EXPIRES: April 14, 2025

Equity Actors Needed for 2025 Season Show

Theater
Paying up to $561/week
Description

Seeking Equity actors for roles in 2025 Season, please see the details below.
ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED.

About the project:
“American Artist” Lois Mailou Jones
“Chilmark”
“Uncle Chris”

Rate:
CONTRACT
NEAT
$561 weekly minimum (Cat. 5) – paying $600
$22 per hour – Stage reading

Additional info:
Please prepare a short monologue (2 minutes) from a contemporary play.

If interested, please apply

11 Project roles
Lo?s Mailou Jones
Male, Female.
34
-
70.
African-American, All ethnicities.
A gifted artist and educator; attractive, spirited, charming, and hard working. Intelligent, curious, decisive, and determined. Expected much from others. "AMERICAN ARTIST - LOIS MAILOU JONES"
Application deadline closed.
Louis Vergniaud Pierre-No?l aka “Pierre”
40
-
60.
Lo?s’s husband. Haitian, but speaks French, not Creole. Charming, gentlemanly, devoted to Lois. "AMERICAN ARTIST - LOIS MAILOU JONES"
Application deadline closed.
Caroline Jones
60
-
79.
Lois’s mother, determined, strong, charming when she wants to be. "AMERICAN ARTIST - LOIS MAILOU JONES"
Application deadline closed.
MR. EZRA LAMBERT
40
-
49.
(hearing) Signs fluently. Owns the Chilmark General. He fought as a young man in the civil war, is illiterate. His wife died early leaving him with a young daughter to raise alone. "CHILMARK"
Application deadline closed.
MISS ANNE LAMBERT
20
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29.
Signs fluently. Graduated from American School for the Deaf two years ago. She is an independent, forthright young woman. "CHILMARK"
Application deadline closed.
CAPTAIN NATHANIEL SMITH
40
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49.
Signs fluently. Is a former whaling captain who lost his job. He is a survivor of horrendous hardship on the seas and has moved back to the island and is known island-wide for his vivid storytelling. "CHILMARK"
Application deadline closed.
MRS. ELIZABETH ATHEARN
50
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69.
Signs fluently. Is the widow of a prominent Islander, sells eggs, makes dresses and has a huge, warm heart “everyone’s mother”, She has been a midwife, babysitter, and nanny to more than one generation in Chilmark. "CHILMARK"
Application deadline closed.
CHRIS
33
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37.
Playful, articulate, and romantic. "UNCLE CHRIS"
Application deadline closed.
EVELYN
20
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24.
Floundering, eager, and fiery. "UNCLE CHRIS"
Application deadline closed.
KATHERINE
65
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69.
Reserved and practical. "UNCLE CHRIS"
Application deadline closed.
ROSS
25
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29.
Moody, shy, and passionate "UNCLE CHRIS"
Application deadline closed.