The Gamm Theatre Announces Auditions for Season 29 (2013-14)
The Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (The Gamm) will hold auditions for its 29th
Season as follows: Equity Principal Auditions will be held on Saturday April 20 and Sunday April 21 from 10 am–1:30
pm and 2 pm-5:30 pm. Equity members without appointments will be seen throughout each audition day, as time permits.
Non-Equity performers may also audition. Audition slots, however, are limited. Auditions will take place at The Gamm
Theatre, 172 Exchange St., Pawtucket, RI.
The Gamm is looking to cast various roles in the following plays of the 2013-14 Season, which starts performances in
September and runs through May. The following roles are available:
Good People by David Lindsay-Abaire, directed by tbd
Rehearsals begin August 20, 2013. Runs September 12-October 13, 2012
Roles:
Margaret (Margie): White, 50. Tough funny, Boston Irish working-class.
Stevie: White, 20’s. Decent, affable, funny.
Dottie: White 60ish. Margie’s landlady.
Jean: White 50. Margie’s friend. Tough. brassy.
Mike: White 50. Handsome, successful. A doctor who has made it out of Southie.
Kate: African-American, 30’s. Mike’s wife.
All actors should have strong dialect skills.
The Big Meal by Dan LeFranc, directed by Tyler Dobrowsky
Rehearsals begin October 16, 2013. Runs November 7-December 8, 2013
Roles:
ALL actors must be extremely versatile. The play covers several generations. Each actor is responsible for
many characters covering a specific age range in the family. As the characters grow older they are “passed on” to
the actor representing the next generation.
Older Woman: 50+. Plays all women of the family’s oldest generation.
Older man: 50+. Plays all men of the family’s oldest generation.
Woman: Late 30’s/40. Plays all the women of the family’s middle-aged generation.
Man: Late 30’s/40. Plays all the men of the family’s middle-aged generation.
Young Woman: 20’s. Plays all the women of the young-adult generation.
Young Man: 20’s. Plays all the women of the young adult generation.
Girl: 9-13. Plays all the female children of the family.
Boy:9-13. Plays all the male children of the family.
A Number & Far Away by Caryl Churchill directed by Tony Estrella
Rehearsals begin mid-December 2013. Runs January 9-February 9, 2014
Roles:
A Number
Salter: Late 50’s/60’s. Complex, tough, enigmatic. Domineering and diminished.
His Sons: 30’s/40. Must play several characters, physically identical but psychologically very different, from gentle
to verging on the sociopathic.
Far Away
Young Joan: 10-12. Scared, confused, innocent.
Harper: 40-50. Her aunt. lder Joan: 20’s. Increasingly aware to the terrors around her.
Todd: 20’s. Joan’s companion and colleague.
Blackbird by David Harrower, directed by Tony Estrella
Rehearsals begin Feb 4, 2014. Runs Feb.27- March 30, 2014
Roles:
For Ray and Oona, Blackbird is an unrelenting play. It has scenes of raw physical and emotional intimacy.
Ray: Mid 50’s. Contrite. retiring. Desperately holding on to his sense of self. A broken, semi-reconstituted man.
Oona: Mid 20’s. Strong outer shell. commanding. A desperate wreck inside. Broken as a child, lost.
Girl: 12 years old. Ray’s stepdaughter.
Macbeth by William Shakespeare, directed by Fred Sullivan, Jr.
Rehearsals begin March 25 Runs April 24 – June 1, 2014
Roles: Macbeth and Lady Macbeth have been cast. All actors need strong language skills and versatility as there
will be doubling.
Banquo: 40. Strong, fatherly, Intelligent. A warrior with a brain and heart.
Duncan: 50’s/60’s. A king. Wise, physically failing but remains robust of mind.
MacDuff: 40’s. A warrior’s strength but a sensitive heart. Articulate and passionate.
Malcom: 20’s. A prince. Courageous but uncertain.
Lady MacDuff: A woman alone. Ferociously protective of her family.
Witches: Ageless. Prophets from the future?
Porter: Drunk. But with some wisdom to offer. Comic timing a must.
Ross: 30-50. A Scottish nobleman.
Lenox: 30-50. A Scottish nobleman.
Boy: 10-13. To play Banquo’s son Fleance and Macduff’s son.
Each performer will be allotted a minimum of 3 minutes and a maximum of 5 minutes. We ask that all performers prepare
a 1-2 minute monologue of their choice. Equity Performers only may choose to read from the script(s). The Gamm will
provide sides and a reader. Callbacks for individual plays will be announced at a later date.
Please also provide a copy of your headshot/resume at the time of your audition. Two copies of each play will be
available at Stage Source's Boston office, 88 Tremont St., Ste. 714, Boston, Mass., at least 10 days before the audition for
Equity members' perusal. Copies will also be available at the auditions.
For an appointment, please email to auditions@gammtheatre.org. When you email please offer a time block of 2 hours
on one of the days. We will email you back with a specific slot. Email is preferred. If you do not have email, however,
please call 401-723-4266 x18. Interested stage managers may send a resume to jess@gammtheatre.org.
About The Gamm Theatre
Founded in 1984 as Alias Stage, the non-profit Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre creates the finest of live theater,
engaging the audience intensely in current and recurrent issues of consequence. The Gamm further serves the public
with educational outreach programming designed to support the theatrical experience, and help sustain and enhance the
intellectual and cultural life of its community. The Gamm is a member of New England Area Theatre (NEAT), a bargaining
unit of the Actors Equity Association.
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