Monday, June 9, 2025
10:30 AM - 7:30 PM (E)
BREAK 1:30PM - 3:30PM
AUDITIONS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
auditions@portlandstage.org
Jenn London || 207 774-1043 ext 107, M-F
LORT Non-Rep
$799 weekly minimum (LORT D - Protected)
Equity actors for roles in Portland Stage Company's 2025 - 2026 season (see breakdown).
No roles will be understudied.
Please prepare a short monologue. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Portland Stage Company
25 A Forest Ave
Portland, ME 04101-5809
Anita Stewart - Artistic Director
Dirty Deeds Downeast
1st Rehearsal: 10/7/25
Opening: 10/31/25
Closing: 10/13/2024
Lend Me A Tenor
1st Rehearsal: 1/6/26
Opening: 1/30/26
Closing: 2/22/26
2026 Clauder Winner TBA
1st Rehearsal: 2/10/26
Opening: 3/6/26
Closing: 3/22/26
Our Town
1st Rehearsal: 3/10/26
Opening: 4/3/26
Closing: 4/26/26
The Laugh Track
1st Rehearsal: 4/14/26
Opening: 5/8/26
Closing: 5/31/26
portlandstage.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.
SYNOPSIS: A fast and loose comedy about those who take care of their own. Part Hot Fuzz and part Murder She Wrote, Askari's play examines the underbelly of life on an island in Maine. As the summer season approaches, Gerrard is warned by the locals that his investigation might not be good for business, and he'll have to choose to stick to his guns or fold.
GERRARD: 30s-early 40s. Male. A small town cop in a place where nothing much happens.
BETTY: 30s. Female. Waitress at Nadeau's Diner. Pretty. Opinionated.
WOMAN: 50s-60s. Female. Plays MARGIE, Gerard's mother and EDITH, the owner and chairman of Blake Wholesalers.
MAN: 40s-60s. Male. Plays LOUIS the local landscaper and suitor of Margie, DICK the owner of the marina, and COLE a lobsterman with a claw hand.
SYNOPSIS: An evening of hijinks, mistaken identity, and chance encounters. Following the belated arrival of Il Stupendo, Max does his best to keep the star calm, and makes sure he gets the rest he needs. Unfortunately, after giving Stupendo a double dose of his sleeping pills Max needs to don Pagliacci’s makeup to do the show, but can he sing as well as the greatest tenor of the generation? After the show multiple women want to sleep with Il Stupendo, but when Max finds a body missing, will he save his career? Or his relationship?
MAX: Late 20s-30s. Male. Assistant to Saunders, Opera lover. Will sing in the play.
MAGGIE: Late 20s-30s. Female. Max's girlfriend, who has a thing for tenors.
SAUNDERS: 40s-50s. Male. Maggie's father. Manager of the Cleveland Grand Opera Company.
TITO MERELLI: 30s-50s. Male. A world-famous tenor, known by his fans as “Il Stupendo”. Will sing in the play.
MARIA: 30s-50s. Female. Tito's wife, not always a fan of Il Stupendo.
BELLHOP: 20s-40s. A bellhop, and fan of Il Stupendo. Will sing in the play.
DIANA: 20s-30s. Female. A soprano looking to get ahead.
JULIA: 50s-60s. Female. Chairwoman of the Opera Guild.
Intimate Surveillance
by Catherine Stewart
SYNOPSIS: Tech entrepreneur Mina Azimi expects to control the narrative when she sits down with veteran journalist David Mendez. But he isn’t here for a puff piece—he’s here to confront her with a troubling question: Who can you trust when technology becomes part of our intimate lives?
MINA AMIZ / VOILA: Mid 20s, Female, mid-twenties, Iranian-American disgraced tech mogul. Also voices VOILA, virtual assistant technology with a speech synthesizer.
DAVID MENDEZ: Late 50s+, Male. Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist.
Like Flies
by Maggie Kearnan
SYNOPSIS: When a mysterious new midwife comes to town, a group of women think she might have solutions for more than just childbirth. She might also have something to remedy an epidemic of cruel men. New alliances are formed and each woman wonders who she can trust in this thrilling new play.
EDNA INGRAM: 40s - 50s. Female. A professionally trained midwife. Religious, patient, calculated.
MEG DOOLEY / WOMAN 1: late 20s - early 40s. Female. A midwife, self-certain, natural leader.
RETTA LONGWOOD / WOMAN 2: 30s. Female. Brass, boisterous, and strong. A bit of comic relief.
POLLY PLATT / WOMAN 3: 20s. Female. Soft, sweet, and curious. Loves her husband.
LENNY RUTLEDGE / WOMAN 4: 18+ to play 16. Female. Ruthless, but longing. Runs for fun. Speaks boldly through a speech impediment.
JULIA WINSHIP/ WOMAN 5: 20s - 30s. Female. Quiet, reluctant, and loving. A reader. Wants peace and safety. Loves Vee Malcolm.
VEE MALCOLM/ WOMAN 6: 20s - 30s. Female. Sarcastic, impatient, but earnest. Craves adventure. Loves Julia Winship.
Mere Waters
by Jillian Blevins
SYNOPSIS: Gynecologist Gisella Perl arrives at a concentration camp and is assigned to work as the camp doctor. She has no tools, no antiseptic, and no water. Despite all this, Gisella works to survive the camp guided by two bickering biblical prophetesses.
DOCTOR GISELLA PERL: 37. Female. A Hungarian Jew and a doctor of gynecology. Prisoner no. 25404. (Pronounced “GEE-zull-uh”)
THE GUARD: 19, Female. Blonde, blue eyed, and beautiful. Mouthpiece for Doctor M. She is always smiling.
THE WOMAN: 20s-30s. Female. Every prisoner. Every patient. Every woman. Sometimes appears as Gisella’s daughter GABBY.
ABIGAIL: 30s-50s. Ageless. Female. PROPHETESS known for guiding others toward righteousness. Measured. Biblical, but also a Jewish tante (auntie).
HANNAH: 40s-50s. Ageless. Female. PROPHETESS tested by God through her infertility. Defiant. Biblical, but also a Jewish tante.
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