Casting Call
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Casting Call Guidelines
CASTING CALL: Where the Sugar Still Sweet
📍 Local Hire Only (Lafayette, LA area)
WE ARE ACCEPTING SELF-TAPED SUBMISSIONS.
LOCATION & Contact Information
PARC Village
2323 Moss St, Lafayette, LA 70501
(337) 344-8636
AUDITION DATE
Saturday, August 22, 2026
Open Call: 10:00am to 2:00pm
Offer Notices: Within 2 days
Audition Formats
In-Person Auditions
Open Call 10am to 2pm. No Appointment required
Self-Tape Submissions
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CONTRACT
$Paid Project
LOCAL HIRE ONLY
PREPARATION
Sides & Preparation
Auditions will be cold reads — sides from the script will be provided upon the completion of the registration form.
No need to prepare a monologue. Just bring yourself, be open to direction, and be ready to fully embody the character in the moment.
PERSONNEL
Expected to attend:
Directors: Brian Egland
Reader: Jay Price
Executive Artistic Director/Producer: Leigha Porter
Production Overview
Contracts Due August 2026
First Rehearsal August/Septemner 2026
Opening Night October 23, 2026
Closing Night October 25, 2026
Please email admin@heritageparc.org with any questions
Where The Suga Still Sweet
By Brian Egland
Directed by Brian Egland
First Rehearsal: August 2026
All Rehearsal: 4-6 hours a week
Opening: October 23, 2026
Closing: October 25th 2026
SYNOPSIS
In Reverend Vern-Mayor’s field of cane that won’t grow right, there’s one patch that does. It’s where Sondelo is buried, it’s where his best friend Runna goes to talk to him, and it’s where the sugar’s still sweet. Declared “A Brilliant Manuscript.” by WYES-TV’s Alan Smason, Brian Egland’s Where the Suga Still Sweet is an immersive, interactive hallelujah of a muted man who uses the super powers of his mind and spirit to survive in his decaying world.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Where the Sugar Still Sweet was developed through residency with the Mississippi Center for Cultural Arts Production’s (SIPP Culture) RPPL (Rural Performing Production Lab) Residency and micro development with National Black Theatre’s SOUL SERIES LAB
The World Premiere of Where the Sugar Still Sweet was produced by No Dream Deferred NOLA at the Andre’ Cailloux Center for Performing Arts and Cultural Justice in New Orleans, Louisiana as part of the 2023 WE WILL DREAM: New Works Festival.
WYES-TV Theatre Critic Alan Smason declared Where the Suga Still Sweet “A Brilliant Manuscript” and the premiere production won the Critics Choice Award for Best Production in New Orleans by the Gay Appreciation Awards & Ambush Magazine in 2023.
CAST OF CHARACTERS
RUNNA (RUN-AH)
Male | 18 to mid 20s| African American | Innocent | Child like | Lost in his own mind | Soft | Sweet | Posses Joy Mute | RUNNA hasn’t spoken since the death of his friend SONDELO.
NANNY MAE
Female | African American | 40s - 70s | Runna’s Great Aunt | Religious | Stoic | Still | Stern | Responsible | NANNY MAE lives a life she has regretted | She lives a life of what if’s | Fear and generational patterns inhibit her.
VERN-MAYOR
Male | 40s - 70s | African American | A Preacher | A leader | Good speaker | Has a great sin | On a mission from God to redeem himself
SONDELO (SUN-DELL-O)
Male | African American | 18 to mid 20s | Spirit of Young Boy Runna was friends with | He is a bird that is chained | His spirit cannot fly where it needs to because he is trapped in the ground.
INCWADI (INN-KWAH-DEE)
Doesn’t Conform to a Gender | INCWADI could be male, female, non-binary, trans, or anything in between | African or African American | 20’s -30’s | A Librarian | A reader | An explorer| An Earth Angel | Literally an angel on Earth Gentle | Kind | Patient