Virginia Stage Company 2024-25 season Equity Principal Actors - Virginia Stage Company Auditions

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Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

LOCATION

Wells Theatre

108 E Tazewell St

Norfolk, VA 23510

Sign in at main lobby.

PERSONNEL

Producing Artistic Director - Tom Quaintance

Expected to attend:

Resident Casting Director - Emel Ertugrul

OTHER

Video Audition Submissions will also be accepted for Season 46. Email video viewing link (NO FILES) to auditions@vastage.org with the subject: “Season 46: EPA VIDEO Audition”

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.

AUDITION DATE

Monday, June 10, 2024

11:00 AM - 7:00 PM (E)

Lunch 2:30-3:30 pm

APPOINTMENTS

Request an audition appointment by emailing auditions@vastage.org with the subject

“Season 46: EPA In Person Audition.” Please include productions/roles for which you are auditioning. You may also include a headshot/resume if you have it, but it's not required. You will receive a return email confirming your assigned time slot.

CONTRACT

LOA

$847 weekly minimum (LOA ref LORT D)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Virginia Stage Company's Season 46 (2024-25 season). See breakdown.

Some roles will be understudied.

Virginia Stage Company requires, as a condition of employment, documentation of the COVID-19 vaccine or be provided a valid religious or medical reason not to be vaccinated.

Virginia Stage Company strives for an inclusive creative work environment and actively embraces a diversity of people, ideas, talents, and experiences. We highly encourage people of color, individuals with disabilities, and other historically underrepresented groups to audition.

PREPARATION

Prepare a brief monologue of your choice. If you are auditioning for the musical please prepare at least 32 bars (or one minute) of a musical selection of your choice. Accompanist will be provided.

BREAKDOWN

The 2024-2025 Season:

Arsenic and Old Lace

By Joseph Kesselring

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Directed by Nick Minas

September 4 - 22, 2024

1st Rehearsal: August 13, 2024.

Opening: September 7, 2024.

Closing: September 22, 2024

Every family has secrets, and the eccentric Brewster family is no exception. When theater critic Mortimer Brewster comes home to announce his engagement, he discovers his two spinster aunts’ macabre secret: their pension for poisoning lonely old men as an act of mercy! Further complications arise as he deals with a brother who thinks he’s Teddy Roosevelt and another murderous brother returning home after plastic surgery to hide from the police. Between grappling with family loyalty or obeying the law, it will be a miracle if Mortimer makes it to his own wedding. This madcap comedy is sure to keep audiences laughing and on the edge of their seats!

Seeking:

Abby Brewster: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Female Identifying, Age range 60-70) Sweet, bright, spry. She’s an affable hostess and the model of Victorian charm and grace. She and her sister Martha are the embodiment of the values of polite society of a bygone age. Aunt to Mortimer, Teddy, and Jonathan. Friend to the entire neighborhood. Merciful serial killer.

Martha Brewster: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Female Identifying, Age range 60-70) Sweet, bright, spry. She and her sister, Abby, have lived together their entire lives. Their routines and manners are firmly rooted. Martha wears a high collar to cover an acid burn caused by her father, a mad scientist. Aunt to Mortimer, Teddy, and Jonathan. A great cook. Friend to the entire neighborhood. Mixes the poisoned concoctions used to murder lonely men.

Mortimer Brewster: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Male Identifying, Age range late 20s- early 40s) A good hearted cynic who is stylish, likable, and witty. A drama critic who hates the theater. He is in love with Elaine who lives next door to his Aunts Abby and Martha, so he visits often. His world gets turned upside down when he learns his sweet aunts are murdering lonely gentlemen and burying them in the cellar. Strong physical comedy skills.

Teddy Brewster: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Male Identifying, Age range 40s-50s) Brother to Mortimer and Jonathan. Wholeheartedly believes he is President Theodore Roosevelt. Buries the bodies of his aunts' victims in the cellar as he is convinced the bodies are yellow fever victims and the cellar is Panama. Strong physical comedy skills.

Elaine Harper: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Female Identifying, Age range late 20s-early 40s) Stylish, smart, witty, sharp. Daughter of Rev. Dr. Harper and fiancée to Mortimer. Surprisingly wise in the ways of the world for a minister’s daughter. She and Mortimer engage in witty, flirtatious banter. She becomes terrorized by Jonathan sending her into twisted confusion and stark fear, and eventually godsent relief. Strong physical comedy skills and versatility.

Jonathan Brewster: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Male Identifying, Age range 40s-50s) Nephew of Abby and Martha Brewster, brother to Teddy and Mortimer. Jonathan is a psychopathic, murderous gangster who has had plastic surgery and now looks like Boris Karloff (Frankenstein’s Monster) with a face full of scars. Ominous presence. Sends a chill down the spine of anyone he comes in contact with. Plots to kill Mortimer throughout the play.

