Oak Park Festival Theatre | Oak Park, IL
Saturday, November 15, 2025
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (C)
Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
CAT
$318.25 weekly minimum (Tier 1)
Equity actors for roles in HAMLET (See breakdown).
All roles will be understudied.
We offer a MRE on all contracts.
Please prepare 1 Shakespeare monologue in verse that is 2-4 minutes in length. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Cheney Mansion
220 North Euclid Avenue
Oak Park, IL 60302
Street parking. You’ll be greeted in the lobby of the mansion. There will be a holding space on the main floor; auditions will be on the third floor with a ‘on deck/warm up room’ also on the third floor.
Expected to attend:
Peter G. Andersen - Producing Artistic Director
Belinda Bremner - Company member
Rehearsal starts - June 3rd, 2026
Dry Tech - June 23
Tech - June 24-28
Final Dress - June 30
Community Night/Preview - July 1
Previews - July 2, 3
Opening - July 5
Closing - August 16th, 2026
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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
Hamlet is the Prince of Denmark; he is son to the late King Hamlet, and nephew to the present King Claudius.
Claudius is the King of Denmark, elected to the throne after the death of his brother, King Hamlet. Claudius has married Gertrude, his brother's widow.
Gertrude is the Queen of Denmark, and King Hamlet's widow, now married to Claudius, and mother to Hamlet.
The Ghost appears in the image of Hamlet's father, the late King Hamlet (Old Hamlet).
Polonius (Corambis in Q1) is Claudius's chief counsellor, and the father of Ophelia and Laertes.
Laertes is the son of Polonius, and has returned to Elsinore from Paris.
Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius, and Laertes's sister, who lives with her father at Elsinore. She is in love with Hamlet.
Horatio is a good friend of Hamlet, from the university at Wittenberg, who came to Elsinore Castle to attend King Hamlet's funeral.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are childhood friends and schoolmates of Hamlet, who were summoned to Elsinore by Claudius and Gertrude.
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