CASTING
OPEN CALL ALERT!
Monday, April 14th 12PM-5PM, 6-8PM
You do not need to be AEA to audition nor will AEA actors be given priority. It is first come-first served. Please come to Boston Court to sign up in the lobby to audition. You are also welcome to come to the lobby to sign up for a later time and come back. Doors to the lobby and the sign-up sheet open at 11:00AM.
Please bring a physical headshot and resume and prepare a one-minute contemporary monologue.
People at the Open Call will include:
Jessica Kubzansky, Director, BCP Artistic Director,
Victor Vazquez, Casting Director
Eric Swartz, Assistant Director
Alisha Grewal, Artistic Associate
LOCATION:
Boston Court Pasadena
70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA 91106
Parking is located behind the building. The parking lot will open at 10:00am. There is also 1 and 2 hour street parking surrounding Boston Court. Please enter through the front of the building into the lobby.
No email or online submissions. No phone calls. Please email questions to: audition@bostoncourt.comcall_made
Produced by Boston Court Pasadena
The Night of the Iguana
by Tennessee Williams
Directed by Jessica Kubzansky
Casting Director: Victor Vazquez, CSA
Location: Pasadena, CA, all rehearsals at Boston Court Pasadena
Contract: AEA Los Angeles 99-seat Theatre Agreement.
Actors are paid $19.00 per hour. There is no pension and health under this agreement. 36 hours of rehearsal maximum / one, and occasionally two days off per week
Dates: First Rehearsal: 8/05/25
Tech Begins: 9/4/- 9/7
Previews: 9/11, 9/12, 9/13/9/14, 9/18/9/19
Opening: 9/20
Closing: 10/19
Possible One-Week Extension through 10/26
Open Call: April 14th, 12-5PM, 6 – 8PM
Audition Dates: April 16 – April 22
Rehearsal and Performance Schedule: Rehearsals are generally nights and weekends, but could be some daytimes depending on cast availability, 36 hours per week possible. Generally, Mondays off.
Performance schedule spans Thursdays through Mondays (occasional) with some Thursday morning student matinees, then generally Fridays, Saturdays at 7:30, Sundays at 2, (occasional Mondays at 7:30).
About the Play:
Tennessee Williams’s rarely staged The Night of the Iguana tells the story of the Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon, a defrocked minister now conducting guided tours through Mexico on the verge of a nervous breakdown. As he struggles with his connection to God and yearns to escape his own tortured existence, he is surrounded by two equally imperfect women, one of whom offers him sensuality, the other spirituality as a means of easing his tormented soul. Taking place over the course of one turbulent night at the Costa Verde hotel on the verge of a world war, the play asks what constitutes escape, what bargains are we willing to make with ourselves, and how much we yearn for real human connection – especially when we’re at the end of our rope.
CHARACTER BREAKDOWN:
(Several of these roles will be double-cast. Possible pairings of roles are noted below but not absolute, it will very much depend on the actor. Where ethnicity is specified, please note. Otherwise, passionately seeking a diverse group of actors to play these roles).
MAXINE FAULK – Character portrayed is Female, 40s to 60s, Any Ethnicity. The proprietor of the hotel. Not shy about what she needs, described as “affable and rapaciously lusty,” brazen, passionate, forced to be a hard-headed businesswoman. Life has beaten on her enough that she’s taking no guff from anyone. She’s a force of nature but desperately lonely since her husband died, and her brashness covers a vulnerable heart.
REVEREND DR. T LAWRENCE SHANNON – Character portrayed is Male, late 30s to 50s, Any Ethnicity. He is a defrocked minister, now conducting guided tours through Mexico as a way of surviving. He is passionate, tortured, on the verge of a nervous breakdown, sexy in his anguish, brilliant when he’s able to be, and tormented by the vicissitudes of his life. He seeks anything that will dull the pain of that much feeling and disappointment, including sex, alcohol, railing at God, and more, usually to his cost.
HANNAH JELKES – Character portrayed is Female, late 30s to 50s, Any Ethnicity. A spiritual woman and a hustler, a bit unearthly in her demeanor, eking out an existence to keep herself and her “97-year-young” Grandfather alive. She is an artist who paints portraits/sketches of people for money as a means of survival, and lately keeping both herself and Nonno alive has been a lot. She is a woman who leans into spirituality as a survival tool, forged through the crucible of challenges she’s endured. Her inner life is as turbulent as the outer calm she radiates.
JONATHAN COFFIN (NONNO) – Character portrayed is Male, 60s – 70s to play 97, Any Ethnicity. A poet and a showman much of his life, these days he is sometimes confused and mumbling, but he carries his past accomplishments with him as a badge of dignity. He’s had writer’s block for some time and cannot finish the poem he’s been writing. By turns querulous and stentorian, confused and courtly, proud and frail, ultimately terribly vulnerable. Loves his granddaughter.
MISS JUDITH FELLOWES – Character portrayed is Female, 40s to 60s, Any Ethnicity. A righteous, no-nonsense, cannot-be-swayed-by-sweet-talk woman who is determined to get what she is owed. She is the fiercely protective chaperone of the Baptist Female College travelers. Possibly in love with young Charlotte.
CHARLOTTE GOODALL – Character portrayed is Female, 18+ to play 17, Any Ethnicity. Young, a church-going songbird, infatuated with Shannon with a teenager’s obsessive love, very little self-control, full of all the drama that passion creates. She can’t understand why Shannon first seemed to love her and now won’t marry her.
PANCHO – Character portrayed is Male, 18 – early 20s, Latino. One of Maxine Faulk’s Spanish-speaking employees and her sometime lover at the Costa Verde Hotel. The more hard-working of Maxine’s two employees.
PEDRO – Character portrayed is Male, 18 – early 20s, Latino. One of Maxine Faulk’s Spanish-speaking employees and her sometime lover at the Costa Verde Hotel. The less hardworking of Maxine’s two employees.
HERR FAHRENKOPF – Character portrayed is Male, 40s-50s, White. German, a Nazi, a tank manufacturer from Frankfurt, speaks English with a German accent, passionately committed to what the Nazis are doing, and having a jolly time with his family on vacation.
FRAU FAHRENKOPF – Character portrayed is Female, 40s to 50s, White. German, a Nazi, passionately committed to what the Nazis are doing, and having a jolly time with her family on vacation. Speaks English with a German accent.
HILDA FAHRENKOPF – Character portrayed is Female, 20s – 30s, White. German, a Nazi, the daughter of Herr and Frau Fahrenkopf, newly married to Wolfgang, passionately committed to what the Nazis are doing, and having a jolly time with her family on vacation. Speaks English with a German accent.
WOLFGANG – Character portrayed is Male, 20s- 30s, White. The German Nazi son-in-law of Herr and Frau Fahrenkopf, newly married to Hilda, described as her Wagnerian-tenor bridegroom, passionately committed to what the Nazis are doing, and having a jolly time with Hilda’s family on vacation.
HANK – Character portrayed is Male, 20s- 30s, Any Ethnicity. A tour guide for Blake tours, bemused by Shannon’s shenanigans.
JAKE LATTA – Character portrayed is Male, 40s-50s, Any Ethnicity. An authoritative representative of Blake Tours. He takes over an irresponsible tour guide’s trip/group and is impervious to histrionics.
POSSIBLE pairings of roles could include:
HERR FAHRENKOPF / JAKE LATTA
WOLFGANG / HANK or PANCHO or PEDRO / HANK
CHARLOTTE / HILDA FAHRENKOPF
MISS JUDITH FELLOWES / FRAU FAHRENKOPF