Shakespeare and Company 2025 LORT Season Equity Principal Actors - Shakespeare and Company Auditions

SHAKESPEARE AND COMPANY 2025 LORT SEASON - LENNOX, MA EPA

Shakespeare & Company | Lenox, MA

AUDITION DATE

Friday, March 7, 2025
10:00 AM - 5:45 PM (E)
Lunch 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment please go to:
Signup Genius or call 413-637-1199 x140, 11-2 weekdays with questions. Walk-ups will be seen as time permits.

CONTRACT

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

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Shakespeare and Company's 2025 LORT Season (See breakdown). All roles will be understudied.
Shakespeare & Company is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to evolving its approach to diversity and inclusion to engender positive change toward equity in its employment and artistry. We practice identity-conscious casting and strongly encourage performers of all genders, ethnicities, body types, ages and abilities to audition.

PREPARATION

Please prepare 1 short classical / Shakespearean monologue AND 1 short contemporary monologue; bring resume and headshot stapled together and your Equity Card to the audition.

LOCATION

Shakespeare & Company
70 Kemble St
Lenox, MA 01240-2813
Bear right upon arrival, to end of drive at Bernstein Theatre lobby.

PERSONNEL

General Manager: Stephen Ball
Expected to attend:
Producing Associate: Ariel Bock
Artistic Director: Allyn Burrows

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates

OTHER

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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

Shakespeare and Company 2025 LORT Season

SHAKE IT UP

Written by Allyn Burrows and Jacob Ming-Trent
1st Rehearsal: 6/24
1st Preview: 7/1
Close: 7/6
Rehearsed and performed indoors in the Tina Packer Playhouse.
This Production is CAST.
Track 1: PRECAST. 20s, she/her
Track 2: PRECAST. 20s, he/him
Track 3: PRECAST. 30/40s, she/her
Track 4: PRECAST. 30/40s, he/him
Track 5: PRECAST. 50s, she/her

ROMEO AND JULIET

Written by William Shakespeare
1st Rehearsal: 6/10
1st Preview: 7/12
Close: 8/10
Rehearsed and performed outdoors in the Arthur S. Waldstein Amphitheatre.
We welcome actors with physical skills and stamina for this outdoor production.
Four of the actors in ROMEO AND JULIET will also be cast in THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

SEEKING:

Romeo: 20s, male presenting, any ethnicity, sensitive, passionate
Mercutio: 30/40, any gender, any ethnicity, quick-witted, brooding, cynical, adept with physicality and language
Tybalt: 20/30s, any gender, any ethnicity, hot-tempered, vain, adept with physicality
Juliet: 20s, female presenting, any ethnicity, wealthy daughter, courageous, passionate
Nurse & as cast: 40-60s, any gender, any ethnicity, sentimental, long-winded, earthy
Lady Capulet & as cast: 35/50s, she/her, any ethnicity, married young, ineffectual mother
Friar Laurence & as cast: 50/60s, any gender, any ethnicity, civic-minded, teacher, herbalist
Lord Capulet & as cast: 50s, he/him, any ethnicity, authoritarian patriarch, quick to anger
Benvolio & as cast: 20s, any gender, any ethnicity, good friend to Romeo, thoughtful, adept with physicality

THE TAMING OF THE SHREW

Written by William Shakespeare
1st Rehearsal: 7/22
1st Preview: 8/14
Close: 8/24
Rehearsed and performed indoors in the Tina Packer Playhouse.
Four of the actors in THE TAMING OF THE SHREW will also be cast in ROMEO AND JULIET; others may understudy in ROMEO AND JULIET

SEEKING:

Kate & as cast: 30/40s, female presenting, any ethnicity, sharp-tongued and quick-tempered
Petruchio & as cast: 30/40s, male presenting, any ethnicity, boisterous, eccentric, quick-witted
Bianca & as cast: 20/30s, she/her, any ethnicity, soft-spoken, sweet
Lucentio & as cast: 30s, he/him, any ethnicity, intrepid, student, in love with Bianca
Baptista & as cast: 50/60s, he/him, any ethnicity, wealthy, good natured, absent-minded
Grumio & as cast: 20/40s, any gender, witty, physically adept
Christopher Sly & as cast: 40/60s, any gender, any ethnicity, drunken tradesperson
Hortensio & as cast: 40/50s, he/him, gentleman wooer to Bianca, frustrated
Kate & as cast: 30/40s, she/her or they/them, any ethnicity