Vladimir
About the project
Daniel J. Sullivan, dir.; Erika Sheffer, playwright; Kelly Gillespie and David Caparelliotis, casting; David Caparelliotis, casting dir.; Kelly Gillespie, casting dir.; Joe Gery, casting associate
Casting Equity actors for roles in "Vladimir," a play. Note: All roles will be understudied.
Dates & Locations
First rehearsal on Aug; 20; First preview on Sept. 24; runs Oct. 15; clear through mid-December 2024 in NY.
Compensation & Contract
Key Details
- May 16, 2024: 9:30 AM to 5:30 PM EDT
Actors
should prepare a two-minute contemporary monologue or may choose to use
sides provided at the audition. Bring your headshot and resume stapled
together. For more info visit: 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.
Additional Materials
SEEKING:
RAYA
– 40s-50s. An independent journalist. She's intelligent, tough,
principled. Hard-headed and napologetic. 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
