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New Arts City Theatre Festival
Ventura, CA

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Thursday, April 17, 2025

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (P)

CONTRACT

SPT

$538 weekly minimum (SPT 5) - will pay $561 weekly

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in New Arts City Theatre Festival's 2025 Season (See breakdown).

The mission at New Art City Theatre is: To forge a new path to opportunity for artists who create theatre. By giving equal access to diverse voices, and inviting a broader audience to join us, we aspire to elevate all that is compelling about original theatre and its ability to promote unity, inspire curiosity and provide joy.

NACT is committed to creating a welcoming work environment for writers, actors, and other theatre-makers. NACT is an artist-driven organization, and diverse casting is a primary goal. Unless gender, cultural background or race is specified by the playwright, the belief at NACT is that stories can and should be told by actors who represent the American population in all its extraordinary variety.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a contemporary and classical monologue, for a total of no more than two minutes long. Also bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Namba Performing Arts Space

47 S. Oak Street

Ventura, CA 93001

To schedule an audition appointment, please go to:

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:

Founders/Co-Producing Artistic Directors: Beverly Ward and Kirby Ward

OTHER DATES

First rehearsal will be on or around June 7th, 2025

The Festival runs between June 12th - 15th, 2025

This is a one-week contract for actors rehearsing in Los Angeles and presenting for one day with a matinee and evening performance in Ventura.

OTHER

www.newartcitytheatre.org

An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

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

New Arts City Theatre Festival 2025 Season

TRIBECA, by Zach Tomasovic:

Rehearses June 7th - 10th

Day off June 11th

Matinee and evening reading on June 12th

SYNOPSIS: Welcome to the dog-eat-dog world of Manhattan preschool admissions. The play takes place in Tribeca, Manhattan (mostly), and Akron, Ohio (for a bit). It’s set in present day over the course of one preschool application cycle.

SEEKING:

MIA - Olivia's mom. Female identifying, any ethnicity, 30s, Yale & Sorbonne. Will do literally anything to get her 6-month-old into the “right school.�

BLAKE - Olivia’s Dad. Male identifying, white, 30s, Yale & Harvard Business School. Beginning to doubt the emotional (and financial) cost of competitive parenting.

SUSAN - The Preschool Consultant, Female identifying, any ethnicity, 40s+, CUNY & Fordham. Nononsense. Sharp as a tack.

CAROLINE - The Head of Preschool, Female identifying, white, 50s+, Wellesley & Columbia Teacher's College (PhD). Cool and calm. A Stepford administrator.

TROUBLE DEAF HEAVEN, by Michaelia Leigh Mendoza

Rehearses June 8th - 11th

Day off June 12th

Matinee and evening reading on June 13th.

SYNOPSIS: Women’s rights are central to this gothic Victorian nightmare. Set in England, 1877, the play takes place on a ship headed for America, and the home of Dr. and Mrs. Price, employers with questionable moral compasses.

SEEKING:

MARY AMELIA - 20s-30s. a woman running from her past. Female identifying. Any ethnicity. Resourceful.

DOCTOR PRICE - 30s-40s. male, a surgeon. Male identifying. Any ethnicity. Imposing and presumptuous.

MRS. PRICE - 30s-40s. his wife, the mistress of the house. Female identifying. Any ethnicity. Ultimately a predator, but certain she’s a victim.

ALICE - 20s-30s. a woman working for the Prices. Female identifying. Any ethnicity. Lovely innocent but has strength and resolve.

MR. ANDREWS/SERVANT 2/UNSEEN MAN - 20s-50s. Characters who are both sympathetic and deeply unsympathetic. A true chameleon. Male identifying. Any ethnicity.

WOMAN ON SHIP/ELIZABETH/MIDWIFE/SERVANT 1 - 20s-50s. Able to embody a variety of female characters throughout the play. Some more kind than others. Female identifying. Any ethnicity.

TWO-MAN RULE, by Collin Van Son

Rehearses June 9th - 12th

Day off June 13th

Matinee and evening reading on June 14th.

SYNOPSIS: The Twilight Zone meets War Games in this psychological thriller. The play takes place in the 1970s at a nuclear bunker and the forest-land directly above that isolated space.

SEEKING:

WALLACE - Male identifying, early to mid-20s. Air Force officer at a nuclear missile site. Excitable. Inexperienced, yet takes himself (and his job) very seriously. Still a kid at heart, but the kind of kid who’d fry ants with a magnifying glass and call himself a scientist. Any ethnicity.

SANDAKER - Male identifying, roughly 40 years old. Wallace’s superior officer. Jaded, but not cynical. Wants to be a good soldier and a good person. Increasingly overwhelmed.

ANNIE - Female identifying, roughly 30 years old. Park ranger. Talking with her, one gets the sense she’s taking field notes. Enjoys making jokes that only she understands. Remarkably nonchalant for someone who’s lost a mountain lion.

THE APPLIANCE DEPARTMENT, by Bella Poynton

Rehearses June 10th - 13th

Day off June 14th

Matinee and evening reading on June 15th.

SYNOPSIS: At Boynton’s department store, Robotic Companions (RCs) Ruby and Charlie want nothing more than to be purchased by a human family and brought to a loving home. This play asks, when does something become someone?

SEEKING:

RUBY - A Robotic Companion, or RC; 5th generation, 20s. Female presenting. Any Ethnicity. Lovely, sincere and honest to a fault.

CHARLIE - A Robotic Companion, or RC; 5th generation, 20s. Handsome and boyish. Masculine presenting. Any Ethnicity. Sincere and devoted to his purpose.

VIOLET - A Robotic Companion, or RC; 6th generation, 20s. Very pretty. Femme presenting. A person of color. Suffers no fools. Cunning and suspicious.

MISS ABIGAIL - The manager of the appliance department at Boynton’s Department Store. Any age. Femme presenting or non-binary. Any Ethnicity. Overworked and underpaid.

SAM - A customer, 35ish. A professor of Psychology. Masculine presenting. Any Ethnicity. A lost soul, looking for a connection.

OSCAR - A Repair/Delivery man from the Delphi company, which manufactures RCs. Any age. Masculine presenting or non-binary. Any age. Ideally, a person of color. Efficient and kind-hearted. �

SALARY

SPT $538 weekly minimum (SPT 5) - will pay $561 weekly

UNION

AEA