Raven Theatre 2024-25 Season - Chicago EPA
Raven Theatre | Chicago, IL
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Raven Theatre
6157 N Clark St
Chicago, IL 60660-2423
Expected to attend:
Artistic Director: Sarah Slight (she/her)
Casting Director: Catherine Miller (they/them)
See breakdown for production specific dates.
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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.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (C)
Lunch 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
CAT
$395 weekly minimum (Tier 1) - Rehearsal
$300 weekly minimum (Tier 1) - Performance
Plus pension and health contributions.
Equity actors for roles in Raven Theatre's 2024-25 Season (See breakdown).
Chicago local actors are encouraged to audition.
All ages, ethnicities and genders are encouraged to audition.
All roles will be understudied.
Please prepare TWO audition pieces: One - a contemporary monologue of your choosing.
Two - a piece that helps us understand who you are as a person or a performer. Ideas for a second piece include but are not limited to: delivering an original poem, performing a song accompanied by yourself on a personal instrument, finding a creative way to tell us a story about yourself, doing a brief standup set, etc. We really just want to get to know you better. Please keep your audition under 3 minutes total. If you attended last season’s
EPA or were cast in or understudied any of our productions this year, you do not need to come into this EPA. Instead, if you’d like to be considered for this season, please fill out this form to let us know what show(s) and role(s) you’d like to be considered for:
https://airtable.com/app2ZbW9NdA2usEGr/shrEhvUkWbgbAhF0K .
We are not accepting self-tapes at this time, but if you are not able to make it to any of these days, you can also fill out this form.
IRONBOUND by Martyna Majok
Directed by Georgette Verdin
First Read: 8.21.24
Tech: 9.19.24
Previews: 9.26.24-9.29.24
Opening: 10.2.24
Closing: 10.27.24
Potential Extension: 11.2.24
Darja - THIS ROLE HAS BEEN CAST. STILL
Tommy - 35-44. Postal worker, ladies' man, not exactly a stand-up guy.
Max - 30-39. Polish, musician, Darja’s first husband; Slavic accent.
Vic - 18-25. Late teens; hustler, juvenile delinquent, kind soul.
Directed by Colm Summers
First Read: 10.27.24
Tech: 11.11.24
Invited Dress: 11.13.24
Opening: 11.14.24
Closing 11.24.24
CHAUNCY is a mid to late forty something stand-up comedian who has been doing it since his teens. A white male comic of a certain era of comedy that maybe isn't so much the fashion anymore. While well respected as a Comedian's comedian, he's never really had that big break. No tv show, no televised special. But he's making it work. One of the things maybe holding him back was the fact that he was in the closet for most of his career. Recently having come out, he's fallen in love with a much younger comic, Jose Jorgensen who is the first, greatest and only love of his life. Chauncy's humor is dry and self-effacing, and his demeanor is a bit slovenly and sloppy, more reminiscent of someone you might see on the Redneck Comedy Tour than any pride circuit. He is kinder to others than he is to himself.
JOSE JORGENSEN is an early twenty something Half Puerto Rican, half Swedish high energy comedian. He is cute and charming and vulgar, and when we meet him he is just getting started in his career. Over the course of the play, his career will skyrocket at the same time that his mental health goes through a major decline. While battling alcohol and drug dependency --and often making a joke out of it-- he leans heavily on his much older boyfriend, the comedian Chauncy Mobely. As Jose's addictions threaten to destroy both of their lives and possibly Chauncy's career, Jose struggles to decipher what is the one thing in his life too important to sacrifice, his career, or his relationship.
Directed by Azar Kazemi
First Read: 1.8.25
Tech 2.6.25
Previews: 2.13.25-2.16.25
Opening: 2.19.25
Closing: 3.22.25
Potential Extension: 3.29.25
Beth – Mixed Race First or Second Generation American. Mid 20s to mid 30s. Jake’s wife and an aspiring actress. At the top of the play, she has been brutally beaten by her husband and is recovering in her parents’ home in Montana. She has expressive aphasia.
Jake - White. Mid 20s to mid 30s. Beth's husband who struggles with jealousy and rage. He fears he may have killed his wife and seeks refuge in his childhood home.
Mike - Mixed Race First or Second Generation American. Mid 20s to mid 30s. Beth's brother, who can come across as a bully in his attempts to gain respect from his father and protect his family's honor.
Baylor - White. 50s to early 60s. Father of Mike and Beth, and Meg’s husband. Self-centered, spends more time outdoors hunting than with his family. Blames others for his own failures.
Meg - Immigrant or First Generation American. Mid 40s to mid 50s. Mother of Mike and Beth, and Baylor’s wife. Tries to care for her family and find balance in an unstable environment. At times loses connection with reality.
Sally – White. Mid 20s to mid 30s. Sister of Jake and Frankie. A spirited young woman, who is often put in the middle of her family's dysfunction. She longs to break free from family secrets that still haunt her.
Lorraine - White. 50s. Mother of Jake, Frankie, and Sally. A strong, protective mother who is prone to great flights of fancy. A veteran of a brutally painful marriage and refuses to see certain truths.
Frankie - White. Early 20s to early 30s. Younger brother of Jake and Sally. Compassionate and understanding, tries to rectify matters with no thought to his own welfare.
Directed by TBD
First Read: 4.2.25
Tech: 4.24.25
Previews: 4.30.25-5.2.25
Opening: 5.5.25
Closing: 5.31.25
Potential Extension: 6.7.25
JENNY IKEDA, 30-ish, Japanese-American or mixed race. She works as a care-taker for the sick and/or elderly. Moonlights as a dog trainer and handler.
BERNIE DWYER, much older than JENNY. Never held a job for longer than a few months. Jack of all trades, master of none. A tornado of a woman.
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