HENRY V Equity Principal Actors - Smith Street Stage Auditions

HENRY V - Equity video submissions

Smith Street Stage | Brooklyn, NY

CONTRACT

Showcase-NY

$2000 stipend

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in HENRY V (See breakdown).

SUBMISSION

INSTRUCTIONS

Please submit your headshot, resume, and a link to your video audition for consideration. See breakdown for video submission instructions.

Deadline: 02/28/2025

SUBMIT TO

casting@smithstreetstage.org

PERSONNEL

Director: Jonathan Hopkins

Assistant Director: Sonny Fotso-Chinjé

Producers: Theodosia Arcidiacono

Casting Director: Jessica Lane Weiss

OTHER DATES

In Person Callbacks: March 8 & 9

First Rehearsal: April 30

Closing Night: June 29

OTHER

SmithStreetStage.org

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 submit.

BREAKDOWN

HENRY V

Equity video submission instructions:

Please submit your headshot, resume, and a link to your video audition at:
casting@smithstreetstage.org

Please submit a 1-2 minute Shakespeare monologue, and a second, contrasting monologue that may be by Shakespeare but doesn’t need to be (more important that it shows contrast). If you play an instrument, feel free to include a short demonstration.

Please email links in a streaming format (Vimeo, YouTube, Google Drive, etc.). Do not attach full video files or send download links (i.e., WeTransfer, YouSendIt, etc.).

The video submission deadline is February 28th, 2025, at 11:59pm ET.

SMITH STREET STAGE

Smith Street Stage is an award-winning, actor-led Shakespeare company that for 14 years has been presenting theater in Brooklyn’s Carroll Park. The company explores the works of Shakespeare with regard to their examination of character, human conflict, and personal and institutional power structures. We believe this way of working renders Shakespeare’s plays clear and accessible to all audiences without sacrificing their complexity or human dilemma. Smith Street Stage is committed, through classes, workshops, and its rehearsal process, to the ongoing artistic development of its actors and early career theater artists.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a work environment in which all people are treated with dignity and respect and where creativity can flourish. Such an environment is characterized by mutual trust, physical and emotional safety, and the absence of oppression. Smith Street Stage is dedicated to fostering an antiracist workspace, free from harassment and discrimination of all kinds, where every member of our community can thrive. We do this by honoring the beliefs, cultures, identities, interpersonal styles, and values of all individuals. You are welcome here.

SEEKING

Henry - a gifted leader with the common touch; possesses real charisma; relentlessly ambitious and shrewdly calculating.

Exeter - loyal right-hand to Henry; brave, reliable, unflagging.

Fluellen - a patriot with the zeal of the recently converted, eager for glory, exuberant.

Pistol - a loose cannon, eccentric, immoral. A poor friend and a worse soldier but must have soul.

Williams - the character upon whom the horrors of war are most apparently felt; expresses them movingly. Vulnerable, defiant.

Boy - follows his (adult) friends to the war and grows disenchanted with them. Precocious, innocent, perceptive.

Canterbury - an opportunistic and political clergyman. A strategist. Verbose (excellent with text).

Montjoy - a French messenger by turns haughty and humble.

Gower - a dutiful and capable captain.