LADY DAY AT EMERSON’S BAR AND GRILL
Syracuse Stage (Syracuse, NY)

LORT D Contract
$1,100/week
 

ARTISTIC TEAM:
Artistic Director: Robert M. Hupp
Associate Artistic Director: Melissa Crespo
Director: Jade King Carroll
Musical Director: TBA
Book: Lanie Robertson

Casting: Bass/Valle Casting

Casting Director: Gama Valle

AUDITION DATES:
AUD: 6/8/23
CB: 6/9/23

 

AUDITION LOCATION:
NYC
 

PRODUCTION DATES:

First Rehearsal: 9/26/23 

Opening: 10/20/23 

Closing: 11/5/23

ONLINE SUBMISSION FORM: (preferred)

Please complete the form in the link below by 6/7/23 for an opportunity to be invited to audition in person. The Bass/Valle Casting team will be reviewing all digital submissions.

 

• LINK TO SUBMISSION FORM: https://airtable.com/shrdmJM7ju5eKO15y

 

NOTES:

Bass/Valle Casting encourages people of all ages, abilities, and gender identities to apply. 

 

All performers must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, as defined by the CDC, with a first booster (if eligible) by first rehearsal as a condition of employment. Vaccination requirements are subject to change according to CDC guidance.

 

ABOUT THE MUSICAL:

The time is 1959. The place is a seedy bar in Philadelphia. The audience is about to witness one of Billie’s last performances. With the help of her piano man, Jimmy Powers, she lets music tell her story, sharing soulful, heart-wrenching, and bawdy songs from her memorable canon including: “Strange Fruit,” “God Bless the Child,” “When a Woman Loves a Man,” and “T’Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do.”

 

SEEKING: 

BILLIE HOLIDAY – female identifying, 40’s, Black. The great jazz and blues singer in the last year of her life. Mezzo soprano.

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CLYDE’S
Denver Center for the Performing Arts (Denver, CO)

LORT D Contract

$1075/wk
The Kilstrom Theatre (Formerly The Space)
 

ARTISTIC TEAM:
Artistic Director: Chris Coleman

Playwright: Lynn Nottage
Director: Jamil Jude

DCPA Casting: Grady Soapes, CSA- DCPA Director of Casting 

NYC Casting: Bass/Valle Casting

Casting Director: Gama Valle
 

AUDITION DATES:
AUG: 6/6/23 & 6/7/23 (by appointment only)
CB: 6/8/23

AUDITION LOCATION:

NYC
 

PRODUCTION DATES:

FIRST REHEARSAL: 9/26/23

OPENING: 11/3/2023
CLOSING:  11/26/23

 

ONLINE SUBMISSION FORM: (preferred)

Please complete the form in the link below by 06/01/23 for an opportunity to be invited to audition in person. The Bass/Valle Casting team will be reviewing all digital submissions.

 

• LINK TO SUBMISSION FORM: https://airtable.com/shrU2Ie6dKBFGWWTT

PHYSICAL SUBMISSIONS:

Not accepted for the time being. 

 

NOTES:

Bass/Valle Casting encourages people of all ages, abilities, and gender identities to apply. 

 

All performers must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, as defined by the CDC, with a first booster (if eligible) by first rehearsal as a condition of employment. Vaccination requirements are subject to change according to CDC guidance.
 

The Denver Center intends to lead all decisions from selecting each play to the final bow, with empathy and respect.  We acknowledge that race, gender, ethnicity and physical abilities of the actors on stage have meaning and we want to be mindful of that throughout our practices. Our casting process will be led with thoughtfulness and appreciation of the artists we encounter and any level of discrimination will not be tolerated.  We do not want to assume that the space you are entering or have entered is fully inclusive of your needs, but instead want to create an environment and expand our conditions that allows for your multi-faceted personhood to thrive and feel welcome.

 

ABOUT THE PLAY:

In this feisty new comedy by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage (Sweat, Ruined), you’ll become a fly on the wall of Clyde’s, a roadside sandwich shop, in all its gastronomical glory. 
 

At Clyde’s, formerly incarcerated individuals cook up meals that range from sublime to soul-crushing. Even as the surly shop owner tries to keep them under her thumb, their kitchen mentor, Montrellous, guides them on a quest to create the perfect sandwich – and reclaim their lives.

Clyde’s is an extraordinary work that dances effortlessly between moments of searing pain and outrageous humor. It’s a work Variety calls “a flavor-bomb of a new comedy.” It’s the sustenance you didn’t know you needed — until now. 

 

SEEKING:

 

**This production will not be understudied** 

 

CLYDE – 30-50, female-identifying, Black. Owner of the truck stop who gives second chances to incarcerated individuals; leads a firm and tight ship with the goal of changing the lives of her employees. Loud, brassy, and doesn’t tolerate nonsense, and will call you out. 

 

MONTRELLOUS – 40-50’s, male-identifying, Black. Mindful cook at the sandwich stop who served many years in prison. A sensei in the kitchen, he worships his food, and has high respect from the line cooks in the shop.

 

RAFAEL – 20-30, male-identifying, Latiné. Formerly incarcerated romantic who loves food and works as a line cook at the stop. 

 

LETITIA – 20-30, female-identifying, Black. Recently released from prison, she is trying to regain her footing and start a new life while working as another line cook at the stop. 

JASON – 20-30, male-identifying, white supremacist, tattooed-faced, and quite moody who is new to working at the stop.
 

