The reading and rehearsal spans are indicated in the descriptions. You must be available between April 30 and May 4, but not the whole five-day span.
Rehearsals are a daytime commitment.
Each reading rehearses & performs for a combined 15-hour period between April 30 and May 4.
Florida Rep seeks actors and stage managers who can drive to Fort Myers, Florida.
GUIDELINES
Performers: Please submit a headshot, resume, and a short clip or monologue that showcases your work. Any monologue will do. There is a musical in the PlayLab, so include a song if you are interested in those roles.
Please do not worry about making new videos for this - you may submit existing material or previously produced self-tapes.
This submission is meant as a first-round introduction to your work, and the submission signals your interest/availability.
Stage Managers: Please submit a resume.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 18, 2025
OTHER INFORMATION
2025 PLAYLAB LINE-UP
WHY WE GO TO FLORIDA by Kenneth Jones Directed by DJ Salisbury Reh: Apr. 30 & May 1 Reading: Thursday, May 1 | 7 PM
In the dead of winter, Henry flies from New York City to Southwest Florida to offer condolences at the funeral of a man he never knew — his late partner’s father. But as the booze flows at the wake, will the widow, Constance, and her grown daughter, Amy, raise a glass to the unexpected guest? Set in 2012, between the dusk of the worst days of the AIDS crisis and the dawn of marriage equality, Why We Go to Florida is a humor-laced drama exploring guilt and grief, perceptions and prejudices, show tunes, silence, and survival.
DALLOWAY: Summer at Bourton by Lindsay Joelle Directed by Celine Rosenthal Reh: May 1 & 2 Reading: Friday, May 2 | 7 PM
Clarissa, a clever Victorian teen, is on a mission to save her family from financial ruin by auditioning a string of wealthy potential suitors. But when she falls for a daring, free-spirited suffragette, everything she thought she knew about love and life is upended. Dalloway is a fresh, delightfully feminist love story blending humor, heart, and romance in a pop-period prequel to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.
SWIPED by Samara Siskind Directed by Stuart Brown Reh: May 1, 2, & 3 Reading: Saturday, May 3 | 2 PM
Are first impressions ever reliable? A young black man strikes up a conversation with a young white woman in the food court of a suburban shopping mall. What she initially believes to be a random pick-up attempt becomes much more complicated. It turns out they’re not strangers after all. Swiped is a thrilling drama that explores themes of privilege and implicit bias where characters fight to form human connections as they confront their pasts and their own ingrained prejudices.
1999 by Stacey Isom Campbell Directed by Summer Dawn Wallace Reh: May 1, 2, & 3 Reading: Saturday, May 3 | 7 PM
Emma is a renowned film producer and college professor. When a student complains about her decision to include a film produced by a #MeToo-outed man in the course curriculum, Emma must interrogate her own guilt for something she did in 1999. The play explores the intersection of three women’s lives in the wake of trauma and grapples with what to do with the films of the 90s in light of recent sexual allegations, posing questions about artistic production, academic freedom/danger, and power.
LEMONADE Reh: May 1, 2, 3, & 4 Reading: Sunday, May 4 | 4 PM
Lemonade is a fresh musical adventure about growing up, friendship, grief, and communicating with others even when you don’t see eye to eye. 15-year-olds Timmy and Squeeze are best friends and the proud owners of a lemonade stand they’ve been operating since they were young – with help from Timmy’s late father and his secret Lemonade recipe. Now a freshman in high school, Timmy is feeling pressure from to move on from such “kid stuff” – and on top of that, their lemonade stand faces new trouble from city council and Timmy’s self-centered, wealthy neighbor, Katie, who reveals she’s opening a new cookie cart right across the street!