Red Bull Theater
New York, NY
US

DESCRIPTION

REVISED

Updated Breakdown.

AUDITION DATES

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)

Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)

Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Thursday, January 16, 2025

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)

Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CONTRACT

Off Broadway

$800 weekly minimum (Tier 2)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Molière’s THE IMAGINARY INVALID (See breakdown).

Actors of color are encouraged to audition.

Actors with classical training are encouraged to audition.

PREPARATION

Please prepare one classical monologue.

Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Actors' Equity New York Audition Center

165 W 46th St

16th Fl

New York, NY 10036

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend;

Nathan Winkelstein: Associate Artistic

Director/Casting Director of Red Bull Theater

See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

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Red Bull Theater adheres to all current Equity COVID-19 Safety Protocols, as well as any state, local, and federal public health requirements.

EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.

An Equity Monitor will be provided.

Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination.

Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.

Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.

BREAKDOWN

THE IMAGINARY INVALID

DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION
Red Bull Theater values and practices inclusiveness and diversity in all of its activities. Red Bull Theater believes in promoting and providing maximum accessibility for all and treating everyone with fairness and respect. Red Bull Theater does not discriminate in practices or employment opportunities on the basis of an individual’s race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other category. We maintain a workplace that is free from harassment, discrimination, bullying and violence. The company
offers fair and competitive compensation for all workers. Red Bull Theater is committed to antiracist action. Red Bull Theater recognizes that the process of being a diverse and inclusive workplace is ongoing, and the company is committed to a constant pursuit of equity and fairness in all areas and at
all levels of the organization.

RED BULL THEATER
Red Bull Theater is an Off-Broadway company that brings rarely seen classic plays to dynamic new life for contemporary audiences. With the Jacobean plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries as
our cornerstone, Red Bull Theater is New York City’s home for dynamic performances of great plays that stand the test of time. The company also produces new works that are in conversation with the
classics.

THE IMAGINARY INVALID
Producer: Red Bull Theater
Playwright: Molière
Adaptor: Jeffrey Hatcher
Director: Jesse Berger

1st Rehearsal: Monday April 21, 2025
Tech: May 14-19, 2025
Previews: May 21 - June 1, 2025
Opening: June 2
Closing: June 15
Possible extension weeks thru: June 29

Rehearsal Venue: MTC
Performance Venue: New World Stages, Stage 5

SEEKING:

ARGAN: THIS ROLE IS ALREADY CAST. (50s-60s). The imaginary invalid of the title. A well-off gentleman who, since the loss of his wife, has become more and more a hypochondriac. Although picky, panicky, thin-skinned and solipsistic, he has a good heart. Deep down, he cares about hisdaughter's happiness even though he tries to marry her off to a doctor so he can have access to free healthcare 24 hours a day.

TOINETTE: THIS ROLE IS ALREADY CAST. (30s-50s) Argan's housekeeper. Ostensibly a servant, she runs the place. She's clear-eyed about her employer's faults, outspoken and devoted to Angelique. Funny, smart, wise-cracking and wise. A clown with a shape-shifter’s ability to assume
voices and crazy characters. Toinette is the show’s whirling female Groucho.

ANGELIQUE: THIS ROLE IS ALREADY CAST. (20s) Argan's daughter. A beautiful ingénue with a passion for her boyfriend Cléante that makes her almost ungovernable. Loves her father and finds it
impossible to stand up to him, but by the end of the play, she will. Sings well.

CLÉANTE: (20s-30s) Angelique's boyfriend. Handsome, dopey, passionate, and kind-hearted, but he can't see what's in front of him. Cléante isn’t very bright, but his heart is in the right place. A hero in his own mind. Sings well.

THREE DOCTORS: THIS ROLE IS ALREADY CAST. 1. DOCTOR PURGON (40s-60s) Gruff, deadpan, matter of fact. No bedside manner whatsoever. He enters, he barks out a prescription, he leaves. He's a busy man. 2. MONSIEUR FLEURANT (40s-60s) The man who comes to perform evacuations on Monsieur Argan. A driven, technocratic automaton whose sole desire is to administer an enema on time and with great vigor. 3. DR. DIAFOROUS (40s-60s) An oily operator, socialclimbing, avaricious, smarmy, gifted at passing the buck. In denial about his idiot son.

BÉLINE: THIS ROLE IS ALREADY CAST. (30s) Argan's wife. Beautiful, charming, elegant, sleek. The perfect trophy wife if the trophy is a complete sociopath. She married Argan for his money and is hoping he dies very, very soon. She's having an affair with the lawyer, Monsieur De Bonnefoi, so we
occasionally see a shuddering passion behind her cool, pearl and diving neckline façade.

MONSIEUR DE BONNEFOI: THIS ROLE IS ALREADY CAST. (30s-40s) A lawyer, handsome, silky, smarmy, a schemer. He is Béline's lover and is doing everything he can to make sure she inherits everything when Monsieur Argan dies. A dapper, larcenous gigolo.

SALARY

Off Broadway $800 weekly minimum (Tier 2)

UNION

AEA