Description:

Jackalope Theatre Company is casting for The Singularity Play by Jay Stull, directed by Georgette Verdin.

Rehearsals 4/2-5/17, Performances 5/18-6/22 at Berger Park Coach House, 6205 N Sheridan Rd.
Pay: $850 stipend for principal actors; $500 stipend for understudies

Self-tape submissions deadline 5pm February 5, 2024. Callbacks will be in-person by invitation 2/24 11:30am-5pm, and 2/26 5-9pm at Loyola Park Fieldhouse.

SEEKING ACTORS FOR:

DENISE - an AI playwright who has written a play called "The Uncanny Valley." Denise is embodied in the second and third acts, but is merely a voice from a plastic "Alexa-like" device in the first act; also DENNIS
DENNIS - a future AI that animates a human body; a playwright

GREG - a straight, computer scientist at Google who has never really liked the theater; also SALEM
SALEM - a future, cyborg performer wary of in-world trends and anxious about disembodiment

LAUREN - an overworked, underpaid director of new plays; also HOLLIS
HOLLIS - a future, cyborg performer enjoying the surprises that come with embodiment.

HEIDI - a polite, new play actor, familiar with development rooms; also EMILY, also JULES
EMILY - a character in Denise's play "The Uncanny Valley"
JULES - a future, cyborg performer whose wetware cannot regulate their grief

ALICE - an actor who probably should just be a director already; also ROYAL
ROYAL - a future, cyborg performer who loathes embodiment and has embraced an in-world life

JASON - an actor who's expecting his first child; also QUINN
QUINN - a future, cyborg performer; a man-splainer in a post-gender world

HENRY - an actor who sees simulacra as forms of control; also FINLEY
FINLEY - a future, cyborg performer experimenting with embodied attraction

OCEAN - a future, cyborg director who practices in the old arts

SKYLER - a future AI who serves as a disembodied stage manager (voice only)

DAWN - a future human performer from Idaho. Female, 50s+

A note on casting: This play anticipates a future where the social construct of gender is obsolete. As such, gender should be a pliable thing for all performers. Generally everyone is mid 20s-40s, except DAWN, who should be in her 50s or older.