Gloucester Stage Company 2026 Season - Boston, MA EPA
Gloucester Stage Company | Gloucester, MA
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Friday, March 13, 2026
Boston Playwrights' Theatre
949 Commonwealth Ave, Ground Floor
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Boston, MA 02215-1305
Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
To schedule an audition appointment please email:
auditions@gloucesterstage.com. They will respond with a Google sign-up form to gather your information and schedule the specific audition appointment. If you are unable to attend these in-person auditions, you may use this same email address to submit a video audition.
Expected to attend: Rebecca Bradshaw (she/her) - Producing Artistic Director
See breakdown for production specific dates.
NEAT
$677 weekly minimum (Cat. 6)
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Equity actors for roles in Gloucester Stage Company's 2026 Season (see breakdown). 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.
Please prepare two contrasting monologues from a play(s) of your choice. Audition appointments will be five (5) minutes long. Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
Gloucester Stage Company is a regional theatre in Gloucester, MA and produces shows under AEA’s New England Area Theatre (NEAT) - B6 Contract. It is GSC’s goal to create a collaborative and supportive environment for all artists to engage their process with curiosity and boldness. We strive to create and support inspiring conversations on and off the stage.
In reference to the character descriptions below – most characters we encounter currently are on the binary and are written with she/her and he/him pronouns and you will see that in the following descriptions. But however limiting the descriptions are, our casting seeks to be as inclusive as possible and we invite gender nonconforming, genderqueer, transgender and nonbinary actors to submit for the roles they most identify with. We have also listed race/ethnicity when specific to the character but are otherwise seeking all races and ethnicities. In addition, we will list disability when specific to a character but are otherwise seeking actors with disabilities as well as nondisabled actors for all roles. (Language borrowed from Emily Tarquin & Kevin Kantor of Actors Theatre of Louisville)
Playwright: Sharyn Rothstein
Director: M. Bevin O’Gara
First Rehearsal: 5/12/26
Tech Begins: 5/31/26
Previews: 6/4/26 & 6/5/26
Opening: 6/6/26
Closing: 6/27/26
A worried mother comes to the library for what she thinks will be a reasonable, polite discussion about which books are appropriate for her teenage son. But her confrontation with the town librarian, a woman who cares deeply about her job and her community, sparks a chain reaction of consequences no one expected. A raucous and brash debate in the quietest place in America... the library.
A fight consultant will be included in this process.
TRACK 1 (The Librarian, The Manager, The Editor): 35+. Any race/ethnicity. Character’s pronouns: she/her.
TRACK 2 (The Mother): Age range: late 30s - 50s. Any race/ethnicity. Character’s pronouns: she/her. A woman who cares. Who has lived a surprising amount of life. More layered than she appears, than she's allowed to be, or than she chooses to reveal. Genuinely religious. A woman who loves her children. All of the time.
Playwright: Harold Pinter
Director: Shana Gozansky
First Rehearsal: 6/16/26
Tech begins: 7/5/26
Previews: 7/9/26 & 7/10/26
Opening: 7/11/26
Closing: 8/1/26
Jerry is a literary agent; Emma runs an art gallery; Robert is a publisher. Emma and Robert are married and Jerry is Robert’s best friend, but Emma and Jerry have had a seven-year affair. The play opens with Emma and Jerry meeting for lunch in 1977, two years after the affair has finished and then the relationship of the three is traced backwards nine years to the evening when it all began.
An intimacy consultant will be included in this process. The character of Emma may be asked to wear a slip and Jerry may be asked to be shirtless in a scene - both to be discussed and coordinated with the intimacy consultant.
Playwright: Lindsay Joelle
Director: Rebecca Bradshaw
First Rehearsal: 7/21/26
Tech begins: 8/9/26
Previews: 8/13/26 & 8/14/26
Opening: 8/15/26
Closing: 8/29/26
Extension Closing: 9/5/26
Clarissa, a teenage Victorian goth, would rather jump from the tallest tree than audition a slew of suitors to save the family estate from financial ruin. But when her heart is unexpectedly caught by a daring, free-spirited suffragette, she might burn it all down for a chance to forge a brave new path. A modern, coming-of-age romantic comedy prequel to Virginia Woolf’s beloved Mrs. Dalloway.
An intimacy consultant will be included in this process.
Playwright: James Ijames
Director: TBD
First Rehearsal: 8/18/2026
Tech begins: 9/6/26
Previews: 9/10/26 & 9/11/26
Opening: 9/12/26
Closing: 9/26/26
Possible Extension: 10/3/26
Upon hearing about the sudden death of his mother, Spencer returns to his home in Philadelphia to plan her funeral. Along the way Spencer falls in love, discovers the truth about his absent father, and learns that his past is also the making of his present. This magical journey through space and time takes us literally from Philadelphia to the moon and back.
An intimacy consultant will be included in this process.
TRACK 1 (Spencer): 30s. Black. Character’s pronouns: he/him. Spencer: the protagonist, a manchild librarian who remains deeply attached to his mother. He is forced to confront his unresolved abandonment issues and childhood hope when his mother dies, forcing him to grow up and face the truth about his father. Loyal, stubborn, nerdy.
TRACK 2 (Esther, Flight Attendant, Nurse): 20s. Black. Characters’ pronouns: she/her. Esther is a single mother who shields her son from the truth. She is strong yet exhausted. Always yearning to see the glass as half full. Will double as a flight attendant and nurse.
TRACK 3 (Petrushka): 30s. Black. Character’s pronouns: she/her. A lighthearted, persistent love interest who practically falls into Spencer’s life as he is about to navigate his next few days of grief. Unpredictable, effervescent, joyful.
TRACK 4 (The Astronaut, Funeral Guy, Flower Guy, Kesi): 50s. Black. Character’s pronouns: he/him. Appears in flashbacks and fantasies as the astronaut on the moon—a heroic figure in young Spencer’s imagination, contrasted with the reality of a flawed man. Will double as a funeral director and flower shop owner.
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