Luna Stage Company 2024-25 Season
About the project
Ari Laura Kreith, artistic dir.
Casting Equity actors for roles in Luna Stage Company's 2024-25 Season.
Season
includes: "Lonely Planet" (Steven Dietz, writer. Rehearsals begin
October; runs Nov. 14-Dec. 8); "A Case for the Existence of God" (Samuel
D. Hunter, writer. Rehearsals begin January 2025; runs Feb. 6-March 2);
and "The Ripple, the Wave That Carried Me Home" Christina Anderson,
writer. Rehearsals begin April; runs May 1-25).
Dates & Locations
Rehearses and runs in West Orange, NJ.
Compensation & Contract
Key Details
- Sep 20, 2024: 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM EDT
Luna
Stage is a 5-minute walk from the Highland Avenue NJ Transit train
station. If driving, there is a parking lot off of Hazel Avenue. An
Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects
of this audition.
To schedule an appointment email casting@lunastage.org
with an approximate time you would like to be seen. Prepare a
monologue, approximately 2 minutes in length or two contrasting 1
minute. Bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
For more info, visit www.lunastage.org.
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.
Additional Materials
LONELY PLANET by Steven Dietz
SYNOPSIS:
In the early 1990s, down an old city street, inside a small map store, a
pile of chairs begins to form. Two best friends, Jody and Carl, manage
the ever-growing mountain of chairs while taking care of each other and
navigating the dark reality that looms in the outside world- a reality
Carl faces in their neighborhood every day and one Jody is afraid to
see. A funny and heartwarming story of friendship, love, and survival
during one of the world’s hardest moments, Lonely Planet continues to
show us that “Friendship, not technology, is the only thing capable of
showing us the enormity of the world” -Steven Dietz, playwright.
SEEKING:
Jody - a man in his 40s (Role is cast)
Carl - a man in his early 30s (Role is cast)
A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD by Samuel D. Hunter
SYNOPSIS:
Ryan is undereducated, awful with money, and reeling from a painful
divorce with the mother of his child, while Keith is polished,
financially savvy, and the gay single caretaker of a foster daughter.
When Ryan seeks Keith’s help to secure a loan and buy back twelve acres
that formerly belonged to his family, the two men bond over their love
of their daughters, as well as “a specific kind of sadness” that emerges
in the gap between their dreams and their realities. A heartrending yet
hopeful play about two men’s parallel desires to build a secure
foundation for their families even as everything around them is falling
apart.
SEEKING:
Keith - male, mid-to-late 30s, black
THE RIPPLE, THE WAVE THAT CARRIED ME HOME by Christina Anderson
SYNOPSIS:
Tony-nominated playwright Christina Anderson brings us a poignant,
transporting, and quietly subversive story of racial justice, political
legacy, and family forgiveness. Janice’s childhood was steeped in her
parents’ activism as they fought for the integration of public swimming
pools in 1960s Kansas and taught scores of Black children to swim. But
Janice later steps away from her parents’ politics and starts her own
life and family far away—until she’s pressed into speaking at a ceremony
honoring her father. the ripple, the wave that carried me home is a
moving exploration of a family’s response to injustice and a daughter’s
reckoning with her political inheritance.
SEEKING:
Janice - the daughter, black
Helen - the mother, black
Gayle - the aunt, black
Edwin - the father, black
