Flea Theater
New York, NY
US

DESCRIPTION

AUDITION DATE

Friday, December 13, 2024

10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)

Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CONTRACT

URTA

$1200 weekly minimum (Tier IV)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in HANG TIME (See breakdown).

This production will play multiple locations (see dates in breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please prepare the Sides for the role you are interested in. Sides will be available at the audition site on the morning of the audition and are also available at:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1La9r0-hxjqJzoqXGrX9ZFyq4x2DtvC6b?usp=sharing

Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Flea Theater

20 Thomas St

New York, NY 10007

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:

Zora Howard: Director/Playwright

Martin Meccouri: Producer

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for rehearsal and tour schedule.

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

HANG TIME

SCHEDULE:

Rehearsals (in NYC) - March 25- April 8, 2025

ASU Gammage Presentation (Tempe, AZ) - April 14-19, 2024

Northwestern University Presentation (Chicago, IL) - Oct 13-19, 2025

ArtsEmerson Presentation (Boston, MA) - Fall 2025 (pending)

Adrienne Arsht Center Presentation (Miami, FL) - Fall 2025 (pending)

NYC homecoming Presentation (NYC) - Fall/Winter 2025 (pending)

SYNOPSIS: Three men chew the fat under an old, wide tree. In HANG TIME, we peek into the interiority – the great loves and bitter blues – of Black men in America. Setting the romantic and the macabre in sharp relief, HANG TIME invites the viewer to envisage the living Black body triumphant over the legacy of violence that it holds.

SEEKING:

BIRD (M): Black, 60s. A man of few words with a gruff exterior. Has seen some things. Knows to keep his head down. Quiet, settled temperament; has mostly made peace with the world. Mostly. Has a secret, something from his past that haunts him still.

SLIM (M): Black, 40s. The pontificatin' type. Quick to tell you the way of the world. Likes to be the center of attention, but doesn’t like to be seen. Fast-talking, hyper-masculine, a palpable effort made to obscure some deep laden disappointment with the way things shook out for him. Good looking, but life has roughed him up some.

BLOOD (M): Black, early 20s. Just coming into himself. A dreamer and deep thinker. Clings to the belief there is a world bigger than the one he’s always known. Sensitive and tender-souled, but observant. Can hold his own with the old heads. Carrying something heavy.

SALARY

URTA $1200 weekly minimum (Tier IV)

UNION

AEA