Teen Girl Role in "How the Light Gets In: A Novel" Play (LORT Non-Rep)

Project Overview

"How the Light Gets In: A Novel" is a lyrical and humane play about brokenness, connection, and the possibility that our cracks may become the places where light enters. Inspired by the Leonard Cohen lyric, the story follows four isolated people who cross paths in a Japanese garden at moments when their lives are cracking open:

• Grace Wheeler: A travel writer who never travels, now facing a frightening breast cancer diagnosis.
• Haruki Sakamoto: A Japanese architect hired to design a tea house, but he cannot find the shape of it — or the courage to say what he feels.
• Kat Lane: A homeless seventeen-year-old runaway hiding beneath the garden's weeping willow.
• Tommy Z: A tattoo artist whose gift for seeing people clearly is complicated by his own grief and addiction.

As their stories intertwine, the garden becomes a place of unlikely refuge where illness, fear, love, damage, and tenderness can be spoken aloud.

Compensation

• Contract: LORT Non-Rep
• Rate: $889 weekly minimum (LORT D)

Production Schedule

• Rehearsals begin: March 16, 2027
• Previews: April 7, 2027, and April 8, 2027
• Show opens: April 9, 2027
• Show closes: May 23, 2027

Audition Preparation

• For musicals or musicals and plays: Prepare a 32-bar cut in the style of the show and a short monologue with a total audition time under 3 minutes.
• For plays only: Prepare two contrasting monologues (one should be comedic) with a total audition time under 3 minutes.