Casting Teen Performers for 2024-25 Season
Audition for 2024-25 Season. ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE ACCEPTED. Rate: CONTRACT LORT Non-Rep $1400 weekly minimum (LORT D) Additional info: Please prepare a 2-3 minute contemporary or classical monologue, your choice; preference for heightened or poetic language; material either by a Yale Rep commissioned writer or from a writer in a Yale Rep season very much appreciated. This information can be found on the Yale Rep website. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together. Rehearsal Room Studio Room 109; holding/warm up Room 107. "FALCON GIRLS" October 10–November 2, 2024 First Rehearsal: August 26 First Tech Rehearsal: October 3 Previews: October 10, 11, 12, 15, 16 Opening October 17 Closing: November 2 SYNOPSIS: This is a true story. It’s the 90s in rural Falcon, Colorado. Six teenage girls on the FFA horse judging team are determined to make it to nationals come hell or high water. But to do that, they must grapple with jealousy, rivalries, sex, Jesus, AOL chat rooms, impossible expectations, and rumors of a serial killer. Hilary Bettis’s Falcon Girls is an achingly funny and brutally honest coming-of-age memoir––and a love letter to the girls she grew up with and the horses who saved their lives. "EDEN" January 16–February 8, 2025 First Rehearsal: November 19 First Tech Rehearsal: January 9 Previews: January 17, 18, 20, 21, 22 Opening: January 23 Closing: February 8 SEEKING: 1927, San Juan Hill, a six-block stretch of Manhattan where tensions run deep between its populations of Black Americans and Caribbean immigrants. Eustace, recently transplanted from the South, falls in love with the girl next door, Annetta. But her ironfisted father, Joseph, an ardent Garveyite, has arranged for her to marry another man from the West Indies to protect his bloodline. In Steve Carter’s blistering saga, Eden, clashing ideologies and youthful passions threaten dangerous consequences for two families and their community. When applying please put "LOCAL EPA" in the subject line.
8 roles
Tall and blonde, Evangelical, still has her American Girl’s dolls. Braces and wears a silver mini backpack and tees from Contempo. "FALCON GIRLS"
Chicana, hair dyed blonde, over-plucked eyebrows. Obsessed with anything Hollywood, loves makeup. "FALCON GIRLS"
Chicana, dresses like the typical 90s chola, struggles with jealousy, still secretly sleeps with stuffed animals. Hoop earrings, big bangs, Aquanet, and gangster rap. "FALCON GIRLS"
Great at anything horses, over-achiever, but not out of choice. Wranglers, belt buckles, and Justin boots. "FALCON GIRLS"
Mixed, some might say “exotic,” the new kid so very hungry to fit in somewhere on this earth, loves animals, wounded by things beyond her control. "FALCON GIRLS"
Carries a lot of shame, pulls her hair out. Also wears Wranglers, belt-buckles, and Justin boots. "FALCON GIRLS"
Chicano, nerdy and awkward, wears glasses, and flannel. Lives in a house with a lot of drinking. "FALCON GIRLS"
First-generation West Indian American. Dutifully does his studies, won’t fake the answers, would rather obey his father than get in trouble but is often persuaded by Nimrod. "EDEN"
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