2023 AUDITION MATERIALS
NOTICE!
In-person Season EPAs will be held:
April 27, 2023 at Actors’ Equity Association, 165 W. 46th St., 16th Floor, New York, NY.
9:30am – 5:30pm (Lunch 1-2pm).
April 30, 2023 at The Strand Center for the Arts, 23 Brinkerhoff St., Plattsburgh, NY.
10am – 6pm (Lunch 1pm-2pm).
If you are unable to attend these auditions, you may submit a video audition for casting or call back consideration. Please see breakdown
for further details, and submit video to auditions@depottheatre.org .
CASTING CALL
Character Breakdowns
WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME
Director: Julie Lucido
First Rehearsal: June 19th Opening June 29th Closing July 16th
Performer / Heidi – Female, White, 40s – 50s.
Based on Heidi Schreck; a former debate champion who traveled the country in her teens giving speeches about the Constitution at American legion halls for prize money. Engaging, dynamic, smart, passionate, sunny disposition, fierce and witty. Alternates from adulthood to her 15 year old self throughout the play. Improv skills a plus
Legionnaire / Mike – Open gender, but male-presenting, 40s-50s
Heidi’s friend; first appears as an assertive American Legionnaire monitoring the speech and debate, and a stickler for the rules/law with a sweet side. He later takes off his Legionnaire uniform turning into Heidi’s ally and assistant, ; Mike is gay and a self-declared nerd.
Teen Debate Student – female-presenting, young person of color, teens-early 20s
(She/her or they/them); This character appears in Act 2; Looking for a student or recent graduate with experience on the forensic circuit/speech and debate, and would be willing to share a bit of their own life and history onstage. Acting, improvisation, and/or debate experience preferred but not required. Charisma, competitive nature, and passion for knowledge.
CHESEPEAKE by Lee Blessing
Director: Craig Joseph
This show is already cast
Kerr: a performance artist seeking revenge on a Southern tea-party politician for slandering his work, but before he is able to enact a nefarious plot to steal the senator’s dog, he is mystically reincarnated into the senator’s dog.
THE FANTASTICKS!
Director: Kelsey Leigh Ervi
Music Director: TBA
First Rehearsal: July 31st Opening: August 10th Closing: August 27th
The conceit for this production embraces the universality and sense of allegory in the telling of this musical. This is a play about love. That’s for everyone. We are actively seeking to cast across the gender spectrum for any and all roles. We are enthusiastically casting against traditional and historical “types” for the roles listed below. That includes age, gender expression, race, physical ability, and sexual orientation. Our aim is to bring together an ensemble from which the actors are able to step into these roles fully, employing and manifesting imagination in the execution of these roles.
To be clear, the characters themselves will retain their assigned gender as detailed by the play. The actors themselves who portray these gendered roles, will not be bound to the strictures of gendered traditionalism. The same is true for age. The characters will maintain their ages, however the creative team is open to any of the characters being portrayed by actors of any age.
Roles:
MATT a lover. Charming, endearing, honest. Sings low A – high G
LUISA a lover. Tender, sincere, enchanting. Sings low B – high B
EL GALLO A bandit, a leader, and our narrator. Sings low Ab – high G
THE MUTE A speechless and “invisible” narrator of everything else.
HENRY The aging, seasoned actor who (mostly) recalls Shakespeare and revels in the magic of theatre.
MORTIMER A generous scene partner to Henry, known for his elaborate death scenes.
HUCKLEBEE A parent. Sings low A – high F#
BELLOMY A parent. Sings low A – high F#
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WHAT TO PREPARE
IN-PERSON EPA
If you’re auditioning for What the Constitution Means to Me, please prepare a monologue in the style of the show/character of interest. If you’re auditioning for the role of the Young Debate Student, you are welcome to instead present “The Preamble” of The Constitution (available below) in the style of speech and debate. The total audition should not exceed 3 minutes.
If you’re auditioning for The Fantasticks!, please prepare one selection of 16-32 bars of a song and a short monologue in the style of the show/character of interest. Please take note of the casting breakdown noted for this production when considering your interest in which roles. Actively seeking actors across the gender spectrum and actors of color.
Preamble: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
SUBMISSIONS
If you are unable to make our in person EPA’s we welcome you to please submit for casting or callback consideration.
Please submit all submission materials to auditions@depottheatre.org by April 23, 2023.
Please submit a headshot, a resume, an unlisted youtube video link containing your audition, and your availability for a callback on April 28 in NYC or on April 30 at the Strand in Plattsburgh, NY.
For the sake of transparency, the theatre provides transportation from the origin point of the audition – which in this case would be NYC. While we would be thrilled to garner talents from beyond NY state, we would not be able to provide travel to actors from alternative locations outside NYC.
If you’re auditioning for What the Constitution Means to Me, please prepare two contrasting monologues in the style of the show/character of interest.
If you’re auditioning for the role of the Young Debate Student, you are welcome to present “The Preamble” of The Constitution (available below) in the style of speech and debate in addition to a monologue.
If you’re auditioning for The Fantasticks!, please prepare two contrasting musical selections of 16-32 bars and a short monologue in the style of the show/character of interest. Please take note of the casting breakdown noted for this production when considering your interest in which roles. Actively seeking actors across the gender spectrum and actors of color.
Preamble: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.