WAM Theatre 2025 Season Equity Principal Actors - WAM Theatre Auditions

WAM Theatre 2025 Season - Lenox, MA EPA

WAM Theatre, Inc. | Lee, MA

AUDITION DATE

Sunday, February 9, 2025 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM (E)

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule an audition appointment, please email:
casting@wamtheatre.com with any time preferences. The theater is offering on-site childcare for the auditions - actors should include the number and ages of children in their email if they want to take advantage of this. If you are unable to attend in-person auditions, please email
casting@wamtheatre.com for a virtual appointment for Tuesday 2/11. A link for the virtual audition will be provided at the time of appointment confirmation.

CONTRACT

SPT $482 weekly minimum (SPT 4) - 2024 rates $77 per day minimum (Staged Readings) - 2024 rates

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in WAM Theatre's 2025 Season (See breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please prepare a 1-2 minute contemporary monologue. Also, bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

WAM Theatre Creative Hub 55 Main Street Lenox, MA 01240 Brown Church with a rainbow flag - enter through the main door. Unit B

PERSONNEL

EXPECT TO ATTEND: Genée Coreno, Artistic Director Aimée K. Michel, Associate Artistic Director See breakdown for production specific personnel.

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production specific dates.

OTHER

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

WAM Theatre 2025 Season

ABOUT WAM THEATRE:

WAM Theatre envisions a world where women and girls have equal opportunities and equal access to learning, earning, expression, and aspiration. Based in Berkshire County, WAM’s mission is to create professional theatre with a focus on the stories of people who identify as women, and to use that art as activism to support opportunities for women and girls, especially those from historically marginalized communities. Since its founding in 2010, WAM has donated over $105k in box office sales to more than 26 local and global organizations taking action in areas such as girls' education, reproductive justice, sexual trafficking awareness, and more. WAM is dedicated to harnessing the power of storytelling and creating an ecosystem where female-identifying artists have the tools and community they need to be empowered leaders in our community.

A NOTE ON INCLUSIVE CASTING AT WAM THEATRE:

We welcome all actors who are interested in our theatre and our mission to audition for present and future casting opportunities. Below are the roles that we are currently looking to fill. Language around gender is ever evolving. At WAM, woman is defined as cisgender woman, transwoman, and all others who identify as woman. Research indicates that men apply for jobs when they fulfill an average of 60% of the criteria, while individuals from historically oppressed communities tend to apply only if they meet every requirement. WAM Theatre is committed to creating, maintaining, and learning about a diverse and inclusive working space and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. If you believe that you could excel in the roles listed below, we encourage you to audition.

WHERE WE STAND

A Solo Performance Piece Written by Donnetta Lavinia Grays First Rehearsal: 6/9/25 Opening: 6/25/25 Closing: 6/29/25 (This show may tour following closing on a different contract) SPT 4

SEEKING:

MAN (short for Everyman): (any gender, any age) Honest, humble, vulnerable, generous, virtuosic. Shares their journey with audience (a community) and they decide.

NOTE: Throughout the piece there are named townspeople (i.e Sarah, Davey, Doc Humphrey etc.). These are audience members meant to be cast by the MAN in real time. They aren’t required to do anything more than be present as the MAN inhabits their body/character in the storytelling. Others are nameless, but their language is quoted. They require the same level of real time audience casting and physical/vocal embodiment by the MAN.

ANGRY, RAUCOUS AND SHAMELESSLY GORGEOUS

Written by Pearl Cleage

First Rehearsal: 9/15/25

Opening: 10/19/25

Closing: 11/2/25

Possible Extension: 11/9/25

SPT 4

SEEKING:

Betty Samson: (65) African American woman; manager/agent; looking for a home Anna Campbell: (65) African American woman; actress and performance artist; looking for a future Kate Hughes: (45) African American woman; producer; looking for a hit

Precious “Pete” Watson: (25) African American woman; burlesque artist; looking for a change

FRESH TAKES PLAY READING SERIES PRESENTS (2 DAY

CONTRACT

CRY IT OUT

Written by Molly Smith Metzler

Rehearsal: Saturday May 3, 2025

Performance: Sunday May 4, 2025

SEEKING:

Jessie: (mid 30s) Educated, articulate, lovely, warm. Bends towards anxiety. Works 90 hour weeks in the city as a corporate lawyer -- or did, until Allie was born.

Lina: (late 20s/ early 30s) Acrylic nails, big hoops, velour tracksuits, Mets hat -- and a huge Italian family. Failed out of community college. She's fun, funny and refreshingly genuine.

Mitchell: (late 30s/early 40s or slightly older) , Adrienne's husband, works in investment capital. Serious, shrewd, sensitive. Becoming a father has changed him.

Adrienne: (mid/late 30s) Mitchell's wife. Elegant, powerful, aloof, slightly rock n roll. Grew up on Central Park West, attended posh boarding schools; a successful jewelry designer.

ROOTED

Written by Deborah Zoe Laufer

Rehearsal: Saturday June 7, 2025

Performance: Sunday June 8, 2025

SEEKING:

EMERY HARRIS: (40s-70s) Lives in a treehouse. Uses a walker; wears a gardening hat and glasses. Plants make sense. People are confusing; much safer to be alone with her plants.

HAZEL: (40-70) Emery’s older sister. Waitress for way too long, taken care of Emery even longer. Frustrated, powerless, rage building. She could have done so much with her life.

LUANNE: (20s-30s) Incredibly sweet and guileless. Hungry for joy, for a tribe, for something larger to believe in. (You may already know her from Be Here Now).

ALIEN GIRLS

Written by Amy Berryman

Rehearsal: Saturday, July 12, 2025

Performance: Sunday July 13, 2025

NOTE: CAROLYN/c and JOY/GINA/MILAN may be played by actors of any ethnicity but must be different ethnicities from each other. POC are encouraged to audition.

SEEKING:

TIFFANY/t, (33, then 37), Black, aka Tiff/Tiffy, writer, ambitious, always has her shit together, except for right now, doubles as t, 18-22.

CAROLYN/c, (33, then 37), aka Care, queer, writer, ambitious, a mess, obsessive, doubles as c, 18- 22

JOY/GINA/MILAN, (33), actress, energetic, living for her upcoming wedding, doubles as GINA, wily New Yorker editor, and MILAN, 38, Joy’s cousin, caring, lawyer, a real adult, trying to make her life work