Classic Stage Company
New York, NY

DESCRIPTION

CALL TYPE
EPA

CONTRACT
Off Broadway
$999 weekly minimum (Tier 5)

AUDITION DATE
Monday, December 9, 2024
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

LOCATION
Ripley-Grier Studios (305)
305 W 38th St
New York, NY 10018-2902
Holding room - Studio 212

PERSONNEL
CSC Producing Artistic Director - Jill Rafson
CSC General Manager - Kathryn McCumber
NAATCO Co-Founder & Actor-Manager - Mia Katigbak
NAATCO Managing Producer - Mona Moriya
Transport Group Artistic Director - Jack Cummings III
Transport Group Executive Director - Denise Dickens
Playwright - William Inge
Director - Jack Cummings III

Expected to attend:
Casting Assistant - Nia Smith
Casting Director - Margaret Dunn

OTHER DATES
Rehearsal Start Date: o/a April 07, 2025
Preview Date: o/a May 08, 2025
Opening Date: May 18, 2025
Closing Date: June 08, 2025
Extension Date: June 22, 2025

OTHER
https://www.classicstage.org/
https://naatco.org/
https://transportgroup.org/

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.

SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in BUS STOP (See breakdown).

This is a three-way co-production between National Asian American Theatre Company (NAATCO), Classic Stage Company (CSC), and Transport Group.

Asian/Asian American actors are encouraged to audition.

There are currently no Equity stage managerial positions available.

PREPARATION
Please prepare a 1-minute monologue in the style of American classic (Inge, Williams, Miller, Hellman, Odets) and bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

BREAKDOWN

BUS STOP
NAATCO’s mission is to assert the presence and significance of Asian American theatre in the United States, demonstrating its vital contributions to the fabric of American culture. We present the following repertory:

European and American classics as written with all Asian American casts

Adaptations of these classics by Asian American playwrights

New plays – preferably world premieres – written by non-Asian Americans, not for or about Asian Americans, but realized by an all-Asian American cast

Development and production of new plays by Asian American playwrights that incorporate other performative arts and media.

SEEKING for all Asian/Asian American version of BUS STOP:
[ELMA DUCKWORTH] (She/her, 18+ to play 16 y.o.) Elma is a part-time waitress at the diner working under Grace. She is innocent, charming, smart, and longing for a world of beauty found in Shakespeare, literature and poetry. She is at all times hopeful.

[GRACE] (She/her, 35 - 55 y.o.) Grace runs/owns the diner. She is smart, seasoned, dry, and practical. Underneath it all she is heartbreakingly lonely (as are all Inge characters). She is also sexy but in an experienced, Barbara Stanwyck way.

[WILL] (He/him, 30 - 40 y.o.) Will is the local Sheriff. Inge describes him as a huge saturnine man, well over six feet who has a thick black beard and a scar on his forehead--he looks somewhat forbidding. Despite his appearance, Will is a fair and honest man--an upstanding midwesterner.

[DR. GERALD LYMAN] (He/him, 45 - 65 y.o.) Lyman is a professor of English. Inge describes him, "a man of medium height, about 50 with a ruddy boyish face that smilingly defies the facts of his rather scholarly glasses and iron-gray hair. He wears an old tweed suit of good quality--his clothes are mussed. He has been drinking.

[CARL] (He/him, 40 - 50 y.o.) Carl is the bus driver. Inge describes him as a, "hefty man, loud and hearty, who looks very natty in his uniform." He is a man trying to exist in the world under his crushing loneliness.

[VIRGIL] (He/him, 35 - 45 y.o.) Virgil is a cowboy/ ranch hand and works with Bo, serving as an adjunct mentor and parent figure to him. Inge describes him, "a big man corpulent and slow moving, rolls his own cigarettes." He is a tender-hearted wise figure who knows how to read a room. He plays the guitar and sings a little.

[BO] (He/him, 20 - 22 y.o.) Bo is a cowboy who owns a ranch he inherited. He is incredibly naive and tremendously sensitive. He cannot read a room to save his life. Inge describes him, "tall and slim and good-looking in an outdoors way--very unkempt." He is a hopeless and clumsy romantic and madly and obsessively in love with Cherie.

[CHERIE] (She/her, 20 - 30 y.o.) Cherie is a nightclub performer/singer. Per Inge, she is pretty in a fragile, girlish way. Her make-up has been applied under the influence of having seen too many movies. Her prettiness is always apparent though, and she has the appeal of a tender little bird.

SALARY

Off Broadway $999 weekly minimum (Tier 5)

UNION

AEA