Friday, January 26, 2024

MD NYC aud Olney Theatre Center 2024-2025 Season AEA

Olney Theatre Center 2024-2025 Season

Seeking talent from New York City, NY
Olney Theatre Corporation

Jason Loewith, artistic dir.; Hallie Gordon, snr. assoc. artistic. dir.; Christopher Youstra, assoc. artistic dir.- dir. of music theatre; Jenna Place, casting consultant; Kevin Mc Allister, dir. of curated programming; Irene Martinko, casting dir.

Casting Equity actors for Olney Theatre Center 2024-2025 Season. Season includes "A Christmas Carol" (Rehearsals begin Nov. 19; runs Nov. 26-Dec. 29); "Sleepova" (TBD, dir.; rehearsals begin Feb. 18; previews March 19; runs March 22-April 20, 2025).

Roles in this project

Equity Actors
N/A. 18-99

To apply, see the "Key Details" section below.

Dates & Locations

Rehearses and performs at Olney Theatre Corporation in Olney, MD.

Compensation & Contract

Additional: Pays $653.60/wk. Equity COST Tier 1-Lab Contract.

Key Details

Auditions:
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center, 165 W 46th St, New York City, NY, 10036
Equity Principal Audition
  • Feb 7, 2024: 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM EST
Lunch 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Seeking talent from New York City, NY
Additional Instructions:

For the audition, prepare a monologue no longer than two minutes. Bring a copy of your headshot and resume.

Olney Theatre Center is committed to hiring actors who reflect the diversity of our world; we are actively seeking actors of all backgrounds, races, ethnicities, genders, and abilities.

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.

"A Christmas Carol"
By: Charles Dickens, Adapted by Paul Morella
Performance Space: Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab
SYNOPSIS:
Using Charles Dickens’ original text, one actor recounts the story of A Christmas Carol, portraying every character, including Ebenezer Scrooge, the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, and the Cratchit Family.
FULLY CAST
NARRATOR - CAST One performer who plays every character in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

"Sleepova"
By: Matilda Feyi?ay? Ibini
Performance Space: Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab
SYNOPSIS:
Join Rey, Elle, Shan, and Funmi. Armed with sugary snacks, school gossip, and secret questions they can only ask each other, their sleepovas are pretty much a sacred space for them. As each year tugs them further into adulthood and life doesn’t pan out quite as they imagined, they struggle to hold onto a friendship that they swore would last a lifetime.
SEEKING:
REY - 18+ to play 15-17. She/her, femme, black or black-mixed race, proudly Queer. Plus-size, of Grenadian and
English heritage.
ELLE - 18+ to play 15-17; she/her, black or black-mixed race, of Jamaican heritage.
SHAN - 18+ to play 16-18; she/her, black, of Nigerian and Jamaican heritage; has sickle cell.
FUNMI - 18+ to play 15-17; She/her, black, of Nigerian heritage.