AUDITIONS: A TWISTED BARGAIN

Inspired by the lives and crimes of Leopold & Loeb Written & Directed by Michael Mizerany. Performances take place in San Diego August 16-25, 2024. Pay is $350.00 per week (4 day rehearsal weeks) plus housing. Rehearsals begin July 22, 2024 in San Diego. 5 week contract.

Nominated for 5 San Diego Broadway World Awards including:

Best New Play

Best Direction of a Play

Best Performer in a Leading Role

Best Lighting Design

Details: Initial auditions will be by self-tape. Please send your dramatic monologue to Michael at artisticcompulsion@gmail.com . The deadline for your self-tape submission is May 13th. In-person callbacks will take place on Sunday, May 19th from 1pm-3pm in Los Angeles.

About The Play:

A Twisted Bargain is a psychological thriller examining the volatile relationship of Michael Franklin & Xander Roberts. Michael is obsessed with crime & cruelty, Xander is obsessed with Michael, thus began their pact of “quid pro quo” where sex and violence are brutally intertwined. A story of obsession, manipulation and murder.

About The Role:

MICHAEL FRANKLIN – 22-25, Philosophy Student, Any ethnicity - Michael is intelligent, very charismatic, and handsome. He is also a sociopath with severe mood swings and fits of rage. Uses sex as a tool to get what he wants, with women or men, and especially with Xander.  Role requires frontal nudity and a scene of sexuality.