Manhattan Theatre Club
New York, NY

DESCRIPTION

CALL TYPE
EPA

CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep
$1110 weekly minimum (LORT B)

AUDITION DATE
Thursday, May 16, 2024
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM

LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036

PERSONNEL
Director: Daniel J. Sullivan
Playwright: Erika Sheffer
Casting: Kelly Gillespie & David Caparelliotis

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
David Caparelliotis (Casting Director)
Kelly Gillespie (Casting Director)
Joe Gery (Casting Associate)

OTHER DATES
1st rehearsal: 8/20/24
1st preview: 9/24/24
Opening: 10/15/24
Clear Through: Mid December 2024

OTHER
www.manhattantheatreclub.com

EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.

An Equity Monitor will be provided.

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 VLADIMIR (see breakdown).

All roles will be understudied

PREPARATION
Actors should prepare a two-minute contemporary monologue OR may choose to use sides provided at the audition. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

BREAKDOWN

VLADIMIR

SEEKING:
RAYA – 40s-50s. An independent journalist. She's intelligent, tough, principled. Hard headed and unapologetic. Holds everyone around her to an almost impossibly high standard, but does so to herself as well. Willing to put herself in danger in pursuit of truth. Clear-eyed about the world. Exhausted by the fight against tyranny, but unwilling – possibly unable – to give it up.

SEMA – 40s-50s. A news editor. Raya’s boss and close friend. A smart guy; charismatic, a bit louche. Good fun. A journalist in his own right, he has spent his career speaking truth to power and promoting other voices that do the same. But, as speaking out becomes less safe, he struggles to maintain the courage of his convictions.

YEVGENY – 30s. A financial analyst. Eventually, reluctantly, Raya’s source. An ordinary man, expecting his first child. Naturally quiet and wry, his discovery of massive financial fraud scuttles his plans to keep his head down and live a small life. He finds himself in an agonizing battle between his conscience and his well-justified fear of speaking out. Any race/ethnicity.

GALINA – 20s. Raya’s daughter. About to be married. A teacher. Smart, no bullshit. A pragmatist. Her fear of losing her mother manifests as impatience with Raya’s stubborn heroism. She admires her, but the pain of sharing her with a cause is a never-ending ache between them. Doubles as MARIYA/MASHA/BARTENDER. Any ethnicity.

ANDREI – 40s-50s. A Kremlin official. Sema’s old friend. An insider; always the alpha. He plays the game and does it well. Sharp and cynical. Doesn’t see the point in being one of history’s victims. Doubles as OLD MAN (Boris Yeltsin) /DEACON.

JIM – 40s/50s. An American investor living in Moscow. Ambitious and slick, with a chip on his shoulder for all the finance bros who come from privilege. Wants to make his money and get back to America. Tries to hide his striving behind bravado, but his intensity gives him away. Doubles as DIRECTOR/VITALY (the third friend in SEMA & ANDREI’s trio, and definitely the beta member)/NEWS PERSONALITY.

CHOVKA – Early-mid 20s. A young woman from Chechnya. Mordant humor carries trauma. Her rage burns cold, not hot. A fighter. Challenges Raya to see her clearly. Speaks in a way that is poetic and disorienting, but not lyrical – bending ordinary language to try to make it express the horror she has experienced. Ideally someone who seems both physically strong and quite young. Doubles as TATIANA/CREW MEMBER/CLERK.

SALARY

LORT Non-Rep $1110 weekly minimum (LORT B)

UNION

AEA