Bridge Street Theatre | Catskill, NY
Single Engagement Agreement
Equity actors for roles in BAKERSFIELD MIST (see breakdown). Selected actors will be contacted and provided with sides, and invited to attend in-person auditions in New York City (Saturday, February 21, 2026) or Catskill, NY (Sunday, February 22, 2026). Please email with questions and considerations.
Email submissions will be accepted through Sunday, February 16, 2026 at 5:00pm.
Rehearsals begin in Catskill, New York, on March 30, 2026. Performances April 16–26, 2026 on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.
See breakdown for submission instructions.
Email:
casting@BridgeSt.org
Website:
bridgest.org
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 submit.
Inspired by true events, Bakersfield Mist is a hilarious and thought-provoking comedy-drama that pits small-town instincts against big-city expertise in a battle over art and authenticity. When Maude, a brash and unapologetic woman from Bakersfield, buys a thrift-store painting she’s convinced is worth millions, she calls in Lionel Percy, a sophisticated New York art expert, to authenticate it. What follows is a fiery and gripping clash about truth, class, worth, and integrity.
Email submissions will be accepted through Sunday, February 16, 2026 at 5:00pm.
This play contains strong language and mature themes.
For consideration, please email
casting@BridgeSt.org ASAP. Please include:
Selected actors will be sent sides and invited to in-person auditions. Actors invited to audition will be asked to prepare provided sides. Actors should be prepared to have Side #1 memorized and may also be asked to read Side #2. Sides will be shared directly with selected performers.
Performers submitting for MAUDE are asked to please include answers to the following in their submission:
Maude Gutman – Female-presenting, 50+
A former bartender living in a rundown trailer park in Bakersfield, California. Brash, funny, sharp-tongued, unfiltered, intelligent, incisive, emotionally perceptive, and surprisingly discerning about art—even if her tastes fall outside the mainstream. Tough, vulnerable, and deeply human.
Please note: This character smokes and uses strong language.
Lionel Percy – Male-presenting, 60+
A former curator from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and an expert in abstract expressionism and authentication. Polished, elegant, refined, intellectual, authoritative, and professorial. Cultured to the point of elitism, yet full of vulnerability, regret, and insecurity.
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