Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Northern Stage Company 2024- 25 Season Equity Principal Actors - Various Producers Auditions

Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Northern Stage Company 2024- 25 Season - NYC EPA

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Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

Wednesday, April 3, 2024

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)

Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep

$807 weekly minimum (LORT D)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Northern Stage Company's 2024-25 Seasons (See breakdown).

No roles will be understudied.

PREPARATION

Please prepare EITHER two contrasting monologues OR one monologue and one song not exceeding two minutes in total length. An accompanist will be provided. Please also bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

BREAKDOWN

LOCATION

Actors' Equity New York Audition Center 165 W 46th St

16th Fl

New York, NY 10036

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:

Karie Koppel, Casting Director

See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition. An Equity Monitor will be provided.

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.

Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Northern Stage Company 2024-25 Season Alabama Shakespeare Festival 2024-25 Season

DEAR JACK, DEAR LOUISE

Written by Ken Ludwig

Director: Risa Brainin

Octagon Stage

1st Rehearsal: August 27, 2024

1st Preview: September 25, 2024

Opening: September 27, 2024

Closing: October 13, 2024

SEEKING:

Jack -is in his early to mid-thirties. He is reserved and wears khakis to suggest that he is in the Army. Louise -who is in her mid-twenties to early thirties, is outgoing and stylish.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Charles Dickens, adapted by Rick Dildine

Director: Rick Dildine

Festival Stage

1st Rehearsal: October 29, 2024

1st Preview: November 19, 2024

Opening: November 22, 2024

Closing: December 29, 2024

SEEKING:

Scrooge

Bob Cratchit

Mrs. Cratchit

Christmas Present

Belle

Fezziwig

Mrs. Fezziwig

Young Scrooge

Lucy

Fred

Ghost of Christmas Past

Marley

Old Joe

Ensemble (3)

THE WATSON'S GO TO BIRMINGHAM

Based off the book by Christopher Paul Curtis

Director: Chistopher Windom

Octagon Stage

1st Rehearsal: January 7, 2025

1st Preview: February 4, 2025

Opening: February 7, 2025

Closing: February 23, 2025

SEEKING:

Narrator Kenny & Other Broadcast Voices (early 50s)-African-American. Dee jay at the first black owned FM station WDZZ in Flint, Michigan

Kenneth Kenny Bernard Watson (10)-African-American. A fourth grader at Clark Elementary

Byron Watson (13)-Kenny's juvenile delinquent older brother who's also a bully but knows how to stick up for his younger brother when he needs to.

Joetta Joey Watson (5)-African-American. She is the younger sister to Kenny and Byron.

Daniel Watson (40s)-African American. He is husband to Wilona and father to Kenny, Byron, and Joetta.

Wilona Watson (40s)-African-American. Wife of Daniel and mother to Kenny, Byron, and Joetta. A native Alabamian who is an outsider in her own family-she is the only one in the Watson clan not to be born and raised in Flint, MI.

Grandma Sands (60s)-African-American. A widow. Mother to Wilona, Mother-in-law to Daniel, grandmother to Kenny, Byron, an Joetta.

SHERWOOD

Written by Ken Ludwig

Director: Laura Kepley

Festival Stage

1st Rehearsal: February 11, 2025

1st Preview: March 12, 2025

Opening: March 14, 2025

Closing (rep weekend with Hamlet): May 3, 2025

SEEKING:

Prince John

The Sheriff of Nottingham

Sir Guy of Gisbourne

Maid Marian

Friar Tuck

Doerwynn

Robin Hood

Little John

***Please Note: Actors cast in this production will also be cast in Hamlet.***

HAMLET

Written by William Shakespeare

Director: Brian McEleney

Festival Stage

1st Rehearsal: May 6, 2025

1st Preview: May 29, 2025

Opening: May 30, 2025

Closing: June 15, 2025

SEEKING:

Hamlet

Claudius

Gerturde

Polonius

Opehlia

Laertes

The Ghost

Horatio

Fortibras

Rosencrantz

Guildenstern

Osric

Voltimand

Cornelius

Marcellus

Bernardo

Francisco

Reynaldo

***Please Note: Actors cast in this production will also be cast in Sherwood.***

THE WIZARD OF OZ

Presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company

L. Frank Baum

Music & Lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg

Background Music by Herbert Stothart

Director: TBD

Festival Stage

1st Rehearsal: June 10, 2025

1st Preview: July 9, 2025

Opening: July 11, 2025

Closing: August 17, 2025

KUDZU CALLING - BLACK. SOUTHERN. LOVE. STORIES By Donnetta Lavinia Grays

Director: Kevin R. Free

Octagon Stage

1st Rehearsal: May 6, 2025

1st Preview: May 29, 2025

Opening: May 30, 2025

Closing: June 15, 2025

SEEKING:

Oak: The oldest and wisest among them. (Black Woman-An Elder) Magnolia: Feminine and strong. (Black Woman-Middle Aged)

Dogwood: A stubborn hard-earned beauty. (Black Man-Middle Aged)

Pine: A prickly one, but curious. (Black Man-Young Adult)

Weeping Willow: A feeler. (Black Trans Male Identified-Young Adult)

The Wanderer: A lost soul, returned. (Black Masculine Woman-Middle Aged)

SEEKING:

Dorothy Gale

Aunt Em-Emily Gale/Glinda-The Good Witch of the North Uncle Henry-Henry Gale /Emerald City Guard

