NOURA - NYC EPA
Playwrights Horizons Inc.
AUDITION DATE
Fri, Jun 08, 2018
9:30 am - 5:30 pm (EDT)
Lunch 1 to 2
CONTRACT
Off Broadway $715/week
SEEKING
Equity actors for 1 available role. All other roles cast. Actors may be considered for any role that has been cast for possible replacements if needed.
PREPARATION
Actors will read from sides provided at the audition. Bring picture and resume.
LOCATION
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
PERSONNEL
PIaywright: Heather Raffo
Director: Joanna Settle
The following people will be in attendance at the EPA:
Alaine Alldaffer- Casting Director
Lisa Donadio- Associate Casting Director
Gail Quintos- Casting Assistant
OTHER DATES
1st Rehearsal: 11/7/18. Performs: 11/27/18- 1/20/19
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
Available Role:
YAZEN/ ALEX:
11- 13 years old. Noura and Tareq's son. Middle Eastern. Joyful, with ease. A little messy. Can have long hair. Very free and expressive. Mostly interested in playing video games, has been almost fully Americanized, somewhat to the consternation of his parents. An innocent.
The following roles are cast:
NOURA:
Mid 40s. Female. Married to Tareq. An architect. CAST
TAREQ:
Mid 40’s to early 50’s. Male. Christian Iraqi. Noura’s husband. A former surgeon originally from Baghdad. Living in New York for eight years, he is passionate about his new status as an American Citizen. Intellectual and progressive, he now works as a hospitalist after years struggling as a refugee in America. Charming, appealing, sexual. Deeply in love with his wife. A committed and passionate husband and father. He tries hard to bury the years of trauma and war to which he was witness as a surgeon in Iraq. Every decision he makes is for the benefit of his family. CAST
RAFA'A:
Mid 40’s to early 50’s. Muslim Iraqi. Noura’s childhood neighbor from Mosul. A close friend of the family and a surrogate uncle to their young son, Yazen. A progressive, feminist, OBGYN. Introspective, empathetic, intelligent. Has an intensity to him, and a playful sense of humor. In love with Noura and her true confidant but has been prevented from ever having a romantic relationship with her because of their different faiths. Torn between expressing his love for Noura and staying in close relationship to her family. CAST
MARYAM:
20s. A young woman from Mosul. Now in her first semester of studies in America. A refugee. Survivor. Feminist. CAST
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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