Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Northern Stage Company 2024- 25 Season - NYC EPA
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Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
LORT Non-Rep
$807 weekly minimum (LORT D)
Equity actors for roles in Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Northern Stage Company's 2024-25 Seasons (See breakdown).
No roles will be understudied.
Please prepare EITHER two contrasting monologues OR one monologue and one song not exceeding two minutes in total length. An accompanist will be provided. Please also bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Actors' Equity New York Audition Center 165 W 46th St
16th Fl
New York, NY 10036
Expected to attend:
Karie Koppel, Casting Director
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production specific dates.
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EPA Procedures are in effect for this audition. An Equity Monitor will be provided.
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.
Written by Ken Ludwig
Director: Risa Brainin
Octagon Stage
1st Rehearsal: August 27, 2024
1st Preview: September 25, 2024
Opening: September 27, 2024
Closing: October 13, 2024
Jack -is in his early to mid-thirties. He is reserved and wears khakis to suggest that he is in the Army. Louise -who is in her mid-twenties to early thirties, is outgoing and stylish.
Charles Dickens, adapted by Rick Dildine
Director: Rick Dildine
Festival Stage
1st Rehearsal: October 29, 2024
1st Preview: November 19, 2024
Opening: November 22, 2024
Closing: December 29, 2024
Scrooge
Bob Cratchit
Mrs. Cratchit
Christmas Present
Belle
Fezziwig
Mrs. Fezziwig
Young Scrooge
Lucy
Fred
Ghost of Christmas Past
Marley
Old Joe
Ensemble (3)
Based off the book by Christopher Paul Curtis
Director: Chistopher Windom
Octagon Stage
1st Rehearsal: January 7, 2025
1st Preview: February 4, 2025
Opening: February 7, 2025
Closing: February 23, 2025
Narrator Kenny & Other Broadcast Voices (early 50s)-African-American. Dee jay at the first black owned FM station WDZZ in Flint, Michigan
Kenneth Kenny Bernard Watson (10)-African-American. A fourth grader at Clark Elementary
Byron Watson (13)-Kenny's juvenile delinquent older brother who's also a bully but knows how to stick up for his younger brother when he needs to.
Joetta Joey Watson (5)-African-American. She is the younger sister to Kenny and Byron.
Daniel Watson (40s)-African American. He is husband to Wilona and father to Kenny, Byron, and Joetta.
Wilona Watson (40s)-African-American. Wife of Daniel and mother to Kenny, Byron, and Joetta. A native Alabamian who is an outsider in her own family-she is the only one in the Watson clan not to be born and raised in Flint, MI.
Grandma Sands (60s)-African-American. A widow. Mother to Wilona, Mother-in-law to Daniel, grandmother to Kenny, Byron, an Joetta.
Written by Ken Ludwig
Director: Laura Kepley
Festival Stage
1st Rehearsal: February 11, 2025
1st Preview: March 12, 2025
Opening: March 14, 2025
Closing (rep weekend with Hamlet): May 3, 2025
Prince John
The Sheriff of Nottingham
Sir Guy of Gisbourne
Maid Marian
Friar Tuck
Doerwynn
Robin Hood
Little John
***Please Note: Actors cast in this production will also be cast in Hamlet.***
Written by William Shakespeare
Director: Brian McEleney
Festival Stage
1st Rehearsal: May 6, 2025
1st Preview: May 29, 2025
Opening: May 30, 2025
Closing: June 15, 2025
Hamlet
Claudius
Gerturde
Polonius
Opehlia
Laertes
The Ghost
Horatio
Fortibras
Rosencrantz
Guildenstern
Osric
Voltimand
Cornelius
Marcellus
Bernardo
Francisco
Reynaldo
