George Street Playhouse | New Brunswick, NJ
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
To schedule an audition appointment please go to:
bit.ly/45auhCM.
LORT Non-Rep
$839 weekly minimum (LORT D)
Equity actors for roles in George Street Playhouse's 2025-26 Season (See breakdown).
No roles will be understudied.
Please prepare a 2-minute contemporary monologue, or two contrasting pieces totaling 2 minutes. Also, bring your picture and resume.
George Street Playhouse
9 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1903
Third Floor - door code entrance 08112#
Artistic Producers: Scott Goldman, Christopher Bailey
Casting Director: McCorkle Casting, Pat McCorkle
Expected to attend:
Artistic Producer: Laiona Michelle
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production specific dates.
www.georgestreetplayouse.org
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
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
Written by Joe DiPietro
Directed by TBA
1st Rehearsal: on or about 9/23/25
Performances: 10/14 - 11/2/25
Mrs. Shirley Peck: (over 50) Sweet and unassuming and relentlessly underestimated.
Detective Paul Peck: (in his 30s or 40s) Shirley's devoted son. An earnest yet rather unsuccessful detective.
Arthur Whittington: (middle-aged) A world renown writer of murder mysteries. Also, a proud snob. He speaks with a very affected English accent though he's probably from Missouri.
Clarice Claythorne: (20s or early 30s) Dazzling and glamorous, sharp-witted and sly. She wouldn't be out of place in a Film Noir.
Dotty Claythorne: (20s or early 30s) Modest and soft-spoken, excited only by murder mysteries. Though young, she dresses like a Victorian widow.
Jasper Jamison: (20s or early 30s) Clarice's fiancée. Handsome and dim, he looks fantastic in a swimsuit.
Written by Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen
Directed by Gordon Greenberg
1st Rehearsal: on or about 11/11/25
Performances: 12/2 - 12/21/2025
NOTE: For all characters, seeking excellent comic transformational actors, comfortable with razor sharp characters, whip fast changes, physical comedy, acapella singing, and preferably playing at least one musical instrument. All ethnicities are encouraged to audition.
TRACK ONE: (male presenting 20s – 30s) Fresh faced and optimistic, doubles as a number of roles including Frederick, Scrooge’s warm-hearted nephew and Young Scrooge, first at boarding school and later as an apprentice to Fezziwig, fired up with ambition and a passionate devotion to his intended bride, Lavinia. Excellent transformational comic skill, familiar with sketch comedy and comfortable with hairpin character changes, quick witted invention, and a soulful presence. Comfortable with a British dialect and acapella singing.
TRACK TWO: (female presenting 20s – 30s) Lovely and upbeat, doubles as a number of roles including Lavinia, Young Scrooge’s fiancé, whose soulful desire to domesticate him pales in the fiery glow of ambition at business, as well as the Millennial Ghost of Christmas Present, complete with sense of entitlement and vocal fry as well as the male Cricket team captain at young Scrooge’s school and several other miscellaneous characters. Excellent transformational comic skill, familiar with sketch comedy and comfortable with hairpin character changes, quick witted invention, and a soulful presence. Comfortable with a British dialect and acapella singing.
TRACK THREE: (female presenting 30s – 50s) Silly and robust, doubles as a number of roles including Gertrude, the slightly daffy spinster who first asks for charity from Scrooge, The mystical Ghost of Christmas Past, the clucking and haughty Lady Marmalade, and a host of other delicious and silly Victorian archetypes. Excellent transformational comic skill, familiar with sketch comedy and comfortable with hairpin character changes, quick witted invention, and a soulful presence. Comfortable with a British dialect and acapella singing.
TRACK FOUR: (male presenting 30s – 50s) A great character type, doubles as a number of roles including Bob Cratchit, the long-suffering clerk in Scrooge’s firm, Marley, Scrooge’s dead former business partner who haunts him from the grave, the ebullient and daffy Mr. Fezziwig and many other fun twists on traditional Victorian locals. Excellent transformational comic skill, familiar with sketch comedy and comfortable with hairpin character changes, quick witted invention, and a soulful presence. Comfortable with a British dialect and acapella singing.
TRACK FIVE: (older Male) Scrooge.
Written by Shayan Lofti
Directed by Laiona Michelle
1st Rehearsal: 2/24/26
Performances: 3/17 - 4/5/26
Two siblings grappling with their relationship to both their homeland and their new country, delving into the challenges of balancing ties to the past, the present, and each other amidst shifting borders and cultures. How do they maintain their connections to The Old Country, and to This Country, and to each other?
Open ethnicities.
Q: Female, mid 50s-60s: In the winter of her life. Was born in ‘The Old Country’ in the “Global South”, immigrated with her parents to ‘This Country’ in the “Global North” six years later.
Z: Male, mid 50s-60s: Younger sibling of Q by seven years. First in the family to be born in ‘This Country’.
Written by Deborah Brevoort
Directed by Sheldon Epps
1st Rehearsal: on or about 4/7/26
1st Preview: 4/28/26
Opening: 5/1/26
Closing: 5/17/26
ALBERT EINSTEIN: The German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity. He fled Nazi Germany and settled in Princeton NJ where he was offered a position with the Institute of Advanced Study at Princeton University. Age range: late 50s.
MARIAN ANDERSON: One of the most celebrated singers of the 20th century. She performed on concert stages around the World but suffered discrimination at home in the United States. African American; Age range: late 40s. This role must be able to sing. Vocal type: contralto.
ABRAHAM FLEXNER: Head of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton University, he recruited ALBERT EINSTEIN to be a fellow at the Institute. Age range: 60s.
MARY CHURCH TERRELL: African American woman, Age range: 60s, but with the energy of a 30-year-old. A civil rights activist and suffragist who worked tirelessly to put an end to racial prejudice.
Videos
