Hartford Stage Company Inc. | Hartford, CT
LORT Non-Rep
$1144 weekly minimum (LORT B)
Equity actors for roles in ROPE. (see breakdown).
Please submit your headshot and resume for consideration.
Deadline: 07/28/2025
AlaineAndLisaCasting@gmail.com
Adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
Based on the play Rope’s End by Patrick Hamilton
Directed by Melia Bensussen
Casting Directors: Alaine Alldaffer, Lisa Donadio
First Rehearsal: September 9, 2025
First Preview: October 10, 2025
Opening: October 17, 2025
Closing: November 2, 2025
Deadline for submissions: July 28, 2025
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 submit.
WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER: We are committed to a strong anti-racist ethos and a collective recommitment to nurture and sustain a culture of equity, inclusion and belonging at our organization. We seek to build a team that is passionate about theatre and that reflects the abundant vibrancy and diversity of our city, state, and nation. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender-identity, sexual orientation, familial status, religion, ability, age, national origin, class and veteran or immigrant status.
NOTE: While the characters are written with he/him or she/her pronouns in the original scripts, we welcome gender non-conforming, genderqueer, transgender, and non-binary actors to audition for the roles they most identify with. We will also list race/ethnicity when specific to the character but are otherwise seeking all races and ethnicities. In addition, we will list disability when specific to a character, but are otherwise seeking actors of all abilities. Thank you to First Folio Theatre for inspiring the language in this note as we work towards a more inclusive casting process.
BRANDON: Male, 20s-30s. Fine featured, smart, cultured, expensively dressed. Cool, self-satisfied, amused, confident. British Dialect.
LEWIS: Male, 20s-30s. His junior partner. Also expensively dressed. Good looking, polite. He is the less confident specimen. British Dialect.
KENNETH: Male, 20s-30s. A handsome young man of bracing normalcy. British Dialect.
MR. KENTLEY: Male, 60s. Rich, conservative, cultured, kind. British Dialect.
MERIEL: Female, 20s-30s. One of the Bright Young Things, pretending to be more shallow than she is. British Dialect.
RUPERT CADELL: Male, 40s-50s. A Byronic ruin. Brilliant, dry, wry, caustic, and very entertaining. He lost most of one leg in The Great War. Now he walks with a limp. He uses a cane. British Dialect.
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