Artists' Ensemble Theatre 2025-26 Season Equity Principal Actors - Artists' Ensemble Theatre Auditions

ARTISTS' ENSEMBLE THEATRE 2025-26 SEASON - CHICAGO EPA

Artists' Ensemble Theater | Rockford, IL

AUDITION DATE

Tuesday, February 18, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (C)
BREAK: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM As the Equity offices will be closed in observance of President's Day, sign-ups will end on Friday, February 14th.

CONTRACT

SPT
$379 weekly minimum (SPT 2)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Artists' Ensemble Theater's 2025-26 Season (see breakdown)

PREPARATION

Please prepare two contrasting monologues. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Actors' Equity Association - Chicago Member Center
557 W Randolph St
1st Fl
Chicago, IL 60661

PERSONNEL

See breakdown for production-specific personnel.

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
AET Producing Artistic Director: Richard Raether

OTHER DATES

Guys on Ice
Book, Story, & Lyrics by Fred Alley, Music & Story by James Kaplan
1st Reh Aug 5, 2025
Open Sept 4
Close Sept 21

Misery
by William Goldman adapted from Stephen King
1st Reh Oct 7
Open Nov. 6
Close Nov. 23

Conscience
by Joe DiPietro
1st Reh Feb 10, 2026
Open March 12
Close March 29

Agatha Christie's The Murder at the Vicarage
Adapted by Margaret Raether
1st Reh April 7
Open May 7
Close May 24

OTHER

https://artistsensemble.org/
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An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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BREAKDOWN

ARTISTS' ENSEMBLE THEATER 2025-26 SEASON

GUYS ON ICE
The ice fishing musical

SEEKING:

Marvin: Male - 30s-40s
Lloyd: Male - 30s-40s
Earnie: Non-gender specific - 30s-40s

MISERY
by William Goldman adapted from Stephen King
Suspense, thriller

SEEKING:

Paul Sheldon: Male - Successful romance novelist held captive by an obsessive fan
Annie Wilkes: Female - his “number one fan”
Sheriff Buster: Male 30s - 40s

CONSCIENCE
by Joe DiPietro
A story of a remarkable woman who stood up for what was right and refused to back down.

SEEKING:

Margaret Chase Smith: Female 50s - Senator from Maine
Joseph McCarthy: Male 40s - Senator from Wisconsin
William C. Lewis Jr: Male 30s - Margaret’s strategist & campaign manager.
Jean Kerr: Female 20s - a McCarthy staffer who would later become his wife.

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S MURDER AT THE VICARAGE
adapted by Margaret Raether
Colonel Protheroe is found shot dead in the vicar’s study, but as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village seems to have a motive to kill Colonel Protheroe.

SEEKING:

Miss Marple: Female 40s - 50s (a spinster, observant and knows human behaviour)
Mrs. Martha Price Ridley: Female 40s (a widow and gossip) & Others
Griselda Clement: Female 20s (the vicar's young wife) & Others
Anne Protheroe: Female 20s - 30s (second wife of Colonel Protheroe): & Others

Leonard Clement: Male 40s (the vicar of St Mary Mead) & Others
Lawrence Redding: Male 30s (a painter) & Others
Colonel Lucius Protheroe: Male 40s (local magistrate) & others.