WORD FOR WORD / ETERNAL LOVE
Word for Word Auditions
JULY 2026
Word for Word Auditions Overview
Seeking Actors for Word for Word’s Upcoming Production of Eternal Love by Karen Bender (Spring/Summer 2027)
Auditions:
Monday, July 13th 10 am - 6 pm, at Z Below, 470 Florida St, SF
Tuesday, July 14th from 10 am - 6 pm, at Z Below, 470 Florida St, SF
Submit Headshot and Resume to: casting@zspace.org by July 9, 2026
Callbacks: TBD.
Word for Word is casting multiple roles for their upcoming production of Eternal Love by Karen Bender (spring/summer 2027)
Local AEA and non-AEA actors are highly encouraged to submit.
PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to receive submissions from non-local performers but we are unfortunately unable to provide local housing or transportation assistance.
Please see below for descriptions of the production and audition requirements.
Eternal Love by Karen Bender (a Word for Word/ Z Space production)
Director: Amy Kossow
Rehearsals Begin: Week of May 10
Load-in/Tech: Week of May 31
Dress/Preview: June 8-June 11
Opening: June 12
Closing: Jul 3 (two day show)
About the Show:
Word for Word shines a light on our society's fear of the adult lives of neurodivergent people. In "Eternal Love," we follow the story of one family who nervously chaperones their adult neurodivergent daughter and her new husband on their Vegas honeymoon.
Roles for ETERNAL LOVE
Ella: 50's Jewish mother (pre-cast)
Lou 50-60 Jewish father (pre-cast)
ensemble: multiple roles, any ethnicity/age, female (precast)
ensemble: multiple roles, any ethnicity, age, male (precast)
Lena: 30's Jewish, plays young for her age, neurodiverse female, seeking non-specific neurodiverse actor
Bob: 40's, neurodiverse male, described as short, balding, seeking non-specific neurodiverse actor
PLEASE NOTE: If called back for Eternal Love you will be asked to prepare sides.
Audition Requirements for these Word for Word Productions: please send a resume, headshot, and prepare one monologue for an in-person audition, no more than 3 minutes.
Headshots/resume, and any questions, should be emailed to casting@zspace.org.
Contract - Eternal Love by Karen Bender
AEA BAT Tier II $545 /wk + health & pension.
NON-UNION $545 /wk
Personnel
Z Space Artistic Collaborators:
Word for Word Artistic Director: JoAnne Winter
Word for Word Associate Artistic Director: Vanessa Flores Chacko
Executive Director: Shafer Mazow
Curatorial Director: Nikki Meñez
Questions? Contact: casting@zspace.org or visit www.zspace.org
Auditions will be reviewed and/or seen by:
JoAnne Winter - Word for Word Artistic Director
Vanessa Flores Chacko - Word for Word Associate Artistic Director
Amy Kossow - Director of Eternal Love by Karen Bender
Word for Word Core Company members
Word for Word Performing Arts Company performs short works of fiction, without changing a word, preserving the author’s voice and honoring their intent with inventive staging and theatrical distribution of the text. Word for Word believes in the power of the short story to provide solace, compassion, and insight into our daily lives. We bring stories from diverse cultures to our diverse communities and develop future audiences’ love for the printed and spoken word. Some of the many authors whose works we have produced include Alice Munro, Edward P. Jones, Tobias Wolff, George Saunders, Amy Tan, Colm Toíbin, Zora Neale Hurston and Sandra Cisneros.
Z Space empowers artistic risk, collaboration, and camaraderie amongst artists, audience, and community in the service of creating, developing, and presenting new work. In addition to being home to local and international artists and organizations, Z Space develops and produces its own new work. Over the past few years, Z Space has built a national reputation for developing and producing large-scale new works that reimagine the traditional musical theater form, receiving critical acclaim for Hundred Days (The Bengsons), The Lucky Ones (The Bengsons), and Weightless (The Kilbanes).
Z Space and Word for Word Casting Commitments
Z Space and Word for Word’s contracts prohibit discrimination. Z Space and Word for Word are committed to diversity and encourage all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Z Space and Word for Word encourage performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to submit.
