People's Light 2025-26 Season Equity Principal Actors - People's Light Auditions

Peoples Light 2025-26 Season - Malvern, PA EPA

People's Light | Malvern, PA

AUDITION DATE

Monday, March 17, 2025
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment please go to:
Audition Appointment.

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep
$839 weekly minimum (LORT D)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in People's Light's 2025-26 Season (See breakdown).
NOTE FROM CREATIVE: We welcome actors of all races and all gender identities, abilities/exceptionalities, and body types. Please take this into consideration when auditioning. In addition to genders listed in character breakdowns, we are actively seeking trans and non-binary performers for all roles.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a brief monologue or song of your choice. Please slate before your audition. Please note slots do not exceed 3 minutes in length. Also, bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

People's Light
39 Conestoga Rd
Malvern, PA 19355-1706
Holding room - Steinbright Lobby

PERSONNEL

Producing Artistic Director: Zak Berkman
General Manager: Erin Sheffield
Expected to attend: Associate Producing Director: Molly Rosa Houlahan
See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

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

People's Light 2025-26 Season

THE UNEXPECTED 3RD

By Kathryn Grody
Directed by Timothy Near
First Rehearsal: 8/19/25
Opens: 9/21/25
Closes: 10/12/25
This show has been fully cast.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

By Charles Dickens
Adapted by Zak Berkman
Directed by Molly Rosa Houlahan
First Rehearsal: 10/14/25
Opens: 11/23/25
Closes: 1/4/26
*No performances on Christmas or New Year’s Day.
Please note this is a play with music, with folk Christmas songs woven throughout. Please note all actors aside from Scrooge also play “the Kind Chorus,” a chorus of spirits that have come to tell this story to our audience.

SEEKING:

FRED/AS CAST: 20s-30s, any ethnicity, he/him. Ebullient, playful, puppy dog. Doubles as Young Scrooge. Strong baritone/tenor.
MARLEY/AS CAST: 40s-60s, any ethnicity, he/him. An embattled and embittered man who strives to make things right. Strong bass/baritone voice.
EMILY CRATCHIT/AS CAST: mid 30s-40s, any ethnicity, she/her. Warm, generous, fierce.
TINY TIM/AS CAST: 8-12 years old, any ethnicity, he/him. Kind, sweet, playful, sees the best in everyone.
LITTLE FAN/AS CAST: 8-12 years old, any ethnicity, she/her. Strong willed, speaks her mind, luminous.

STEEL MAGNOLIAS

By Robert Harling
Directed by Abigail Adams
First Rehearsal: December 12th
Opens: January 18th
Closes: February 8th

SEEKING:

ANELLE: 18-25, any ethnicity, she/her. Shy, soft-spoken, perhaps naive. Evolves into a confident young woman.

TWELFTH NIGHT

By William Shakespeare
Adapted by Andrew Watring
Directed by Andrew Watring
First Rehearsal: 1/27/26
Opens: 3/1/26
Closes: 3/29/26

SEEKING:

VIOLA: 20s-30s, Black, any pronouns. A resilient, resourceful, smooth operator with a quick wit. Navigating complicated questions around identity. Singing ability is encouraged but not required.
SEBASTIAN: 20s-30s, Black, he/him. Cunning, boisterous, and exceedingly charming. Singing ability is encouraged but not required.
MARIA: 30s-50s, Black, she/her. An efficient and effective servant with a dry sense of humor and a vengeful spirit. Singing ability is encouraged but not required.
SIR ANDREW: 20s-30s, white, he/him. Foppish, sincere, and vulnerable. Singing ability is encouraged but not required.
FESTE: 20s-30s, BIPOC, he/him. Wry, lithe, and facile, Feste moves adeptly between personalities with his sense of humor and sharp mind. Plays the guitar and sings.
FABIAN: 20s-30s, BIPOC, he/him. A servant with a chip on his shoulder. Singing ability is encouraged but not required.
ANTONIO: 20s-30s, any race, any pronouns. Streetwise, experienced, and loyal. In the midst of a prolonged period of longing. Singing ability is encouraged but not required.

THE WOMAN QUESTION

By Suli Holum
Directed by Melissa Crespo
First Rehearsal: 3/31/26
Opens: 5/10/26
Closes: 5/24/26

SEEKING:

ELIZA: African American student, 40s, she/her, formerly enslaved, queer. Outspoken, Eliza comes into the school with a ton of practical knowledge.
TABAT: Kurdish student from Syria, 20s-30s, she/her, a researcher at heart.
KEI: Japanese student, 20s-30s, Christian, she/her. Kei is married, her husband is also at school in the states, they are long distance. Quiet and extremely observant.

AIN’T MISBEHAVIN'

Music By Fats Waller
Book by Murray Horowitz and Richard Maltby Jr.
Directed by Steve Broadnax III
First Rehearsal: 6/9/26
Opens: 7/12/26
Closes: 8/16/26

SEEKING:

ANDRE: 25-45, Black, he/him. Unrepentant party hound, a flirt, and a bit of a womanizer. Vocal range G2 - E6, baritone/tenor.
ARMELIA: 25-45, Black, she/her. Strong willed, unafraid, at ease. Vocal range G3 - C6, soprano.
CHARLENE: 18-25, Black, she/her. Sweet, young, innocent. Vocal range G3 - G5 mezzo soprano.
KEN: 25-45, Black, he/him. Jovial, cheerful, loud, larger than life. Vocal range D3 - C6 tenor.
NELL: 30-45, Black, she/her. Confident, charming, knowledgeable. Vocal range F3 - F5 alto.