American Shakespeare Center 2024 Season - Staunton, VA EPA American Shakespeare Center | Staunton, VA
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Monday, December 12, 2023
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
To set up an audition appointment please go to:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0E44AEAE2EA3FCC07-46376063-ascequity .
If you are unable to attend the in-person auditions, you may submit a video submission at: artistic@americanshakespearecenter.com.
LORT Rep
$799.28 weekly minimum (LORT D)
Equity actors for roles in American Shakespeare Center's 2024 Season (See breakdown).
Actors of all gender identities, races, ethnicities, abilities, and ages are encouraged to attend.
All the roles will be understudied.
Please prepare one Early Modern Monologue (Shakespeare preferred). Please also bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Blackfriars Playhouse
10 S Market St
Staunton, VA 24401
Use the front entrance to the Blackfriars Playhouse.
Expected to attend:
Brandon Carter: Artistic Director
Natasia Reinhardt: Casting Director and Associate Artistic Director
1st Rehearsal
Spring - January 1st
Summer/Fall - June 13th
Opening
Spring - January 27th
Summer/Fall - July 13th
Closing
Spring - June 9th
Summer/Fall - November 24th
OTHER
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An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity’s contracts prohibit discrimination.
Equity is committed to diversity and encourages all its employers to engage in a policy of equal employment opportunity designed to promote a positive model of inclusion. As such, Equity encourages performers of all ethnicities, gender identities, and ages, as well as performers with disabilities, to attend every audition.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
American Shakespeare Center 2024 Season
ALL ROLES ARE PRE-CAST UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED
SPRING SEASON:
MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM - All roles are cast
JULIUS CAESAR - All roles are cast
Elizabeth Bennet: An intelligent and spirited young woman who possesses a keen wit and enjoys studying people's characters. Although she initially dislikes Darcy, circumstances cause her to reassess her negative impression of him, and she eventually falls in love with him.
Fitzwilliam Darcy: A wealthy, proud man who falls in love with Elizabeth and reveals a generous, thoughtful nature beneath his somewhat stiff demeanor.
Mr. Bennet: Elizabeth's ironic and often apathetic father. Unhappily married, he has failed to provide a secure financial future for his wife and daughters.
Mrs. Bennet: Elizabeth's foolish and unrestrained mother who is obsessed with finding husbands for her daughters.
Jane Bennet: A gentle and kind-hearted young woman who is Elizabeth's confidant and the oldest of the Bennet daughters. She falls in love with Bingley but is cautious about revealing the depth of her feelings for him.
SUMMER/FALL SEASON:
MERCHANT OF VENICE - All roles are cast
Ferdinand, King of Navarre: While the play's dramatis personae lists the King as Ferdinand, throughout the play he is referred to only as King. He is a scholar and has sworn an oath to uphold his scholarship at the expense of earthly pleasures, the most important of which will turn out to be receiving women at his court.
Berowne, Longaville, Dumaine: Three lords who have joined the King in his oath of scholarship. They fall in love with Rosaline, Maria, and Katherine, respectively.
Princess of France: This character never has a name other than Princess. She pays a visit to the King of Navarre and, along with some of her attendants, plays a game of wits with the King and his lords.
Rosaline, Maria, Katherine: Three ladies attending the Princess who catch the fancy of the King's lords.
Cordelia: Lear’s youngest daughter, disowned by her father for refusing to flatter him. Cordelia is held in extremely high regard by all of the good characters in the play—the king of France marries her for her virtue alone, overlooking her lack of dowry. She remains loyal to Lear despite his cruelty toward her, forgives him, and displays a mild and forbearing temperament even toward her evil sisters, Goneril and Regan.
Kent: A nobleman of the same rank as Gloucester who is loyal to King Lear. Kent spends most of the play disguised as a peasant, calling himself “Caius,” so that he can continue to serve Lear even after Lear banishes him. He is extremely loyal
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