Syracuse Stage 2025-26 Season (Plays) Equity Principal Actors - Syracuse Stage Auditions

SYRACUSE STAGE 2025-26 SEASON (PLAYS) - NYC EPA

Syracuse Stage | Syracuse, NY

AUDITION DATE

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)

Lunch 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

CONTRACT

LORT Non-Rep
$1051 weekly minimum (LORT C)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in the Plays at Syracuse Stage's 2025-26 Season (See Breakdown). Some roles will be understudied.

PREPARATION

Please prepare one 1-to-2 minute contemporary monologue. Bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036

PERSONNEL

Expected to attend:
Melissa Crespo, Associate Artistic Director
See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

syracusestage.org
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

BREAKDOWN

Syracuse Stage 2025-26 Season (Plays)

THE 39 STEPS

Adapted by Patrick Barlow
From the novel by John Buchan and the movie by Alfred Hitchcock

CONTRACT

LORT C Contract
Co-produced with Indiana Repertory Theatre (originating)
First Rehearsal: 10/14/25
Opening: 10/24/25
Closing: 11/9/25
8 show weeks inclusive of Student Matinees (3)

Will be cast by Indiana Repertory Theatre

SEEKING:

RICHARD HANNAY
ANNABELLA SCHMIDT/MARGARET/PAMELA
CLOWN 1
CLOWN 2

A CHRISTMAS STORY

By Philip Grecian
Based on the motion picture written by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown and Bob Clark
Directed by Robert Hupp

CONTRACT

LORT C Contract
First Rehearsal: 11/4/25
Opening: 11/28/25
Closing: 12/28/25
9 show weeks (3) and 8 show weeks (2), inclusive of Student Matinees (7)
Note: The adult actors in A Christmas Story must be good working with children.

SEEKING:

THE NARRATOR (Ralphie as an adult) - Male 40s-60s, Any ethnicity. Warm, charismatic and engaging storyteller with a deadpan sense of humor. He keeps the story moving. The narrator also plays several small roles throughout the production including The Cowboy, The Tree Lot Owner and others.
RALPHIE PARKER - Male, age 9 (in the 5th grade). Any ethnicity. Bright, mischievous, outgoing and curious boy. He has a vivid imagination that comes to life in various scenes throughout the play. He is the star of his own story. All he wants is a Red Ryder Carbine Action BB Gun for Christmas.
MOTHER - Female, 35-45. Any ethnicity. Vibrant, warm and friendly, she is the glue that keeps the family together. She loves her husband and her children and will do what it takes to maintain harmony and order. She is unassuming but in charge.
MISS SHIELDS - Female, 30-50. Any ethnicity. An elementary school teacher (Ralphie’s teacher). Prim and proper, stern when necessary. Possesses a sense of humor and clearly cares about her job and her students.
OLD MAN is already cast.

RELENTLESS

By Rae Binstock
Directed by Melissa Crespo
World Premiere

CONTRACT

SEEKING:

MONIQUE JEFFRIES – POC, late 30s, former world champion, now owner of the gym.
JOHNNY PIERCE – Black, 60s, lifelong trainer, walks with a limp.
BEX PERLMAN – white/light-skinned, late 20s, new front-desk worker. Needs to be comfortable learning boxing fight choreography.
“WOOKIE” LEE – any race, teens, high school student and amateur boxer. Needs to be comfortable learning boxing fight choreography and executing strenuous physical activity such as: push-ups, jumping rope, sit-ups, etc.
MATT MICHAELS – 30s, white, investment banker and boxing groupie. Needs to be comfortable learning boxing fight choreography and executing strenuous physical activity such as: push-ups, jumping rope, sit-ups, etc.
ALOJZY “CHICKEN” KOWALCZYK – Polish, late 60s, ex-fighter and trainer.

JOE TURNER'S COME AND GONE

By August Wilson
Directed by Timothy Douglas

CONTRACT

LORT C Contract
Co-produced with Indiana Repertory Theatre (originating)
First Rehearsal: 3/3/26
Opening: 3/13/26
Closing: 3/29/26
8 show weeks inclusive of Student Matinees (3)

SEEKING:

SETH HOLLY
BERTHA HOLLY
BYNUM WALKER
RUTHERFORD SELIG
JEREMY FURLOW
HERALD LOOMIS
ZONIA LOOMES
MATTIE CAMBELL
REUBEN SCOTT
MOLLY CUNNINGHAM
MARTHA LOOMIS