COME FROM AWAY Equity Actors - Oregon Shakespeare Festival Auditions

COME FROM AWAY - Submit for NYC Appointments

Oregon Shakespeare Festival | Ashland, OR

CONTRACT

LORT Rep
$1245 weekly minimum (LORT B+ Rep)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in COME FROM AWAY (See breakdown).

SUBMISSION

INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your headshot and resume for consideration in the following form:
https://forms.gle/BA839v35KUgom7Sj8
Deadline: 09/09/2025

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PERSONNEL

Artistic Director: Tim Bond
Director: Laurie Woolery
Book, Music, and Lyrics: Irene Sankoff & David Hein
Casting Director: Katja Zarolinski, CSA

OTHER DATES

NYC Audition Date(s): TBD
Rehearsal Date(s): Jan 15, 2026
Preview Date(s): March 14, 2026
Closing Date(s): Oct 24, 2026

OTHER

Venue: Angus Bowmer Theatre

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.

BREAKDOWN

COME FROM AWAY

General note: All actors must be able to sing, dance and perform heightened forms of movement. Should be able to lift, move and/or reposition furniture, blocks, etc. as well as climb/stand on set pieces. This is an ensemble piece that will have constantly changing scenic locations all executed by the ensemble. Everyone plays multiple characters.

SEEKING:

[BEVERLY/AS CAST] Late 30s-50s. Any Race or Ethnicity, She/her. Vocal range: Strong mezzo with an easy mixed or belted C#. One of the “Come From Away”s. The first female captain for American Airlines. Beverley Bass has always loved flying, when her world suddenly changes. Married to husband Tom and they have children. Doubles as Annette: 40s-60s. A local teacher at the Gander Academy and mother to a lot of children. Also, Reporter. Intimacy needs: Physical touch between friends (in celebration and grief). Must perform a regional Newfoundland dialect and other dialects as well as be able to speak in Hebrew. This role will understudy the role of ‘Tranio/As Cast’ in TAMING OF THE SHREW.

[Tranio/As Cast]: The personal assistant/governess of Lucentio. She has lived a life in the service of others and while smarter and more capable than most everyone around her because of her low status due to class and gender, she is used to living in the shadows. In order to help her boss Lucentio, she dresses up in male drag and pretends to be a wealthy young man of privilege to gain Baptista's commitment of his daughter Bianca's hand in marriage. Through the experience of moving through the world with the privilege and power afforded to wealthy men, Tranio transforms from a shy, reserved woman into a dominant, hyper-masculine male suitor, high on her/his own ability to make up her own rules to win the game once she is able to pass as a wealthy man in search of a wife. When she is exposed as a female employee of Vincentio, she becomes a woman on the run. Agility at shifting between playing high and low status is helpful. Fight needs: He gets beaten by Vincentio. The Induction explores the idea of the performance of gender, so actors may be asked to perform genders other than the one they were assigned at birth or different than the gender they identify as. Other Roles that could be assigned: Haberdasher, Curtis, Petruchio's Servants.

[BOB/AS CAST] 20s-40s. Black or East African. He/him. Vocal range: Baritone. One of the “Come From Away”s - a hardened New Yorker, Bob is suspicious of where he has landed, fearing that it’s World War III, but instead he ends up losing his New York jadedness. Doubles as Muhumuza: An African Passenger who, despite a language barrier, finds common ground with a local bus driver; Captain Bristol. Intimacy needs: Physical touch between friends (in celebration and grief). Possible physically aggressive moments. Must perform African as well as New York dialect. This role may play or understudy a TBD role in one of the following shows - YELLOW FACE, TAMING OF THE SHREW, EMMA, or A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM.