Philosophy Productions LLC | New York, NY
New York, NY

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Friday, December 19, 2025

11:00 AM - 7:00 PM (E)

Lunch 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

CONTRACT

Mini

$793.25 weekly minimum

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in HANS LITTEN: THE

JEW WHO CROSS-EXAMINED HITLER (See breakdown).

All Equity stage managerial positions have been filled.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a 2-minute contemporary dramatic monologue and bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION
Houghton Hall Arts Community
22 E 30th St
New York, NY 10016

Audition room - George Holland studio

PERSONNEL
Playwright: Douglas Lackey

Expected to attend:
Director: Alexander Harrington

OTHER DATES
First Rehearsal: 12/30
First Preview: 1/30
Press Opening: 2/5
Closing: 2/22

OTHER

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

HANS LITTEN

9 actors to play all of the following roles. Except for Hans and Irmgard, actors will play multiple roles. Understudies cast from within.

SEEKING:

Hans Litten – ages from 21 to 35 in the course of the play; physically slight, bookish. He is Jewish on his father’s side, but his father converted to Lutheranism. He is passionate about the arts, particularly Mozart and Rilke. Forced by his father to choose a profession, he becomes a lawyer and defends
underdog clients, particularly workers. He is politically left-wing, but he is not a member of the Communist Party about which he is cynical. Able to sing.

Friedrich Litten – ages from 51to 61 in the course of the play; Hans’s father, rector of University of Konigsberg Law School. The son of a famous rabbi, he converted to Lutheranism (presumably for professional and social reasons). He values respectability and is politically conservative: he shares the
view of other conservatives that Hitler can be used to prevent the Communists from coming to power. Once Hans is imprisoned, Friedrich uses his influence to get him transferred to a less brutal concentration camp.

Irmgard Litten – ages from 45 to 58 in the course of the play; Hans’s gentile mother. Intelligent and cultured, she engages with Hans about philosophy, politics, and religion. She works tirelessly to protect her son as he is transferred from concentration camp to concentration camp.

Ludwig Barbasch – ages from 32 to 41 in the course of the play; Hans’s law partner. He is a committed member of the Communist Party, but he has a sense of humor and enjoys drinking, theater, and music.

Adolf Hitler – 42; At the time of a trial of several of his Stormtroopers, he is trying to maintain the appearance of non-violent respectability in the hopes of becoming chancellor; Hans tears down this façade is his cross-examination of Hitler.

Bertolt Brecht – 33; the irreverent communist playwright. Able to sing

Kurt Weill - 31; the famous composer. Able to sing

Clifford, Lord Allen of Hurtwood - 49; a prominent British jurist who tries to intervene with the German government on behalf of the Littens.

Karl Jung - 40s to 50s, NOT THE FAMOUS PSYCHIATRIST, a German Lawyer who refuses Lord Allen’s request to help Hans.

Stormtroopers

Policemen

Concentration Camp Guards

Concentration Camp Inmates