Classic Stage Company | New York, NY
Thursday, November 20, 2025
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
BREAK: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Off Broadway
$1049 weekly minimum (cat. 5)
Equity actors for roles in THE EMPORIUM (see breakdown).
Please prepare a 1-minute monologue in the style of American classic like Wilder, Inge, Miller, etc. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center
165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
CSC Producing Artistic Director - Jill Rafson
CSC General Manager - Kathryn McCumber
Director - Rob Melrose
Playwright - Kirk Lynn
Casting Director - Margaret Dunn
First Preview: 4/1/2026
Opening: 5/18/2026
Announced Closing: 6/7/2026
Possible extension until: 6/14/2026
classicstage.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
JOHN - male presenting, late 30s - late 40s, any ethnicity. He’s desperately trying to find his place in the Emporium and, by extension, the world. He leads the way through the play for the audience. Warmth, playfulness and conveys the existential need to solve this mystery of life.
BERNICE - female presenting, 50s - 60s. She is a sales associate at the Emporium. A gifted comedic with great dexterity, who has the facility to switch roles on a dime. Must be as caring as she is funny. Doubles as: MRS. FOSTER, orphanage superintendent, MRS. GRAHAM, a farmer’s wife and John’s mom, MRS. DOBBS, an off-site Employment Agency manager, MRS. D’AGOSTINO, a boardinghouse keeper, ERMENGARDE CRAIGIE, heiress to Craigie fortune.
MR. FOSTER - male presenting, 50s - 60s - orphanage superintendent, married to Mrs. Foster. Has great dexterity and has the facility to switch roles on a dime. Must have authority. Doubles as: MR. GRAHAM, a farmer, married to Mrs. Graham, MR. HOBMEYER, head floor-walker of the Emporium, MR. CONNOVER, muscle for the above Employment Agency, MR. CRAIGIE, owner of Craigie’s Departmental Store.
LAURENCIA - female presenting, 30s, any ethnicity. She is a counter-girl at the Emporium who becomes John’s love interest. She’s a bit of a mystery to him. She is fully committed to the Emporium way of life. Bright, honest, curious, and articulate.
MR. BENJAMIN - male presenting, old enough to be retired, worked for years at the monotonous, dependable Craigie’s Departmental, longs to be accepted at the more bohemian Emporium. A ward of the R.R.D.S.W. (Retreat for Retired Department Store Workers), who act as the play’s Greek chorus. Comfortable interacting with the audience.
MRS. FRISBEE - female presenting, old enough to be retired, a widow, somewhat ambivalent about the Emporium. A ward of the R.R.D.S.W. (Retreat for Retired Department Store Workers), who act as the play’s Greek chorus. Has a good-natured small-town sensibility. Comfortable interacting with the audience.
MISS COLEY - female presenting, old enough to be retired, the most playful and knowing of her bunch, worked for the very store in question. A ward of the R.R.D.S.W. (Retreat for Retired Department Store Workers), who act as the play’s Greek chorus. Comfortable interacting with the audience.
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