The open casting name might be held May 31 and June 1 and happen on the Atwater Village Theatre.
Center Theatre Group is internet hosting an open casting name for the 4 scholar members of the Dead Leaders Club and supporting roles in Alexis Scheer’s “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord” at Center Theatre Group / Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City taking part in August 20 by means of September 17, 2023, which is produced in affiliation with IAMA Theatre Company. The casting name might be held by Center Theatre Group, IAMA Theatre Company, and manufacturing casting director Jordan Bass at Atwater Village Theatre in Los Angeles between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, May 31 and Thursday, June 1, 2023.
Hailed by The New York Times as “highly entertaining — equally funny and scary — the play starts off as a hoot and winds up a primal scream. They’re throwing quite a séance.” In “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord,” 4 highschool women in 2008 Miami collect in an deserted treehouse to summon the ghost of Pablo Escobar. This darkish and quick-witted comedy explores the necessity to join and is a reminder of what it means to be human by means of the lens of the deep and harmful minds of teenage women.
“We are looking to cast six dynamic actors who can sink their teeth into this material. Having these open casting calls allows us to see anyone who might be a recent college grad, or even still in school; anyone at all who might be right for these roles,” stated Center Theatre Group Associate Artistic Director Lindsay Allbaugh and director of “Our Dear Dead Drug Lord.” “We are casting a wide net and want to create as much access around the production as possible. I have loved this play since I first read it in 2019, and to finally bring it to Los Angeles is incredibly exciting.”
Performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, in addition to performers with disabilities are inspired to submit for any position for which they wish to be thought-about. All actors are welcome, no agent and/or Equity membership is required – although employed actors might be on an Equity contract. Those auditioning might want to herald a photograph and resume in addition to a ready two-minute modern monologue. To sign-up for an advance timeslot, please electronic mail ourdearDDLcasting@gmail.com with most popular dates and 2-hour window timeframe. For extra info on the roles and casting particulars, please go to CenterTheatreGroup.org/Casting.
Designated by Playbill as “one of 20 regional houses every theatre lover must know,” IAMA Theatre Company is a Los Angeles-based ensemble of artists and non-profit theatre firm, dedicated to invigorating reside efficiency for a streaming era. Through cutting-edge, cool and hyper-modern tales, IAMA is invested within the immediacy of manufacturing and strives to carry audiences out of their private house and right into a shared expertise. IAMA was constructed on ambition and dedication whereas guaranteeing a steadfast dedication to fairness and inclusion on and off stage. Los Angeles is likely one of the most numerous metropolitan areas on the earth and our work displays the brand new voices and altering attitudes that proceed to form our metropolis, state, nation and world. The award-winning firm has seen many performs developed and premiered at IAMA journey to Off-Broadway, Second Stage, and the Roundabout Underground, then go on to be carried out regionally and internationally. IAMA members have been featured in quite a few critically acclaimed TV exhibits and movies in addition to in an unlimited array of theatre and reside performances all around the nation, together with Off-Broadway and Broadway. IAMA has been devoted to growing new performs and musicals by rising and established playwrights since 2007.
Center Theatre Group, one of many nation’s preeminent arts and cultural organizations, is Los Angeles’ main not-for-profit theatre firm, which below the management of Managing Director / CEO Meghan Pressman and Producing Director Douglas C. Baker, and in collaboration with the 4 Associate Artistic Directors, Lindsay Allbaugh, Tyrone Davis, Neel Keller, and Kelley Kirkpatrick, packages seasons on the 736-seat Mark Taper Forum and 1,600 to 2,100-seat Ahmanson Theatre at The Music Center in Downtown Los Angeles, and the 317-seat Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. In addition to presenting and producing the broadest vary of theatrical leisure within the nation, Center Theatre Group is likely one of the nation’s main producers of bold new works by means of commissions and world premiere productions and a frontrunner in interactive neighborhood engagement and education schemes that attain throughout generations, demographics, and circumstances to serve Los Angeles. Founded in 1967, Center Theatre Group was led by Founding Artistic Director Gordon Davidson till 2005 when Michael Ritchie was the inventive director till his retirement in 2021; Snehal Desai has been appointed the group’s subsequent inventive director and can start in August of 2023. Center Theatre Group has produced greater than 700 productions throughout its three phases, together with such iconic exhibits as “Zoot Suit;” “Angels in America;” “The Kentucky Cycle;” “Biloxi Blues;” “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992;” “Children of a Lesser God;” “Curtains;” “The Drowsy Chaperone;” “9 to 5: The Musical;” and “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo.” CenterTheatreGroup.org