LEAST OF MY CHILDREN - Equity video submissions Producing Org TBD | ,
Notice: Submission
CONTRACT
Staged Reading Code
$500 total pay
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in LEAST OF MY CHILDREN (see breakdown).
Least of My Children features characters of diverse backgrounds. We are seeking collaborators able to speak authentically and accurately to the cultural specificities of the piece.
Seeking collaborative performers with both strong musical and acting skills for a developmental workshop of sung-through musical Least of My Children, by Loren Linnard and Donald Briggs. Written in the mid-1980’s but never performed, Least of My Children is one of the first American musical pieces about the AIDS crisis. After laying dormant for over 30 years, our goal is to give this forgotten piece of queer theatre history its long overdue world premiere. This workshop will focus on exploring and developing the material.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
SEE PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS IN BREAKDOWN. Email video as a downloadable link (wetransfer or Google Drive) with headshot and resume attached. Deadline 10/19/22 at 6:00pm ET.
Deadline: 10/19/2022
SUBMIT TO
leastofmychildrencasting@gmail.com ,
PERSONNEL
Music - Loren Linnard
Text - Donald Briggs
Artistic Producer - Dean Linnard
Director - Caterina Nonis
Music Supervisor - Andy Peterson Dramaturg - Adam Coy
OTHER DATES
Rehearsals will be held November 14 to 19, 2022.
OTHER
Location: New York, NY.
This workshop is focused on exploration and development, and there will not be a reading open to the public.
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.
BREAKDOWN
PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS:
Please slate with your name, character name, location, and if you can be local to New York. Prepare a video of the song selection provided using the attached accompaniment track.
For VIRGIN MARY, please prepare the song cut found here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1231Jrv28DOAZ5eNZjRmzGSq4k7gWe-G3?usp=sharing . As the audition track is less than one-minute in length, you are welcome to repeat the cut.
For JUAN DIEGO, please prepare the song cut found here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Bxk36RMNzaVU6Fu_hNkuQbg2JuM9GcS_?usp=sharing .
Synopsis: When Guadalupe, a devoted woman, finds out her son Mateo is sick with AIDS, she moves from Mexico to her son’s apartment in Chicago. There she meets her son’s boyfriend, Lucas, and the two do not see eye to eye on religion, housekeeping, or what might be best for Mateo. Parallel to the story of this unlikely trio, the myth of Our Lady of Guadalupe unfolds. The piece centers themes of queerness, immigration, family, and belief. Stylistically it straddles both musical theater and opera, employing a diverse range of styles: from folk music, to jazz, to showtunes. Think The Light In The Piazza meets A New Brain.
Seeking:
Juan Diego: Legit MT or operatic baritone (A2-G4). Character pronouns: he, him, his. Character is Chichimec. Any age. First Catholic Saint indigenous to the Americas. The Virgin Mary appears to him. Determined to satisfy her request. Good-hearted, determined, enlightened. Note: Performers of Chichimec Ancestry, Native Mexican heritage are encouraged to submit.
Virgin Mary: Legit MT or operatic soprano (C4-B5). Character pronouns: she, her, her. Any age. She appears to Juan Diego and asks him to build a church in her name. Maternal. Mother Earth. Caring, warm, playful. Note: Indigenous Mexican, and diverse actors encouraged to submit.
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