Zeke-Farmhand/Cowardly Lion

Hickory-Farmhand/Tinman

Hunk-Farmhand/Scarecrow

Miss Almira Gulch/The Wicked Witch of the West

Professor Chester Marvel/The Wizard of Oz

Citizens of Munchkinland-Chorus: Mayor, Coroner, Barrister, 3 City Fathers, 3 Tough Guys, Fiddler, Braggart, 2 School Teachers, 3 Tots

3 crows

3 trees

poppies & snowmen

Ozians-Chorus: Beauticians, Polishers, Manicurists

2 Oz Men

2 Oz Women

Winkies-Chorus

Winkie General

Nikko

Jitterbug

Jitterbugs & Ghosts

Northern Stage Company 2024-25 Season

SISTERS

By Matthew Libby

Directed by Aileen Wen McGroddy

First Rehearsal: September 10, 2024

First Preview: October 2, 2024

Closing: October 20, 2024

(LORT D, Favored Nations)

SEEKING:

MATILDA, ages 6 to 96 - an intelligent and independent woman who is sometimes jealous of the attention her AI sister receives.

GRETA, an AI sister to Matilda, created by Matilda’s dad, becomes more and more human through the course of the show.

DISNEY'S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Book by Linda Woolverton Directed by Carol Dunne

First Rehearsal: October 25, 2024

First Preview: November 20, 2024

Closing: January 1, 2025

(LORT D, Favored Nations)

SEEKING:

BEAST Cursed Prince. Lonely, petulant. Age: 30 to 40 (Vocal range: F4- A2) a hot-tempered Prince, transformed into a creature under a spell. Gruff but with a tender heart.

GASTON A pompous, rude, narcissistic hunter who thinks himself the center of the universe. Age: 30 to 40 (Vocal range: E4- A2)

LUMIERE Self-confident French valet, flirtatious. Age: 35 to 45 (Vocal range: F#4- F#2)

MRS. POTTS Kind-hearted head of the kitchen staff and mother to Chip. Age: 45 to 55 (Vocal range: G5- F#3)

COGSWORTH Officious, excitable, English major-domo; becomes a mantle clock. Age: 40 to 55 (Vocal range: E4- A2)

MAURICE Belle’s father. An inventor and eccentric man sometimes naive to the world around him. BABBETTE A playful, seductive feather duster.

CHIP: ROLE IS CAST. A curious, playful teacup.

CHORUS Villagers, townspeople, enchanted objects and a pack of wolves.

KING JAMES

Written By Rajiv Joseph

Directed by Abigail Jean-Baptiste

First Rehearsal: January 7, 2025

First Preview: January 29, 2025

Closing: February 16, 2025

(LORT D, Favored Nations)

SEEKING:

SHAWN - African American, ages 21-33, a writer, meticulously dressed

MATT - White, ages 21-33, a bartender, a sloppy guy who is trying

VERMONT FARM PROJECT

Book by Jessica Kahkoska

Music and Lyrics by Tommy Crawford

Director: TBD

First Rehearsal: February 18, 2025

First Preview: March 12, 2025

Closing: March 30, 2025

(LORT D, Favored Nations)

$831/week for any Equity actors playing instruments, plus standard instrument rentals

SEEKING:

GLENN / INSTRUMENTALIST (50s/60s) - ROLE CAST. Glenn is a Vermont man of few words. A grounded leader in the local farm community. Instruments: guitar, banjo, mandolin.

KIM / DOCTOR (50s/60s) - Kim radiates tireless, salt-of-the-earth energy. A 1970s Middlebury alumnus, pioneer of the American CSA movement. A realist and dreamer at the same time. Instruments: violin and/or accordion.

GABRIELA / MO (30s)- ROLE CAST. A young mother spending her second winter in Vermont working at a large dairy operation. Combating her loneliness with creativity. DOUBLES AS MO (22) - A college student/farm employee… undecided in all ways. Instruments: guitar.

MATT / HUNTER (30s) - A millennial who recently moved to the Upper Valley with his young family. Beaten down by the sobering reality of running his own farm, but trying to keep his dreams (and relationship) alive. DOUBLES AS HUNTER (20) - a farm employee forced to work at the farm to stay out of trouble. Instruments: guitar, mandolin, banjo.

KENZA / TARA (30s) - Recently moved to the area with her husband and their young child. Reconciling a passion for sustainability and her own burnout. DOUBLES AS TARA (21) - an enthusiastic college student/ farm employee who is certain that her path in life is to become a career farmer (and yours should be as well). Instruments: violin or bass.

WAITRESS

Music and Lyrics by Sara Bareilles, Book by Jessie Nelson.

Directed by Carol Dunne

First Rehearsal: April 1, 2025

First Preview: April 23, 2025

Closing: May 25, 2025

(LORT D, Favored Nations)

SEEKING:

Jenna - 20s-30s, a waitress stuck in an unhappy marriage in a small town. She finds creative outlet and expresses her sense of humor through baking.

Dr. Pomatter - 30s-40s, endearing and slightly neurotic OBGYN. Develops a massive crush on Jenna, despite being married.

Becky - 40s-50s, the elder of the three waitresses, she has a dark sense of humor and has seen it all. Dawn - 20s, the youngest of the three waitresses, quirky and anxious about any risk taking. Ogie - 30s, strange but loveable, falls in love with Dawn after a 5-minute date and is persistent.

Earl - 20s-30s, peaked in high school, drinks too much. Narcissism mixed with an explosive temper. Joe - 50s-70s - the owner of the diner. A curmudgeon that has a soft spot for Jenna and her pies. Cal - 30s-40s - the cook at the diner. Blunt but lovable.

Lulu (child) - role is CAST.

Ensemble - patrons at the diner, doctors and nurses at the hospital, etc.