Opera House Arts 2025 Summer Season Equity Principal Actors - Opera House Arts Auditions

Opera House Arts 2025 Summer Season - Stonington, ME EPA

AUDITION DATE

Friday, March 28, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (E)

APPOINTMENTS

Email
artisticdirector@operahousearts.org to request an appointment. Give the date and time preferred and put 2025 AUDITIONS in the subject line.

CONTRACT

SPT
$538 weekly minimum (SPT 5)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Opera House Arts' 2025 Season (see breakdown).

PREPARATION

For ROOTED, please prepare either a short monologue of your choosing or read from the sides provided. For MIDSUMMER, please prepare a short speech from the play or from another Shakespeare play, preferably a comedy. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Stonington Opera House
1 School Street
Stonington, ME 04681-0056

PERSONNEL

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Kathryn Markey, artistic director and director of MIDSUMMER

OTHER DATES

MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by William Shakespeare - rehearses May 27, runs June 19-29
ROOTED by Deborah Zoe Laufer - rehearses July 22, runs August 7-17

OTHER

Visit
operahousearts.org
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

OPERA HOUSE ARTS 2025 SUMMER SEASON

SEEKING:

ROOTED

by Deborah Zoe Laufer
EMERY – 50s, female identifying. Lives in a treehouse and performs experiments to show the consciousness of plants. An eccentric who finds people confusing, and would rather be along with her plants. Very connected to the natural world.
LUANNE – 20s, female identifying. Incredibly sweet and guileless. Hungry for joy, for a tribe, for something larger to believe in.
HAZEL – CAST. Emery's older sister and caretaker. She has been a waitress at the Millerville diner for way too long. Frustrated and powerless – is it too late to do something with her life?

MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM

by William Shakespeare
HERMIA – 20s, female identifying. Young Athenian in love with Lysander. Strong willed, independent. May double as SNUG.
HELENA – 20s, female identifying. Young Athenian in love with Demetrius. Friend of Hermia, determined and clever, confused by the circumstances. May double as SNOUT.
LYSANDER – 20s, male identifying. Young Athenian in love with Hermia. Romantic and idealistic. May double as FLUTE.
DEMETRIUS – 20s, male identifying. Young Athenian in pursuit of Hermia. Confident and determined. May double as STARVELING.
BOTTOM – any age, male identifying. A weaver with an artist's soul. Has exceptional verbal and physical comedy skill.
QUINCE – any age, any gender. A carpenter and director of the Play-Within-The-Play. Organized and patient.
OBERON – 30s-50s, male identifying. King of the Fairies. Proud, powerful and vengeful, but ultimately with compassion. Will double as either THESEUS or HIPPOLYTA.
TITANIA – 30s-50s, female identifying. Powerful, passionate and ethereal. Will double as either THESEUS or HIPPOLYTA.
PUCK – any age, any gender. Leader of the fairy band. Has great physicality and facility with poetic language.
EGEUS – 40s-50s, any gender. Athenian noble, parent of Hermia. Demanding and persistent.