GLORIA
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by: Ian Boyd-Duncan
To Audition: Audition at General/Unified/OPEN CALL Auditions (formerly Cattle Call) on Tuesday, August 27th, 2019.
Important things to know/consider: Please read the play before auditioning! GLORIA is a very intense and mature play with strong language and scenes of violence that could potentially be triggering to some. Reading the play beforehand ensures you would be comfortable rehearsing/performing the language and content conveyed in GLORIA.
GLORIA will be a staged reading. Lines will not have to be memorized, and will have a shorter rehearsal process.
GLORIA will perform on Friday, September 20th, 2019 at 7:30pm in the Purple Masque Theatre
I am so excited to bring this topical, challenging, and beautiful script to life and I look forward to seeing you all at auditions!! Feel free to email questions about GLORIA to my email: ian.boydduncan@gmail.com
SYNOPSIS:
This powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a notorious Manhattan magazine. When an ordinary workday becomes anything but, the stakes for who will get to tell their own story elevate to disastrous heights.
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN:
DEAN/DEVIN: extra-late 20s, “white”
KENDRA/JENNA: mid-late 20s, Chinese-American or Korean-American
ANI/SASHA/CALLIE: early 20s, “white”
GLORIA/NAN: extra late 30s, “anything really”
MILES/SHAWN/RASHAAD: 20 years old, “black”
LORIN: late 30s, “unclear”
(will also be casting someone to read stage directions)