DESCRIPTION
Self Tape Audition
Due Date: November 13th, 2025
In-Person Callbacks: November 15th, 2025
CONTRACT
Non-AEA
$100 weekly minimum
HOUSING
No housing is offered at this time.
SEEKING
Non-Equity actors for roles in New Oak Theatre Company’s productions of I Do! I Do! and The Glass Menagerie.
PREPARATION
Please prepare a 32 bar cut and/or a 30 second monologue.
PERSONNEL
Watching the auditions:
Chase Brackett - Artistic Director/Director, I Do! I Do! & The Glass Menagerie
Sarah Brackett - Associate Artistic Director.
BREAKDOWN
I Do! I Do!
Director/Choreography - Chase Brackett
Musical Director - TBA
First Rehearsal - December 11th, 2025
Opens - January 9th, 2026
Closes - January 11th, 2026
Location - The Tybee Post Theater
SYNOPSIS: With book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt, the story follows newlyweds Michael and Agnes starting on their wedding day, and explores their life together over the next 50 years until they finally sell their home to the next pair of newlyweds. During that time, the couple goes through their wedding night jitters, raises a family, negotiates mid-life crises, quarrels, separates, reconciles and grows old together.
SEEKING:
MICHAEL: Male. Any ethnicity. 25 – 40. Baritone. An egotistical writer who very much loves his wife *Plays various ages.
AGNES: Female. Any ethnicity. 25 – 40. Mezzo-Soprano. Michael's independent yet romantic wife. *Plays various ages.
The Glass Menagerie
Director - Chase Brackett
First Rehearsal - February 5th, 2026
Opens - February 27th, 2026
Closes - March 1st, 2026
Location -The Tybee Post Theater
SYNOPSIS: Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie is a celebrated autobiographical memory play, blending tenderness, charm, and heartbreak into a moving portrait of a troubled American family. At its center is Amanda Wingfield, a determined yet delusional mother clinging to the illusions of a more glamorous past, while her children, Tom and Laura, struggle to navigate the pressures of reality. Through lyrical language, delicate symbolism, and unforgettable characters, Williams explores themes of memory, longing, and the fragility of human dreams. This timeless classic remains a profoundly moving and beautifully written study of family, hope, and disappointment.
SEEKING:
Amanda Wingfield: Female. Any ethnicity. 40’s-50’s. A faded Southern belle who grew up in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, abandoned by her husband, and who is trying to raise her two children under harsh financial conditions. Amanda yearns for the comforts of her youth and also longs for her children to have the same comforts, but her devotion to them has made her – as she admits at one point – almost “hateful” towards them.
Tom Wingfield: Male. Any ethnicity. 20’s-30’s. Amanda’s son and the narrator of the play. Tom works at a shoe warehouse to support his family but is frustrated by his job and aspires to be a poet. He struggles to write, all the while being sleep-deprived and irritable. Yet, he escapes from reality through nightly excursions to the movies. Tom feels both obligated toward yet burdened by his family and longs to escape for more.
Laura Wingfield: Female. Any ethnicity. 20’s-30’s. Amanda’s daughter and Tom’s elder sister. A childhood illness has given her one leg that is slightly longer than the other, and she has a mental fragility and an inferiority complex that has isolated her from the outside world. She has created a world of her own symbolized by her collection of glass figurines. The unicorn may represent Laura because it is unique and fragile.
Jim O’Connor: Male. Any ethnicity. 20’s to 30’s. An old high school acquaintance of Tom and Laura. Jim was a popular athlete and actor during his days at Soldan High School. Subsequent years have been less kind to Jim; by the time of the play’s action, he is working as a shipping clerk at the same shoe warehouse as Tom. His hope to shine again is conveyed by his study of public speaking, radio engineering, and ideas of self-improvement that appear related to those of Dale Carnegie.
CONTACT
Please send self tapes to us@newoaktheatre.org as unlisted Youtube videos alongside your headshot and resume.
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