Irish Repertory Theatre | New York, NY

DESCRIPTION

AUDITION DATE

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

CONTRACT

Off Broadway

$860 weekly minimum (Cat. 3)

SEEKING

Equity actors for IRISHTOWN (See breakdown).

All Equity stage management positions have been filled.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a short contemporary monologue. All roles require authentic Irish accents. Equity video submission deadline is
Friday, January 21st, 2025, at 11:59pm ET.

LOCATION

Irish Repertory Theatre

132 W 22nd St

New York, NY 10011-2419

2nd Floor.

PERSONNEL

Artistic Director: Charlotte Moore

Producing Director: Ciaran O’Reilly

Written by: Ciara Elizabeth Smyth

Directed by: Nicola Murphy Dubey

Viewing submissions:

OTHER DATES

Rehearsals Begin: March 4, 2025

Performances Begin: April 2, 2025

Closing Performance: May 25, 2025

OTHER

The employer will accept 126 video submissions from Equity members. Members will sign up online for one of the 126 slots. Only members who get one of the 126 slots will receive a confirmation e-mail with the preparation and submission information. After members' submissions have been viewed, the employer will notify each member who viewed their 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

IRISHTOWN

SYNOPSIS: The Irishtown players, a Dublin-based theatre company, has just started rehearsals for their new play, soon to open in New York. Aisling, the playwright, attempts to define Irishness through an exploration of sexual harassment. However, the actors decide it is neither Irish enough, nor sexy enough, to make it in the Big Apple. Irishtown is a wry, darkly comic exploration of the commercialization of a culture and the collapse of a collective.

SEEKING:

SÍOFRA, 20s-early 30s, Up-and-coming actress (Cork). Charming; attractive; power hungry; self-absorbed.

QUIN, 30s, Actor (Dublin). Crass; blunt; witty; worried he’s on his way to becoming washed up.

CONSTANCE, 50s–70s, Actress (Wicklow). Caustic, dramatic, pragmatic, a wealth of theatre knowledge. Reckoning with her age. The most diplomatic of the lot.

AISLING, 30s, Playwright (Derry). Sensitive, defensive; considers herself a literary authority. Quick to anger; provokes fear in most of the cast. Dating SIOFRA.

POPPY, 40s. Director, (London). Annoyingly clever, according to the cast. Enamored of SIOFRA. Never misses an opportunity to remind people of her directing resume. Over-eager; people-pleaser; exhibits nauseating displays of flattery.

SALARY

Off Broadway $860 weekly minimum (Cat. 3)

UNION

AEA