WAM Theatre 2026 Season Equity Principal Actors - WAM Theatre Auditions

AUDITION DATE

LOCATION

Friday, February 13, 2026 — WAM Theatre Creative Hub
55 Main Street, Lenox, MA 01240
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM (E)

CONTRACT

PERSONNEL

SPT EXPECT TO ATTEND: $565 weekly minimum (SPT 5) – 2025 rates; negotiations pending.

Genée Coreno, Artistic Director
Maggie Cahill, Director for Rooted
Sabine Denise Jacques, Equity and Belonging

SEEKING:

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production-specific dates.

PREPARATION

Please prepare a 1–2 minute contemporary monologue. Please bring a copy of your headshot and resume stapled together.

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.

BREAKDOWN

WAM THEATRE 2026 SEASON

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.

SEEKING:

ROOTED (Mainstage)

Written by Deborah Zoe Laufer

First Rehearsal: Monday, April 6, 2026
First Public Performance: Friday, May 1, 2026
Closing: Saturday, May 16, 2026

• 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 (40s–70s) — 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.)

PRODUCTION TBA (Mainstage)

First Rehearsal: Monday, September 21, 2026
First Public Performance: Friday, October 16, 2026
Closing: Sunday, November 1, 2026

FRESH TAKES PLAY READING SERIES PRESENTS

AMANI (PLAY READING, 2 DAY

CONTRACT

Written by a.k. payne

Rehearsal: Saturday, June 13, 2026
Performance: Sunday, June 14, 2026

SEEKING:

• SMITH — Amani’s father, he/him, 1970–2021
• AMANI — A Black girl becoming grown, perhaps a woman dreaming towards more true language, she/her/many, 1995–
• KOFA — A lover, 1995–, they/them, perhaps moving with many genders
• DASIA — A narrator, a spirit, Amani’s mother, 1972–1997, she/they
• ROBERT RICHARDS / DAVION / LAMAR DAVIS / A SERIES OF MEN (ASOM...) — A man, a clown

GORGEOUS (PLAY READING, 2 DAY

CONTRACT

Written by Keiko Green

Rehearsal: Saturday, August 15, 2026
Performance: Sunday, August 16, 2026

SEEKING:

• JENNY IKEDA (30-ish) — Japanese-American or mixed race. She works as a caretaker for the sick and/or elderly. Moonlights as a dog trainer and handler.
• BERNIE DWYER — (much older than Jenny). Never held a job for longer than a few months. Jack of all trades, master of none. A tornado of a woman.