HAMLET Equity Principal Actors - Shakesperience Productions, Inc Auditions

HAMLET - Waterbury, CT EPA

Shakesperience Productions, Inc | Waterbury, CT

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

LOCATION

Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Shakesperience Production
117 Bank Street
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM (E)
Waterbury, CT 06702

APPOINTMENTS

PERSONNEL

Please email Director: Emily Mattina at
management@shakesperienceproductions.org to schedule an auditions appointment.

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Emily Mattina, director and Shakesperience Artistic Director
Jessica Gaddis, Program Manager of Arts and Education

CONTRACT

Independent Theatre Contract
$450 weekly minimum - negotiations pending.

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in HAMLET (see breakdown).
First rehearsal: July 20
Show run: August 5-9

OTHER

Shakesperience Productions educates and inspires students, families, and theater professionals through the arts in order to explore social constructs and foster mutual respect for all people. Shakesperience creates innovative, interactive, thought-provoking live theatre programs rooted in classical literature by focusing on the dynamic relationship between the artist and the audience.

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.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a one-minute monologue from HAMLET.

Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.

Breakdown

HAMLET

SEEKING:

The Danish Royal Court

• Hamlet: The Prince of Denmark, son of Gertrude and the recently deceased king of Denmark, contemplative, in love with Ophelia, believed by others to be fraught with madness
• King Claudius: recently crowned King of Denmark, Hamlet’s Uncle, married to Gertrude
• Ghost: resembling the late king, Hamlet’s father
• Queen Gertrude: Hamlet’s mother, now wife of Claudius
• Courtiers and Others of the Court
• Polonius: right-hand man to Claudius, Laertes and Ophelia’s father
• Laertes: Polonius’ son, Ophelia’s brother
• Ophelia: Polonius’ daughter, believes Hamlet is “mad for her love”
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern: Courtiers, former schoolfellows of Hamlet
• Horatio: A close friend and confidant of Hamlet
• Bernardo and Francisco: members of the King’s guard and the first people to see the Ghost
• Osric: A foppish and foolish courtier
• Others
• Players: The actors in The Mousetrap Play or The Murder of Gonzago, the play presented to the court by Hamlet
• Gentlemen: of the court
• Gravedigger: Digs a grave for the recently deceased Ophelia after she drowns