Alexander McQueen LLC | Cornelius, NC
Cornelius, NC

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

REVISED

Updated Breakdown - Child Lee.

AUDITION DATE

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

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

Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

AND

AUDITION DATE

Thursday, May 1, 2025

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

Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CONTRACT

Off Broadway

$1439 weekly minimum (Cat. E) - Most Favored Nations

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in HOUSE OF MCQUEEN (See breakdown).

Local NYC area actors are encouraged to audition.

PRODUCER is committed to diversity and encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to audition.

All Equity stage managerial positions have been filled.

PREPARATION

Please prepare two, short, contrasting contemporary monologues of no more than 2- minutes total. Please show range and versatility. Bring a headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Actors' Equity New York Audition Center

165 W 46th St 16th Fl

New York, NY 10036

PERSONNEL

Producer: Rick Lazes

Writer: Darrah Cloud from an idea by Rick

Lazes and Seth Koch

Director: Sam Helfrich

General Manager: Reed Ridgley and Anthony

Francavilla/Form Theatricals

Casting: Jamibeth Margolis Casting

Expected to attend:

Director - Sam Helfrich

Casting Director - Jamibeth Margolis

Casting Associate - Meredith Hoddeson

OTHER DATES

Rehearsals: July 14- August 10th, 2025

Tech: August 11th - August 17th, 2025

Preview: August 18th - September 3rd, 2025

PRESS Previews: September 4th - 7th (5 Press Performances)

Opening: September 9th, 2025

OTHER

Rehearsal Venue: Open Jar Studios

Performance Venue/Theatre: The Manor at Hudson Yards

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

HOUSE OF MCQUEEN

SYNOPSIS: House of McQueen is the story of iconic fashion designer Alexander McQueen as seen
through the eyes of... Alexander McQueen. From his early days drawing on the walls of his East
London council-house bedroom, a bird-obsessed boy who wore his heart on his sleeve, to his unlikely
rise in the commercial fashion world, Lee, as he was known to his friends, tells his own story on a
runway, a place he’d always dreamt of living his life. He takes us through his memories of epiphany
and trauma to his final moments in which he could no longer make anything beautiful out of his life.
Special Note: This is an Ensemble piece and with the exception of the performer playing Lee, all
performers will be asked to take on multiple roles in the play.

SEEKING:

Lee/ Teen Lee - Male presenting. Mid 30s, Roughly handsome, soft around the edges, very
connected to his East London working class roots. Appears as an older teenager at times. Accent
essential.

Isabella - Female presenting. Mid 40s, Posh, sophisticated London old money minor aristocrat. Smart,
knowledgeable, quick witted and biting. Also deeply insecure, depressive, and living life at extremes.
Posh London accent essential.

Joyce - Female presenting. 50s Working class east London mother of several children. No-nonsense
but loving parent. Sensitive. Uncomfortable outside her own world and social circles. Accent essential.

Janet / Model 2/ Psychic - Female presenting. 20s, hip working-class East London young woman,
aspiring to beauty and style, loosely tuned into fashion and celebrity worlds through magazines,
recently married and susceptible to domestic violence. Deeply affectionate to younger siblings. Accent
Essential. This track appears briefly in underwear in order to change clothes on stage.

Ron / Robert / Tom Ford - Male presenting. Mid 40s working class father and family patriarch. Hard
working life-long cab driver. Rough on the outside, but with a softer, more affectionate interior. A man
who “wants the best for his kids” and also understands his family’s “place” in the world. Doubles as a
sophisticated upper-class British tailor, and American fashion icon Tom Ford. Accents essential.

Terence / Monsieur / Demon - Male presenting. Late 20s East London working class, at times
violent, with a temper and possibly dark secrets lurking underneath a brutish exterior. Roughly
handsome and exuding masculinity and sex. A modern-day east end Stanley Kowalski. Doubles as a
high-end French businessman and then a demon (silent). Accent essential.

Simon/ Eddie/ Technician - Male presenting. Late 20s/early 30s all around good guy, devoted friend,
also handsome. Classic fashion industry insider who remains in the background. Working class British
accent. Doubles as tailor shop worker (more refined London accent) and studio technician. Accents
essential. This track appears briefly in underwear in order to change clothes on stage.

Reporter/ Professor/ Model 1 - Female presenting. Mid 30s to Mid 40s, with ability to appear
younger at times. BBC news accent. Smart, sophisticated observationalist with an edge of sarcasm.
Doubles as fashion intellectual who commands respect, and at times a McQueen model. This track
appears briefly in underwear in order to change clothes on stage.

Billy Boy/ Lise / Curator - 35 - 45. Super sophisticated New York elite bon vivant. Mid Atlantic
accent. Sarcastic but deeply caring, with a tough-love angelic quality. Doubles as a mid-level Italian
assistant/administrator who knows genius when they see it, and an American art historian, nerdy
intellectual with deep love for art and genius. Will play both male and female presenting roles. Trans or
non-binary performers are encouraged to audition for this track.

Lawyer / James / George/ Andrew / Archie - Male presenting. 30 - 45. A wide range of British
characters, ranging from young, gay, British, working-class boyfriend, to a more sophisticated tailor
shop worker, and a French (and French speaking) lawyer. This track appears briefly in underwear in
order to change clothes on stage.

Child Lee - 12-14 to play 8 years old. Young boy. Male presenting. British East London accent.
Spunky, curious kid who witnesses a lot, thinks deeply about the world, reads and dreams and shows
incredible artistic talent. This character appears briefly shirtless in swimming trunks.

SALARY

Off Broadway $1439 weekly minimum (Cat. E) - Most Favored Nations

UNION

AEA