A Contemporary Theatre 2025-26 Season Equity Principal Actors - A Contemporary Theatre Auditions

AUDITION DATE

Wednesday, June 11, 2025
10:30 AM - 3:00 PM (P)
Break 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment, please go to:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/805054CABA728A2FF2-56657548-20252026. Once you have secured your audition appointment, please fill out the following audition form:
https://airtable.com/app3En2C2VLdrm8Vz/shrGfaLdtMEithQJK. Actors not local to Seattle may submit their materials and a self-tape using the Airtable link.

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep
$1002 weekly minimum (LORT C) - Protected Theater
$811 weekly minimum (LORT D) - Protected Theaters
Theater will pay $1051 weekly minimum on both stages

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in A Contemporary Theatre's 2025-26 Season (See breakdown). All available roles on the season are open to actors of all races/ethnicities, gender identities, disabilities, and neuro-diversities, except where particular identities are specified by the playwright and/or director as integral to character and/or narrative.
Seattle actors are encouraged to audition.

PREPARATION

Please prepare two (2) contrasting monologues: 1 classical, 1 contemporary. Presentation should not exceed 3 minutes.

LOCATION

A Contemporary Theatre
700 Union St
Seattle, WA 98101

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:
Margaret Layne: Casting Director
Elisabeth Farwell-Moreland: Interim Producing Artistic Director (schedule permitting)
See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

www.acttheatre.org
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.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

BREAKDOWN

A Contemporary Theatre 2025-26 Season

PLEASE NOTE THAT AT THIS TIME ONLY A CHRISTMAS CAROL is understudied.
Some understudy casting for other productions may be available, still TBD.

AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE

Playwright: Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Amy Herzog
Directed by Victor Pappas
ALLEN - LORT C
1st reh: 8/26/25
1st perf: 9/20/25
Opening: 9/25/25
Close: 10/5/25

SEEKING:

• Peter Stockmann: early 50s. Thomas’s brother, the Town Mayor
• Hovstad: 30s. Editor of The People’s Messenger
• Billing: 20s. Works for Hovstad
• Aslaksen: 50s/60s. Chair of the Property Owners’ Associations
• Captain Horster: 20s. A ship’s captain
• Morten Kiil: 60s/70s. Thomas’s father-in-law, owner of a tannery

SHREW

Playwright: William Shakespeare
Directed and Adapted for 7 Actors by: Bobbin Ramsay
FALLS - LORT D
1st reh: 9/23/25
1st perf: 10/18/25
Opening: 10/23/25
Closing: 11/2/25

Role doubling: TBD

SEEKING:

• Katherine
• Bianca
• Petruchio
• Baptista
• Lucentio
• Hortensio
• Servant & Others

CHARLES DICKENS' A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Adapted by Gregory A. Falls
Directed by TBA
ALLEN - LORT C
1st Reh: 11/4/25
1st Perf: 11/28/25
Open: 12/4/25
Close: 12/28/25
All roles and understudy positions available

SEEKING:

• SCROOGE, 50-80, embittered, miserly, misanthropic, but in the end transformed to be full of joy, warmth, and playfulness
• BOB CRATCHIT, 30-50, Scrooge’s clerk
• FRED, 25-40, Scrooge’s nephew, outgoing, friendly, positive
• MRS FEZZIWIG, 40-60, lively, motherly
• MIDDLE SCROOGE, 25-35, Scrooge in younger days, engaging, ambitious, but already showing signs of misanthropy and greed
• BELLE, 20-30, Scrooge’s one-time fiancée, wise, lovely, open-hearted
• MARLEY’S GHOST, 40-60, ghost of Scrooge’s late partner, angry, tortured, scary
• GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST, any age, other-worldly, mischievous, but steely when called upon
• GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT, any age, larger than life, boisterous, bountiful, commanding
• 6 youths, under 13 to play CRATCHIT CHILDREN and LONDONERS
• 2 Understudies, 25+, any gender, tracks TBD but can include any adult role, excluding SCROOGE. Some roles are covered internally by cast members
• 1 Understudy, under 13, for youth actor roles

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (partner production with Seattle Shakespeare Company)

Playwright: William Shakespeare
Directed by TBA
FALLS - LORT D
1st Reh: 1/20/26
1st Perf: 2/14/26
Open: 2/19/26
Close: 3/1/26 (poss. Extension thru 3/8/26)

Role doubling TBD, subject to change

SEEKING:

• Titania/Hippolyta
• Theseus/Oberon
• Helena
• Hermia
• Lysander
• Demetrius
• Nick Bottom/Egeus
• Puck
• Starveling/Fairy
• Quince/Fairy
• Snout/Fairy
• Snug/Others

The aves

Playwright: Jiehae Park
Director: TBA
ALLEN - LORT C
1st Reh: 3/24/26
1st Perf: 4/18/26
Open: 4/23/26
Close: 5/3/26

NOTE: per the playwright’s note, acknowledgement that “old” and “young” are meaningless as absolutes. Actors cast should feel “old enough” or “young enough” for the story.

SEEKING:

• Old Man: M, White
• Old Woman: F, Asian
• Young Woman: F, Black
• Young Man: M, Latine
• Bird 1: any ethnicity, any gender
• Bird 2: any ethnicity, any gender
• A Girl: F, any ethnicity (non-speaking role)

FRIDA ... A SELF-PORTRAIT (booked in)

Playwright & Performer: Vanessa Savero
Director: TBA
FALLS - LORT D
1st Reh: 6/2/26
1st Perf: 6/5/26
Open: 6/11/26
Close: 6/28/26

FULLY CAST.