Chester Theatre Company 2025 Season Equity Principal Actors - Chester Theatre Company Auditions

CHESTER THEATRE COMPANY 2025 SEASON - NYC EPA

Chester Theatre Company | Chester, MA

AUDITION DATE

Thursday, March 27, 2025
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

CONTRACT

SPT
$605 weekly minimum (SPT 6)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Chester Theatre Company's 2025 Season (See breakdown). Except where specified, auditions by performers of all races and ethnicities are encouraged.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a contemporary monologue, 2 minutes or less. Also, bring your picture and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036

PERSONNEL

Deb Clapp, Managing Director
Expected to attend (one or both):
Christopher Baker, Co-Artistic Director
Michelle Ong-Hendrick, Co-Artistic Director
See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

www.chestertheatre.org
Chester Theatre Company in Chester, Massachusetts (between the Berkshires and the Pioneer Valley)
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.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

BREAKDOWN

CHESTER THEATRE COMPANY 2025 SEASON

MAGDALENE

By Mark St. Germain
Directed by Keira Naughton
Rehearsals begin: May 27
Performances: JUNE 19-29

SYNOPSIS: Eighteen years after the death of Christ, Peter seeks out Mary Magdalene, whom he banished after the crucifixion. Peter needs an ally against a self-proclaimed Apostle angling for power in the growing church. In Magdalene, St. Germain offers a startling new look at two historical figures and the clash that impacts the course of Christianity.

SEEKING:

Peter: male, Late 30s and up. Fisherman. Ordinary man struggling to fulfill extraordinary expectation.
Mary: female, Late 30s and up. She’s known great love and great tragedy. She grieves for the past and the future.

A HUNDRED WORDS FOR SNOW

By Tatty Hennessy
Directed by Michelle Ong-Hendrick
Rehearsals begin: June 10
Performances: JULY 3 - 13

SYNOPSIS: After her father's unexpected death, 15-year-old Rory discovers that he was planning a trip for the two of them to the North Pole. So, she picks up his ashes, her passport, and her mother’s credit card, and sets out to make good on his plans. Layered, complex and as beautiful as the snowfall, Hennessy’s play is an epic Arctic adventure about adolescence, grief, love, and being an explorer in a melting world.

SEEKING:

Rory: 15-years old. Grieving, but ready for an epic journey.

A CASE FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

By Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by Daniel Kramer
Rehearsals begin: July 1
Performances: JULY 24 - AUG 3

SYNOPSIS: Somewhere in the middle of America, Keith, a mortgage broker, and Ryan, a yogurt plant worker, unexpectedly let each other into their own fragile worlds. Negotiations of bank loans transforms into talk of financial insecurity and the precariousness of parenthood, as the two realize they share a specific kind of sadness. With humor, honesty and time-bending theatricality, Hunter intertwines the lives of two ordinary men, both outsiders to the forces that govern their lives.

SEEKING:

Keith: male, mid to late 30s. Black.
Ryan: male, mid to late 30s, white.

MR. JOY

By Daniel Beaty
Rehearsals begin: July 15
Performances: AUGUST 7 – 17

SYNOPSIS: What happened to Mr. Joy? In this uplifting one-person play, a Harlem community takes stock when a Chinese immigrant’s shoe repair shop mysteriously doesn’t open one morning, causing an array of customers to realize what the shop owner has meant in their lives. Through the lens of Mr. Joy’s customers, from the bubbly eleven-year-old Clarissa to the sincere and savvy Bessie, leader of the “Gangsta Grannies,” we learn about the profound impact the shop owner had on each of their lives, and the invisible ties that bind us all.

SEEKING:

Mr. Joy: any gender, 20s to 50s, Black, multiple characters in the New York neighborhood, ranging in age, gender and ethnicity.