Portland Playhouse 2024-25 Season - Portland, OR EPA
Portland Playhouse | Portland, OR
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
11:00 AM - 7:00 PM (P)
Lunch 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
To set up an audition appointment please email: casting@portlandplayhouse.org. In the subject line of your email please list your last name, your first name, and your union status (Example; Smith, Ann Equity member). In the body of the email send us two (2) time slots that work for you, and we will schedule and confirm you for a slot accordingly. Time slots will be in 5-minute increments.
SPT
$725 weekly minimum (SPT 8)
Equity actors for roles in Portland Playhouse's 2024-25 Season (See breakdown). Portland Playhouse does not discriminate against any employee, volunteer or customer on the basis or race, color, cultural heritage, national origin, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, size, mental or physical dis/ability or appearance, genetic status, marital status, political affiliation, source of income, veteran status or any other status protected under local, state, or federal law.
Please prepare two contrasting contemporary monologues or a monologue and a song (16- 32 bars), totaling no more than 4 minutes. If you choose to sing, you may do so acapella, with an instrumental track, accompany yourself on an instrument, or an accompanist will be provided. Please bring a physical copy of your headshot and resume with you to your audition. Please let us know if you have any questions, concerns, or if there are any accommodations we can provide.
Portland Playhouse
602 NE Prescott St
Portland, OR 97211-3966
Expected to attend:
Brian Weaver, Artistic Director
Charles Grant, Producing Director
Kathryn Hasson, Portland Playhouse Apprentice
Monika Milani, Portland Playhouse Apprentice
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
Callbacks will take place at various points throughout the summer (April 2024 - September 2024).
See breakdown for production specific dates.
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.
A note about casting (adopted from language with consent originally created by Kevin Kantor and Emily Traquin of Actors Theatre of Louisville):
Most characters we encounter currently are on the binary and are written with he/him or she/her pronouns and you will see that in the following character descriptions. However limiting the descriptions are, our casting seeks to be inclusive as possible and we invite gender non-conforming, genderqueer, transgender, and non-binary actors to submit for the roles they most identify with. We will also list race/ethnicity when specific to the character but are otherwise seeking all races and ethnicities. Please let us know if you have any questions, concerns, or if there are any accommodations we can provide.
Book by Craig Lucas
Music by Daniel Messé
Lyrics by Nathan Tysen & Daniel Messé
Directed by Brian Weaver
First Rehearsal: August 26th, 2024
First Preview: October 2nd, 2024
Opening: October 5th, 2024
Closing: November 3, 2024
Actors who sing and play instruments. Actors will also be assigned various ensemble roles including Parisians, Peddlers, Customers, News Anchors, Reporters, and also serve as the band playing the show.
AMELIE - 20s; still imaginative, still sees the best in things, still independent, but her independence might be growing into a more permanent state of isolation.
NINO - A loner and artist; independent, private.
RAPHAEL/BRETODEAU - Amelie’s father, a clinical Army physician; orderly, sees the worst in things; finds his daughter incomprehensible. / Middle-aged man with regrets.
AMANDINE/PHILOMENE - Amelie’s mother, a neurotic teacher, sees eye to eye with her husband. / Airline hostess; a habitué of Two Windmills Café, frequently away.
HIPOLITO/ELTON JOHN - Unpublished writer; a habitué of Two Windmills Café. / Superstar.
JOSEPH/FLUFFY - Gina’s misogynistic ex-lover, a plumber; a habitué of Two Windmills Café. / A Goldfish; young Amelie’s best friend.
COLLIGNON/DUFAYEL - Local grocer. / Elderly recluse with degenerative bone disease.
BLIND BEGGAR - Dyspeptic.
LUCIEN/MYSTERIOUS MAN - Childlike employee of the local grocery.
SUZANNE - Owner of Two Windmills Café, one leg shorter than the other.
GINA - Waitress of Two Windmills Café; a young widow.
GEORGETTE/SYLVIE - A hypochondriacal tobacconist at Two Windmills Café. / Sex shop worker.
Written by Charles Dickens
Adaptation and Original Lyrics: Rick Lombardo
Original Music: Rick Lombardo and Anna Lackaff
Musical Arrangements: Anna Lackaff
Directed by Charles Grant
First Rehearsal: November 6th, 2024
First Preview: November 26th, 2024
Opening: December 1st, 2024
Closing: December 29th, 2024
Casting all adult characters for 8 tracks. For this production we cast a company of actors who all play multiple roles across gender, age, and race. It is possible that some of these character tracks may shift. Actors also sing and play multiple instruments. Strong musicians are encouraged to audition.
