LETTERS FROM MAX - EQUITY VIDEO SUBMISSIONS
Signature Theatre Company Inc.
CONTRACT
Off Broadway
$929 weekly minimum (Off-Broadway BB)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in LETTERS FROM MAX by Sarah Ruhl (see breakdown).
All stage managerial positions have been filled.
EDIA Statement: Signature Theatre is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and encourages performers of all ethnicities, genders, abilities, ages, and other ways of identifying, to audition. Please note that unless otherwise specified in the breakdown, for all roles we are actively seeking and welcoming of actors of any ethnicity, race, gender/gender identification/gender expression, age, and physical and neurological ability.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare a contemporary monologue (2 minutes or less). Videos should be shot in landscape framing and sent in a non-downloadable format – private YouTube link, Vimeo, etc. Please email your video submission along with your headshot and resume. Subject line should include your name and the role.
Deadline: Mon, Sep 5, 2022
Show Description: Based on Letters from Max, a Poet, a Teacher, and a Friendship, MacArthur “Genius” Fellow and two-time Pulitzer Finalist Sarah Ruhl adapts her tender and inspiring correspondence with her late student, the poet, Max Ritvo. A powerful intertwining of dialogue, poetry, and ritual, Letters from Max follows the journey of a professor and her talented student as they grow and learn from each other. World Premiere.
SEEKING:
MAX: He/Him, 20-25, any ethnicity. An undergraduate student with a gift for poetry and a terrific facility for and appreciation of language. A magic soul possessed of a wild sense of humor, and an original and inventive flair for the absurd. Emotionally open and receptive; drinks in the world, and art, and others. Faced with a recurrence of an aggressive cancer, MAX juggles writing and school responsibilities with chemotherapy. Through his relationship with Sarah, he is a student who becomes a teacher.
DANCER: Any gender, any age, any ethnicity. Non-speaking role. A participant in the aid and care of the performers and performing space. A mediator of physical space and a story facilitator.
SARAH: CAST. She/Her, 35-40, any ethnicity. A professor at Yale University who teaches playwrighting. A teacher who becomes a student.
SUBMIT TO
lettersfrommaxEPA@gmail.com
PERSONNEL
Director: Kate Whoriskey
General Manager: Kenneth Naanep
Casting: Caparelliotis Casting
Viewing auditions
Artistic Director: Paige Evans
Associate Artistic Director: Beth Whitaker
Manager of Artistic & Education Projects: Maia Safani
Artistic Fellow: Andrea Ambam
Casting Director: David Caparelliotis
Casting Director: Joe Gery
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: 01/10/2023
Previews begin: 02/07/2023
End of guaranteed run: 03/19/2023
Possible extension through: 04/09/2023
OTHER
The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
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.
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