We are thrilled that you are joining us for callbacks for SAY MY NAME, a new play being featured in the BROADWAY BOUND THEATRE FESTIVAL!

FOR THIS CALLBACK, PLEASE PREPARE ALL THE SIDES FOUND IN YOUR FOLDER BELOW - THE INITIAL SIDES FROM THE SELF TAPE REQUEST PLUS THE ADDITIONAL CALLBACK SIDES ADDED. PLEASE HAVE ALL OF THE MATERIAL ON HAND AT THIS CALLBACK!

We will be pairing Marcus, Mayor Jenkins, Sarah, Reverend Clayton and Rhonda to read together in new callback sides, but you should also have the initial self-tape sides on hand, just in case. If you are being seen for these roles be prepared to stay a bit (maybe up to 1.5 hours) - promise we will move as quickly as possible! We know there is a fair amount of material added - you do not need to be off-book for these callbacks.

For Ancestors, we will be leading a group, improvisational rhythm and singing exercise. So come prepared to play and have fun in the moment. You should also have your initial self-tape side on hand - just in case we need to see you read again.

If you have any questions, please email me at hdbauditions@gmail.com.

MARCUS DESHAWN THOMPSON (Click here to access material)

MAYOR JAMES “JIM” JENKINS (Click here to access material)

SARAH (Click here to access material)

REVEREND HARRY CLAYTON (Click here to access material)

RHONDA THOMPSON (Click here to access material)
*A note on tone for Rhonda from the director: “Find more strength in her. Lead with strength - find the need to hold it together until you can't anymore. When you can't, then let it all fall apart."

OFFICER DAVID REYNOLDS (Click here to access material) *This side remains the same as the initial self-tape submission

THE ANCESTORS/AIDE (Click here to access material) *These sides remain the same as the initial self-tape submission

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS FULL SCRIPT

IMPORTANT: You must be local to the NYC area to be considered for this production. The producer does not provide housing. AEA or NON UNION performers may apply as this is a Showcase Code Contract. Please do NOT submit if you are not available for the rehearsal or performance dates listed in the breakdown below.

We look forward to seeing you at callbacks!

SAY MY NAME – BROADWAY BOUND THEATRE FESTIVAL - NYC
Producer: Jeff Perlman
Director: Reena Dutt
Written by: Jeff Perlman
Casting: Holly Buczek, HDB Casting

Venue: AMT Theatre, NYC
AEA Showcase Code
$500 stipend (10% commission will not be added)

DATES:
Rehearsals: 6/29/26-7/18/26
Tech*: 7/22
First Performance*: 7/23 – 2:00pm
Performances*: 7/23 - 2:00pm; 7/25 - 8:00pm; 7/26 - 5pm
*Please do not submit if you are not available these dates. 
Self-tape due: 5/27/26
Callbacks: 6/11/26

SYNOPSIS: When a fifteen-year-old Black boy is killed by a white officer, the city's mayor sees the boy's ghost in his office and refuses to read the prepared statement. He walks to the podium and tells the truth at a press conference. The ninety-second speech ends his career. Twenty years later, the boy is still with him, his former chief strategist returns to confront a quote that named what she has spent thirty years not asking, and a fifteen-year-old who has been waiting two decades for someone to say his name out loud finally goes home. Say My Name is a haunting in two movements about witness, complicity, and what it costs to become the person a single night made you. 

MARCUS DESHAWN THOMPSON (M, 18+ to play 15 yrs, Black/African American) He was on his way home from a school dance when he was shot and killed by a police officer. Marcus is not a victim and not a symbol. His soul roams the earth, only visible to Mayor Jenkins. He seeks resolution with Major Jenkins and craves moving on to the next phase of the afterlife.  He is the moral center of the play — but he is not its conscience-bearer. He is its presence.

MAYOR JAMES 'JIM' JENKINS (M, 50s, White American) A career politician at a crossroads. He is haunted by being the only person who can see Marcus. He yearns to come to terms with his responsibilities as a politician but ultimately, as an empathetic human being., Jenkins is exhausted, decent, and barely holding the line between who he wanted to be and who the work has made him. The role asks for restraint, intelligence, and an actor capable of sustaining stillness under pressure. 

SARAH (F, 30s-40s, Any ethnicity, American) Jenkins's chief strategist. Sarah is brilliant, exacting, loyal, and operating an internal cost ledger she has not let herself fully examine in thirty years. She watches Jenkins torch everything she has built for him. She returns twenty years later because a magazine profile prints a quote of his that finally names what she has spent thirty years not asking: should they follow her advice? 

REVEREND HARRY CLAYTON (M, 58, Black/African American). Pastor of First Baptist Church. He baptized Marcus when he was eight years old. Clayton is the play's deepest theological wound and its most quietly devastated witness. By the end of the play, he has buried forty-three more children since Marcus, and his faith has not survived intact. He still preaches. He still reads the names every fourth Sunday. He no longer knows what he believes.

RHONDA THOMPSON (F, 30s-50s, Black/African American) Marcus's mother. A single parent who has raised her son alone since his father died in a car accident when Marcus was three. She is not a saint and not a symbol. She is chasing the impossible — keeping her son in the room with her, through sheer force of refusing to accept that he is gone. 

OFFICER DAVID REYNOLDS (M, 20s-30s, White) The officer who fired the shots. He is a young man who was trained for forty hours on threat assessment and pulled the trigger in two-point-three seconds because that is what his training prepared him to do. He is a man trying to find a way to keep living with what he did — and discovering, twenty years apart, that the way he chose was simply to stop letting himself feel it. Reynolds is the play's most uncomfortable presence and its most ordinary. 

THE ANCESTORS/AIDE (M/F/Non-Binary, All ages, Black/African American) Shadowy figures of all ages. All victims of violence. They hum spirituals in the darkness.