Mosaic Theater Co. of DC - First Four Shows of 2019-20 Season - Washington, DC EPA
Mosaic Theater Company of DC
**Updated appointment link**
AUDITION DATES
Fri, Apr 05, 2019
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
Mon, Apr 08, 2019
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
APPOINTMENTS
For an appointment, AEA members can sign up at the following link (copy into your
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MG9jtk7PQ/edit?usp=sharing
If link does not work, you mail alternatively email to: casting@mosaictheater.org.
CONTRACT
SPT $610/week until June 2019. 2019-20 salary pending
SEEKING
Equity actors for various roles in the first four shows of the upcoming season. See breakdown.
PREPARATION
Please prepare a brief monologue and bring a physical copy of your headshot/resume.
LOCATION
Atlas Performing Arts Center
1333 H St NE
Washington, DC 20002-4446
(Please use the “Actors Lobby” entrance.)
PERSONNEL
April E. Carter, Assistant Production Manager & Casting Director
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 attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
BREAKDOWN
FABULATION
By Lynn Nottage
Directed By Eric Ruffin
1st Rehearsal Monday, July 22, 2019
1st Preview Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Closing Sunday, September 22, 2019
Lang Theater, Atlas Performing Arts Center
Small Professional Theater Contract Level 8
Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Lynn Nottage’s satirical tale, set in New York City, that follows successful African-American publicist Undine, as she stumbles down the social ladder after her husband steals her hard-earned fortune. Broke and now pregnant, Undine is forced to return to her childhood home in the Brooklyn projects, where she must face the challenges of the life she left behind. Featuring “punchy social insights and the firecracker snap of unexpected humor
BREAKDOWN
Undine: 37, a charismatic, smartly dressed African American woman and successful New York City executive. Undine’s present condition belies the secret of her more modest origins. Undine loses her larger than life status and discovers she needs to reconcile the many parts of her complex humanity.
Ensemble Male 1:
Plays Agent Duva/ Flow/ Rapper/ Drug Dealer/Mover: African American 25-30. Featured character: Undine’s brother, Flow is a hipster with a tatty Afro and goatee and a habit of speaking too loudly.
Ensemble Female 1:
Plays laying Allison/ Mother/ Rosa/ Inmate #2/ Addict Ensemble/ Applicant: African American 35-50. Featured characters: Allison, a friend to Undine and a
well-heeled woman who speaks a with an affected pseudo-upper-class British accent. Allison struts. Mother to Undine, straightforward no-nonsense person who works as a security guard.
Ensemble Male 2:
Playing Accountant Richard/ Addict #1/ Mover/ Applicant/Doctor #2: Caucasian 30s. Featured character: Richard an elegantly clad New York City accountant.
Ensemble Male 3:
Playing Guy/ Hervé/ Lance: Latino 35-45. Featured characters: Herve wears a well-constructed suit and moves with the grace of a flamenco dancer. Thick Argentine accent. Guy is a gentleman who works as a security guard.
Ensemble Female 2
playing Stephie/ Counsellor/ Devora/ Pregnant Woman/ Applicant: African American. Featured character: Stephie, a spacy Executive Assistant who works for
Undine.
Ensemble Male 4
Playing Babalawo/ Father/ Gregory/ Applicant. African American Man 40-50 Father. Featured character: Undine’s Father, a straightforward no-nonsense man who works as a security guard.
Ensemble Male 5
Playing Doctor Khdair/ Grandma/Inmate #1/ Case Worker. African American 50-70. Featured character: Undine’s no nonsense, crack addicted, wheelchair-bound Grandma.
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THEORY
By Norman Yeung
Directed By Victoria Murray Baatin
1st Rehearsal Monday, September 23, 2019
1st Preview Wednesday, October 23, 2019
Closing Sunday November, 17, 2019
Lang Theater, Atlas Performing Arts Center
Small Professional Theater Contract Level 8
A hot button play for our times! Isabelle, a young tenure-track professor, tests the limits of free speech by encouraging her students to contribute to an unmoderated discussion group. When an anonymous student posts offensive comments and videos, Isabelle must decide whether to intervene or to let the social experiment play out. Soon, the posts turn abusive and threatening, leading Isabelle and her unknown tormentor to engage in a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse that not only have Isabelle questioning her beliefs, but fearing for her life.
