Signature Theatre Co. 2022-23 Season - Equity Video Submissions Signature Theatre Company Inc. | New York, NY
Notice: Submission
CONTRACT
Off Broadway
$929 weekly minimum (Tier BB)
$1061 weekly minimum (Tier CC)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Signature Theatre Company's 2022-23 Season (See breakdown).
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare a contemporary monologue (1 minute). Videos should be shot in landscape framing and sent in a non-downloadable format – private YouTube link, Vimeo, etc. Please email your audition video along with your headshot and resume.
Deadline: 10/25/2022
SUBMIT TO
SigEPA22.23@gmail.com
BREAKDOWN
SEEKING:
PERSONNEL
Artistic Director: Paige Evans
Executive Director: Tim McClimon
Associate Artistic Director: Beth Whitaker General Manager: Kenneth Naanep Casting: Caparelliotis Casting
Viewing Submissions (one or more of the following):
Beth Whitaker, Jeremy Ehlinger (Artistic Line Producer)
Maia Safani (Manager of Artistic & Education Projects)
Leo Gonzalez Dominguez (Artistic Fellow) David Caparelliotis (Casting Director) Joe Gery (Casting Director)
OTHER DATES
See production specific dates in breakdown. OTHER
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.
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.
MY BROKEN LANGUAGE - Signature Theatre, The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre Written by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Directed by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Dates:
First Rehearsal: 09/09/2022
Previews begin: 10/18/2022
End of guaranteed run: 11/27/2022
Possible extension through: 12/18/2022
Off-Broadway BB
Show Description: Blending monologue, literary reading, live music, and movement, MY BROKEN LANGUAGE is an author’s recollection of life growing up in el barrio in Philadelphia during the 90s, in a Puerto Rican family held together by women recalling the uplift, the grief, the spirits, the dance. Navigating the margins of many communities, they forge a language all their own.
THIS PRODUCTION IS FULLY CAST.
All actors in this five-womxn ensemble will play a GRRL and the adult book AUTHOR she becomes, as well as varying roles that represent the matriarchs of the Philly-Rican Perez family who were her mentors and caretakers in the 80s and 90s. Actors should feel comfortable with
movement/dance. Plus-size actors, along with actors in their twenties, thirties, and sixties-plus are encouraged to submit.
Ensemble: Latina/Latinx. Any ages, body sizes, skin tones, (dis)abilities, and accents to play the following English-primary roles:
GRRLS
AUTHOR/AUTHOR 2
CUCA
REDHEADED JOE
FLOR
NUCHI
COUSINS
ENGLISH TEACHER
PRINCIPAL
MARY LOU
MOM
BIG VIC
GUILLO
TICO
GABI
A BRIGHT NEW BOISE - Signature Theatre, The Irene Diamond Stage
Written By Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by Oliver Butler
Dates:
First Rehearsal: 01/03/2023
Previews begin: 01/31/2023
End of guaranteed run: 03/12/2023
Possible extension through: 03/26/2023
Off-Broadway Tier CC
Show Description: This 2011 Obie Award-winning comedy centers on Will, who has fled his northern Idaho hometown after tragedy struck his Evangelical church. Working at a Boise Hobby Lobby, Will forges connections with his new coworkers and struggles to reconcile his life with his faith.
SEEKING:
WILL. He/him, late 30s–early 40s; White. Newly arrived to Boise from a smaller, more obscure Idaho town, Will has seemingly left behind his some would say cult-like church, and his fervent religious zealotry, to attempt to reconnect with ALEX, the son WILL gave up for adoption as an infant years ago when he was quite young himself; WILL applies for a job at the same Hobby Lobby at which ALEX works. Possessed of a mild manner, an accommodating demeanor, and seemingly benevolent intentions, WILL has an active life online that may or may not be at odds with what he projects to the outside world. Not the best at social interactions, both personal and professional, WILL is trying to reconcile his beliefs with the reality of his actual life and relationships. A man with no emergency contacts to list, there is more to him than meets the eye.
ALEX. He/him, 17, any ethnicity. Put up for adoption when he was a baby, ALEX has grown up resenting his adoptive parents and his seemingly dead-end life in his seemingly dead-end town; projects a wary and sometimes cynical vibe towards those around him. Part petulant teen/part inscrutable young thinker, ALEX’s work at the Hobby Lobby does not offer a wide berth for his dreams of a better life; the type of kid who always has his earphones on, but whom you would not immediately suspect would be listening to classical music on those earphones. Wry and ironic, sharp and quick witted, ALEX is looking for answers from life and from WILL once he arrives. Prone to panic attacks.
PAULINE. She/her, late 30s-mid 50s, any ethnicity. Manager of the Boise Hobby Lobby. A scrappy survivor who has seen some things in her life, and who has put blood, sweat, and tears into keeping this Hobby Lobby alive and thriving; possessed of a natural sense of humor and a sometimes cutting and caustic wit, she can read you the riot act one second and then ask you sincerely how your personal life is going the next, a quality that makes her an unpredictable live wire.
ANNA. She/her, mid 20s-early 30s, any ethnicity. An employee at the Hobby Lobby who like WILL hides in the aisles at closing time to remain there after hours to pursue personal interests, in her case, reading. Creative and curious, ANNA has worked hard for her not-easily-won independence; not the most socially adept human on the planet, she can be flighty and inadvertently funny but is not without gravitas and a reserve of untapped emotional intelligence, weight, and grace.
LEROY. He/him, mid-late 20s, any ethnicity. Alex’s protective, witty and perhaps even wise, older, adoptive brother. A visual artist whose work seeks to disrupt what he sees as unacceptable cultural norms/tropes with in-your-face words and images that make bold statements and demand attention. Getting a master’s degree in Fine Art. Sees working at Hobby Lobby as its own sort of performance art.
LETTERS FROM MAX - Signature Theatre, The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
Written By Sarah Ruhl
Directed by Kate Whoriskey
Dates:
First Rehearsal: 01/10/2023
Previews begin: 02/07/2023
End of guaranteed run: 03/19/2023
Possible extension through: 04/09/2023
Off-Broadway BB
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 wild sense of humor. Original and inventive with a flair for the absurd. Brilliant with language and emotionally available. Battling with a recurrence of cancer. Juggles writing and school responsibilities with chemotherapy. 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 (S). [CAST] She/Her, 35-40, any ethnicity. A professor at Yale University who teaches playwrighting. A teacher who becomes a student.
GRASS - Signature Theatre, The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre
Written By Branden Jacob-Jenkins
Directed By Branden Jacob-Jenkins
Dates:
First Rehearsal: 04/07/2023
Previews begin: 05/16/2023
End of guaranteed run: 06/25/2023
Possible extension through: 07/16/2023
Off-Broadway BB
Show Description: A nightmare eviction leaves an out-of-work actor with nowhere to go but his father's house on an island in southeast Texas. But in order to get there — and not get shot — he's going to have to let his mother drive. Hilarity ensues. Or doesn't. In either case, History narrates.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Appropriate, Everybody) culminates his Signature residency as playwright and director of this new play. World Premiere.
As this is a new play in progress, we do not have information on the available roles at this time. We expect to have more details on the breakdown of characters when we conduct our production-specific EPA later this season.
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