Casting Call for One-Act Double Feature at Ghostlight Stage Company

Company: The Ghostlight Stage Company – Cincinnati, Ohio

Performance & Rehearsal Venue: First Financial Bank in Covington and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

Contract: Nonunion

Pay Rate: $15/hour (approx. 18-20 hours of work required for all workshopping rehearsals and tech/performance date)

Production: One Act Double Feature 2024 featuring Esther Made Me Do It by Nell Adkins
and Elizabeth Sacktor and Artists and Vandals by Erin K. Considine

Directors: TBD

About the Event: The Ghostlight Stage Company will be producing 2 original one act plays October 21, 2024 as part of its second annual One Act Double Feature event. This event is unique in that it is a hybrid between a typical staged reading and a full production. There will be a short 1-2 week rehearsal process of only 4 rehearsals per piece that concludes with performances for the public at the end. In addition, all plays will be assigned a costume and set designer who will come up with design concepts for the plays and a director who will come up with a full vision for the piece, as if they were being fully produced. These designs for set and costumes will be shared with the audience in the form of lobby displays (this can look like costume design sketches, set models, electronic renderings, etc). Additionally, the directors and playwrights will both speak during the performance about how the play could continue on in its development to give the audience a better idea of what the production would look like on a full scale. The event will “pull back the curtain” for audiences to show them what all goes into the process of developing new work, while also giving playwrights the valuable experience of having a full team of designers, a director and actors to explore their piece without it being fully produced yet.

What to Prepare: Please submit 1 1-2 minute monologue of your choice that you feel best reflects the character you would like to be considered for. Full character breakdowns and synopsis are below.

Video Submission: Initial auditions will be conducted via self tape submissions and will be accepted on a rolling basis from now until August 18, 2023 at 11:59pm EST.

Submission Instructions: To submit please fill out this google form:
https://forms.gle/uYWuMBnA3gEW4mFm8

Send any questions to our Producing Artistic Director at: alyssa@theghostlightstageco.com

Production Schedule
Auditions: August 2024

Rehearsals for Esther Made Me Do It: Oct. 8, 11, 14 and 18 from 6pm-9pm
Rehearsals for Artists & Vandals: Oct. 9, 12, 15, 19 from 6pm-9pm
Opens/Closes: October 21, 2024

Auditions will be completed virtually via self tape, with in-person callbacks, as needed on August 24. Director must be available for all rehearsals and performance dates in person in Cincinnati. No conflicts will be accepted.

No housing or travel stipend will be provided. All artists hired must be Cincinnati local
hires.

ARTISTS AND VANDALS by Erin K. Considine

Synopsis
After years of odd jobs and struggling to make ends meet, Lyla and Knox are opening their own Art Gallery to critical acclaim and personal pride. They have parented a son and parented each other. Nothing could ruin this night. Nothing but Daniel: who disappeared fifteen years ago, and is now standing in the shadows under the L.

Breakdown:
Actors can be cis or trans (unless noted otherwise) and ages are flexible. Actors who can authentically relate to the LGBTQIA+ experience are encouraged to apply.

• LYLA (Female, 38, Any Race)
  Lyla is wild and loving: a pansexual, driven, career-focused mama bear. She has built a world for herself with Knox and her son Christopher. After years of cobbling together odds and ends of an artistic existence, Lyla is finally coming into her own and receiving
  the press she deserves.
• KNOX (Nonbinary, 40, Any Race)
  Knox is the glue in any and every situation, but that doesn’t mean they’re boring. Knox loves to shake the beehive. They love men, all men, and they love the hell out of Lyla (just not that way). Knox is the grounded parental figure that Lyla and Christopher desperately required over the last decade and a half. They are hilarious and incorrigible, covering a deep, almost unseen well of hurt and sensitivity. This Gallery launch is everything they’ve ever dreamed of, and Knox has been dreaming for years.
• DANIEL (Male, 40, Any Race)
  Daniel is a bisexual disaster: bad with words, easily overwhelmed, effortlessly charming,
  and too fragile for the unstable life of an artist. Daniel is also Christopher’s father. He
  made huge mistakes as a young man, and he is trying to atone for those choices now.
  He’s not sure if that redemption is possible; it might not be.

ESTHER MADE ME DO IT by Nell Adkins and Elizabeth Sacktor

Synopsis
Best friends, Naomi and Ruth, are preparing to audition for their local Purim shpiel. Naomi, gunning for the part of Esther, hopes to kick start her theatrical career. Ruth questions her feelings for Naomi and how long she’s willing to put Naomi’s desires before her own.

Breakdown:
Actors can be cis or trans. Actors should be 18+ to play 14-16. Actors who can authentically
relate to the LGBTQIA+ and Jewish experience are encouraged to apply.

• NAOMI (Female, 14-16 years old, Jewish)
  Maybe, sort of, almost blonde. A STAR to be, her mom is a convert to Judaism and her dad’s not THAT practicing so she’s insecure about her own Jewishness, especially her ability to speak Hebrew (she doesn’t) but she makes up for it with CHUTZPAH and a Patti LuPone-level of divaness. Don’t ask her about the teen acting conservatory she attended last summer, she hates talking about it (she doesn’t). She will stop at nothing to be cast as Esther in Temple Beth Israel’s annual Purim shpiel.
• RUTH (Female, 14-16 years old, Jewish)
  Naomi’s devoted best friend, a groupie through and through. Arguably more talented than Naomi, a budding director and choreographer, and definitely more religiously observant. Her parents are both observant Jews (her mother, Rabbi Sharon, is a rabbi) and want to pull Ruth out of public school to enroll her in a Jewish day school, at the synagogue in Baltimore that has just offered Rabbi Sharon a fancy new job. Ruth’s Hebrew is actually good.

**If interested in reading the full plays, please reach out to The Ghostlight Stage Company’s
Producing Artistic Director to get copies of the scripts: alyssa@theghostlightstageco.com**

The Ghostlight Stage Company is an equal opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity without regard to the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, and we require affirmative action to ensure equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment. All employees and volunteers (whatever their gender, race, ethnicity, national origin, age, identity, sexual orientation, education, ability, religion, socioeconomic status, physical appearance, or attributes) should always feel valued and respected