EXPIRES: August 13, 2025
Performers Needed for “Angels in America” Part One
Description
The company is holding auditions for production of Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches and looking for performers, please see the details below.
ONLY LOCAL TALENT WILL BE CONSIDERED.
Additional info:
The show runs from Thursday October 9th – Sunday October 19th
Rehearsals will begin Monday, August 18th
Rehearsals will be MTWTH 6pm-9:50pm
Please see the attachment for more details.
If interested, please apply.
19 Project roles
Prior Walter
18
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A gay man with AIDS. Throughout the play, he experiences various heavenly visions. When the play begins, he is dating Louis Ironson. His best friend is Belize.
Application deadline closed.
Louis Ironson
18
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Prior's boyfriend. Unable to deal with Prior's disease, he ultimately abandons him. He meets Joe Pitt and later begins a relationship with him.
Application deadline closed.
Harper Pitt
18
-56.
An agoraphobic Mormon housewife with incessant Valium-induced hallucinations. After a revelation from Prior (whom she meets when his heavenly vision and her hallucination cross paths), she discovers that her husband, Joe, is gay and struggles with it, considering it a betrayal of her marriage.
Application deadline closed.
Joe Pitt
18
-56.
Harper's husband and a deeply closeted gay Mormon, clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, and friend of Roy Cohn. Joe eventually abandons his wife for a relationship with Louis. Throughout the play, he struggles with his sexual identity.
Application deadline closed.
Roy Cohn
18
-56.
A closeted gay lawyer, based on real life Roy Cohn. Just as in history, it is eventually revealed that he has contracted HIV and the disease has progressed to AIDS, which he insists is liver cancer to preserve his reputation.
Application deadline closed.
Hannah Pitt
18
-56.
Joe's mother. She moves to New York after her son drunkenly comes out to her on the phone. She arrives to find that Joe has abandoned his wife.
Application deadline closed.
Belize
18
-56.
A nurse and former drag queen, he is Prior's ex-boyfriend and best friend. He later becomes Roy Cohn's nurse.
Application deadline closed.
The Angel/Voice
18
-56.
A messenger from Heaven who visits Prior and tells him he is a prophet.
Application deadline closed.
Rabbi Isidor Chemelwitz
18
-56.
An elderly orthodox Rabbi. He performs the funeral service for Louis' grandmother in Act one of Millennium Approaches and gives him advice on his situation with Prior.
Application deadline closed.
Mr. Lies
18
-56.
One of Harper's imaginary friends. A smooth talking agent for the International Order of Travel Agents.
Application deadline closed.
Emily
18
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Prior's hospital nurse, a no-nonsense Italian-American.
Application deadline closed.
Henry
18
-56.
Roy Cohn's doctor, who diagnoses him with AIDS.
Application deadline closed.
Martin Heller
18
-56.
A publicity agent to the Reagan Administration's Justice Department and Roy's toady.
Application deadline closed.
Ethel Rosenberg
18
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The ghost of a woman executed for being a Communist spy. She haunts Roy, whom she blames for her conviction and execution, as he dies.
Application deadline closed.
Prior 1 and Prior 2
18
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The ghosts of two of Prior Walter's ancestors. Prior 1 is a gloomy Yorkshire farmer from the 13th century, Prior 2 is a cheerful 17th-century British aristocrat. They appear to Prior to herald the Angel's arrival.
Application deadline closed.
The Man in the Park
18
-56.
A gay man Louis encounters while cruising for sex in Central Park.
Application deadline closed.
Sister Ella Chapter
18
-56.
Hannah's realtor friend who helps her sell her house.
Application deadline closed.
A Homeless Woman
18
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A crazed homeless woman Hannah encounters when she arrives in Brooklyn.
Application deadline closed.
The Eskimo
18
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An imaginary friend in Harper's Antarctic hallucination.
Application deadline closed.
