Door Shakespeare 2025 Season Equity Principal Actors - Door Shakespeare Inc Auditions

DOOR SHAKESPEARE 2025 SEASON - CHICAGO EPA

Door Shakespeare Inc | Baileys Harbor, WI

AUDITION DATE

Thursday, February 6, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (C)
BREAK: 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

CONTRACT

SPT
$600 weekly minimum (SPT 6+)

SEEKING

Equity actors for Door Shakespeare's 2025 Season (see breakdown). The two productions play in rotating repertory from July 2 to August 17, 2025, in the Garden at Björklunden in Door County, Wisconsin. An ensemble of 9 actors will be assembled for the season. Specific tracks will reflect the skills and needs of the ensemble. Actors cast in TWELFTH NIGHT but not cast in primary roles in GREAT EXPECTATIONS will understudy for GREAT EXPECTATIONS. Please see breakdown for available roles.

PREPARATION

Please share a Shakespeare monologue and a contrasting classical or heightened language contemporary piece (i.e. Sarah Ruhl, Benjamin Benne, Tennessee Williams, Chekhov, Ibsen, August Wilson, Brian Friel, Shaw, Lillian Hellman, etc.). Dialects are not necessary for initial submissions but may be asked for in callbacks. This season will include onstage acoustic music and songs performed by actors. Interested performers please prepare 16 bars of folk or traditional music from any cultural tradition, although a musical theater piece is also welcome. If you are able to self-accompany on a portable instrument, please do so. All material should fit within the 3-minute time period. Please provide a headshot and resume.

LOCATION

Actors' Equity Association - Chicago Member Center
557 W Randolph St
1st Fl
Chicago, IL 60661

PERSONNEL

Producing Artistic Director: Amy Ensign
Director, TWELFTH NIGHT: Scott McKenna Campbell
Director, GREAT EXPECTATIONS: TBA
Stage Manager: Nat Goeller
Scenic and Properties Design: Jody Sekas
Lighting Design: Todd Mion
EXPECTED TO ATTEND: Producing Artistic Director: Amy Ensign.

OTHER DATES

First rehearsal: June 2, 2025
First public performance: July 2, 2025
Closing performance: August 16, 2025

OTHER

www.doorshakespeare.com
Door Shakespeare performs outdoors on a wooden stage abutting Lake Michigan in Björklunden, Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin. The company is invested in safety and accessibility for all performers and, with that, wants everyone to know that workdays will involve outdoor rehearsal and performance in fluctuating temperature and weather conditions.
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

BREAKDOWN

DOOR SHAKESPEARE 2025 SEASON

William Shakespeare’s TWELFTH NIGHT

NOTE: An ensemble of 9 actors will play all roles. Specific tracks will reflect the skills and needs of the ensemble cast in both productions.

SEEKING:

• VIOLA, a lady of Messaline shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria (later disguised as CESARIO)
• OLIVIA, an Illyrian countess
• MARIA, her waiting-gentlewoman
• SIR TOBY BELCH, Olivia’s kinsman
• SIR ANDREW AGUECHEEK, Sir Toby’s companion
• MALVOLIO, steward in Olivia’s household
• FOOL, Olivia’s jester, named Feste
• FABIAN, a gentleman in Olivia’s household
• ORSINO, duke (or count) of Illyria
• VALENTINE, gentleman serving Orsino
• CURIO, gentleman serving Orsino
• SEBASTIAN, Viola’s brother
• ANTONIO, friend to Sebastian
• CAPTAIN
• PRIEST
• TWO OFFICERS
• LORDS, SAILORS, MUSICIANS, AND OTHER ATTENDANTS

CHARLES DICKENS’ GREAT EXPECTATIONS adapted by Gale Childs Daly

SEEKING:

• Narrator One: Magwitch Victor, Uncle Pumblechook Ghost, Soldier, Laertes, Mr. Jaggers, Pantomime Sailor, Headwaiter
• Narrator Two: Mr. Wopsle, Hamlet, Pantomime Sailor, Sergeant, Coachman, Herbert Pocket
• Narrator Three: Mrs. Joe, Mrs. Pocket, Soldier Molly, Miss Havisham, Gertrude, Traveling Woman, Pantomime Girl, Amelia, Galley Captain, Waiter
• Narrator Four: Compeyson Biddy, Mrs. Hubble, Waiter, Soldier, Flopson, Estella, Ophelia
• Narrator Five: Joe Gargery, Bentley Drummle, Mr. Wemmick, Claudius, Waiter, Pantomime Sailor, Matthew Pocket