Dr. Einstein: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Male Identifying, Age range 50s) A plastic surgeon and an alcoholic. Dr. Einstein has changed Jonathan’s face three times. German accent. He is the short, comedic, ratty, Igor-type assistant to Jonathan.

The Reverend Dr. Harper: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Male Identifying, Age range 50s) Minister of the church next door, father to Elaine, and a widower. Mild mannered, sensitive, and polished. The Brewster sisters have seen many ministers come and go over the years, but they are particularly fond of Dr. Harper and vice versa. He is not in favor of Mortimer and Elaine’s relationship.

Officer Brophy: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Male Identifying, Age range 30s-50s) A police officer and a thoroughly likable sort of fellow. He is making his rounds collecting Christmas toys for the needy. The Brewster home is on his regular beat and he stops over often to experience the hospitality and food offered by Abby and Martha.

Officer Klein: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Male Identifying, Age range 30s-50s) A flatfoot Brooklyn officer who makes his rounds with Officer Brophy collecting Christmas toys. Also enjoys the hospitality of the Brewster sisters.

Officer O’Hara: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Male Identifying, Age range 30s-40s) Full of life, good natured, and clueless. A would-be playwright who pesters Mortimer to read his play. Irish dialect. Strong physical comedy skills.

Mr. Gibbs: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Male Identifying, Age range 70s) A lonely man who wishes to rent a room from the Brewster sisters and nearly falls victim to their murderous act of charity. He is a little gruff, but he warms up fairly quickly upon being offered a treat he hasn’t had since he was a child.

Lieutenant Rooney: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Male Identifying, Age range 50s) The man in charge at the local police precinct. A tough and dominating police lieutenant. He has very little patience for blunder and mistakes, and runs a tight ship. He is loud, decisive, and takes charge of every situation in which he finds himself.

Mr. Witherspoon: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Male Identifying, Age range 40s-60s) The superintendent of Happy Dale Sanitarium. Very mild mannered and kind.

Dracula: a feminist revenge fantasy, really

By Kate Hamill, based loosely on the novel by Bram Stoker

Directed by Melissa Mowry

October 16- November 3, 2024

1st Rehearsal: September 24, 2024.

Opening: October 19, 2024.

Closing: November 3, 2024

A feast for the eyes and the mind, take a bite out of this Victorian horror story reimagined through the sharp, contemporary humor of Kate Hamill. This story of Dracula is unlike any you’ve ever seen — follow these reinvigorated characters through the dark in this disquieting, yet comedic drama that explores the nature of predators, monsters, and the terrors of everyday life. This re-imagined tale of Bram Stoker's classic reveals new monsters beneath the skin and drives a stake right through the patriarchy.

Seeking:

Doctor Van Helsing: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Female Identifying, Age range 40s+) American. A female vampire hunter. She takes no crap from anybody. She is badass– and 19th century men do not, as a rule, appreciate it.

Mina Harker: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Female Identifying, Age range 20s-30s) Very smart. Caring. Loyal. Wants to do the right thing.

Dracula: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Male Identifying, Age range late 30s – late 50s): A physically imposing man. He is.... extremely confident. Strong. Funny. Charming. Sexy. You’d like him, reader - no, really, you would.

Jonathan Harker: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Male Identifying, Age range 20s-40s): A nice man. A truly decent man. A lawyer; a man of letters; a slight man; a slightly fussy man. If being unkind, one could say he’s delicate.

Renfield: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Female Identifying, Age range 18+) A madwoman. Worships Dracula. Believes that if she can earn his approval, she will be free.

Lucy Westerna: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Female Identifying, Age range 20s-30s) Bright, funny, vivacious, playful, and mischievous.

Marilla: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Female Identifying, Age range 20s-30s) A vampire. More animal than human.

Drusilla: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Female Identifying, Age range 20s-30s) A vampire. More animal than human.

Merchant: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Any Gender, Age range 20s+) a merchant looking to make a sale.

Doctor George Seward: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Male Identifying, Age range 30s-40s): The head physician of a lunatic asylum.

Fat Ham

by James Ijames

Directed by Jerrell Henderson

January 29 - February 16, 2025

1st Rehearsal: January 7, 2025.

Opening: February 1, 2025.

Closing: February 16, 2025

What if the hero of the story wasn’t who everyone expected? Step aside, Hamlet. Meet Juicy, a young Southern queer college boy grappling with grief, identity…and now the ghost of his father demanding vengeance for his murder!? Set against the backdrop of a family wedding barbecue, will the poetic and sensitive Juicy lose his courage to get the answers he needs or will he find the strength to ‘his own self, be true.’ This Pulitzer-Prize-winning adaptation by James Ijames serves you a juicy blend of comedy, drama, and social commentary with a side of soul food; and reimagines this timeless classic with a bold and innovative look that shatters stereotypes and celebrates identity, togetherness, and the meaning of family.

Seeking:

Juicy: (Ethnicity Black/African-American, Male Identifying, Age range 20-21) Thicc. He’s beautiful. He is lonely. He is smart. A kind of Hamlet.

