Portland Stage Company's 2026-27 Season Equity Principal Actors - Portland Stage Company Auditions

PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY 2026-27 SEASON - PORTLAND, ME EPA

Portland Stage Company | Portland, ME

Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

AUDITION DATE

LOCATION

Tuesday, June 9, 2026
Portland Stage Company
25A Forest Ave
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM (E)
Portland, ME 04101-5809
No break scheduled
Holding room - Lower Lobby

APPOINTMENTS

PERSONNEL

To schedule an audition appointment please contact Carrigan Danish at:
auditions@portlandstage.org OR Anita Stewart: Artistic Director
207-774-1043 ext 107, M-F 9-6.
See breakdown for production specific personnel.

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep
$831 weekly minimum (LORT D - Protected)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Portland Stage Company's
2026-27 Season (See breakdown). An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a short monologue (2-3 min). Please bring a headshot and resume stapled together.
Always bring your Equity Membership card to auditions.

BREAKDOWN

PORTLAND STAGE COMPANY 2026-27 SEASON

ARCADIA

By: Tom Stoppard
Dir: TBD
1st Rehearsal: 9/8/2026
Opening: 10/2/2026
Closing: 10/25/2026

SYNOPSIS: This masterwork from the late Tom Stoppard follows two storylines separated by centuries. In 1809 in the Coverly Estate, the classical garden is becoming remade to match the modern romantic mold, and in the present researchers delve into the secrets of the past. As both eras bleed into one another, Stoppard explores the nature of truth, time, and the attractive force that Newton left out.

SEEKING:

Tomasina Coverley, 1809: 20s female identifying. The precocious daughter of Lady Croom, a mathematical genius hidden in the mind of a teenage girl.
Septimus Hodge, 1809: 20-30s male-identifying. Tomisina’s tutor and friend to Lord Byron. Quick witted, attractive and able to navigate complicated social situations.
Lady Croom, 1809/ Hannah Jarvis, present: 30-40s female identifying. Lady Croom is Tomasina’s mother, a social climber, who commands a room. Hannah is a scholar researching the garden's history of the Estate. She is smart, serious and methodical.
Captain Brice, 1809/ Bernard Nightingale, present: 30-50s male-identifying. Brice is Lady Croom’s brother and lover to the wife of Ezra Chater. Solid military man with ambitions. Nightingale is a clever academician determined to make his case.
Ezra Chater, 1809/ Valentine Coverley, present: 30-40s male-identifying. Chater fancies himself a poet and philosopher. A passionate fool unaware of his wife’s dalliances.
Jellaby/ Richard Noakes, 1809: 40-60s male-identifying. Jellaby is the butler, officious and succinct. He knows his role. Noake, a landscape architect with a vision for the Estate, understands the role of flattery in getting his way.
Augustus Coverley, 1809/ Gus Coverley present: 12-18 male-identifying. Augustus, younger brother of Tomasina, takes his role of becoming the ‘man’ of the house. Gus, youngest member of the modern family, while curious, he doesn’t speak and is extremely fond of Hannah.
Chloe Coverley, present: 20s female identifying. Chloe, one of the modern family members, has a crush on Nightingale. Sweet, smart, but not an academic.

ROOTED

By: Deborah Zoe Laufer
Dir: TBD
1st Rehearsal: 10/13/2026
Opening: 11/6/2026
Closing: 11/22/2026

SYNOPSIS: In this play by Deborah Zoe Laufer, introverted gardener, Emery, finds out as her followers grow, and she discovers she's cultivating more than just plants. As true believers flock to her home and the chaos outside mounts to a fever pitch she and her sister, Hazel, find themselves at odds as they struggle to agree on what matters in life.

SEEKING:

EMERY HARRIS: 40-70s female identifying. An introvert who spends most of her time in a treehouse caring for her seedlings and performing scientific experiments to prove their consciousness. Uses a walker to get around.
HAZEL: 40-70s female identifying. Emery’s older sister who takes care of her sister. A waitress, she worries about money and is looking for a way to change their situation.
LUANNE: 20-30s female identifying. A woman who wants to belong to a tribe, sweet and guileless. Searching for something larger to believe in.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A RADIO PLAY

By: Joe Landry
Dir: Anita Stewart
1st Rehearsal: 11/10/2026
Opening: 12/5/2026
Closing: 12/24/2026

SYNOPSIS: A beloved American classic presented as a live 1940s style radio play by Joe Landry complete with old fashioned sound effects. With the help of the town and an angel named Clarence, George Bailey discovers the difference that one man’s life can make.

