Kingsmen Shakespeare Company
REVISED
See updated seeking field.
CONTRACT
LOA $448 weekly minimum (LOA ref LORT)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival's 2022 Season (see breakdown).
Local actors encouraged to submit.
CLASSICALLY TRAINED actors OF ALL ETHNICTIES with SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCE in the performance of Shakespeare for our outdoor summer repertory season to include Macbeth and As You Like It.
Actors of ALL ETHNICITIES are encouraged to audition.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please prepare two contrasting Shakespeare monologues, or one Shakespeare monologue, total time not to exceed 3 minutes. Slate your name and selection(s) and frame video to mid-chest. Submission: Please go to kingsmenshakespeare.org/festival/auditions.html and click AEA Submissions.
Deadline: Sat, Mar 26, 2022
PERSONNEL
Viewing auditions:
Michael Arndt - Artistic Director
Brett Elliott - Director, Macbeth
Warren Bowles - Director, As You Like It
Jason Rennie - Associate Artistic Director
OTHER DATES
First rehearsal: June 7
Performances: July 1 through August 7
OTHER
https://kingsmenshakespeare.org/
Rehearsals and performances will take place in Thousand Oaks, CA (60 West Olsen Road).
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
NOTE: Actors will be cast in both shows. Experience with stage combat, movement/dance, and singing a plus. We are seeking to assemble a diverse company with some cross-gender casting.
Some roles will be understudied.
Macbeth:
WITCH 1
WITCH 2
WITCH 3
DUNCAN
MALCOLM
DONALBAIN
MACBETH
LADY MACBETH
SEYTON
MURDERER 1
MURDERER 2
MURDERER 3
DOCTOR
GENTLEWOMAN
PORTER
BANQUO
FLEANCE
MACDUFF
LADY MACDUFF
YOUNG MACDUFF
LENNOX
ROSS
ANGUS
MENTEITH
CAITHNESS
SIWARD
YOUNG SIWARD
CAPTAIN
OLD MAN
DOCTOR
HECATE
MESSENGERS
SERVANTS
LORD
SOLDIER
ATTENDANTS
SEWER
SERVANTS
LORDS
THANES
SOLDIERS
As You Like It:
ORLANDO
OLIVER
SECOND BROTHER (NAMED JAQUES)
ADAM
DENNIS
ROSALIND
CELIA
TOUCHSTONE
DUKE FREDERICK
CHARLES
LE BEAU
DUKE SENIOR
JAQUES
AMIENS
FIRST LORD
SECOND LORD
FIRST PAGE
SECOND PAGE
CORIN
SILVIUS
PHOEBE
AUDREY
WILLIAM
SIR OLIVER MARTEXT
HYMEN, GOD OF MARRIAGE
LORDS
ATTENDANTS
MUSICIANS
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.
Videos
