Project 251

StageAgent; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 26,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AEA

Job summary

Target Margin Theater is seeking two actors to join the ensemble for PROJECT 251 in Brooklyn. The work is devised, non-narrative, with shifting voices and roles and no script on day one. Ensemble members collaborate in an open process and must be comfortable with experimental language and illogical sequences.

Auditions are scheduled in our 2nd floor studios on October 29, 2026, in New York. This is a LOA weekly minimum contract per LORT, with AEA union designation; accommodations available upon

Qualifications

• Actors must be willing to engage in an intense devising process.
• Work will be non-narrative with shifting voices and roles.
• No script on the first day of rehearsal; work is based in Nonsense.

Responsibilities

• Join ensemble for PROJECT 251, contributing to an open, collaborative process.
• Adapt to evolving cast assignments and sections during development.
• Embrace experimental language and illogical, incoherent sequences.

Skills

Heightened language

Physical flexibility

Job description

AUDITION DATE: Thursday, October 29, 2026 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E) Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM. Auditions will take place in our 2nd floor studios. Holding room - Yellow Studio. The Audition and Holding rooms are only accessible via stairs, so if that poses an issue, please email: [e-mail] and we will happily make accommodations.

LOCATION: Target Margin Theater 232 52nd St Brooklyn, NY 11220

Please prepare a brief (not more than two minutes) monologue from any poem, document, play, or other source written before 1914. The Audition and Holding rooms are only accessible via stairs, so if that poses an issue, please email: [e-mail] and we will happily make accommodations.

PROJECT 251 is a new play, a meditation on the future of our country. This work aspires to lift up the absurdity of the U.S.A. today and turn in hope to a frighteningly uncertain future. It is a devised work that will draw on contemporary and historic reporting and documents, and the writings of authors such as Alfred Jarry, Edward Lear, and Gertrude Stein, Tristan Tzara, and Kurt Schwitters. PROJECT 251 aspires to nonsense, but a kind of nonsense that achieves its own resonance and beauty.

This will be an ensemble play. Cast members will need to be willing and ready to contribute to an open and inclusive process, and to adjust to the dynamic evolution of the piece.

We are seeking two actors (any gender) to join our principal ensemble. Actors will shift and share roles often, depending on the sections we choose for adaptation. As with any devised work, the shape of this will be largely determined by our collaborative process. See below for representative character breakdowns.

SEEKING:

ENSEMBLE 1 and ENSEMBLE 2: Any gender, and age; physically flexible and adept with heightened language. Cast members will be engaged in an intense devising process with a small group of collaborators. This work will be non-narrative and it will not have conventional characters. Ensemble members will assume various voices and roles quickly and interchangeably. There is no script, and there will be no script on the first day of rehearsal. This work is based in Nonsense. It will not make sense. Cast members must be willing to try things for no reason, to experiment freely, and to work with unresolved mysteries. Cast members must be comfortable with illogical events that happen in incoherent sequence and disjointed apparently random language. In fact, cast members should not only be comfortable with all this nonsense, they should be enthusiastic about exploring it.

ENSEMBLE 3: ALREADY CAST. Same breakdown as above.

SALARY: LOA $671 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT) - 2026 rate.UNION: AEA