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Girl Needed for Theatre's 2025-26 Season

New York, NY, United States
ID: 583628Exp: 4/14/2025
$839/week
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Equity actors for roles in Theatre's 2025-26 Season (see breakdown). Seeking a girl. Rate: CONTRACT LORT Non-Rep $839 weekly minimum (LORT D) Additional info: BREAK: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PREPARATION Please prepare one monologue or two brief contrasting monologues to total approximately three minutes. There are no musicals in the season; no singing please. Each actor must bring one 8x 10 head shot with a resume attached to the back of the photo. "AUGUST WILSON’S THE PIANO LESSON" First Rehearsal: 8/5/2025 Opening: 9/5/2025 Closing: 9/28/2025 SYNOPSIS It is 1936, and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the money right quick. He wants to sell a piano that has great importance to his family, but he shares ownership with his sister Berniece, and the piano sits in her living room. Berniece has already rejected several offers, because the antique piano is covered with beautiful carvings detailing the family’s rise from slavery. Boy Willie argues that the past is past, but Berniece proves to be more formidable than he anticipated. If interested, please apply.

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MarethaFemale10-12 y.o.African-American

Berniece's daughter, Maretha is beginning to learn piano. She symbolizes the next generation of the Charles' family, providing the occasion for a number of confrontations on what the family should do with its legacy. "AUGUST WILSON’S THE PIANO LESSON"

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