EXPIRES: April 12, 2025

Equity Performers Needed for 2025 Season Show

Theater
Paying up to $561/week
Description

The company is seeking Equity actors for roles in 2025 season show and looking for performers, please see the details below.
ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED.

About the project:
“SACCO AND VANZETTI’S DIVINE COMEDY”
First Rehearsal: on or around June 2, 2025
First Public Performance: June 25, 2025
Press Opening: June 27, 2025
Closing Performance: July 26, 2025
“SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD”
First Rehearsal: on or around July 14, 2025
First Public Performance: August 6, 2025
Press Opening: August 8, 2025
Closing Performance: September 6, 2025
“PAUL AND ?MILE”
First Rehearsal: on or around August 25, 2025
First Public Performance: September 18, 2025
Press Opening: September 20, 2025
Closing Performance: October 12, 2025

Rate:
NEAT
$561 weekly minimum (cat. 5)

Additional info:
Please prepare 2 brief contrasting contemporary monologues. For SOUTHERN HARMONY: A folk or country style song. Accompanist provided. You may be asked to read from sides from the show. Please bring headshot and resume

Please apply if interested.

20 Project roles
NICOLA “NICO” SACCO
Male, Female.
30
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59.
All ethnicities.
Italian-American Anarchist, controversially convicted of murder and armed robbery and subsequently executed following a sensationalized trial fraught with irregularities. Requires strong comedic timing and physical comedy. "SACCO AND VANZETTI’S DIVINE COMEDY"
Application deadline closed.
BARTOLOMEO “BARTO” VANZETTI
30
-
59.
Italian-American Anarchist, controversially convicted of murder and armed robbery and subsequently executed following a sensationalized trial fraught with irregularities. Requires strong comedic timing and physical comedy. "SACCO AND VANZETTI’S DIVINE COMEDY"
Application deadline closed.
ROSSINA SACCO
30
-
59.
Sacco’s wife, a very VERY good cook "SACCO AND VANZETTI’S DIVINE COMEDY"
Application deadline closed.
JUDGE WEBSTER THAYER
40
-
79.
The highly conflicted judge who presided over the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti. Stern, no nonsense, and a symbol of a corrupt justice system. "SACCO AND VANZETTI’S DIVINE COMEDY"
Application deadline closed.
BAILIFF
30
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49.
More than a sidekick to Judge Thayer, a sympathetic voice with an anti-establish streak "SACCO AND VANZETTI’S DIVINE COMEDY"
Application deadline closed.
BERNIE TIEDE
36
-
40.
From Louisiana. He is extroverted and talkative and loves being around people. He is kind and selfless almost to an unbelievable extent. Quite effeminate, he does not watch football, nor does he drink beer. He loves Golden Age Musicals, art, and singing in the church choir. Mortician by trade and good at it. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Application deadline closed.
MARJORIE NUGENT
79
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83.
Texan. Personality is that of a diamond back rattlesnake. Would just as soon keep to herself unless you poke her, in which case she will strike. In either case, she doesn’t like you. Or anyone. Now a widow, she is the wealthiest person in Carthage and has disowned her only son for petty reasons. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Application deadline closed.
DANNY BUCK DAVIDSON
43
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47.
Carthage District Attorney who sees himself as a noble man of the law. There’s good people and bad people and it’s up to the good ones to control the bad ones. The only thing he hates more than crime is a slow day at the office. He can be attention seeking but has feelings and does not lack empathy. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Application deadline closed.
CLINT
53
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57.
A simple man but not stupid. He works for an insurance company. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Application deadline closed.
TAMMY
36
-
40.
A waitress at a diner, she has a very sweet, motherly disposition. Her oldest child, Jason, has the opportunity to become the first generation in her family to go to college. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Application deadline closed.
SHELBY NUGENT
18
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56.
Granddaughter of Marjorie Nugent. Loves her grandmother even though her grandmother has been estranged from Shanna’s father. She is suspicious of Bernie. She is a law student at the time of the first trial of Bernie Tiede. Extremely sharp and serious. She’s a fighter and will not be intimidated. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Application deadline closed.
LORETTA
49
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53.
Always well meaning, but loud, in everyone’s business, and lacks any sense of propriety which has led to her being largely avoided by others. Ever the busybody, she is constantly trying to set up her daughter with Bernie, hoping he will become 5th in a long line of husbands. She is lonely and enjoys the company of Bernie Tiede. She often says outlandish things, but is never trying to be funny or make a joke. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Application deadline closed.
JAMIE SAULS
18
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56.
Well connected, high powered attorney for a famous Hollywood film director, now working to help Bernie Tiede. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Application deadline closed.
JAMES TYLER FARRIS
31
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35.
Soft spoken intellectual. He, like Bernie, is an outsider in Carthage. Always serious and a deep thinker. He runs an arts foundation in Carthage. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Application deadline closed.
DEFENSE ATTORNEY SKIP TOMLINSON
18
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56.
Public defender for Bernie Tiede in the first trial. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Application deadline closed.
MERLE MUNSON
18
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56.
Funeral home director and former employer of Bernie Tiede. "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Application deadline closed.
SHERIFF GREG TATE:
18
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56.
Sheriff and longtime friend of Danny Buck Davidson. He is small and completely non- threatening in every way, but he is not clumsy or stupid like Barney Fife. He is knowledgeable and trained and takes the job very seriously and goes by the book. And he is very passionate about his firearm(s). "SOUTHERN HARMONY – A MURDER BALLAD"
Application deadline closed.
PAUL
40
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59.
Paul C?zanne, 19th Century French post-impressionist painter, friends since boyhood with author ?mile Zola, the two suffered a bitter falling out leading to two decades of silence. "PAUL AND ?MILE"
Application deadline closed.
?MILE
40
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59.
?mile Zola, 19th Century French novelist, journalist and playwright, friends since boyhood with artist Paul C?zanne, the two suffered a bitter falling out leading to two decades of silence. "PAUL AND ?MILE"
Application deadline closed.
MAM-ZELLE
30
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59.
C?zanne’s housekeeper, a former nun with a quick wit. "PAUL AND ?MILE"
Application deadline closed.