EXPIRES: August 15, 2025

“Jesa” New Play Seeking Equity Actors

Theater
Paying up to $903/week
Description

Equity actors for roles in “Jesa”. See breakdown below.

About the project:
SYNOPSIS: JESA by Jeena Yi, is a riotous and heart-wrenching new play that explodes the idea of the “perfect family gathering.” When four estranged Korean American sisters reunite in Orange County to perform their father’s Jesa—a traditional ritual honoring the dead—old wounds erupt, secrets surface, and ghosts (literal and emotional) refuse to stay buried. With razorsharp dialogue, explosive humor, and unexpected tenderness, JESA asks how we honor ourancestors when we can barely stand each other. Come for the sibling brawls and burning shrimp, stay for the aching truth of what binds us.

Rate:
Off Broadway
$903 weekly minimum (Cat. 3)

Additional info:
Audition Lunch 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
PREPARATION
Please prepare a 90-second contemporary monologue. Also bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
First Rehearsal: 02/10/2026
Opening Date(s): o/a 3/17/2026
Closing Date(s): 04/12/2026
Possible Extension: 04/19/2026
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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.

If you are interested, please apply.

4 Project roles
TINA
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47.
Mid 40s, 1st born, Korean American - The Fuck up. Single, no kids. A chef. Uses humor and tasteless jokes as a defense mechanism. Drinks too much. Her parents never let her forget the shame she brought to the family when she was 16.
Application deadline closed.
GRACE
40
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45.
2nd born, Korean American - The Perfect one. Mom’s favorite. Married to Mike and fervently maintains the fa?ade of a perfect suburban family. Lives to make her mother proud and happy. Has a strained relationship with her daughter Lily.
Application deadline closed.
BRENDA
36
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39.
3rd born, Korean American - The one that’s never there/the Artsy one. Dad’s favorite. A theater director, over worked, always traveling and always on the brink of something potentially great. Currently having an existential crisis about her career. Still angry at her mother.
Application deadline closed.
ELIZABETH
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34.
Korean American - The Baby. Works in Private Equity, makes more money than any of the other sisters ever will. Funds Jesa costs, and loans Tina and Brenda money all the time. Secretly hates dad. At work she’s a tiger, with her family she’s a tiger pretending to be a mouse.
Application deadline closed.