Chicago Shakespeare Theater | Chicago, IL
Monday, May 12, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (C)
Lunch 12:30-1:30 pm
TYA
$615 weekly minimum
Equity actors for the TYA 2025-2026 production of SHORT SHAKESPEARE! HAMLET (see breakdown). All roles will be understudied. Chicago Shakespeare Season runs year-round and casts on a play-by-play basis. As theater-makers, we are charged with engaging honestly and deeply in conversations about our humanity, and our inhumanity. Chicago Shakespeare Theater is deeply committed to welcoming artists, audience members, and staff of broadly diverse and intersectional identities, including (but not limited to) race, ethnicity, ability, faith/belief tradition, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity, age, socio-economic background, and nationality. Acknowledging the entrenched structural inequities around race in the American theater, we are especially focused on addressing equity and inclusion for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) individuals within our IDEA efforts.
Prepare one piece of Shakespeare or heightened language text, not to exceed three minutes.
Chicago Shakespeare
800 E Grand Ave
Chicago, IL 60611-5436
See parking information in breakdown.
Artistic Director/Director: Edward Hall
Expected to attend:
Casting Director: Bob Mason
Casting Associate: Alexis Taylor
Chicago Shakespeare Theater
EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition.
An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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
Parking information:
1 Bennet Square (Illinois and Peshtigo, two blocks from the front of Navy Pier) $10 parking/12 hrs. Vehicle entrances to the 1 Bennett Square garage are at 456 East Illinois and 411 East Grand Avenue. Talent should ensure they give themselves enough time to walk from the garage to the theater (about 15 mins). Additionally, they will need to ask for validation before leaving the theatre. If talent would like to park in the garage at the theater, we can validate parking for $21. If talent prefers to Uber/Lyft or rideshare, they should ask to be dropped off at the Middle Pick-up/Entrance 1 on the side. If they choose the rideshare option, they should head into the doors and go to the right, past the Funhouse and walk down the hallway until they see the Shakespeare Marquee. We are located on the second level. And buses near the Grand and State Red Line (29, 65) are available at Illinois and State and go directly to the Pier.
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