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CASTING CALL: ACURA in PLANET AFTER Unpaid Independent Theater Project | NYC Seeking actors for the role of ACURA in PLANET AFTER, a new experimental theater work blending psychological realism, speculative fiction, grief, sound design, and immersive performance. ABOUT THE PIECE PLANET AFTER is a headphone-based theatrical experience set almost entirely inside a car after a catastrophic event. Audience members wear headphones and move through the space while hearing intimate conversations, fragmented memories, environmental soundscapes, and emotional unraveling in extreme detail. The project lives between realism and dream logic. It explores survival, fear, longing, manipulation, tenderness, and what happens when people construct emotional worlds to protect themselves. ROLE: ACURA 18–35 | Any ethnicity/male ACURA is strange, poetic, deeply sensitive, and emotionally raw. Both funny and devastating. A being shaped by catastrophe who moves through the world with innocence, intensity, and unsettling honesty. Looking for performers with: • Comfortable with nudity • Comfort with heightened or poetic language • A grounded, naturalistic acting style • Curiosity about experimental/devised theater • Strong vocal presence Please note: this production contains nudity DETAILS • NYC-based rehearsals/workshops • Schedule flexible around availability • Paid (rate dependent on funding + rehearsal structure) • LGBTQ+ performers strongly encouraged to submit • All ethnicities, body types, and backgrounds encouraged TO SUBMIT Please send: • Headshot • Resume • Self tape using the attached sides • Any reels or additional materials (optional) We are especially interested in collaborative performers excited by theater that blends performance, sound art, intimacy, and immersive storytelling. Sides: ACURA Okay.
So.
I have been observing Earth. A few days after I fell, I stayed in a building with many small beds.
People came and left every few days.
They gabbed and gabbed and gabbed about their lives.
Sometimes I could't keep up. I studied how they spoke.
How they moved.
When we first arrived, our leader told us to mirror behavior.
"To survive, you imitate." So I did. Right now, I am mostly composed of a man named Joey who cried himself to sleep every night,
a gay teenager named Menachem who loved Audra McDonald and taught me how to mix belt (which by the way is so hard),
the radio,
and now… you two. Beat. I think I want to be most like you two. Anyway.
The building was called a hostel.
I thought they meant hospital and was so confused…
But no one was quiet.
And no one was sick…but one person made a diarrhea that smelled so bad I thought he was…sick. Everyone put their lives into rectangles. Boxes for shoes. Boxes for meds.
Boxes for food.
Boxes for very important papers that turned out to be receipts. People slept in stacked rectangles.
They closed fabric walls around their faces.
Even their phones had cases. okay…rhyming?? Not me being Sondheim… That's when I realized something about Earth. You are very devoted
to keeping things inside other things. JANE That's your big takeaway? ACURA Yes. you're all obsessed with containers. Houses. Cars. Coffins. Silence. …Why do humans build walls? TESS Because things get in. ACURA But you also put yourselves in. You build something to keep danger out… and then live inside the fear of it. Why are you… guarded? No accusation. Just curiosity. TESS I'm not. ACURA Girl……………………..You are extremely guarded. It's one of your top qualities.

May 22, 2026

Location: New York, NY

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