BLACK CYPRESS BAYOU - SUBMIT FOR LA
GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE
LORT Non-Rep
$776 weekly minimum (LORT D)
Equity actors for roles in BLACK CYPRESS BAYOU (See breakdown).
Please submit your headshot and resume to Phyllis Schuringa, Casting Director, for consideration.
Deadline: Mon, Aug 14, 2023
Geffen Playhouse
10886 Le Conte Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Writer: Kristen Adele Calhoun
Director: Tiffany Nichole Greene
Casting Director: Phyllis Schuringa
Auditions to take place August 22 - 24
First Rehearsal: January 9, 2024
First Preview: February 7, 2024
Opening: February 16, 2024
Closing: March 17, 2024, but could extend until March 31, 2024
There may be a developmental workshop in November of 2023 and an extra week of rehearsal beginning January 2, 2024
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 submit.
BLACK CYPRESS BAYOU
Notes: All actors should have a strong facility with language and physical theatre. All characters speak with a rural East Texas accent.
Vernita Manifold: 65, African American, an East Texas woman through and through. A bit broken by life but uses humor to mask her pain and secrets. Loves her daughters ferociously and will do anything to protect them. Doing her best to stop smoking. A beautiful singing voice is a plus but at the least she should be able to carry a good country tune. Mother of Lady and Meka.
LadyBird “Lady Manifold: 35, African American. The big sister. Deeply country but believes herself to be a city sophisticate. A know-it-all rule follower until she is pushed to her limits. (Then will definitely knuck if you buck.) Leads with logic and doesn’t do well with chaos. Needs people and things to be just so. Loves her family more than anything on earth.
RaeMeka “Meka” Manifold-Baler: 33, African American, The little sister. A tender-hearted free spirit. Real sweet but is never without her switchblade and pistol. Almost always under the influence of cannabis. Surprisingly sharp in moments of crisis.
Taysha Hunter: 25, very light skinned African American (in most rooms she is perceived as white). Has a wisdom and maturity that belies her young age.
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