LETTERS TO KAMALA and DANDELION PEACE - Washington D.C. EPA
Voices Festival Productions | Washington, DC
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Monday, February 12, 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00PM - 2:00 PM
To schedule an audition appointment, please email: voices@ebcastingco.com .
If you are unable to attend the EPA, you may submit your headshot and resume at: voices@ebcastingco.com .
In either email, please include in the Subject Line: DC - VFP EPA [Role].
SPT
$425 weekly minimum (SPT 3)
Equity actors for roles in LETTERS TO KAMALA and DANDELION PEACE (See breakdown).
Please prepare a brief side provided by Casting from LETTERS TO KAMALA.
You may find the sides at:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/193J8b_spi5-T7zNTzvBA2lSpVh09kGjZ
Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Universalist National Memorial Church 1810 16th St NW
Washington, DC 20009
THIS SPACE'S VENTILATION HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED BY ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION.
Written By: Rachel Lynett
Casting: Eisenberg Casting
Expected to attend:
Artistic Producing Partner and Directed By: A. Lorraine Robinson
Founding Artistic Producing Partner: Ari Roth
Associate General Manager: Marvin Brown
Casting Director: Daryl Eisenberg
1st Rehearsal: May 7th, 2024
1st Performance: June 8th, 2024
Closing: June 30, 2024
OTHER
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.
LETTERS TO KAMALA and DANDELION PEACE
Voices Festival Productions (VFP) is an independent production company based in Washington D.C., which produces plays (and the occasional musical) that stimulate debate and discourse, introspection and awareness, informed by revelation of our underlying humanity in all its color and complexity, finding resonance between those living with conflict in the Middle East and closer to home, in our nation's capital, along with seams of our nation and its very real and perceived divides. We celebrate diverse, inter-cultural voices and encounters through inter-connected performance of both provocative and introspective new works for the stage, in dialogue with our moment.
All VFP personnel are asked to follow organizational policies for anti-discrimination/harassment and COVID safety protocols. In addition to our mission, we have iterated company safety documents, including our VFP Anti-Harassment Policy, Rehearsal Room Standards (based on the work our colleagues at Not in Our House: D.C., and Not in Out Hose: Chicago), an Intimacy Pillars Reference Guide, Concern Resolution Form, COVID Safety Plan, and more. www.voicesfestivalproductions.com .
LETTERS TO KAMALA - SYNOPSIS: Set right before election night as three major political women in US history come to visit the Vice Presidential candidate to offer words of wisdom - which she will need. A provocative call to recognize powerful women of color throughout history who have made strides to shatter all kinds of ceilings in the world we live in, we meet CHARLOTTA BASS, the first Black woman candidate for Vice President in the United States; CHARLENE MITCHELL, the first Black woman to run for president of the US; and PATSY MATSU TAKEMOTO MINK, the first woman of color to be elected to the house of representatives and first Asian-American woman to run in congress and for president of the US. The play offers a bracing history and thought-provoking meditation on group identity, allegiance, the cost of breaking barriers, and doing the thorny work of institutional change. The playwright asks, What can we ultimately never compromise on? The answer is this blistering play of tough love.
DANDELION PEACE - SYNOPSIS: At an urban community garden, Moira struggles to preserve civility (and keep her status as garden president) as Zuri and Anita go head-to-head over invasive species and the right to grow weeds to make delectably-tasting wine. The result is all-out comic warfare about literal turf battles and the precarity of Women of Color in power - with plenty of sisterly squabbling. In the end, it's the dangers posed by a manipulative, would-be, female dictator running for board president that poses the gravest threat to the community as the election approaches!
CHARLOTTA BASS/ANITA: 20s-30s, female-identifying, Black (or Afro-Latine/x).
CHARLOTTA - 20- 30s, the first Black woman candidate for Vice President in the United States. ANITA - 40s, Black, painter and garden enthusiast.
CHARLENE MITCHELL/ZURI: 30s-40s, female-identifying, Black (or Afro-Latine/x).
CHARLENE - 30s-40s, the first Black woman to run for President of the US. ZURI - 40s, Black, English teacher and garden enthusiast.
PATSY MATSU TAKEMOTO MINK/MOIRA: 40s-60s, female-identifying, Asian American Pacific Islander. PATSY - 40-50s-60s, the first woman of color to be elected to the house of representatives, the first Asian American woman to run in congress and the Asian-American to run for president of the US. MOIRA - 40s, Asian American, lawyer and garden enthusiast. Moira was born in Hawaii and identifies as Asian American Pacific Islander.
COVER for CHARLOTTA/ANITA/CHARLENE/ZURI: 20s-40s, female-identifying, Black (or Afro Latine/x).
COVER for PATSY/MOIRA: 40s-60s, female-identifying, Asian American Pacific Islander.
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