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Rent Auditions-Washington, DC - Casting ID # 1562855
Project Type Live Event Submission Type Open Call
Location Washington, DC Union Non-union
Rate/Pay $150.00 per n/a Release Date 12-15-17
Audition Date 04-07-18 Submission deadline 04-06-18
Casting Category Theatre - Non-Equity
Rent, a rock operaloosely based on the opera La Bohème. Set in the East Village of New York City, Rent is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Rent has become a pop cultural phenomenon with songs that rock and a story that resonates with audiences of all ages.

Check in will start at 11am

*These auditions will be GROUP AUDITIONS*

*Rehearsals for LEADS will begin in the middle of April 2 times per month through July and will then go to once per month until January 2019.

Starting in January 2019 rehearsals will be Tuesday & Friday (6:30-9:30) and Sunday (2:30-5:30)

*LEADS are paid a stipend ($150) with a potential for bonuses for helping find sponsors and ticket sales*

Group auditions will consider the following areas for casting:

Chemistry- the point of Chemistry Auditions are to see how 2 or more actors will interact with each other. We want to see you interact with others!

Sound- no interaction is needed. We are just looking to hear how you sound on the song.

Acting- we still want to hear how you sound, but we also want you to act & show the emotion of the song during auditions.
Role # 1 Mark Cohen
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

A struggling Jewish-American documentary filmmaker and the narrator of the show. He is Roger\\\'s roommate; at the start of the show, he was recently dumped by Maureen.

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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 2 Roger Davis
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

A once-successful-but-now-struggling musician and ex-lead singer and rock guitarist who is HIV-positive and an ex-junkie. He hopes to write one last meaningful song before he dies. He is having a hard time coping with the fact that he, along with many others around him, knows that he is going to die. His girlfriend, April, killed herself after finding out that she was HIV-positive. He is roommates with Mark.

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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 3 Mimi Márquez
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A Hispanic-American club dancer and drug addict. She lives downstairs from Mark and Roger, is Roger\'s love interest, and, like him, has HIV. She is also Benny\'s ex-lover.


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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 4 Tom Collins
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

An anarchist professor with AIDS. He is described by Mark as a \"computer genius, teacher, and vagabond anarchist who ran naked through the Parthenon.\" Collins dreams of opening a restaurant in Santa Fe, where the problems in New York will not affect him and his friends. He was formerly a roommate of Roger, Mark, Benny, and Maureen, then just Roger and Mark, until he moves out.

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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 5 Angel Dumott
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

A young drag queen who uses both she/her pronouns when in drag and he/him pronouns when out of drag. Angel is a street percussionist with a generous disposition, who has AIDS; Collins\' love interest.

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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 6 Maureen Johnson
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

A performance artist who is Mark\'s ex-girlfriend and Joanne\'s current girlfriend. She is very flirtatious and cheated on Mark (presumably with Joanne). Larson considered Maureen a lesbian, despite her relationships with men, and he specifically identified her as \"lesbian\" in the script itself. However, an old lesbian friend of Larson told him it was wrong to call Maureen a lesbian because of her attraction to men, and that is where the idea of her being bisexual started.

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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 7 Joanne Jefferson
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An Ivy League-educated public interest lawyer and a lesbian. Joanne is the woman for whom Maureen left Mark. Joanne has very politically powerful parents (one is undergoing confirmation to be a judge, the other is a government official).

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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 8 Benjamin
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Landlord of Mark, Roger, and Mimi\'s apartment building and ex-roommate of Mark, Collins, Roger, and Maureen. Now married to Alison Grey of the Westport Greys, a very wealthy family involved in real estate, and he is considered yuppie scum and a sell-out by his ex-roommates. He at one time had a relationship with Mimi.

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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 9 Mrs. Cohen
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Mark\'s stereotypical Jewish mother. Her voicemail messages are the basis for the songs Voicemail #1, Voicemail #3, and Voicemail #5.

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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 10 Alexi Darling
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

The producer of Buzzline, a sleazy tabloid company that tries to employ Mark after his footage of the riot makes primetime. Sings Voicemail #3 and Voicemail #4.

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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 11 Mr. Jefferson
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The wealthy parents of Joanne Jefferson, they leave her Voicemail #2.

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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 12 Mrs. Jefferson
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The wealthy parents of Joanne Jefferson, they leave her Voicemail #2.

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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 13 Mrs. Davis
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Roger\'s confused mother who calls in Voicemail #5, asking continuously, \"Roger, where are you?\"

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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 14 Mrs. Marquez
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Mimi\'s Spanish-speaking mother who sings in Voicemail #5, wondering, in Spanish, where she is.

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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 15 Mr. Grey
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

Benny\'s father-in-law who wants to buy out the lot.

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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 16 The Man
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The local drug dealer whom Mimi buys from and Roger used to buy from. Based on the character Parpignol from La Bohème.

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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 17 Paul
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The man in charge of the Life Support group.

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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 18 Gordon
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One of the Life Support members

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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 19 Steve
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One of the Life Support members

Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 20 Ali
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One of the Life Support members.

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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 21 Pam
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One of the Life Support members.

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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 22 Sue
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One of the Life Support members.

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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 23 Squeegee Man
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A homeless person who chants \"Honest living!\" over and over during \"Christmas Bells\".

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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 24 The Waiter
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A waiter at Life Cafe.

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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 25 The Woman With Bags
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A woman who attacks Mark for trying to help her during \"On The Street\".

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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 26 The Preacher
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

The Preacher kicks Collins out of the church because he can't pay for Angel's funeral.

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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 27 Cops
Seeking 1 talent(s) for this role

Seeking a versatile actors to portray this role.

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Gender: Male
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 28 Bohemians
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Seeking a versatile actors to portray this role.

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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 29 Vendors
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Seeking a versatile actors to portray this role.

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Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 30 Homeless People
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Seeking a versatile actors to portray this role.

Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Role # 31 Talent
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Please check our Casting page for Character Breakdown.

Searchable talent specs :

Gender: Female
Age: from 18 to 60
Height: from 1' 10" to 8' 0"