2021-22 Mid-Season Auditions

 

Audition Notice

Bay Area Drama Company invites you to audition for its upcoming productions of The Cherry Orchard, directed by Sathish Sattanathan and Name, Place, Animal, Thing, directed by Rita Bhatia.

In-person auditions will be held at our rehearsal studio on Saturday, Oct 30, at our rehearsal studio at 1585 N. 4th Street, Unit I, San Jose 95112.

Please fill out and submit your Audition Form to receive further instructions about the audition process.

Roles Available


The age range given against each role should be treated as guidance only. If you can credibly play a role of a certain age you will be considered.

Our adaptation of The Cherry Orchard is set in Kerala. The Russian names in parentheses are the corresponding roles from Chekhov’s original play.

All roles in both plays are for actors who can play South Asian characters.

Here are the details of the roles available:

The Cherry Orchard

  • Banumathi Thampuratti (Renevskaya) - Mother, widow, matriarch.  Can play F 45 - 55

  • Sethu Lakshmi (Varya) - Elder daughter. Manager of the household. Can play F 30-40

  • Nandhini Varma (Anya) - Younger daughter. Can play F early 20s

  • Balakrishna Panicker (Gaieff) - Banumathi's brother. Can play M 50-60

  • Sidharthan (Lopakhin) - Up and coming politician. Can play M 30-40

  • Prabhakaran Pisharadi (Trofimoff) - Friend of matriarch's dead son. Can play M 30-40

  • Gowri (Dunyasha) Household help. Can play F early 20s

  • Menon (Firce) - Caretaker. Can play M 70s.

  • Sree Kumara Varma (Pishchik) - Distant relative of the family. Can play M 50-60

  • Kartyayani (Ivanovna) - Household help. Head cook. Can play F 50-60

  • Ramachandra Kuruppu (Yepikhodoff) - An accountant. Can play M Late 20s

  • Ayyappan (Yasha) - Caretaker's (Menon’s) relative. Can play M Early 30s

Name, Place, Animal, Thing

  • Mr. Malik - Imposing authoritative man. Can play M mid 50s

  • Mrs. Malik / Shalu - Upper middle-class housewife. Can play F early 50s

  • Nancy - Young Maidservant. Can play F 21-22

  • Kunal - Society Sweeper. Can play M 20s

  • Kapdu - Door-to-door cloth seller. Can play M 20s

  • Mrs Rizwi - Mrs. Malik’s dramatic neighbour. Can play F early 50s

  • Insiya - Rehana’s maidservant. Can play F early 20s

  • Batua - Nancy’s father. Villager. Can play M late 40s


Rehearsal & Performance Schedule

All rehearsals will be held in-person at our rehearsal studio in San Jose. To be considered for a role you must be available for the following dates:

The Cherry Orchard

  • Good availability from Jan 1, 2022 onwards

  • Must be available for critical rehearsals: Feb 26 to Mar 10, 2022

  • Must be available for shows: March 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 2022

Name, Place, Animal, Thing

  • Good availability from Mar 20, 2022 onwards

  • Must be available for critical rehearsals: May 14 to 26, 2022

  • Must be available for shows: May 27, 28, 29 & Jun 3, 4 2022


All performances will be held at Sunnyvale Theatre.

The health and safety of our cast and crew are very important to us. You must be fully vaccinated for COVID, as per the CDC guidelines, in order to audition.

We are a non-union company. All roles are unpaid, volunteer positions.

For more information please reach out to us at info@bayareadrama.company

 
Basab Pradhan