Geffen Playhouse
Los Angeles, CA

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Friday, May 1, 2026

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (P)

Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep

$1213 weekly minimum (LORT B)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in LIBERATION (See breakdown).

All roles will be understudied at Geffen Playhouse.

This is a 3-city production with Berkeley Rep, Geffen Playhouse and Studio Theater, DC

PREPARATION

Please prepare a monologue no longer than 2-minutes.

LOCATION

Actors' Equity Association - Los Angeles

5636 Tujunga Ave

North Hollywood, CA 91601

PERSONNEL

Playwright - Bess Wohl

Director - Whitney White

Expected to attend:

Phyllis Schuringa: Artistic Associate/Casting Director

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production-specific dates.

OTHER

https://www.geffenplayhouse.or...

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

LIBERATION

Production Dates:

Berkeley Rep:

Rehearsal (NY): Tuesday, September 22, 2026

Travel to CA: on or around Friday October 16, 2026

Tech: Sunday, October 18, 2026

Preview: Friday, October 23, 2026

Opening: Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Closing: Sunday, November 29, 2026

Geffen Playhouse:

First Rehearsal: Tuesday, January 12, 2027

First Tech: Tuesday, January 19, 2027

Previews begin: Wednesday, January 27, 2027

Opening: Thursday, February 4, 2027

Closing: Sunday, February 28, 2027

Studio Theatre (D.C.):

Spacing/Tech: Week of March 15, 2027

Previews and Opening: Week of March 22, 2027

Core Run: March 29 - May 30, 2027

Held for Extension: May 31 - June 27, 2027

SEEKING:

Lizzie – Female identifying. Flexible age to play 20s-40s. White. A journalist, searching to understand choices made in the past so she can find a way to live with the present-day complications of motherhood, ambition, and heterosexual marriage. Plays herself in the present and her mother in the past. In the present, she is searching, curious, insistent, and secretly navigating a deep and crippling sense of loss. As her mother in the 1970's, she is ambitious, hopeful, optimistic, brave and profoundly conflicted. As both, she is a woman striving to step into her true self, if only she could figure out how. This role will require nudity.

Margie – Female identifying. 50s-60s. White. A midwestern homemaker, mother of two grown boys, and wife of a man who neither appreciates her nor notices her thinly sublimated rage. Her husband is retired now and she is looking for a way to get out of the house so she doesn't stab him. Maybe she's kidding... Maybe she's genuinely homicidal. (She's not even sure herself.) Important: she is not a doormat and could have done many things if she had been given the chance. For now, she must settle for making an excellent cheese ball. This role will require nudity.

Susan – Female identifying. Early 20s. White. A radical, queer free spirit living out of her car with a pet bird and a fragile relationship to her own mental health. Her way of seeing the world is utterly brilliant, completely unique, and at times deeply painful. She has profound visions, she has frightening dreams-- all in all, she is ahead of her time, which makes it very hard to live at all. This role will require nudity.

Celeste – Female identifying. Late 30s. Black. Harvard/Radcliffe educated, editor and writer. Left her life as a New York City writer and activist and came home to this stifling midwestern town to care for her sick mother, who is slowly dying. She is grounded, precise and at times guarded - in part as she is on a journey with being open with her sexuality and where she sits at the intersection of queerness and blackness. This role will require nudity.

Isidora – Female identifying. 30s. White. An Italian immigrant who came to the U.S. at age 12, was abandoned by her mother and raised by nuns, and later got married to an American - but only to get a green card (and maybe a credit card too). She is brash, proud of her sexuality and sensuality, opinionated and bitterly desperate for action. Hard to tell at times whether what's motivating her is optimism or nihilism. Or maybe it's just plain rage. This role will require nudity.

Dora – Female identifying. Mid 20s. White. A prim, midwestern "good girl," whose neat hair and sensible pumps belie a fierce ambition and growing determination to claw her way up the professional ladder. Her character goes through drastic growth and change as she will mature from a quietly deferential, competent secretary to a successful, globe-trotting marketing maven over the course of her life. Ultimately, she will find the courage to resist the conventions of her upbringing. This role will require nudity.

Joanne – Female identifying. Early 30s. Black. She's got four obstreperous young sons and an unhelpful husband to deal with, on top of working a full-time job. She cannot get on board with women fighting to work outside the home when she's already been working outside the home her whole life-- and would change places with a bored housewife any day of the week. She's direct, perceptive and unafraid to call out hypocrisy wherever she finds it. (This actor will double as Lizzie in a single scene with Bill.)

Bill – Male identifying. Late 20s-early 30s. White. Bill is smart, clean-cut, athletic, down-to-earth. A hard-working young lawyer with a healthy sense of ambition, and an equally strong sense of justice. He's got the chance of a lifetime to move to New York for a job opportunity but is also head-over-heels in love with Lizzie. He's an optimist who truly believes in the promise of equal partnership between men and women, and that, with love, anything is possible. He's also deeply scared that Lizzie will break his heart.

SALARY

LORT Non-Rep $1213 weekly minimum (LORT B)

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