Tedra: (Ethnicity Black/African-American, Female Identifying, Age range 45-50) Juicy’s mother. She is a good mother. A kind of Gertrude.

Rev: (Ethnicity Black/African-American, Male Identifying, Age range 45-50) Tedra’s husband. Her dead ex-husband’s brother. Pig farmer and pit master. Electric. A kind of Claudius. Will double as PAP.

Opal: (Ethnicity Black/African-American, Female Identifying, Age range 19-20) One of Juicy’s only friends. She loves Juicy and worries about him. A kind of Ophelia.

Larry: (Ethnicity Black/African-American, Male Identifying, Age range 21-23) A boy that is attracted to Juicy. A marine. Trying to heal from PTSD. Has a secret. Awkward. A kind of Laertes.

Rabby: (Ethnicity Black/African-American, Female Identifying, Age range 40-45) Larry and Opal’s mother. Tedra’s friend. Semi-churchy but honestly she just wanna drink and praise the Lord. A kind of Polonius.

Pap:(Ethnicity Black/African-American, Male Identifying, Age range 45ish) The ghost of Juicy’s father. Was in prison for killing someone ‘cause their breath stank, ‘til he got shanked on the way to dinner. A kind of Hamlet’s father. Will double as REV.

Tio: (Ethnicity Black/African-American/Afro-Latinx, Male Identifying, Age range 20-40)– is clever. 20- 40, Black or Afro-Latinx. Juicy’s cousin. Oldest friend. A kind of Horatio.

Little Shop of Horrors

Book and Lyrics by Howard Ashman

Music by Alan Menken

Directed by Tom Quaintance

March 12 - 30, 2025

1st Rehearsal: February 18, 2025.

Opening: March 15, 2025.

Closing: April 6, 2025

It Sings. It Shudders. It…Eats People? Dive into this gut-bustingly quirky cult classic where screams of terror and laughter go hand in hand! Seymour is a meek wallflower taking care of a wilting flower shop in Skid Row all alone. That is until a miraculous plant of otherworldly origins appears with the answer to all of his troubles. But when this plant begins to crave more than sunlight, will Seymour be able to keep Audrey II’s appetite whetted, or will this maniacal, musical, marigold turn Mushnik’s Flower Shop into its buffet forever!? This succulent mix of rock, romance, mayhem, meatloaf, and razor-sharp teeth collide in a mouthwatering, theatrical extravaganza that has delighted audiences for years.

Seymour Krelborn: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Male Identifying, Age range 25-35, Vocal range: Top G4- Bottom A2) An insecure, put-upon florist's clerk and eventual hero. He is a genuine, well-meaning man who is taken for granted because of his clumsy ways and poor social skills.

Audrey: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Female Identifying, Age range 25-35, Vocal range: Top D5-Bottom G#3) Bleached-blond, Billie-Dawn-like, secret love of Seymour's life. She has poor self-worth and education, but incredibly good looks and a sweet and vulnerable demeanor.

Mr. Mushnik: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Male Identifying, Age range 55-65, Vocal range: Top F4-Bottom G2) The seasoned owner of the failing East Side flower shop and Seymour's nosy boss. He is profit driven, greedy, and manipulative.

Orin Scrivello (Any Race or Ethnicity, Male Identifying, Age range 30-40, Vocal range: Top G4- Bottom G2) An egotistical dentist with a passion for leather and sadistic tendencies. Audrey's abusive boyfriend, who is targeted by Seymour.

The Plant (Audrey II): (Puppeteering skills) Puppet. An anthropomorphic cross between a Venus flytrap and an avocado, the plant has an appetite for human flesh that is appeased by Seymour. Puppeteer doubles as other sizes of the plant.

Voice Of The Plant: (Any Race or Ethnicity, Any Gender, Age range 20-50, Vocal range: Top G4- Bottom G2) An actor/vocalist located offstage. The voice is that of a conniving, street-smart 'villain.' A funky Rhythm and Blues voice is best.

Crystal: (Ethnicity Black/African-American, Female Identifying, Age range 20-35, Vocal range: Top F5 -Bottom Ab3) Crystal, Ronnette and Chiffon are Black street urchins, acting as the occasional Greek Chorus. Young, hip, and smart, these girls are the only ones who have a grip on reality.

Ronnette: (Ethnicity Black/African-American, Female Identifying, Age range 20-35, Vocal range: Top F5-Bottom Ab3) Crystal, Ronnette and Chiffon are Black street urchins, acting as the occasional Greek Chorus. Young, hip, and smart, these girls are the only ones who have a grip on reality.

Chiffon: (Ethnicity Black/African-American, Female Identifying, Age range 20-35, Vocal range: Top F5 -Bottom Ab3) Crystal, Ronnette and Chiffon are Black street urchins, acting as the occasional Greek Chorus. Young, hip, and smart, these girls are the only ones who have a grip on reality.