Casting Notice For:
Other Desert Cities
By Jon Robin Baitz
Director: Sean Murray
PRODUCTION DATES:
First Rehearsal: January 7, 2025
First Preview: February 5, 2025
Opening: February 8, 2025
Closing: March 2, 2025
SYNOPSIS:
Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after six-years to celebrate Christmas with her parents, her brother, and her aunt (Conservative Suburban Jewish Family). Brooke announces that she is about to publish a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family’s history—a wound they don’t want reopened. In effect, she draws a line in the sand and dares them all to cross it.
SEEKING:
Looking for AEA and Non Union actors for Cygnet Theatre’s upcoming production of Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz
EQUITY/ NON-EQUITY CALL:
Union performers are paid the SPT-6 $576 weekly minimum + health and pension.
Non-union performers are paid an hourly rate of $17.00 for rehearsals through tech.
Performances are a 4-hour minimum call.
WHEN:
Wednesday August 28, 2024 9am – 5pm; Lunch 12:30pm – 1:00pm.
Callbacks: September 4 & 6, from 12pm-4pm.
AEA Members please email: auditions@cygnettheatre.com for an appointment with your preferred time frame(s)..
Non Union Actors are encouraged to come on the day of the audition. When we don’t have an AEA appointment scheduled, we fully intend to accommodate non union actors on a first come first serve basis.
Sign up sheet will be up and available at 8:30am.
WHERE:
Cygnet Rehearsal Space
2555 State Street Suite 104
San Diego, CA 92101
Entrance is located off of Maple Street.
Parking is residential.
PERSONNEL & VIEWING AUDITIONS:
Sean Murray, Director / Artistic Director
Craig Campbell, Producer
Allen Lucky Weaver, Casting Director
AUDITION PREPARATION:Please prepare a contemporary monologue in the style of the show, no longer than a minute and a half. Doing a monologue from the show is appreciated. For a digital copy of the script please email auditions@cygnettheatre.com. Please bring a copy of your headshot and resume.
HOUSING:
Local housing is subject to availability based on casting needs of the production.
CASTING BREAKDOWN:
Brooke Wyeth (Caucasian, 30-40s)
A writer. Anxious and eager to seek out the truth. She returns home after six years to visit her family in Palm Springs for Christmas.
Polly Wyeth (Caucasian, 60-70s) ROLE IS CAST
Polly is Brooke’s mother. She is elegant, forthright, and whip-smart. She was a former screenwriter who worked with her sister Silda until they split up. After Hollywood, she chose to support her husband Lyman during his time as a politician. She is conservative, brash, and a no-nonsense type of person that will do anything to uphold
her family’s image.
Lyman Wyeth (Caucasian, 60-70s)
Lyman is the patriarch of the Wyeth family, an oak-like father. A Hollywood Celebrity turned conservative politician. Like his wife, he too is steadfast to upholding the family image. A master at keeping secrets. A man that seems like he has it all together, but underneath his put together demeanor, is a boiling pot that is simmering waiting for its
top to burst.
Silda Grauman (Caucasian, 60-70s)
She is the type of person that wears muumuus, carries a pill case marked with the days of the week and takes some pills as she talks. Struggles with alcoholism and is currently staying with Polly and her family for the Holidays. A nuisance to her sister Polly, but Silda is supportive to her niece and nephew.
Trip Wyeth (Caucasian, late 20s-30s)
Brooke’s brother. He is a bright and funny man, and possibly a decade her junior. Not so much into the family’s clout or image. He has an Ivy League Degree and chooses to work as a Hollywood TV producer. While his family may think less of him because of this, his perspective about his family shows that he is wiser than he leads on..
Cygnet Theatre commits to be inclusive and seeks to cast a diverse group of actors within the needs of each production. We encourage performers of all ethnicities, races, gender identities, ages, and body types, as well as performers with disabilities, to audition.
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