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WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME
Syracuse Stage (Syracuse, NY)

LORT D - $1,065/week

ARTISTIC TEAM:
Artistic Director: Robert M. Hupp

Director:  Melissa Crespo
Writer: Heidi Schreck  

Casting: Bass/Valle Casting & The Casting Collaborative
Casting Directors: Gama Valle & Jason Styres
 

AUDITION DATES:
AUD: 05/31/23 ( in person by invitation only)
CB: 06/01/23 

 

AUDITION LOCATION:

NYC

PRODUCTION DATES:

First Rehearsal: 8/22/23 

Opening: 9/13/23 

Closing: 10/1/23

 

ONLINE SUBMISSION FORM: (preferred)

Please complete the form in the link below by 05/25/23 for an opportunity to be invited to audition in person. The Bass/Valle Casting and/or The Casting Collaborative team will be reviewing all digital submissions.

 

• LINK TO SUBMISSION FORM: https://airtable.com/shrZYFSX7NpOQFq0L

 

PHYSICAL SUBMISSIONS:

Not accepted for the time being. 

 

NOTES:

Bass/Valle Casting encourages people of all ages, abilities, and gender identities to apply. 

 

All performers must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, as defined by the CDC, with a first booster (if eligible) by first rehearsal as a condition of employment. Vaccination requirements are subject to change according to CDC guidance.
 

ABOUT THE PLAY:
Schreck’s boundary-breaking show traces the profound relationship between four generations of women and the founding document that shaped their lives. Hilarious, hopeful, and honest, this Tony and Pulitzer nominated play exposes baked-in biases and omissions, while also breathing in new life, and imagining how American lives will be impacted for generations to come.
 

SEEKING:

 

HEIDI – Female presenting, mid 30s to late 40s, white, charismatic, witty and clever. Based on Heidi Schreck, a former debate champion who grapples with whether the Constitution should continue to exist.  Alternates from adulthood to her 15-year-old self throughout the play.

 

MIKE – Male presenting, 40s to mid 50s, any ethnicity, represents positive male energy, kind and open.

 

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ENGLISH
Alliance Theatre (Atlanta, GA)

 

LORT D Contract

Rate: $850/week 

 

Artistic Team:

Director: Shadi Ghaheri
Playwright: Sanaz Toossi 

NYC Casting: Bass/Valle Casting
Casting Director: Gama Valle
Associate Casting Director: Gregory Jafari Van Acker
 

Audition Dates:
AUD: self-tape (by invitation only)
NY CB: May 22nd - 24th, 2023 (in person)

Production Dates:
First Rehearsal: July 18th, 2023
First Preview: August 16th, 2023
Opening: August 23rd, 2023
Closing: September 17th, 2023

ELECTRONIC SUBMISSIONS: (preferred)

Bass/Valle Casting

bassvallecasting@gmail.com

 

Please submit a digital copy of your headshot and resume by 05/11/23 for an opportunity to send in a video audition. The Bass/Valle Casting team will be reviewing all digital submissions.

 

PHYSICAL SUBMISSIONS:

Not accepted for the time being. 

 

NOTES:

Bass/Valle Casting encourages people of all ages, abilities, and gender identities to apply. 

 

All performers must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, as defined by the CDC, with a first booster (if eligible) by first rehearsal as a condition of employment. Vaccination requirements are subject to change according to CDC guidance.

SYNOPSIS:

“English Only" is the mantra that rules one classroom in Karaj, Iran, where four adult students prepare for the TOEFL — the Test of English as a Foreign Language. Sanaz Toossi’s intricate, hilarious, and profound ENGLISH is a Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play recipient, and Obie Award Winner for Best New American Play. 

 

SEEKING:

NOTE: All actors must have the dexterity to speak both English with Iranian accents of varying levels as noted, as well as unaccented English when they’re meant to be speaking Farsi. Clear distinction between the two modes is essential. 

 

MARJAN: late 30s-early 50s, female-identifying Iranian teacher and mother living in Karaj, Iran. Was taught both American and British English. Lived in Britain for 9 years but returned to live in Iran. Wants her students to not just learn English, but to welcome it in as she does. Light accent when meant to be speaking English. NOTE: Some fluency in Farsi a plus. 

 

ELHAM: 20s-30s, female-identifying Iranian med student living in Karaj, Iran. Aced her MCATS, but needs to pass the TOEFL to qualify as a paid teaching assistant, and time is running out. Has big dreams and is not afraid to be loud. Smart. Confident. Easily frustrated. Bulldozes through English. Very thick accent when meant to be speaking English. NOTE: Some fluency in Farsi a plus. 

 

ROYA: 40s-early 60s, female-identifying Iranian mother and grandmother living in Karaj, Iran. Dignified. Unflappable. Working to master English per son’s wishes in order to maintain closeness with her family, now living in Canada. Thick accent when meant to be speaking English.

 

OMID: 20s-late 30s, male-identifying Iranian student living in Karaj, Iran. Good-looking. Something of a showoff. Bold. Surprisingly advanced. Very light, almost imperceptible accent when meant to be speaking English. 

GOLI: 18 year-old, female-identifying Iranian student. Naive and full of life. Hopeful. Eager. Sometimes shy. Light, sweet accent when meant to be speaking English.
 

UPCOMING PROJECTS:
-The Lights Are On (New Light Theatre Project)
-A Christmas Carol (Syracuse Stage)