PlayPenn 2026 Season - Philadelphia, PA EPA (04.30.26)

DESCRIPTION

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Thursday, April 30, 2026

11:30 AM - 8:30 PM (E)

BREAK: 3:30PM - 4:30PM

APPOINTMENTS

Auditions will be held on a first-come, first-served basis. Sign-ups will begin at 10:30 am at the theater.

CONTRACT

LOA

$486 weekly minimum (LOA-PP) - Negotiations pending.

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in PlayPenn's 2026 Season New Play Development Conference (See breakdown).

Local Philadelphia area actors are encouraged to audition.

PREPARATION

Please prepare one 2-minute contemporary monologue or up to 2 one-minute contrasting contemporary monologues. Also, please bring a copy of your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Philadelphia Theatre Company

480 S Broad St

Philadelphia, PA 19146

Suzanne Roberts Theatre.

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:

Casting Director - Brenna Geffers

OTHER DATES

PlayPenn’s 2026 New Play Development Conference takes place between July 21st and August 1, 2026

26 hours of rehearsal with 1 public reading per week.

OTHER

If you have any questions, you may email [email protected]

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

PlayPenn 2026 Season

BILL

by Roger Q Mason

First Rehearsal: July 21st, 2026

First Performance: July 25th, 2026

Final Performance: July 27th, 2026

SYNOPSIS: Democracy is dead. While digging its grave, Taffeta, a fabulous queer creation, tenaciously rejects three Founding Mothafuckaz (versions of Jefferson, Franklin, and Paine) who demand she rebuild their exploitative system to preserve their honor. Aided by Phyllis Wheatley, America's first published Black poet, Taffeta envisions an inclusive future for our country. Then a skeptical brotha named Bill arrives to bury Hope, asking: why mourn a system built to destroy you? Rejecting his despair, Taffeta plants a seed of possibility in the ruins of our country and trudges onward.

SEEKING

FOUNDING MOTHAFUKA 1: Benjamin Franklin, and other historical and hysterical men. White, male. 30s-50s.

FOUNDING MOTHAFUKA 2: Thomas Piane, and other historical and hysterical men. White, male. 30s-50s.

FOUNDING MOTHAFUKA 3: Thomas Jefferson, and other historical and hysterical men. White, male. 30s-50s.

PHILLIS WHEATLEY: A narrator of sorts. Black, female, 30s.

BILL: A man who has a dangerous kind of plan. Black, male, 30s-40s.

EMERGENCE

By Zoe Palmer

First Rehearsal: July 28th, 2026

Performance: August 1st, 2026

SYNOPSIS: Before birth, a person must choose their body. Afterwards, they are taken on a 'journey' to connect themselves with their new body and prepare for life. However, when someone becomes afraid of the struggles they may face after birth, they have to learn what makes life worth living and gather the courage to face the unknown.

SEEKING:

INITIAL GUIDE: Guides the unborn through their journey. Any age, gender, race, ethnicity, or type.

1/ATLAS: An ‘old soul.’ Any age, gender, race, ethnicity, or type.

2/ELIO: In many ways, the foil of Atlas, a person of action. Any age, gender, race, ethnicity, or type.

3/QUINN: Remarkably focused and goal-oriented. Any age, gender, race, ethnicity, or type.

GUIDE: Extremely new, and extremely overzealous. Any age, gender, race, ethnicity, or type.

2’S INITIAL GUIDE: More laid-back and sassy than your typical guide. Any age, gender, race, ethnicity, or type.

THE GOOD GUYS

by Sarah Mantell

First Rehearsal: July 28th, 2026

Performance: August 2nd

SYNOPSIS: When Aarón joins a group of Civil War reenactors, he is horrified to discover that visiting troops get to play Union soldiers while he is forced to fight in a Confederate uniform. When the unit’s leadership is usurped and gender, racial, and sexual identities come to the forefront, the group must find a way to make it to Gettysburg where they will finally get to fight as the North.

SEEKING:

AARÓN: Male, Latinx, 30s, loudly principled.

OLIVER: Male, white, 50s, bossy.

A.G.: Female, Black, 28, quietly guarded.

LESLIE: Female, white, 40s/50s, loudly guarded. Should read as butch despite the period dress.

ROB: Male, Black, 40s/50s, nerdy.

ANTHONY: Male, white, possibly the oldest but weirdly ageless. Too serious.

BRYAN: Male, white, 42, doubles as a lot of other Bryans in a lot of other troops— but they are somehow all sort of the same Bryan. New Hampshire Bryan is hotter than the other Bryans.

SALARY

LOA $486 weekly minimum (LOA-PP) - Negotiations pending.

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