Ashland New Plays Festival 2026 Equity Principal Actors - Ashland New Plays Festival Auditions

ASHLAND NEW PLAYS FESTIVAL 2026 - ASHLAND, OR EPA

AUDITION DATE

Thursday, July 30, 2026
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
No break scheduled

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment please email:
casting@ashlandnewplays.org

CONTRACT

SPT
$333 weekly minimum
Plus - Travel stipend and housing provided for out-of-town actors.

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Ashland New Plays Festival 2026 (See

BREAKDOWN

The Ashland New Plays Festival 2026 Fall Festival will invite actors to workshop and rehearse four new plays, culminating in a lightly-staged reading. Actors will perform with scripts in hand. Each actor will be assigned to just one play.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a contemporary monologue and a side of your own choosing from the following link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1frMsTP9FjL0fqLrk_SlDLZMwWBzwkeWa?usp=sharing. Also, please bring your headshot and resume, stapled together.

LOCATION

Carpenter Hall
44 South Pioneer St
Ashland, OR 97520

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:
Casting Director - Alysia Beltran

OTHER DATES

Rehearsals: October 12-14
Performances: October 14-18

OTHER

ashlandnewplays.org

THIS SPACE'S VENTILATION HAS NOT BEEN VERIFIED BY ACTORS' EQUITY ASSOCIATION. An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

Equity's

CONTRACT

Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.

BREAKDOWN

PERSIAN GIRL PLAY

Written by Ida Esmaeli

LENA: 16, Iranian, second generation immigrant, youngest sibling of three college-aged brothers. Designs and sews her own clothes. Loves musicals.

SARI: 16, half Iranian, half white, only child (for now). Her actual name is Susannah but nobody calls her that. Honor student. Hasn't quite figured herself out.

HANA: 16, Iranian, second generation immigrant. Has a college-aged brother who has always been the golden child. The only one of the girls who wears hijab.

YASMIN: 16, Iranian, second generation immigrant. Hana's cousin. Knows how to read fortunes in Turkish coffee.

THRESHOLD

Written by Stephanie Fybel

TRACK 1 - DAVID (male, 60s-70s): Brilliant, principled, and funny appellate justice and Holocaust scholar who is dying of cancer. Stubborn about justice and not ready to let go.

TRACK 2 - RUTH (female, early 20s): David's mother who appears to him as her younger self from 1930s Lithuania. Brave, fiercely intelligent, and several steps ahead of everyone.

TRACK 3 - ERNEST (male, early 20s): David's father who appears as his younger self from 1930s Germany. Passionate and idealistic, a young man who takes everything personally and never fully makes peace with the life that was chosen for him.

TRACK 4 - SARAH/KAETHE (female, 40s): Doubles as both David's daughter, Sarah, in the Present and his German grandmother, Kaethe, in the Past. Both caretakers by nature. Warm yet angry at unfairness, both women are trying to keep their loved ones alive.

TRACK 5 - SHARON/RAHEL (female, 60s-70s): Doubles as Sharon, David's wife, in the Present, and his maternal grandmother/Ruth's mother, Rahel, in 1930s Lithuania. Pragmatic and unsentimental on the surface. Both women hold everything together through sheer force of will.

TRACK 6 - BEN/KURT (male, 40s): Doubles as David's son, Ben, a comedy writer, in the Present, and David's grandfather, Kurt, in 1930s Germany in the Past. Both men are devoted to family.

TRACK 7 - PAUL/GUSTAV/KOMMISSAR RICHTER (male, 40s-60s): Doubles as David's younger brother, Paul, in the Present and several characters in the Past, including Kurt and Kaethe's chauffeur/confidant Gustav, as well as Germans who have to choose between conscience and compliance.

TRACK 8 - ANNIE/HARRY/MRS. JAFFE/BRENNER (a dynamo, non-binary or gender/age open): Doubles as Annie, his spiritual night caregiver / Harry, his uncle at 12 & 99 / Mrs. Jaffe, a Yente neighbor / Brenner, SS / Bank Manager.

NETTA AND RU

Written by Lisa Langford

RUBY: 20-30, African American, shame-free sex worker, root worker, and hoodoo practitioner. Her magic has been failing her ever since her mother, Mama Mama died.

NETTA: 20-30, African American, Ruby's play-sister. Orphaned by a shameful incident, Netta is determined to rise above her station and be a married member of the best church in Montgomery.

LUKE: 20-30, African American, Netta's fiancé. Good-hearted guy, serial cheats, often with Ruby. He causes friction between Netta and Ruby. Also voices Doc.

EUNICE: 40s-50s, African American, Doc's second wife. Married Doc after he killed his first wife. New in town. Member of the Women's Committee at the best church in Montgomery.

CAELUMIDS

Written by DJ Hills

Note from the author: This play is intended to be performed by two actors. Blythe & Eddie are played by one actor, Thora & Mitchell by another. Sincerity, not drag, is the vibe.

BLYTHE: A cis woman in her 80s. Retired house cleaner. Doubles as Eddie.

THORA: A cis woman in her 80s. A widow, moving into a retirement community. Doubles as Mitchell.

EDDIE: A cis man in his 30s. Blythe's grandson. Studies astromicrobiology. Doubles as Blythe.

MITCHELL: A cis man in his 30s. Thora's grandson. A handyman whose business folded. Doubles as Thora.