Geffen Playhouse | Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles, CA

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Submission

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep

$1144 weekly minimum (LORT B)

SEEKING

Equity actors for Understudy roles in SYLVIA,

SYLVIA, SYLVIA (See breakdown).

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your headshot and resume for consideration to submit a self-tape audition for the Understudy positions.

Deadline: 12/15/2025

SUBMIT TO

[email protected]

Phyllis Schuringa

Geffen Playhouse

10886 Le Conte Ave

Los Angeles, CA 90024

PERSONNEL
Playwright - Beth Hyland
Director - Jo Bonney
Casting Director - Phyllis Schuringa

OTHER DATES
In-person auditions will be held in Los Angeles on or around January 8, 2026. They will ask for self-tapes first.
First Rehearsal - January 23, or the Designer run.
First Preview - February 4, 2026
Opening - February 12, 2026
Closing - March 8, 2026

OTHER

www.geffenplayhouse.org

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 submit.
Notice: Submission

BREAKDOWN

SYLVIA, SYLVIA, SYLVIA

SYNOPSIS: Sally, a once-celebrated novelist grappling with writer's block and overshadowed by her husband Theo’s rising literary fame, seeks solace and inspiration in the iconic Boston apartment once inhabited by Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. But when eerie encounters begin to blur the line between
inspiration and madness, Sally is forced to question what’s real, what’s imagined, and what her artmay truly cost her. A darkly funny, gripping world premiere from rising playwright Beth Hyland, this tragicomic thriller explores creativity, obsession, and our ghosts that refuse to be ignored.

Recipient of the Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. Major support for this world premiere production provided by the Edgerton Foundation New Play Production Fund.

SEEKING Understudies for:

SALLY: CAST. (Early 30s) Very funny, very fast, with a real depth and vulnerability that she attempts to cover over. Uses humor both as a shield and as a weapon. Her brain moves incredibly quickly - super sharp, super verbal. Occasionally attempts to perform a cool girl nihilism despite being so, so
anxious and obsessive; also suffers from the classic writer's combination of deep insecurity mixed with moments of superiority.

THEO: CAST. (Early 30s) Gentle, boyish, neurotic, somewhat knowingly performing the role of "selfconscious writer." Uncomfortable with traditional masculinity, yet performing a recognizable type of left/liberal/artistic spaces manhood. Charming in his sweet, self-effacing nature, but there's something
underneath that makes us wonder if we can trust him.

SYLVIA: CAST. (30s) The most intense, the most vibrant, the highest highs and the lowest lows. Art and love and ambition and joy and suffering pour out of her - everything goes outward. High-status and elegant in a mid-20th century way - in the scenes set in the present, she feels like she's from
another time. Equally capable of deep tenderness and viciousness.

TED: CAST. (30s) Dialect: British accent. Darkly magnetic, a self-styled Heathcliff: immensely charismatic with a sense of genuine danger about him. Brilliant, completely dedicated to his work, and very consciously embodying the role of The Artist. A deeply compelling stillness - mysterious, gnomic,
self-contained - with occasional unpredictable outbursts of violence.

SALARY

LORT Non-Rep $1144 weekly minimum (LORT B)

UNION

AEA