SICK - LA EPA
Hollywood Fringe Festival | Los Angeles, CA
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM (P)
Please contact Dahn Hiuni at dahnhiuni@gmail.com to schedule an appointment.
99 Seat Agreement
9 hours of rehearsal per week at Los Angeles minimum wage. Thereafter, 6 hours of performance per week at Los Angeles minimum wage
Equity actors for roles in SICK (see breakdown).
3 additional actors will be non-Equity
No monologue necessary; sides will be sent.
Thymele Arts
5481 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90029
In the Kansas Room. Underground parking garage behind building
Dahn Hiuni, Playwright/Director (expected to attend)
Assistant Director: TBD
See schedule in breakdown.
OTHER
www.sicktheplay.com, www.dahnhiuni.com
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.
Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical
mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas
are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
Equity encourages 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.
Holding/Audition room information:
The audition room can accommodate no more than 30 individuals at a time.
The holding room can accommodate no more than 3 individuals at a time.
A new, full-length dramedy, SICK tells of the early 1970s struggle to de-classify homosexuality as a
mental illness in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (The DSM.) Based in part on the historical record, the play follows pioneering gay activist
and aversion therapy survivor Ron Gold as he leads a full throttle attack on the psychiatric
establishment. With humor and poignancy, a great early 70s score, and the ghost of Freud himself, the
play recounts a pivotal moment in gay history, while affirming the power of the individual in the struggle
for equality and human rights. Additionally, 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the declassification,
which will garner the project much press. For more information, visit www.sicktheplay.com
9 Rehearsals in Central Los Angeles Location TBD:
Sat, May 13, 20023, 2-5PM; Mon, May 15, 2023, 6-9PM; Wed, May 17, 2023, 6-9PM; Sat, May 20,
2023 2-5PM;
Mon, May 22, 2023, 6-9PM; Wed, May 24, 2023, 6-9PM; Sat, May 27, 2023, 6-9PM; Mon, May 29,
2023, 6-9PM; Wed, May 31, 2023, 6-9PM; Tech rehearsals at theater TBD.
9 Performances at the Broadwater Mainstage, as follows:
Saturday, June 3, 12:30pm (Preview), Tuesday, June 6, 8pm (Preview)
Friday, June 9, 7pm, Sunday, June 11, 2pm, Thursday, June 15, 7pm, Saturday June 17, 8pm
Sunday, June 18, 4pm, Wednesday, June 21, 5pm, Saturday, June 24, 10:30pm
Ron Gold (Lead), a journalist and gay activist, Jewish New Yorker, fierce and feisty, cis gay male, early
40s.
Barbara Gittings, a librarian-turned-gay activist. Playful but laser focused. Mid-30s, cis lesbian. Also
Ron’s Mother (Jewish New Yorker, 40s) and the ghost of Evelyn Hooker (Scientist, 60s.)
Dr. Robert Spitzer, A handsome New York psychiatrist, 40s, cis straight male. Able to carry a tune. Also
Dr. John E. Fryer, a depressed psychiatrist, late-30s, Southern accent.
Dr. Charles Socarides, a conservative and somewhat paranoid psychoanalyst, 50s, cis straight male.
Dr. Larry Schwartz, a brilliant young psychiatrist, late 20s/early 30s, cis gay male. Also play Young
Ron, and an adolescent psychiatric patient.
Dr. Lyle Quakenbush, campy, he’d be a drag queen if he wasn’t a psychiatrist, mid-40s, Black or
mixed race cis gay male. Also plays a lobotomizing neurosurgeon.
Dr. Irving Bieber, a conservative psychoanalyst, 60s, cis straight male. Also the ghost of Sigmund
Freud (German/Jewish accent.)
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