Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival announces Feb 6 auditions for 2017 summer season
Auditions and interviews will be held on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6 for the 2017 Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival (NDSF). The Festival seeks community and student actors, musicians (especially horn players), technicians, and production management. Paid positions are available at both the professional and apprentice levels.
The Festival is also announcing a renewed commitment to recruit, hire, and develop local artists. Ryan Producing Artistic Director Grant Mudge looks forward to seeing area talent saying, “All are welcome, especially individuals who might have felt our theatre was not for them. The light on our stage extends far beyond the doors of the theatre and beyond the borders of Notre Dame’s campus.”
As proof of its commitment, the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival has shifted its rehearsals into the afternoon and evening allowing local theatre artists to participate after work and on weekends. Mudge continued, “Many leave the acting profession not for lack of talent, but in order to raise a family or put down roots in towns they love, like South Bend and Mishawaka. We invite these local actors, musicians, and technicians to join us on February 6.”
What does this mean for ND students? A minimum of ten (10) slots are reserved for Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s students in the 2017 apprentice program – on stage and behind it. Apprenticeships last nine (9) weeks and are paid. Apprentice actors receive three weeks of training in voice, text, and movement. Apprentice designers, stage managers, and technicians receive on-the-job training and may participate in master classes.
The NDSF family includes: Broadway directors, Tony Award-winning designers, and world-class actors from the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Guthrie Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Utah Shakespeare Festival, the Old Globe, the Public Theater, Canada’s Stratford Festival, and many others from New York to Los Angeles.
Apprentices may be cast in the Touring Company production of Twelfth Night, the Professional Company production of Much Ado About Nothing, or both.
Actors should prepare one Shakespeare monologue (or other classical author), of less than two minutes. Musicians and singers should prepare 16–32 bars of music. No accompanist is provided. E-mail
NDSFAuditions@nd.edu for an appointment. (Note: morning and late afternoon have the most availability.) Interested parties may also phone
574-631-3777 for more information.
The Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Notre Dame’s professional theatre in residence, is one component of Shakespeare at Notre Dame, a program that also includes the McMeel Family Chair in Shakespeare Studies and Actors From The London Stage, a world-renowned Shakespeare touring company. The mission of Shakespeare at Notre Dame is to establish the University nationally and internationally as a center for the study of Shakespeare in performance. Visit
shakespeare.nd.edu to learn more.
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