Passage Theatre Company 2025-26 Season Equity Principal Actors - Passage Theatre Company Auditions

AUDITION DATE

Monday, June 9, 2025
11:00 AM - 7:00 PM (E)
Lunch 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment email:
casting@passagetheatre.org OR call the Box Office at 609-293-0766 x105 between 10am and 4pm weekdays.

CONTRACT

SPT
$482 weekly minimum (SPT 4)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Passage Theatre Company's 2025-26 Season (See breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please prepare 2 contemporary contrasting monologues. If auditioning for LANGSTON, prepare a poem by Langston Hughes. Also, please bring your headshot and resume.

LOCATION

The Drake
302 S Hicks St
Philadelphia, PA 19102

Come to the corner of 16th and Delancey in Center City Philadelphia. Delancey will be a dead-end street with some residences and the Drake building will be at the end of the street. You’ll find the basement stairwell at the end of the street next to the dumpster.

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:
Ozzie Jones, director of DUTCHMAN and THE SLAVE
Brishen Miller, Executive Artistic Director and director of MULEHEADED

OTHER DATES

Call backs are tentatively scheduled for Monday June 16 and Tuesday June 17, 2025, at Passage Theatre in Trenton, NJ.

Each production has 5 performances per week, Wednesday through Sunday, for three weeks. Each opening night is Friday, following a Wednesday student matinee and a Thursday free Preview.

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

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.

BREAKDOWN

Passage Theatre Company 2025-26 Season

DUTCHMAN and THE SLAVE

Two One-Acts - Written by Amiri Baraka
Performed as ACT I and ACT II of the same play
Rehearsal: October 7, 2025
Runs: October 31, 2025, through November 16, 2025

Casting Note: These are the playwright’s original character descriptions. Passage encourages reading both scripts and researching the work.

SEEKING:

• CLAY — twenty-year-old Negro (Doubles as WALKER)
• LULA — thirty-year-old white woman (Doubles as GRACE)
• WALKER VESSELS – tall thin Negro about forty (Doubles as CLAY)
• GRACE – blonde woman about same age as WALKER VESSELS, forties. Small, thin, beautiful. (Doubles as LULA)
• BRADFORD EASLEY — tall, broad, white man, thinning hair, about forty-five

MULEHEADED (World Premiere)

Written by David Robson
Rehearsal: January 6, 2026
Runs: January 30 through February 15, 2026

SEEKING:

• LANGSTON — African American in his late twenties (This is the real-life Langston Hughes, should resemble the historical figure.)
• LOUISE — African American in her twenties
• ZORA — CAST. African American in her late thirties (This is the real-life Zora Neale Hurston, should resemble the historical figure.)