EBENEZER SCROOGE (offer pending) - The miserly owner of a London counting-house.
MARLEY/PAST/PRESENT/FUTURE (offer pending) - The spirits who visit Ebenezer Scrooge.
BOB CRATCHIT/MR. FEZZIWIG/BUSINESSMAN (offer pending) - Scrooge's clerk, a kind, mild, and very poor man with a large family / The jovial merchant with whom the young Scrooge apprenticed / A contemporary of Scrooge who is in a similar profession.
MRS. CRATCHIT/YOUNG SCROOGE/EDNA (offer pending) - Bob's wife / The younger version of Scrooge / A guest at Fred’s party.
FRED/MOLLY/BUSINESSMAN (offer pending) - Scrooge's nephew / A woman who sells some of Scrooge’s belongings to Old Joe / A contemporary of Scrooge who is in a similar profession.
BELLE/HERMIONE/OLD JOE (offer pending) - Young Scrooge’s ex-fiancé who loved him deeply / A guest at Fred’s party / A shop owner who buys the belongings of Scrooge.
COLLECTING MAN/MRS. FEZZIWIG/MRS. DILBER/ELIZABETH (offer pending) - A gentleman who visits Scrooge seeking charitable contributions / Fezziwig’s wife / Scrooge’s laundress who steals his clothing and sells it to Old Joe / Fred’s wife.
COLLECTING MAN/DICK WILKINS/TOPPER (offer pending) - A gentleman who visits Scrooge seeking charitable contributions / Young Scrooge’s friend / One of Fred’s party guests.
Written by Anna Deavere Smith
Directed by Jackie Davis
First Rehearsal: January 15th, 2025
First Preview: February 19th, 2025
Opening: February 22nd, 2025
Closing: March 30th, 2025
SYNOPSIS: This work was performed as a one-person show as a part of the author’s ongoing On the Road: A Search for American Character series. It is the author’s intention that actors would portray characters outside of their own race, gender, age, and “type. The actor is asked to take each real person at their word and with their word, to give full attention to their every utterance as recorded in the script.
ALL ROLES (offer pending) - SHERRILYN IFILL, KEVIN MOORE, ALLEN BULLOCK, JAMAL-HARRISON BRYANT, MICHAEL TUBS, TAOS PROCTOR, JUDGE ABBY ABINANTI, ETICIA DE SANTIAGO, TONY EADY, AMANA RIPLEY, NIYA KENNY, SARI MUHONEN, DENISE DODSON, DR. VICTOR CARRION, MD, STEVEN CAMPOS, STEPHANIE WILLIAMS, BRYAN STEVENSON, BREE NEWSOME, CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEWIS.
Written by August Wilson
Directed by TBD
First Rehearsal: March 24th, 2025
First Preview: April 30th, 2025
Opening: May 3rd, 2025
Closing: June 8th, 2025
SETH HOLLY - In his early fifties, Seth is owner of the boardinghouse and works as a craftsman.
BERTHA HOLLY - Seth's wife of 25 years and five years his junior, Bertha runs the boardinghouse. She does all the cooking and cleaning.
BYNUM WALKER - A conjure man staying with the Holly's at the boardinghouse, Bynum is in his sixties and is a freed slave from the south.
RUTHERFORD SELIG - The only white character in the play, Selig is a peddler who sells Seth's goods. Known as the People Finder, Selig is from a family that first brought Africans across the Atlantic to become slaves. But now he unites people by recording the names and places of all the people he peddles to.
JEREMY FURLOW - Another resident of the boardinghouse, Jeremy is a guitar-playing 25-year-old. He came to the North looking for a job and a way in life. He works construction, putting in the new road outside of town.
HERALD LOOMIS - An odd man who dons an overcoat and hat in mid-August, Loomis is 32 and a displaced man searching for his wife. He was forced to work for Joe Turner for seven years, which separated him from his wife and daughter. He works as a deacon for the Abundant Life Church and at times was possessed by spiritual beings.
MATTIE CAMPBELL - Mattie is a 25-year-old woman who is disappointed with her position in life and is looking for love.
MOLLY CUNNINGHAM - Molly is a young woman of 26 who is strong and independent.
MARTHA PENTECOST - Loomis' wife, Martha is about 28 and very religious and a member of the Evangelical church. She left the South and her daughter behind.
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