San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company | San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, CA

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Sunday, January 11, 2026

2:00 PM - 6:00 PM (P)

And

Sunday, January 11, 2026

6:00 PM (P)

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment beginning December 20th, please go to: https://www.signupgenius.com/g.... Slots from 2pm-6pm are for the EPA. Slots from 6pm-7pm are for the ECC Singers call. Once you have secured your audition appointment the theater would like you to fill out their form which will add you to their artists database: https://www.sfbatco.org/auditi... . The deadline to schedule an audition appointment is January 6th, 2026, at 3pm PT.

CONTRACT

Bay Area Theatre

$519 weekly minimum (Tier 2) - Until 7/12/26

$545 weekly minimum (Tier 2) - After 7/12/26

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT (See breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please prepare one song in the style of gospel, jazz, or contemporary musical theatre that showcases vocal storytelling. This show centers lineage of Black musical traditions.

Additionally, prepare one active monologue (60–90 seconds) featuring a clear invisible other and a dynamic, specific relationship to that other. Please do not bring in narration or “once upon a time” monologues.

LOCATION

Brava Theater Center

2781 24th St

San Francisco, CA 94114

PERSONNEL

From an Original Idea by Danny Duncan

Book By Michael Gene Sullivan and Danny Duncan

Music and Lyrics by Danny Duncan

Directed and Choreographed by AeJay Antonis Marquis

Expected to attend:

Aejay Antonis Marquis - Director and Choreographer

Rodney Jackson - SFBATCO’s Artistic Director

Phaedra Tillery - Boughton - SFBATCO’s

Casting Manger

Michael Gene Sullivan - Playwright

OTHER DATES

Callback Dates & Times:

Sunday, Jan 25th, 3pm - 6pm

Monday, Jan 26th, 3pm - 7pm

Monday, Feb 2nd, 5pm - 10pm

Developmental Workshop: Possible 1 - week

Development workshop - Summer of 2026

TBD.

Rehearsals: Aug 31 - Oct 1st

Tech/Dress Rehearsals: October 2nd - 9th

Preview: Oct 10th - 14th

Runs: Oct 15th - Nov 1st

Possible extension until 11/8

OTHER

Any questions? Email: [email protected]

An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination.

Equity is committed to diversity andencourages 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

EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT

SYNOPSIS: Every Saturday Night is a vibrant, memory-saturated musical that bridges past and present inside a single Fillmore District home. In the present day, Donte - a lifelong resident preparing to leave San Francisco - meets a young Black family considering buying his house. As Donte and their teenage son Adarè slowly connect, the walls begin to reopen, revealing the after-hours jazz joint Donte’s mother Ardella once ran in the 1950s. Music, humor, grief, and resistance swirl together as the past bursts into the room - dancers, cooks, lovers, hustlers, and dreamers reclaiming their place in a neighborhood that was once called the “Harlem of the West.”

Through interwoven timelines, the piece explores Black joy under pressure, the cost of survival, gentrification’s relentless churn, and the quiet ache of becoming who your family needed you to be. It is both a love letter and a warning, a musical celebration of the people who carved out sanctuary in a world determined to erase them.

SEEKING: (Subject to change)

DONTE: A Black Man, longtime homeowner in San Francisco's Western Addition. 60-70

JOANELLE/ESTELLE: A Black Woman, software engineer, married to Samuel. Mid 30s

SAMUEL/WILLIE: A Black Man, independent contractor, married to Joanelle. Mid 30s. WILLIE: A

Black Man, Ardella's customer. 40s-50s

ADARÈ/ENSEMBLE: A Black Teenager, a gamer, Joanelle and Samuel's son. Mid-teens

CHRISTINE LAFONTAINE/MAXINE/SYLVIA/ENSEMBLE: A Black Businesswoman, owner of Cafe

Obsidian. Mid 30s - 60s. MAXINE: A Black Woman, Ardella's customer. 20s. SYLVIA: A Black Woman, Ardella's customer. 30s-40s

ARDELLA: A Black Woman, owner of an after-hours joint. late 30s.

YOUNG DONTE/ENSEMBLE: A Black Teenager, Ardella's son. Mid-teen

UNCLE BUB: A Black Man, cook at Ardella's After Hours. 40s

DORIS: A Black Woman, friend and employee at Ardella's After Hours. 20s-30s

SIR DON/ENSEMBLE: A Black Man, Ardella's customer. 30s-40s

ESTELLE: A Black Woman, Ardella's customer. 30s-40s

BOBBY JOE: A Black Man, Ardella's estranged husband. 30s - 50s

SALARY

Bay Area Theatre $519 weekly minimum (Tier 2) - Until 7/12/26 $545 weekly minimum (Tier 2) - After 7/12/26

UNION

AEA