (E)
Breaks: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM; 5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
To schedule an audition appointment please email: auditions@tcgtentertainment.com .
Guest Artist
$516 weekly minimum
Equity actors for roles in PHILLIS IN BOSTON (Working Title) (See breakdown).
Sides will be provided at the audition site. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Old South Meeting House
310 Washington St
Boston, MA 02108-4639
THIS SPACE'S VENTILATION HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED BY ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION.
Expected to attend:
Written by: ADE SOLANKE
Director: REGGE LIFE
Producer: NERISSA WILLIAMS SCOTT Casting: TGCT ENTERTAINMENT
Call backs: June 9th, Location TBD, 12:00pm - 4:00 pm
First rehearsal Tuesday, 10/10/2023 Tech: Week of 10/30/2023
Run Dates: November 3-26, 2023
Possible one-week extension.
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An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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PHILLIS IN BOSTON
SYNOPSIS: Phillis Wheatley returns home to King Street from her triumphant London tour to find her mistress dying and Boston in turmoil. Now a published author and newly emancipated, while awaiting delivery of her books she joins friends and activists to add her voice to the abolitionist and patriot causes - and also meets an attractive suitor with prospects of his own. But meticulous plans for her sales campaign are thrown overboard when the ship carrying her work is caught up in the protests that sparks the American revolution: the Boston Tea Party.
SETTING: Old South Meeting House, Boston, 1773.
PHILLIS WHEATLEY - BLACK, (19) Poet, author, celebrity, abolitionist; newlyreturned from London, newly-emancipated African-American. Slim, dark, bright, religious, ambitious.
OBOUR TANNER - BLACK (25s) Phillis’ friend and confidant, enslaved African-American. Small, dark skinned, religious, loyal.
JOHN PETERS - BLACK (27). Entrepreneur, shop-keeper, emancipated African-American. Tall, handsome, assertive, bookish.
PRINCE HALL - BLACK (35) Store owner, abolitionist, minister, Boston leader, emancipated African American. Political, courageous, revolutionary.
SUSANNA WHEATLEY - WHITE (65) Housewife, evangelist, enslaver, White American. Proud mother-figure, possessive, dying.
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