Audition Info

true west

PERSONNEL:

• Jim Corti (he/him) –Director of True West, Artistic Director for Paramount Theatre
• Trent Stork (they/them) –Artistic Producer & Casting Director for Paramount Theatre
• Elena Gerk (she/her) – Artistic & Casting Associate for Paramount Theatre

PRODUCTION DATES

TRUE WEST

• First Rehearsal: June 16, 2025
• Tech Begins: July 8, 2025
• First Public Performance: July 16, 2025
• Opening Night: July 25, 2025
• Closing Night: August 31, 2025

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS

AUSTIN
Male, Early 30’s
A squeaky-clean Ivy League graduate who works as a screenwriter. Austin has a wife and children in Northern California but is working at his mother’s house in Southern California while she is away in Alaska. By all accounts he is a success.

LEE
Male, Early 40’s
Austin’s brother. Lee is a beer-swilling desert rat and petty thief who has come to their mother’s house to loot the neighbors of household appliances. He is the exact opposite of his brother in looks, sensibility, and degree of success.

SAUL KIMMER
Male, Late 40’s
A slick Hollywood producer. He is as sincere as anyone who is motivated only by profit can be.

MOM
Female, Early 60’s
An absurdist vision of a powerless mother. Mom thinks Picasso is coming to town and quietly asks Austin not to kill Lee.

INTIMACY NOTES

This show contains moments of verbal and physical altercations. Each physical fight between the brothers escalates as the play progresses. Austin at one point chokes Lee with a telephone cord while their mom watches. There are also a few moments when sexual/ crude gestures are made.

COVENANT

By York Walker

PERSONNEL

• Malkia Stampley (she/her) – Director of COVENANT
• Trent Stork (they/them) –Artistic Producer & Casting Director for Paramount Theatre
• Elena Gerk (she/her) – Artistic & Casting Associate for Paramount Theatre

PRODUCTION DATES

• First Rehearsal: September 1, 2025
• Tech Begins: September 23, 2025
• First Public Performance: October 1, 2025
• Opening Night: October 10, 2025
• Closing Night: November 16, 2025

CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS

RUTHIE
Female, Black, 19
The innocent one, obsessed with love or the idea of it and desperate to have it. Has a slight country southern accent.

VIOLET
Female, Black, 19
Ruthie’s best friend, the unexplained black sheep of her family and loves her older sister, Avery, fiercely. Has a slight country southern accent.

AVERY
Female, Black, 24
Dreams of seeing the world outside of this town, a woman coming into her own and terrified. Great with detailed physicality and movement–Avery becomes possessed and is also catatonic. Has a slight country southern accent.

MAMA
Female, Black, 40-50s
Violet and Avery’s mother, full of regret, the only thing holding her world together is her love for Avery and her belief in God. A very spiritual and traditional pentecostalist. Great mover. Has a slight country southern accent.

JOHNNY “HONEYCOMB” JAMES
Male, Black, 24
Great guitar player, local celebrity, awkward teen turned ladies’ man. Has been in love with Avery since he was 12 years old. Music style is 1930s southern blues. Has a slight country southern accent.

INTIMACY NOTES

Set in 1936, this show follows the relations of a small-town Georgian family and the results of making a deal with the devil. There are moments where characters sing hymns, witness a cross being turned upside down, blood is visualized in on stage, possession is simulated, and a prop chair is dropped from the ceiling. This show does contain topics that may be triggering to some, such as: miscarriages, adultery, religion, physical abuse, murder, gun violence, and occult practices. While these topics are not all shown onstage, many of them do occur in character monologues. The character Avery does become possessed and catatonic on stage, this requires many characters to physically move her. Avery is kissed on the cheek by Johnny numerous times and shares a kiss with Ruthie at the end of the show.