ECODISASTER Musical
Brooklyn , NY
US

CONTACT NAME

Madeline Wall

DESCRIPTION

CONTRACT:
12 Rehearsals and 4 performances
$200 stipend
non-union

PREPARATION:
Please email us a video (or link to a video) of you singing. If you play an instrument, please send us a video of you playing it.
In your email, please briefly introduce yourself.
If you have a role(s) you're particularly interested in, please say so.

PERSONNEL:
Will review submissions:

Director, Madeline Wall
Music Director, Lily White
Book and Lyrics Writer, Sarah Safford
Composer, Sean Ivy

ABOUT THIS PROJECT:
EcoDisaster in the Hundred Acre Wood

New Musical

100 years ago Winnie the Pooh and his friends were introduced in an English magazine. Since then they have been endlessly adapted and taken on countless reimaginings by readers around the world. Now, Washington Park in Brooklyn takes up the role of the Hundred Acre Woods. The familiar characters are older and the Forest is under threat from the impacts of climate change and an encroaching pipeline project. We see Winnie the Pooh and friends co-existing in a somewhat neglected habitat, their ‘retirement community’. They lovingly bicker and exchange grievances about their situation.

We’re looking for actors with strong musicianship. For this upcoming May 2026 production, we’ve envisioned a site-specific show where actors play instruments in a jug band as they traipse around Old Stone House and Washington Park - transforming it into the 100 Acre Wood!

Songs will be led by guitar, banjo, and piano, accompanied by instruments like washtub bass, washboard, jugs, spoons, buckets, and bottles. If you have another instrument you love playing (Concertina? Flute? Violin? Tuba?), we’d love to find a way to incorporate it into the score.

The play explores themes of aging and disability. The reality of this production dictates that actors must be able to walk, as well as climb stairs. But we’d love to build a cast that reflects Brooklyn’s diversity of ages and abilities. If you have limited mobility or are differently abled, don’t hesitate to apply - we will accommodate.

The project is in continual development and has a long life ahead of it as a touring production through NYC and beyond. We want to find a cast that is excited by the material both for its elements of literary nostalgia surrounding the original Winnie the Pooh books, and for their urgent passion to engage with the current environmental landscape.

Listed vocal types are flexible, and we’re very willing to adjust music to fit the cast’s vocal range.

SEEKING

Band Leader
Plays piano, guitar, or banjo. Drives the music for most songs.
Uses props to make sound effects including rain and thunderstorms.
Plays the character of CR Jr, 40-50’s, corporate type in two scenes.
Voices Christopher Robin Sr. in prologue

Pooh
Tenor/Baritone.
Character is a man, aged 50-60, but could be played by any gender or age.
Pooh has a compassionate soft side. Portly and arthritic. Enjoys simple pleasures and has trouble with abstract thinking and seeing beyond his own immediate needs.
Instrumentalist a plus

Piglet
Tenor/Alto.
Character is a young gender fluid person, but could be played by any gender or age.
They are small, agile and fast moving. Suffers from generalized anxiety related to perceived outside threats, imaginary and real.
Instrumentalist a plus

Rabbit
Tenor/Baritone.
Character is a middle-aged man, but could be played by any gender or age.
High energy, overachiever and control freak. Needs to keep busy. Efficient to a fault and expects the same of others.
Instrumentalist a plus

Eeyore
Bass/Baritone.
Character is a young man, but could be played by any gender or age.
Slow moving and chronically depressed. His depression is often played for laughs - so an actor with a quick sardonic wit is a plus.
Instrumentalist a plus

Roo

Meso/Soprano.
Character is a young woman, but could be played by any gender or age.
Energetic and on the spectrum; mostly uninterested in the concerns of older animals. A gymnast, rapper, and generally fun person.
Instrumentalist a plus

Owl
Soprano
Character is a Woman, age 50-60, but could be played by any gender or age.
Elder, and occasionally wiser, member of the community, able to read and orate, interested in current events. Suffers from hearing, vision and memory loss, and anxiety related to aging and the news she reads about climate crisis.
Doubles as Engineer #3 - 40’s - any gender. Sensitive and dreamy. Loves nature and animals.
Dance/Movement ability is a plus.
Instrumentalist a plus.

Ensemble Track 1
Any age, any gender. Dancer or strong mover. Puppeteering experience is a plus. They help guide the audience around the park and create sound and visual effects to help tell the story.
Plays Engineer #1. 40-50’s Woman. Authoritative and defensive about her role in a non-traditional job.
Plays Grandchild #1 - Early teens. Internet trend obsessed and high energy. They deliver comic relief.
Instrumentalist a plus.

Ensemble Track 2
Any age, any gender. Dancer or strong mover. Puppeteering experience is a plus. They help guide the audience around the park and create sound and visual effects to help tell the story.
Plays Engineer #2. 20-30’s - Man. Very invested in proving himself.
Plays Grandchild #2 - Preteen. Internet trend obsessed and high energy. They deliver comic relief.
Instrumentalist a plus.

DURATION

Apr 12, 2026 - May 31, 2026

SALARY

$200 stipend

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