Crossroads Theatre Company | New Brunswick, NJ
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
LOA
$900 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT)
Equity actors for roles in CRUMBS FROM THE TABLE OF JOY (See breakdown).
Please prepare a brief contemporary monologue, one minute in length. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Pearl Studios (500)
500 8th Ave
New York, NY 10018-6504
Holding room - Studio 402
Artistic Director: Ricardo Khan
Director: Nataki Myers
Playwright: Lynn Nottage
Casting Directors: McCorkle Casting, LTD
Expected to attend:
AJ Stoogenke: Casting Associate
Jeffrey Driesbach: Casting Director
1st Rehearsal - September 25, 2025
Load-in - October 13, 2025
Tech - October 18, 2025
Previews - October 23, 2025
Opens - October 29, 2025
Closes - November 16, 2025
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EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination.
Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
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Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
SYNOPSIS: Recently widowed Godfrey, and his daughters Ernestine and Ermina, move from Florida to Brooklyn for a better life. Not knowing how to parent, Godfrey turns to religion, and especially to Father Divine, for answers. The girls absorb their new surroundings, but not necessarily religion. Lily, Godfrey’s sister-in-law, shows up from Harlem, having promised her sister that if anything ever happened, she’d look out for the girls. Lily, while fascinating to her nieces, stands for everything Godfrey dislikes: communism, sexual freedom and the fight against racial discrimination. As the racial and social issues of the late 1950s escalate, personal issues between Godfrey and Lily explode, prompting him to walk out. A few days later, he returns, with a new wife—a white, German immigrant, Gerte. With Godfrey immersed in religion, Lily claiming to be a part of the new revolution, and quiet, stoic Gerte coming from the horrors of Germany, life in the household gets heated. Ultimately, Lily must leave, seeing as she’s neither Godfrey’s wife nor the girls’ mother. Godfrey and Gerte keep the family together as best they can, but nothing lasts forever. Ernie, about to graduate from high school, gets a job offer from her father, but it’s not what she wants to do. Instead, as a young woman in the dawn of a new age, she sets off for Harlem in search of her spiritual mother, Lily, and all of the causes she supposedly stood for during the “revolution.”
ERNESTINE CRUMP: 17. Black. Thoughtful, curious, emotionally intelligent. Navigating grief, faith, and identity. The narrator—sharp-witted with poetic introspection. Carries the emotional center of the play.
GODFREY CRUMP: Late 30s-early 40s. Black. A widowed father grasping for structure through religious devotion. Earnest, rigid, wounded. A man searching for meaning in a world that keeps shifting beneath him.
ERMINA CRUMP: 15. Black. Bold, outspoken, quick-tongued. Rebellious with a restless energy. Struggles with authority, craves freedom. The embodiment of youthful urgency and defiance.
LILY ANN GREEN: 30s–40s. Black. Fierce, politically radical, sensual. A Communist and proud of it. Challenges respectability, stirs the household’s stillness. Carries truth like a torch.
GERTE SCHULTE: 30s. White, German immigrant. Earnest, awkward, out of place. Married Godfrey after his wife’s death. Her whiteness shifts the family dynamic—both well-meaning and naïve to her impact.
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