The Story Theatre is holding auditions for Pot Girls by Paul Michael Thomson. Directed by Ayanna Bria Bakari.

Pay: $1,376 stipend
As part of our goal of working towards paying artists a living wage, we calculated this compensation at a rate of $16/hr for 56 hours of rehearsal + $160/week of tech and performances for 3 weeks (possible 4th week extension will be paid an additional $160). All artists (from producers to understudies to stage managers to designers) will be paid at this same hourly rate, and stipends will not shift even if more or less hours are used in the process of this production. We recognize that $1,376 is still not a living wage, and we are working to increase pay each season at The Story!

Synopsi
Pot Girls is a smoky riff on Caryl Churchill's Top Girls that is a part of The Story's Season V.
What is the duty of the artist? Well, tonight, her only duty is to get stoned and celebrate!! Caryl is getting her first big West End production with a smart, sexy new play that centers women in the workplace. Her nearest and dearest friends-an assortment of feminist writers from throughout space and time-come to her London flat to kiki and drink grasshoppers. (Did I mention it's 1982?) But when the party's over and Caryl is presented with the ways her new play may be causing harm, she must decide whether or not she'll learn from history or else abdicate her responsibility altogether. What is the role of critique in creation? Can we judge the artist's politics by the artwork's problems? And is any of our art really activism?

Character Breakdown
Actors play multiple characters in this three-act play. The tracks are as follows:
ACTOR 1: CARYL, white, British, pushing 30; was the first girl to be Valedictorian at her high school (this was very formative) [seeking understudy]

ACTOR 2: EDITH, Black, butch, British; a healthy 30; doesn't sing along to the radio

ACTOR 3: SOR JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ, colonial Mexican nun, 40s; horny for knowledge / CHRISTINE, the literary manager

ACTOR 4: SAPPHO OF LESBOS, lyrical Greek poet; 20s or 30s (but ageless, really); melancholy, but in a sexy, Chekhovian way / ANNIE, the stage manager

ACTOR 5: LADY MURASAKI SHIKIBU, Japanese novelist, 30s; "you say vain like it's a bad thing" / MEI-LIN, the actress from America

ACTOR 6: EDWARD CARPENTER, English activist/socialist/novelist/queer; 30s; his lovers always tell him he thinks too much / MAX, the director

ACTOR 7: PHILLIS WHEATLEY, formerly enslaved Black American poet; 20s; the smartest person in the room with the least desire to prove it / NAOMI, the literary apprentice