Undermain Theatre
Dallas, TX

DESCRIPTION

CALL TYPE
EPA

CONTRACT
SPT
$308 weekly minimum (SPT 1) - 2023-24 rates.

AUDITION DATE
Monday, May 6, 2024
12:00 PM - 7:00 PM (C)

Tuesday, May 7, 2024
12:00 PM - 7:00 PM (C)

LOCATION
Undermain Theatre
3200 Main St
Dallas, TX 75226-1562

PERSONNEL
Expected to attend:
Bruce DuBose - Producing Artistic Director
Anthony Ramirez - Managing Producer
Julissa Hernandez - Casting Associate
Paul Semrad - Casting Associate

See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES
See breakdown for production specific dates.

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.

SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Undermain Theatre's 2024-25 Season (See breakdown).

Local DFW area actors are encouraged to audition.

Undermain Theatre is committed to diversity and encourages performers of all ethnicities and racial backgrounds, gender identities, ages, and all abilities to audition.

PREPARATION
Please prepare a contemporary or classical monologue not exceeding 3 minutes in length. Also, bring your headshot and resume as well as your Equity membership card.

BREAKDOWN

Undermain Theatre 2024-25 Season

ATHENA (A Regional Premiere)
by Gracie Gardner
Director TBA
Rehearsals: 8/13/24 – 9/4/24
Preview Performances: 9/5, 9/6/24
Performances: 9/7/24 – 9/29/24 (Thur. through Sat. at 7:30 pm and Sun. matinees at 2pm.)

SYNOPSIS: Mary Wallace and Athena are brave, and seventeen, and fencers training for the Junior Olympics. They practice together, they compete against each other, they spend their lives together. They wish they were friends. Undermain presents the regional premiere of Gracie Gardner’s searing look into two young women driven to make their way through the ranks of competitive fencing and their fascination with each other.

SEEKING:
MARY WALLACE – A young woman age 17 to 25
ATHENA – A young woman age 17 to 25
JAMIE – A young woman age 17 to 25

EXIT THE KING
by Eugene Ionesco
Director TBA
Rehearsals: 10/1/24 – 10/30/24
Preview Performances: 10/31 and 11/1
Performances: 11/2/24 – 11/24/24 (Thur. through Sat. at 7:30 pm and Sun. matinees at 2pm.)

SYNOPSIS: Ionesco’s absurdist comedy set in the crumbling throne-room of the palace in an unnamed country where King Berenger the First has only the duration of the play to live. Once, it seemed he ruled over an immense empire and commanded great armies, now his kingdom has shrunk to the confines of his garden wall. Refusing to accept his end, he is attended by his present and former Queens who must help him face the final inevitable truth of life: death.

SEEKING:
KING BERENGER – Aging King who is in denial about his impending demise. Age 50 to 65.
MARGUERITE – Older female, 1st queen to king Berenger.
MARIE – Younger female, 2nd and current queen to king Berenger.
DOCTOR – Male, royal physician who tends to King Berenger and reports to the court.
JULIETTE - Nurse and maid of the King Berenger’s court.
GUARD - Guard and Chronicle of King Berenger’s and Queens Marguerite and Marie.

BOX (A Regional Premiere)
by Jarret King
Director Jiles R. King II
Rehearsals: 1/28/25 – 2/26/25
Preview Performances: 2/27 and 2/28
Performances: 2/29/25 – 3/23/25 (Thur. through Sat. at 7:30 pm and Sun. matinees at 2pm.)

SYNOPSIS: Part magic show, part historical speculation, part romantic drama—this play explores the harrowing story of Henry Box Brown, the abolitionist lecturer and early magician who escaped slavery by mailing himself to freedom. Using actual magic, this world premiere imagines an unwritten chapter in the story of one of history’s most overlooked folk heroes.

SEEKING:
HENRY “BOX” BROWN – lecturer and magician. Black, 30 - 50.
JANE – The English wife of Henry Brown. Caucasian, 25 - 40.
NANCY – American slave and wife of Henry Brown. Black, 25 - 40.
LORD BLOOMFIELD – an English lord and patron of Henry Brown. Caucasian 40 - 60.
LADY BLOOMFIELD – An English lady and wife of lord Bloomfield. Caucasian 30 - 50.
PEARL – Governess to Lord and Lady Bloomfield.
RODGERS – an English Carpenter and HODGES - an English Journalist - 30 - 55.

HELLO KITTY SYNDROME (A Regional Premiere)
by Brian Dang
Rehearsals: 4/1/25 - 4/30/25
Performances: 5/1/25 - 5/25/25 (Thur. through Sat. at 7:30 pm and Sun. matinees at 2pm.)

SYNOPSIS: HK is a little lost. They just quit their job as a police officer, broke up with their cowboy partner, and made a vendetta with their brother-in-law. They find themselves caught in the throes of a family drama, noir, and romance. And worst of all, nobody will stop commenting on the fact that they are wearing a Hello Kitty™ mascot costume (but it’s slightly off because of copyright laws)

SEEKING:
HK – A person seeking to define their identity while obscured by a mask. They/them and or nonbinary, 25 to 40, any ethnicity.

STAGEHAND - a person playing a stagehand who keeps interfering with the play. Any pronouns, 30 to 50. Any ethnicity.

SUSAN - a housewife on the verge of divorce. Any pronouns, 30 to 50. Any ethnicity.

MERYL - a detective on the verge of discovery. Any pronouns, 30 to 50. Any ethnicity.

COWBOY - HK’s lover, a cowboy on the verge. Any pronouns, 35 to 50. Any ethnicity.

SALARY

SPT $308 weekly minimum (SPT 1) - 2023-24 rates.

UNION

AEA