Primary Stages
New York, NY

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

REVISED

Breakdown updated.

AUDITION DATE

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)

AND

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)

AND

Friday, December 12, 2025

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)

BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM

CONTRACT

Off Broadway

$903 weekly minimum (cat. 3) + health and pension

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in CALF SCRAMBLE (see breakdown).

Local NYC actors and actors who are strong movers/comfortable with physical theater are encouraged to audition as each actor plays a human as well as a calf.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a brief contemporary monologue, no more than 2 minutes in length. Also please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Actors' Equity New York Audition Center

165 W 46th St

16th Fl

New York, NY 10036

PERSONNEL

Libby Carr, Playwright

Caitlin Sullivan, Director

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:

Erin Daley, Artistic Director

Zuhdi Boueri. Artistic Associate

OTHER DATES

Rehearsals: Feb 3 - Feb 22, 2026

Tech: Feb 24 - Feb 27, 2026

Performances: Feb 28 - April 12, 2026

OTHER

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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.

BREAKDOWN

CALF SCRAMBLE

SEEKING:

ANNA LEE / VIVVY’S CALF - Character portrayed is female (she/her), 18+ to play 16, white. A Preacher’s daughter with a strong backbone. She’s secure enough in her social status to push boundaries. Deeply caring. Vivvy is her best friend.

EL / SOFI’S CALF - Character portrayed is female (she/her), 18+ to play 16, Latina.

A chameleon, destined to be a townie. Dry, funny and tough. Sofi’s best friend since birth, she’s trying to bridge her friendship with Sofi with her FFA friends inside the barn.

MAREN / EL’S CALF - Character portrayed is female (she/her), 18+ to play 15, white.

Sweet and exuberant and bursting with God’s love. A chatterbox from a Fundamentalist Christian family, her relationship with God is enviously intimate.

ANNA LEE / VIVVY’S CALF - Character portrayed is female (she/her), 18+ to play 16, white. A Preacher’s daughter with a strong backbone. She’s secure enough in her social status to push boundaries. Deeply caring. Vivvy is her best friend.

EL / SOFI’S CALF - Character portrayed is female (she/her), 18+ to play 16, Latina. A chameleon, destined to be a townie. Dry, funny and tough. Sofi’s best friend since birth, she’s trying to bridge her friendship with Sofi with her FFA friends inside the barn.

MAREN / EL’S CALF - Character portrayed is female (she/her), 18+ to play 15, white.

Sweet and exuberant and bursting with God’s love. A chatterbox from a Fundamentalist Christian family, her relationship with God is enviously intimate.

SOFI / MAREN’S CALF - Character portrayed is female (she/her), 18+ to play 16, Latina.

The newcomer, she is spread very thin and uncomfortable being new. She’s booksmart — views academic achievement as a “way out” of Huntsville and her living situation. She sees herself as different from (and superior to) the religious, agriculture-centric FFA kid in the group.

VIVVY / ANNA LEE’S CALF - Character portrayed is female, (she/her), 18+ to play 16, Latina. An FFA expert, supremely confident. Vivvy’s family owns a cattle ranch — she is extremely skilled with animals and cares deeply about the group’s calves. She values competence and hard work above all
else. Despite her best efforts, she can’t hide how butch she is.

Anna Lee is her best friend.

ANNA LEE / VIVVY’S CALF - Character portrayed is female (she/her), 18+ to play 16, white. A Preacher’s daughter with a strong backbone. She’s secure enough in her social status to push boundaries. Deeply caring. Vivvy is her best friend.

EL / SOFI’S CALF - Character portrayed is female (she/her), 18+ to play 16, Latina.

A chameleon, destined to be a townie. Dry, funny and tough. Sofi’s best friend since birth, she’s trying to bridge her friendship with Sofi with her FFA friends inside the barn.

MAREN / EL’S CALF - Character portrayed is female (she/her), 18+ to play 15, white.

Sweet and exuberant and bursting with God’s love. A chatterbox from a Fundamentalist Christian family, her relationship with God is enviously intimate.

SALARY

Off Broadway $903 weekly minimum (cat. 3) + health and pension

UNION

AEA