VOICES FESTIVAL PRODUCTIONS - EQUITY PRINCIPAL AUDITIONS
WHO CARES: The Caregiver Interview Project
Equity Small Professional Theater (SPT) Tier 3
Universalist National Memorial Church - Perkins Hall Theatre Washington, DC
1810 16th Street, NW DC
TO SUBMIT FOR AN AUDITION APPOINTMENT - Must be local to Washington, DC:
Please email your headshot and resume at: cares@ebcastingco.com.
Include in the Subject Line: DC - Who Cares [Role].
WHO CARES
Co-Written by Ari Roth, A. Lorraine Robinson, and Vanessa Gilbert
Directed by Kathryn Chase Bryer
Artistic Producing Partner: A. Lorraine Robinson
Founding Artistic Producing Partner: Ari Roth
Associate General Manager: Marvin Brown
Casting: Eisenberg Casting (Daryl Eisenberg, CSA)
Casting Assistant: Joey Bermudez
Rate: $450/wk
First rehearsal: December 9, 2024
First performance: January 9, 2025
Opening Night: January 13, 2024
Closing performance: February 2, 2025
Performs Thurs @ 7:30PM, Fri @ 7:30PM, Sat @ 8PM, Sun @ 3PM.
Maximum Performances/Week: 4
Maximum Workweek Hours: 30 Hours for Actors.
Maximum Daily Hours (during rehearsal): 5 out of 61⁄2 hours per weekday, and 7 out of 81⁄2 hours per weekend day or, by unanimous secret ballot vote, on a weekday.
Tech-Dress Rehearsal Days: Two days of 8 out of 10 hours
AEA EPA INFO:
September 9, 2024
11am-7pm
Universalist National Memorial Church
1801 16th Street, NW, Washington DC
To Prepare: A brief side from WHO CARES, provided by Casting at www.bit.ly/whocaresepa.
Please bring a stapled picture/resume.
In Attendance at EPA:
Daryl Eisenberg, CSA, Casting Director, Eisenberg Casting
Ari Roth, Founding Artistic Producing Partner
A. Lorraine Robinson, Artistic Producing Partner
Sigrid Edson, Producing Associate
To schedule an audition appointment for the EPA, please email cares@ebcastingco.com.
If you are unable to attend the EPA, you may submit your headshot and resume at: cares@ebcastingco.com.
In either email, please include in the Subject Line: DC - Who Cares EPA [Role].
Local Washington, DC AEA and EMC actors are especially encouraged to submit.
SEEKING DC LOCAL ACTORS:
LORRI & OTHERS - 50s, Black Female. Producing partner of theater company, convener of caregiver support group to alleviate isolation, including her own, though she doesn't readily broadcast the story of caring for her own sister, Bee (57), because it’s so fresh. Values listening.
RACHEL & OTHERS - 40, Black Female. DEI consultant, grew up in DC theater but doesn’t have much to do with it now; caring for her mother, a well-known DC director. Also plays: REV. LESLIE (70s, Black) Local pastor with Southern roots caring for husband who divorced her in the midst of his condition; dispenses a wise gospel of love in the midst of much pain. CAMEOS: BEE (57) Lorri’s sister, afflicted with ALS-FTD; and TANTY (95), Kathleen’s arch, elderly Caribbean aunt (who’s also a hoarder). ROLE IS CAST
KRIS & OTHERS - 32, Black Female. Paid caregiver initially Zooming in from Chicago, former Division III college basketball player, caring for Holocaust refugee psychologist with dementia, still figuring out their path; KATHLEEN (60s-70s Black) Playwright/professor who cared for highly successful, well-organized parents; now travels to NYC to care for highly disorganized, elderly aunt. Also: SELAM (30s) Ethiopian nurse.
SARAH & OTHERS - 50s/60, White Female. CEO of international NGO caring for her formerly world-traveling parents. Also plays: JUNE (40’s, White) Queer Gender Studies professor poised to care for three queer parents. GERIATRIC THERAPIST (50s) specializing in Arts Therapy and Movement, and JIM’S MOM (80s) living with dementia, acerbic, often inappropriately.
THERESA & OTHERS - 60s, Female. MacArthur Award winning elder justice lawyer and author; a concrete communicator and activist; Also: CECILIA (60s, Latina) former professional musician trying to return to her passion; pulled between independence and family. NURSE (60s) / HOSPICE (20s). ROLE IS CAST.
JIM & OTHERS - 50s, White Male. Part-time stand-up comic, affable family man. Also: PAUL (60s, White) Jewish American teacher, writer, former Broadway and Hollywood actor, now teaching theater to 7th graders in a DC Public Charter School. And Politics & Prose BOOKSTORE OWNER.
OFF-STAGE FEMALE COVER 1 - 40s-60s White Female. Covers SARAH, THERESA, & OTHERS.
OFF-STAGE FEMALE COVER 2 - 30s-50s Black Female. Covers LORRI, RACHEL, KRIS, & OTHERS.
OFF-STAGE MALE COVER - 50s White Male. Covers JIM & OTHERS.
NOTE:
Voices Festival Productions (VFP) is an independent production company based in Washington DC, which produces plays (and the occasional musical) that stimulate debate and discourse, introspection and awareness, informed by revelation of our underlying humanity in all its color and complexity, finding resonance between those living with conflict in the Middle East and closer to home, in our nation’s capital, along the seams of our nation and its very real and perceived divides. We celebrate diverse, inter-cultural voices and encounters through inter-connected performance of both provocative and introspective new works for the stage, in dialogue with our moment.
All VFP personnel are asked to follow organizational policies for anti-discrimination/harassment and Covid safety protocols. In addition to our mission, we have iterated company safety documents, including our VFP Anti-Harassment Policy, Rehearsal Room Standards (based on the work of our colleagues at Not in Our House: DC, and Not in Our House: Chicago), an Intimacy Pillars Reference Guide, Concern Resolution Form, COVID Safety Plan, and more. www.voicesfestivalproductions.com
NOTE: 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 submit.
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