Houston Shakespeare Festival 2025 Season Equity Principal Actors - Houston Shakespeare Festival Auditions

HOUSTON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL 2025 SEASON

Houston Shakespeare Festival | Houston, TX

AUDITION DATE

Sunday, February 23, 2025
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (C)

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment please email:
rrbush@central.uh.edu along with any potential summer conflicts and preferred audition slot. You will receive an email confirming your appointment. Please confirm upon receiving the email. If you have not received an email by 6pm on Feb 21st, please call (713) 743-3003. We do not cast from video submissions.

CONTRACT

LOA
$708 weekly minimum (Ref. to URTA) - 2024 rates

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Houston Shakespeare Festival's 2025 Season (See breakdown). BIPOC performers are encouraged to audition. The shows will run in repertory. There are no Equity stage managerial positions available.

PREPARATION

Please prepare to read from Sides. The Sides will be emailed to all on February 18.

LOCATION

UH School of Theatre & Dance
3551 Cullen Blvd
Houston, TX 77204
Entrance 16 off of Cullen Boulevard - Visitor Parking for a fee is available in Lot 16.

PERSONNEL

HENRY V - Directed by Jack Young
AS YOU LIKE IT - Directed by Sophia Watt
Expected to attend:
Artistic Director: Jack Young
Producing Director: Sharon Ott

OTHER DATES

1st Rehearsal: beginning of July, 6 days a week, day/evening hours
Performances: July 31st - August 9th

OTHER

Rehearsal venue: UH School of Theatre & Dance
Performance venue: Miller Outdoor Theatre
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.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

BREAKDOWN

Houston Shakespeare Festival 2025 Season

The shows will run in repertory.

NOTE: This season is particularly in need of performers with stage combat experience.

The roles of Henry V, Duke Fred/Senior, Rosalind, Orlando, Fluellen, and Touchstone are cast.

HENRY V

Directed by Jack Young

SEEKING:

Gower — English Army Officer, practical, solid
MacMorris — splenetic, Irish Dialect
Dauphin — petulant braggart son of the French King
York — Valiant younger brother of King Henry V
Boy — mischievous
Katherine — Speaks French, Princess (daughter of French King) playful, curious, beguiling
Orleans — haughty French cavalry officer
Bardolph — melancholy, stalwart, loyal
Gloucester — English Army Officer, forthright
Ely — English clergy, politically astute
Hostess Mistress Quickly — Cockney dialect, matron, big heart

Alice — Speaks French, attendant to the French Princess, incisive, witty, proper
Rambures — French cavalry officer, epicurean

AS YOU LIKE IT

Directed by Sophia Watt

SEEKING:

Adam — old manservant, loyal, frail
Audrey — great laugh, game, vivacious
Jacquis — sardonic, sage, in love with the weight of his insights (Doubles as foppish Courtier)
Martext – obtuse Cleric (Doubles as foppish Courtier)
William — country boy smitten with Audrey, slow on the uptake (Doubles as foppish Courtier)
Celia — warm-hearted, fun, City Girl surprised by the Country
Oliver — jealous brother who finds his better nature in the forest falling in love with Celia