Colorado Shakespeare Festival 2025 Season Equity Principal Actors - Colorado Shakespeare Festival Auditions

COLORADO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL 2025 SEASON - BOULDER, CO EPA

Colorado Shakespeare Festival | Boulder, CO

AUDITION DATE

Monday, November 11, 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (M)
Lunch 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment please fill out the following form:
Audition Appointment Form. The deadline to apply is Monday, November 6, 2024, by 5pm MDT.

CONTRACT

LOA
$788 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Colorado Shakespeare Festival's 2025 Season (See breakdown). 3-show contracts are available and will span the corresponding length of the summer. As a unit within the University of Colorado Boulder, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival is committed to building a culturally diverse community dedicated to contributing to an inclusive environment. We are an Equal Opportunity employer.

PREPARATION

Please prepare two (2) contrasting classical monologues, no more than two (2) minutes in length total (1 min each). We request that one (1) be comedic and one (1) be dramatic. Audition videos are accepted if a live audition causes significant hardship or in the event of illness (use the same link as in Appointments).

LOCATION

University of Colorado - Department of Theatre & Dance
1595 Pleasant Street
University Theatre Building
Boulder, CO 80309
University campus (be prepared for associated congestion)

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:
Tim Orr, Producing Artistic Director
Wendy Franz, Managing Director

OTHER DATES

THE TEMPEST: First Rehearsal: 5/20/25
Opening: 6/08/25
Closing: 8/10/25
RICHARD II: First Rehearsal: 6/10/25
Opening: 7/06/25
Closing: 8/10/25
THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS: First Rehearsal: 7/22/25
Opening: 7/27/25
Closing: 7/27/25

OTHER

coloradoshakes.org

2025 Colorado Shakespeare Festival Auditions
Questions may be directed to the CSF Operations Manager, Kurt Mehlenbacher (kume 5547 exc@colorado.edu). An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition. Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA.

BREAKDOWN

Colorado Shakespeare Festival 2025 Season
Must be willing to engage in non-traditional settings. All rehearsals held indoors on the University of Colorado Boulder campus. All three productions will be performed in the Roe Green Theatre (indoors).

THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare

SEEKING:

Prospero, the former duke of Milan turned magician
Miranda, Prospero’s daughter
Ariel, a spirit
Caliban, an inhabitant of the island
Ferdinand, prince of Naples
Alonso, king of Naples
Antonio, duke of Milan and Prospero’s brother
Sebastian, Alonso’s brother
Gonzalo, councillor to Alonso and friend to Prospero
Adrian, courtier in attendance on Alonso
Francisco, courtier in attendance on Alonso
Trinculo, servant to Alonso
Stephano, Alonso’s butler
Shipmaster
Boatswain
Mariners
Players who take the roles of Iris, Ceres, Juno, Nymphs, and Reapers

RICHARD II by William Shakespeare

SEEKING:

King Richard II
Sir John Bushy, Richard’s friend
Sir John Bagot, Richard’s friend
Sir Henry Green, Richard’s friend
Richard’s Queen
Queen’s Ladies-in-Waiting
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford
Duchess of Gloucester, widow to Thomas, Duke of Gloucester
Edmund, Duke of York
Duchess of York
Duke of Aumerle, Earl of Rutland
York’s Servingmen
Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
Lord Marshal, official in trial by combat
First Herald, official in trial by combat
Second Herald, official in trial by combat
Earl of Salisbury, supporter of King Richard
Bishop of Carlisle, supporter of King Richard
Sir Stephen Scroop, supporter of King Richard
Lord Berkeley, supporter of King Richard
Abbot of Westminster, supporter of King Richard
Welsh Captain, supporter of King Richard
Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, supporter of Bolingbroke
Lord Ross, supporter of Bolingbroke
Lord Willoughby, supporter of Bolingbroke
Harry Percy, son of Northumberland, supporter of Bolingbroke
Lord Fitzwater
Duke of Surrey
Another Lord
Gardener
Gardener’s Servingmen
Groom of Richard’s stable
Keeper of prison at Pomfret Castle
Sir Pierce of Exton
Servingmen of Exton
Lords, Attendants, Officers, Soldiers, Servingmen, Exton’s Men

THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS by Christopher Marlowe

SEEKING:

Faustus, the protagonist
Mephistopheles, a devil
The Chorus, narrator and commentator
Old Man, enigmatic figure
Good Angel, spirit of repent
Bad Angel, spirit of sin
Lucifer, prince of devils
Wagner, Faustus’ servant
Clown, a clown who becomes Wagner’s servant
Robin, an ostler
Rafe, an ostler
Valdes, a friend of Faustus
Cornelius, a friend of Faustus
Horse-Courser, a horse trader
The Scholars, Faustus’ colleagues
The Pope, head of the Roman Catholic Church
Emperor Charles V, monarch of Europe
Knight, a German nobleman at the emperor’s court
Bruno, a candidate for the papacy
Duke of Vanholt, a German nobleman