Tuesday, July 29, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (P)
NO BREAK PLANNED.
Please email
casting@ashlandnewplays.org with your headshot and resume to request an appointment.
SPT
$323 weekly minimum (SPT 1) + Travel stipend and housing provided for out of town actors.
Equity actors for roles in Ashland New Plays Festival 2025 Fall Festival (see breakdown).
Please prepare a contemporary monologue and a side of your choosing from this folder:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10Wnf1EaOWJ9BH0zi3EfPUJt92UPHawaK. Please bring your headshot and resume, stapled together.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival - Carpenter Hall
44 S Pioneer St
Ashland, OR 97520
Artistic Director: Jackie Apodaca
Casting Coordinator: Alysia Beltran
Rehearsals: October 13-15, schedule varies per play
Performances: October 15-19, schedule varies per play
See breakdown for further details.
ashlandnewplays.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
DATES:
Please note that all dates are subject to change.
by Vince Gatton
In a high-security meat-processing plant in the Ozarks, middle-aged line workers Ruth and Donna have long since settled into a routine based on decades of shared resentments. But when a new figure shows up in town, cracks start to break wide open - between Ruth and Donna, and in the world high above their workstation. And what’s up with all these Security alerts lately? BETTER is a darkly comic drama about the personal and systemic forces that conspire to resist change — often and especially change for the better.
RUTH - Middle-aged white woman who works on the production line and has for a long, long time. She’s got a brain in her head, though, and won’t hesitate to make sure you know it.
DONNA - Middle-aged white woman who works on the production line and has for a long, long time. Had kids when she was very young and has scrambled all her life to provide.
WAYNE - 30-something white man, in a managerial role. Whether because he’s balding or because he keeps it buzzed short (or both), he has very little hair. He wears short sleeve dress shirts and is no alpha male. Even beta male would be aspirational. NOTE: May double as The NEWBIE
STACIA - White woman in her 20s. She has just moved here and knows no one. She is pretty and has excellent hair, in abundance. She is trying her best.
by Kamila Boga
Triplets Milo, Otis, and Della’s lives are very different from other kids. They’re too big for first grade, they don’t know when they’ll have food for lunch, and they don’t go home if their father is in a bad mood. They know their Mama spends more time in the hospital than other mothers. They know she is sad again. One afternoon, the triplets meet Calico, an odd boy with an odd name. They accept him quickly. As Daddy and Mama get worse, each child finds new ways to cope - some safer than others.
Milo Brooks - M, 8-28. The leader. Black.
Otis Brooks - M, 8-28. The jokester. Black.
Della Brooks - F, 8-28. The girl. Lighter than her brothers. Black.
Calico James - M, 8. Scrawny. Slow to warm up. Any ethnicity.
Adult - F, 30-65. Various women around town. Black.
by Emma Watkins
Playgrounds are designed to be dangerous enough for experimentation, yet safe enough to allow experiments to fail without serious injury. This play is a playground. When Arthur is asked to design a bulletproof playscape for his daughter’s old school, he confronts an unsettling reality: that the world does not operate by the same rules as playgrounds. At a time when dangers beyond the playground are overwhelmingly present, this is a story about the endurance of care. It is a play about learning, growing up, and grown-ups learning to play.
Jen – 30s, femme. Sweet, and working so hard not to be.
Arthur – 40s, white masc. Protective, loving, not particularly self-aware. Genuinely trying his best.
Clara – 14 years old, femme, uses she/they pronouns. Figuring this whole thing out.
by Naya James Sonnad
In the not-too-distant future, sea levels have reached uninhabitable heights–resulting in mass relocation efforts throughout the country. Just one week before the evacuation of their own town, a serendipitous event brings Sam and Amil together. They form a delightfully unlikely bond...but their connection is overshadowed by something greater. With little hope for the future, Sam has a well-thought-out plan to end her life. When optimist Amil attempts to intervene, they clash, love, fight, and feast, all while defending their positions on what ultimately makes life worth living — or saving.
SAM: female, early 40s. Street smart with a few well-deserved rough edges.
AMIL: male, mid 30s. Endearingly nerdy. Optimist to a fault.
PARVATI: female, late 60s. Warmly overbearing. Amil’s mother. NOTE: Will double other roles as assigned.
DR. MORGAN/PHARMACIST: female, 50s. Highly competent, no time for nonsense physician AND overworked and exhausted small business owner/pharmacist. NOTE: Will double other roles as assigned.
NURSE DANNY: male, 40s. Warm-hearted gossip with a Louisiana twang. NOTE: Will double other roles as assigned.
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