SEEKING:

Jake Laurents: 20-50s male-identifying. A leading man with a heart of gold. Plays George Bailey.
Sally Applewhite: 20-40s female identifying. A shapeshifting actor who can play both leading lady and an old miser. Plays: Mary Hatch Bailey, Old Man Potter.
Freddy Filmore: 40s-60s male-identifying. The narrator of the story who also steps into multiple character roles. Plays: Announcer, Joseph, Uncle Billy, Bert the Cop, and other male characters.
Lana Sherwood: 20-40s female identifying. A strong character actress who can play everything from femme fatale to a hard scrabble mother. Plays Violet Bick, Rose Bailey, Mrs. Hatch, Matilda, and other characters.
Harry “Jazzbo” Heywood: 30-50s male-identifying. Plays Clarence, Young Harry, Sam Wainwright, and various ensemble roles.

THE REAL SHERLOCK HOLMES

By: Peter Colley
Dir: Kevin R. Free
1st Rehearsal: 1/5/2027
Opening: 1/29/2027
Closing: 2/21/2027

SYNOPSIS: In a comedic whodunit by Peter Colley, a young medical student, Arthur Conan Doyle, is asked to tag along with his professor to investigate a murder that leads them from high society to darkened alleys and the Scottish moors. With all the intrigue and flair of a proper Sherlock mystery with 7 actors playing multiple roles.

SEEKING:

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: 20-30s. Any gender. Medical student not dissimilar to Dr. Watson.
DR. JOSEPH BELL: 30-60s. Any gender. Professor at Edinburgh University Medical School, not dissimilar to Sherlock Holmes.
LADY LOUISA MACDRUMMOND: 30-50s. Any gender. Widow, daughter of the 6th Earl of Erensay, also doubles as other characters.
MISS JENNY: 20-30 female identifying. Lady Louisa's young niece from America, and others.
INSPECTOR BRODIE: 40-50s male identifying. An Edinburgh police detective, and others.
MORGUE ATTENDANT: 20-50s. Any gender. Multiple small characters throughout.
MAGNUS MCBAIN: 30-60s. Any gender. A pompous poet, many small characters throughout.

I AM MY OWN WIFE

By: Doug Wright
Dir: Drew Barr
1st Rehearsal: 2/9/2027
Opening: 3/5/2027
Closing: 3/21/2027

SYNOPSIS: Doug Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning one-person play transports us to the world of Charlotte von Malsdorf, an openly trans woman, who lived during two of modern Europe's most repressive regimes–the Nazis and Stasi of Communist East Germany. Composed of interviews with Mahlsdorf and others, Wright creates a fascinating portrait of life in a turbulent time.

SEEKING:

Charlotte & Others: 30s-60s. Plays all the characters in this one-person show from Doug Wright to Charlotte herself.

JANE EYRE

By: Elizabeth Williamson
Dir: Jade King Carroll
1st Rehearsal: 3/9/2027
Opening: 4/2/2027
Closing: 4/25/2027

SYNOPSIS: Jane takes a job as a governess on a remote estate hoping to put her troubled childhood behind her in this adaptation of the Bronte novel by Elizabeth Williamson. But as the bond between the governess and her brooding employer grows, the secrets that envelope her new home ignite. Bronte’s epic is brought to life by a cast of eight.

SEEKING:

Jane Eyre: 20-40s female-identifying. Stoic and strong, Jane navigates a world where she has little agency with grace and clarity. She is a governess and speaks elegant French with her pupil.
Mr. Rochester: 20-40s male-identifying. A dark soul tormented by the realities of his life he feels unable to change.
Mrs. Fairfax/Lady Ingram/Mrs. Reed: 40-60s female-identifying. Multiple roles, a range of characters from haunting and imperious to pleasantly efficient.
Blanche/Bessie/Grace Poole: 20-40s female-identifying. Multiple roles, a range of characters from high society to a maidservant. Exact breakdown may adjust based on actor.
Mason/St. John Rivers/John Reed: 30-40s male-identifying. Multiple roles from a kind Reverend to a cruel cousin.
Priest/John/Doctor: 40-60s male-identifying. Shapeshifter, who doubles as many different types of characters that Jane encounters.
Young Jane/Adele: 12-18 female identifying. Jane as a young girl and Adele, a French ward of Rochester who speaks French.
Leah/Mary Ingram/Diane Rivers/Bertha: 20-30s female-identifying. Shape shifter. Multiple roles. Exact breakdown may adjust based on actor.

REVELATION

Conceived & Adapted by: Kerin Coonrod from the short story by Flannery O’Connor
Dir: Karin Coonrod
1st Rehearsal: 4/13/2026
Opening: 5/7/2027
Closing: 5/23/2027

SYNOPSIS: Karin Coonrad of Compagnia de' Colombari is developing this actor-driven adaptation of one of Flannery O'Connor's final stories. This Southern Gothic story revolves around Ruby Turpin, a woman who judges the faults of everyone around her.

SEEKING:

8 Tracks: Diverse genders, races, and ethnicities familiar with Coonrad’s style of theater making.