BLKS - NYC EPA
Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
AUDITION DATE
Sun, Aug 19, 2018
10:00 am - 6:00 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1:30 to 2:30
CONTRACT
SPT SPT 9; $700/week
SEEKING
Equity actors. See breakdown.
PREPARATION
Prepare a 2 minute contemporary monologue. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Ripley-Grier Studios (520)
520 8th AveNew York, NY 10018-6507
16th Floor, Room M is the holding room.
PERSONNEL
Director: Nataki Garrett
Playwright: Aziza Barnes
General Manager: Jenn Harris (Will be in attendance at the EPA)
OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: January 2, 2019, rehearsals are typically Tuesday through Sunday 10a-6p, exact schedule TBD
First Performance: February 4, 2019, performances are typically Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8pm, Saturdays at 3pm, and Sundays at 2p and 7p
Closing: March 3, 2019
OTHER
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.
BREAKDOWN
OCTAVIA
Is a deeply awkward, weird introvert super dork black girl. Queer. Black. Mixed Black. 1/2 Black. Whatever. Black with a white dad from Cornwall, England who don’t get it. A short story writer. Dates Ry. Drinks too much & can’t hold it as well as Imani. No filter. Speaks thoughts as they exist in her head because the world is her head. Nerdy white boys build shrines to her for her genuine love of Japanese anime, Harry Potter and Octavia Butler, the woman after whom she is named. Her adoration of Start Trek is astounding and she can quote Blaxplotiation movies off hand. She loves other worlds, would rather live in them than this one. She's beautiful and makeup confuses her. Her uniform is sweatpants paired with large heels or boots, for her love of comfort and hatred of being short. She hasn’t told her parents that she's queer.
IMANI
Haitian. Very Haitian. Matter fact, you’d be hard pressed to find anyone more Haitian. A budding alcoholic by American standards. Does a first rate impression of Eddie Murphy from his “RAW standup/movie & is always striving to perfect it. Single. Constantly gets fired from the same job at Nuyorican Poets Cafe on E. 3rd Street between Avenue A and B for jumping on the mic in the middle of her bar tending shift & doing her Eddie Murphy impression. Her dad passed away when she was 13. Pancreatic cancer. “RAW” is what they watched most often together when he was in the hospital. The last days.
JUNE
Dates a dude named Jamal has dated a dude named Jamal for 5 years, since she & Octavia were in high school. Octavia is June’s ace boon & roll dogg. Don’t leave the house without her. She is the only responsible drinker among the 3 housemates. Knows hot to hack into databases of collegiate universities to access free J Store accounts. Plays a lot of “Call of Duty.” Is most at home in front of a screen. She is studying to be an accountant. She sells weed & is very professional about it. She comes from bougie black folks who have had money in the family for 2 generations. Did Jack & Jill, LINKS, the whole 9. Jamal was her dates to cotillion. Light skin black girl. Hair always straight and long without weave. She is very proud of this. A prude, in a way. Cold, sometimes. Nah. Cold often. Usually unemotional. Makes pancakes for her house mates hangovers.
The following roles have been CAST:
RY
(ROLE CAST) An employee at blink fitness. Wears ugly Christmas sweaters ironically. Loves to laugh @ tells a good joke. Occasionally is insensitive, but doesn’t have a bad heart. Immature, mostly. From Oakland. Says, “breh,” at the end of most thoughts &/or sentences. Has been trying to land an intership with Terrance Nace for 2 years. Doesn’t drink. Pronounced/noticeable OCD. Odd numbers, not Even. Goes to Pride every year. A fantastic chess player. Puerto Rican. Whole family Catholic. Only queer woman in her family. Ry is 25 & a part time film student. Over-watches Aaron McGruder’s THE BOONDOCKS until the April 21st 2014 hijacking of the show from Aaron McGruder, which broke her heart completely.
JUSTIN
(ROLE CAST) A lovesick. Watched Shakespeare in Love to often as a child & thru his parents divorce. Says things like “I want to make love to you,” & “I want to rub your feet” & means them. You’d think he’d get all the ladies. He doesn’t & hasn’t for quite some time. Plays up-right bass in a jazz band & acoustic guitar in his apartment. His favorite song is Barry White’s “I’ve Got So Much to Give.” He believes in love & fate & whiskey, always with love as the first and most important, the other two changing depending on the day. Posseses some stalker tendencies, such as over-calling, over-texting, etc. but we use that word too liberally in this country. Let’s call him an obsessive. Passionate. He talks to his mom on the phone every morning. He works at Sunshine Cinema & sees a lot of couples on dates. JUSTIN’S parents are from Trinidad and Tobago. They are extremely reserved. He is the family oddity, even from his brother, who is his polar opposite in all things.
THAT BITCH ON THE COUCH
(ROLE CAST) Is the only white person in this play. She's from Westchester, New York. Incredibly wealthy, like old money white folk WASP and all that. Incredibly white. Went to Exeter Academy for high school type shit. Did cotillion and founded her boarding school's Black Student Union. It was confusing.
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 audition.
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