SIMONAS SEARCH - SUBMIT FOR NYC
HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC.
LORT Non-Rep
$1058 weekly minimum (LORT B)
Equity actors for roles in SIMONA'S SEARCH (see breakdown).
Please email your headshot, and resume for consideration. Please include name of project, role, and union status in subject line.
Deadline: Thu, Oct 19, 2023
By Martín Zimmerman
Directed by Melia Bensussen
Casting Directors: Alaine Alldaffer, Lisa Donadio
First Rehearsal: December 19, 2023
First Preview: January 18, 2024
Opening : January 26, 2024
Closing: February 11, 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.
SIMONA'S SEARCH
NOTE: While the characters are written with he/him or she/her pronouns in the original scripts, we welcome gender non-conforming, genderqueer, transgender, and non-binary actors to audition for the roles they most identify with. We will also list race/ethnicity when specific to the character but are otherwise seeking all races and ethnicities. In addition, we will list disability when specific to a character, but are otherwise seeking actors of all abilities. Thank you to First Folio Theatre for inspiring the language in this note as we work towards a more inclusive casting process.
WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER: We are committed to a strong anti-racist ethos and a collective recommitment to nurture and sustain a culture of equity, inclusion and belonging at our organization. We seek to build a team that is passionate about theatre and that reflects the abundant vibrancy and diversity of our city, state, and nation. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender-identity, sexual orientation, familial status, religion, ability, age, national origin, class and veteran or immigrant status.
PAPI / ADVISOR - Latino, 50s-60s. Warm, loving, a good father who has raised his daughter by himself as an immigrant to this country. He believes he's left behind his past in another country, along with its tortures and nightmares. He believes that the present can erase the past, and that with his daughter's brilliance she will have a wonderful American life and needn't focus on his roots. Baffled by Simona's curiosity about his history, he fights her search until eventually he realizes she has been right all along. Always loving, even when angry at his baby girl, always finds ways to connect with her no matter how challenging. Doubles as her ADVISOR who tries to help her academically but cannot fathom what she is going through and ends up giving up on her -which Papi never does.
JAKE/ DOCTOR - 30-40s. Flexible, witty, man - Jake is a grad student who falls in love with Simona and fights to understand her even as she tries to avoid his insights. Jake is funny, warm, alive. The DOCTOR is pretentious, all-knowing, too smug to be helpful. Any ethnicity
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