SpeakEasy Stage Company | Boston, MA
Thursday, June 19, 2025
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM (E)
To schedule an audition appointment, please email
auditions@speakeasystage.com with your full name, pronouns, Equity status, contact information, and the shows for which you would like to be considered. Please also include your complete availability during the entire audition window.
NEAT
$638 weekly minimum (Cat. 6 - tier C) Until 9/8/25
$677 weekly minimum (Cat. 6 - tier C) After 9/8/25
Equity actors for roles in the Musicals for SpeakEasy Stage Company's 2025-26 Season (See breakdown).
Actors of color are encouraged to audition, and all roles are open to inclusive casting.
SpeakEasy Stage Company shall conduct all auditions/interviews in a manner that promotes fair consideration to persons of all races, ethnicities, national origins, genders, sexual orientations, ages, and ability statuses.
SpeakEasy Stage Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Artists Studio Building - Boston Center for the Arts
551 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02116
Studio 204 is located on the second floor of the Artists’ Studios Building and does not have an elevator. All efforts were made to book an accessible location for this audition. If the inaccessibility of this location prevents you from attending, we will happily accept a video submission. Please submit your headshot, resume and video submission at:
auditions@speakeasystage.com.
Expected to attend:
Artistic Director – Dawn Meredith Simmons
Director of Artistic & Community Programs – Alex Lonati
Artistic Fellow – Sara Gorelkin
Musical Director - TBD
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production specific dates.
www.speakeasystage.com
An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Please prepare short cuts of one or two songs, perform one or two monologues, or prepare a combination of song(s) and monologue(s) from other sources of your preference. An accompanist will be provided.
If you also play a musical instrument and would like to demonstrate that at the audition, you are welcome to do so, but it will not be required until show-specific callbacks.
To be considered for both musicals and non-musicals, SpeakEasy recommends one contemporary monologue, and one 16-bar cut of a contemporary song. Auditions should be no longer than 5 minutes. Also bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
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.
SpeakEasy Stage Co. 2025-26 Season (Musicals)
For these auditions, no nudity or any form of sexual contact will be required as part of an actor’s audition. We will not ask prospective participants to perform violence or sexual contact as part of an audition without disclosing this expectation in the audition notice or invitation. SpeakEasy Stage Company seeks to foster an environment of communication, safety, respect, accountability, and the health, safety, and well-being of institutions and its participants.
Book, Music, and Lyrics by Justin Huertas
Director TBA
Rehearsals: 9/29/2025
Tech: 10/19/25
Performances: 10/24/25 - 11/22/2025
Possible extension closing: 11/29/2025
NOTE: All actors serve as members of the band. As such, we are interested in hiring actors who can also play a musical instrument.
TREVOR. Male. 25. Non-White. Reclusive and neurotic singer-songwriter and sketch artist whose youthful, sometimes naive optimism masks his pain. Has green lizard skin. Tenor. Plays cello, guitar, ukulele.
CARY. Male. Late 20s. White. Charismatic and confident singer-songwriter whose goofiness makes him charming and whose emotional literacy makes him sexy AF. Bari-tenor. Plays advanced guitar, ukulele, piano, glockenspiel, also able to beatbox.
SIREN. Female. 25. Any race. Magnetic and weird singer-songwriter, first jaded and resigned, but below the surface, a terrifying drive is simmering. Mezzo soprano / rock belter. Plays basic piano, basic guitar, ukulele, melodica, various percussion instruments.
Book by John Logan
Music & Lyrics by The Avett Brothers
Director TBA
Rehearsals: 3/30/26
Tech: 4/19/26
Performances: 4/24/26 - 5/23/26
MATE. Accustomed to life on a ship, he is the second mate to the captain and has a troubled history.
LITTLE BROTHER. A country boy, he runs off to the whaler ship to escape the mundane routine of living on a farm.
BIG BROTHER. A responsible man, who follows his Little Brother to the sea to keep him focused on God and away from trouble on the ship.
CAPTAIN. Angry and mysterious, he understands a captain must be ready to go down with his ship.
ENSEMBLE. Male. Late 20s to late 40s. Sailors on a whaling ship in the late 1800s.
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