BREAKDOWN
Isabelle: 30 A Young lesbian professor of film theory. Caucasian. Pushes progressive values. Obstinately liberal, especially about freedom of speech and thought.
Lee: 40 Isabelle’s wife. African descent. Compromises her values to succeed as a tenured professor and Novelist.
Owen: 40-50 Head of Film Department. Acknowledges the power students have in today’s university culture.
Richard: 19 Caucasian. Student. Bright and inquisitive.
Safina: 19 African American. Student. Sensitive and woke.
Jorge: 19 Latino. Student. Critical and shit-disturbing.
Davinder: 19 South Asian. Student. Altruistic and manipulative.
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EUREKA DAY
By Jonathan Spector
Directed By Serge Seiden
1st Rehearsal Monday, November 4, 2019
1st Preview Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Closing Sunday, January 4, 2020
Lang Theater, Atlas Performing Arts Center
Small Professional Theater Contract Level 8
At Eureka Day School in Berkeley, all decisions are made by consensus, diversity of opinion is valued, and vaccinations are a personal matter. When a mumps outbreak hits the school, it turns out that not everyone in the community has the same definition of social justice. Now the board of directors must confront the central question of our time: how do you find consensus when you can’t agree on the facts?
BREAKDOWN
Suzanne
Caucasian, late forties, a life coach. Mother of Arlo, Tompkins and Juniper. Meiko Asian descent late thirties, a landscape architect. A single mother by choice, of Olivia. A rationalizer. She is almost always knitting.
Carina
African-American. Late thirties, an affordable housing advocate. Mother of Victor. An optimist.
Don
late forties, head of school. A supplicant. White.
Eli
mid thirties, a hobbyist: expert pickler, competitive rock climber, manager of family wealth.
Father of Tobias.
A utilitarian. White.
Winter
thirties to fifties, a parent, any gender (walk-on role with no lines). A mystery.
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PILGRIMS MUSA AND SHERI IN THE NEW WORLD
By Yussef el Gindi
Directed By Shirley Serotsky
1st Rehearsal Monday December 16, 2019
1st Preview Thursday January 16, 2020
Closing Sunday February 16, 2020
Lang Theater, Atlas Performing Arts Center
Small Professional Theater Contract Level 8
Set in a large American city, Musa is an Egyptian cab driver, and Sheri is an all-American waitress who fall madly in love with each other. Just don’t let Musa’s fiancée Gamila know. Pilgrims Musa and Sheri in the New World is a romantic comedy that proves, no matter where we’re from, we’re all on this human pilgrimage together.” Anyone who has ever looked for love know the dilemma. Do you make a safe, sensible match? Or take a risk on an exciting someone who might—just might—be the One Great Romance of your life? Musa, an Egyptian immigrant, and Sheri, a very quirky Caucasian waitress, must negotiate the twists and turns of not only love but cultural expectations in this charming romantic comedy with a delightful twist.”
BREAKDOWN
Sheri:
mid 30's, European-American. brash, insecure, talks before she thinks, very vulnerable beneath her chatty exterior. Funny. A waitress.
Musa:
mid 20s to early 30s, Egyptian. A recent immigrant. Like Abdallah and Tayyib he speaks with an accent. Curious, open. Good-hearted in spite of the double-crossing that takes place. A taxi driver.
Abdallah:
wide age-range: anywhere from late 20s to early 50s. Sudanese, a recent immigrant. Affable, large in the way he projects himself, a people person. A jack of all trades in his professional life.
Tayyib:
30's, Somali. A more seasoned immigrant in the States. Gregarious, wise, upbeat. He sells suitcases on Broadway.
Gamila:
mid to late 20's. Egyptian-American. Wears a hijab. Holds herself in a dignified manner. Projects rectitude, but there's a warmth and a vulnerability there. A strong individual. She's training to be a nurse.
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 audition.
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