HAMLET Equity Principal Actors - Oak Park Festival Theatre Auditions

HAMLET - Oak Park, IL EPA

Oak Park Festival Theatre | Oak Park, IL
REVISED
Updated Audition location.

AUDITION DATE

Saturday, November 15, 2025
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (C)
Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

CONTRACT

CAT
$318.25 weekly minimum (Tier 1)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in HAMLET (See breakdown).
All roles will be understudied.
We offer a MRE on all contracts.

PREPARATION

Please prepare 1 Shakespeare monologue in verse that is 2-4 minutes in length. Also, please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Pleasant Home
217 Home Ave
Oak Park, IL 60302-3101

There is plenty of street parking. You’ll be greeted in the lobby of the mansion. Please use the right-side door on the main entrance. There will be a holding space on the first-floor ballroom; auditions will be in the first-floor library with a ‘on deck/warm up room’ also on the first floor.

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:
Peter G. Andersen - Producing Artistic Director
Belinda Bremner - Company member

OTHER DATES

• 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

OTHER

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EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

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.
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BREAKDOWN

HAMLET

SEEKING:

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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