November 4

NOVEMBER 4

AEA SPT Tier-5

Washington D.C. 

Voices Festival Productions

Concept and Story: Danny Paller and Myra Noveck

Music and Lyrics: Danny Paller

Book: Myra Noveck

Director: Alexandra Aron

Producers: Ari Roth & A. Lorraine Robinson - Voices Festival Productions 

Casting: Eisenberg Casting (Daryl Eisenberg, CSA)

Casting Assistant: Joey Bermudez

Rate: $525/week including health & pension

Dates:

First rehearsal: October 13, 2025

First performance: November 12, 2025

Closing performance: December 7, 2025

TO SUBMIT: Email picture/resume to rabin@ebcastingco.com, Subject Line: November 4 [role]

SEEKING DC LOCAL HIRES!

EPA: 

May 20, 2025

10 AM - 6 PM, lunch 1:30-2:30 PM

Universalist National Memorial Church/Spooky Action Theatre - 1810 16th Street, NW, First Floor, Washington, D.C.

By Appointment. Please email rabin@ebcastingco.com, Subject Line: November 4 [role] - UNION STATUS. You MUST confirm you are an AEA member to be given an appointment for the EPA.

SYNOPSIS: Voices Festival Productions presents the Equity premiere of a new Israeli musical about an assassination that changed the course of that country’s history, and by extension our own.  This American premiere sets two Israeli families, from two radically different ethnic and racial backgrounds, on a musical collision course, counter-posing the 73 year old Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin and his family, with the ideological resistance of a 25-year-old Yemenite law student, Yigal Amir, and his family.  The escalating conflict culminates in a terrible act of violence one fateful night, November 4, 1995, at a peace rally (of all places), which would forever alter the trajectory of the Middle East Peace Process. Told with an up-to-the-minute frame of reference from two of the principal women in Rain and Amir’s lives, an intimate cast of five portrays a range of figures in the lives of Rabin and Amir, revealing striking reverberations within a deeply divided society.  A theater experience that pointedly looks back to how we got into the current political turmoil we’re in, the piece holds up an emotionally supple frame to humanize this history, with all its hope and brutal setbacks, its personalities, and its foreboding polarization – offering a rich lens through which to view the present tragic moment.

NOTE: We encourage both Jewish and non-Jewish artists to submit for all roles. SEEKING DC LOCAL HIRES!

SEEKING:

YITZHAK RABIN: Male, 70s.  Ashkenazi. Israel’s prime minister. A gruff exterior, former military general – in tight control of his emotions. Decisive and calculated in his actions. Yet clearly with a great warmth for his family. extremely intelligent. Baritone

YIGAL AMIR: Male 20s-30s. Sephardic. Law student and Rabin’s assassin. Bright, handsome young man popular with his peers and with women. Burns with increasing intensity and conviction and yet on the surface seems quite ordinary. Tenor. BIPOC actors strongly encouraged to submit.

CHICH & OTHERS: Male, 40s-60s. Plays Chich (former mayor of Tel Aviv), Hagai (Yigal’s brother), Dvir (fellow law student), Tal (soldier friend of Noa), Shmuel (Rabin’s neighbor), Eitan (journalist). A highly versatile actor. He switches for pompous politician to unassuming and kind neighbor.  Tenor or Baritone. 

NOA & OTHERS: Female, 20s-30s. Plays Noa (Rabin’s granddaughter), Inbal (assistant to Prime Minister). Plays Shalhevet (fellow law student and Yigal’s love interest) in both 1995 and 2025. A lovely young woman, kind and with an innocence that makes you want to protect her. She asks difficult questions and although fearful, speaks her mind openly.  As Shahalet - a  more complicated character - torn between who she loves and what she knows is right. Soprano. 

LEAH RABIN & OTHERS: Female 40s-70s. Plays Leah (Rabin’s wife), Miri (fellow law student), Shira (Tal’s mother). Plays Shoshi (Rabin’s chief aide) in both 1995 and 2025. Steadfast and  loyal - devoted to her family and country. As Soshi - quick witted, highly competent, fast moving. Soprano or Alto. 

VOICES FESTIVAL PRODUCTIONS is an independent production company dedicated to producing plays with current and urgent content designed to stimulate dis­course in our community and beyond. Our works find resonance with those living with conflict in the Middle East as well those closer to home, in our nation’s cap­ital, and along the seams of this country and its very real and perceived divides. We celebrate diverse, intercultural encounters through provocative, introspective new work for the stage.

Our focus is two-fold: through “Voices From a Changing Middle East“ we animate a multitude of perspectives emerging from the ever-shifting conflict in Israel and Palestine. At the same time, “Voices from a Changing Nation” pulls at the rendered seams of our moment to find commonality at the heart of narratives that resonate both from across the ocean and in our own backyards. We are in dialogue with our moment in history, dedicated to truth-telling through art.

All VFP personnel are asked to follow organizational policies for anti-discrimination/harassment and safety protocols. In addition to our mission, we have iterated company safety documents, including our VFP Anti-Harassment Policy, Rehearsal Room Standards (based on the work of our colleagues at Not in Our House: DC,), an Intimacy Pillars Reference Guide, and more. www.voicesfestivalproductions.com