UNTITLED PLAY-EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP - Equity video submissions
American Repertory Theater Company | Cambridge, MA
Notice: Submission
LORT Non-Rep
$1008 weekly minimum (LORT B)
Equity actors for roles in UNTITLED PLAY EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP (See breakdown).
Adapted from P. Carl’s memoir Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition, this new play asks: when we change, can the people who love us come with us?
None of the roles will be understudied.
Please prepare a contemporary monologue (dramatic or comedic). Please submit your headshot, resume and audition video.
Deadline: 12/31/2022
amrep.artistic@gmail.com
UNTITLED PLAY-EXPERIMENTAL WORKSHOP - Equity video submissions
Author: P. Carl
Director: Diane Paulus
Viewing submissions:
Artistic Producer: Mark Lunsford
Workshop Dates: February 20-27, 2023
Presentation: February 27, 2023
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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.
All parts identified as “male” or “female” are open to cis, trans and nonbinary actors
CARL: 50 (though looks younger). white trans man. He has a neatly trimmed beard, and he loves fashion, urban streetwear. He always seems to have planned his look carefully, his sneakers should stand out.
LYNETTE: 50-60. white cis female. CARL’S Spouse. Beautiful. Perfect skin. Looks younger. Doesn’t leave the house without makeup, reapplies lipstick before an appointment, dresses casual, black jeans, and always in a fashionable top, usually layered.
NATHAN: 40-50. Any race, any ethnicity. Trans man. CARL’s best friend. Athletic, smart. He and CARL came out as lesbians on the same day when in graduate school 30 years earlier. He transitioned a decade before CARL. He keeps CARL honest.
POLLY: 20s-40s. white, cis female. She is not so much a “butch” woman but a masculine woman who dresses like a fashionable gay man. POLLY is CARL’s past and enters throughout the play as a reminder of where he’s been. (Doubles as LITTLE POLLY and CONNIE.)
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CARL’s FATHER: 60s-70s. white cis male (Doubles as SWIMTRUNKS GUY, JOHN BOLTON, IRISH GUY, ER DOCTOR, BILL, VOICE OF CANCER DOCTOR).
EDDIE: 30-40, Any race, any ethnicity. Cis male. CARL’s trainer (also doubles as TROY, BARTENDER, BIKER GUY, TOM).
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