OUR TOWN - Long Wharf Theatre Non Equity Auditions

LONG WHARF THEATRE HAVING LOCAL AUDITIONS FOR OUR
TOWN MONDAY, AUGUST 18

Have Our Town become your town! Long Wharf Theatre is looking for individuals to
join the cast as the townspeople of fictional Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire in its upcoming
production of Thornton Wilder’s classic.

Auditions will take place Monday, August 18 from 11:30 am to 1 pm and 4 pm to 7 pm. Applicants only
need to bring a photograph of what they look like right now. No previous acting experience is
necessary. The audition will be a meeting with Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein. The roles are open
to every age, race, and gender. “The world of Our Town has changed since Thornton Wilder first
wrote the play,” Edelstein said. “Our production will endeavor to capture what our town is today.”

The commitment will be attendance at the final dress rehearsal Tuesday, October 7, two additional
rehearsals at a time to be determined, and a single eight show week. Performances take place from
October 8 through November 9, 2014. “This is an opportunity to participate in the centerpiece of Long
Wharf Theatre’s 50th anniversary season,” Edelstein said.

To make an audition appointment, call 203-787-4282.

The opportunity has already attracted tremendous interest from the Long Wharf Theatre family. In the
first two hours after the audition notice was sent to approximately 20,000 Long Wharf ticket buyers,
the phones in the box office were ringing off the hook with people making audition appointments. There
are, however, plenty of appointment times still available.

A work of humanity and warmth, Our Town transports us to Grover’s Corners, a place of secret wishes
and disappointments, loves and losses, where the people we encounter are shockingly like the ones in
our own lives. Meet Emily and George. They’ve grown up together in their small New England town,
falling in love in a surprisingly complicated way. Their lives provide the lens through which the story is
told, a story that focuses on a village but encompasses the eternal, finding the world in a grain of sand.

For more information about Long Wharf Theatre, visit www.longwharf.org or call 203-787-4282.