***Please Note: Actors cast in this production will also be cast in Sherwood.***
Presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company
L. Frank Baum
Music & Lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg
Background Music by Herbert Stothart
Director: TBD
Festival Stage
1st Rehearsal: June 10, 2025
1st Preview: July 9, 2025
Opening: July 11, 2025
Closing: August 17, 2025
Director: Kevin R. Free
Octagon Stage
1st Rehearsal: May 6, 2025
1st Preview: May 29, 2025
Opening: May 30, 2025
Closing: June 15, 2025
SEEKING:
Oak: The oldest and wisest among them. (Black Woman-An Elder) Magnolia: Feminine and strong. (Black Woman-Middle Aged)
Dogwood: A stubborn hard-earned beauty. (Black Man-Middle Aged)
Pine: A prickly one, but curious. (Black Man-Young Adult)
Weeping Willow: A feeler. (Black Trans Male Identified-Young Adult)
The Wanderer: A lost soul, returned. (Black Masculine Woman-Middle Aged)
Dorothy Gale
Aunt Em-Emily Gale/Glinda-The Good Witch of the North Uncle Henry-Henry Gale /Emerald City Guard
Zeke-Farmhand/Cowardly Lion
Hickory-Farmhand/Tinman
Hunk-Farmhand/Scarecrow
Miss Almira Gulch/The Wicked Witch of the West
Professor Chester Marvel/The Wizard of Oz
Citizens of Munchkinland-Chorus: Mayor, Coroner, Barrister, 3 City Fathers, 3 Tough Guys, Fiddler, Braggart, 2 School Teachers, 3 Tots
3 crows
3 trees
poppies & snowmen
Ozians-Chorus: Beauticians, Polishers, Manicurists
2 Oz Men
2 Oz Women
Winkies-Chorus
Winkie General
Nikko
Jitterbug
Jitterbugs & Ghosts
By Matthew Libby
Directed by Aileen Wen McGroddy
First Rehearsal: September 10, 2024
First Preview: October 2, 2024
Closing: October 20, 2024
(LORT D, Favored Nations)
MATILDA, ages 6 to 96 - an intelligent and independent woman who is sometimes jealous of the attention her AI sister receives.
GRETA, an AI sister to Matilda, created by Matilda’s dad, becomes more and more human through the course of the show.
Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice, Book by Linda Woolverton Directed by Carol Dunne
First Rehearsal: October 25, 2024
First Preview: November 20, 2024
Closing: January 1, 2025
(LORT D, Favored Nations)
BEAST Cursed Prince. Lonely, petulant. Age: 30 to 40 (Vocal range: F4- A2) a hot-tempered Prince, transformed into a creature under a spell. Gruff but with a tender heart.
GASTON A pompous, rude, narcissistic hunter who thinks himself the center of the universe. Age: 30 to 40 (Vocal range: E4- A2)
LUMIERE Self-confident French valet, flirtatious. Age: 35 to 45 (Vocal range: F#4- F#2)
MRS. POTTS Kind-hearted head of the kitchen staff and mother to Chip. Age: 45 to 55 (Vocal range: G5- F#3)
COGSWORTH Officious, excitable, English major-domo; becomes a mantle clock. Age: 40 to 55 (Vocal range: E4- A2)
MAURICE Belle’s father. An inventor and eccentric man sometimes naive to the world around him. BABBETTE A playful, seductive feather duster.
CHIP: ROLE IS CAST. A curious, playful teacup.
CHORUS Villagers, townspeople, enchanted objects and a pack of wolves.
Written By Rajiv Joseph
Directed by Abigail Jean-Baptiste
First Rehearsal: January 7, 2025
First Preview: January 29, 2025
Closing: February 16, 2025
(LORT D, Favored Nations)
SHAWN - African American, ages 21-33, a writer, meticulously dressed
MATT - White, ages 21-33, a bartender, a sloppy guy who is trying
Book by Jessica Kahkoska
Music and Lyrics by Tommy Crawford
Director: TBD
First Rehearsal: February 18, 2025
First Preview: March 12, 2025
Closing: March 30, 2025
(LORT D, Favored Nations)
$831/week for any Equity actors playing instruments, plus standard instrument rentals
GLENN / INSTRUMENTALIST (50s/60s) - ROLE CAST. Glenn is a Vermont man of few words. A grounded leader in the local farm community. Instruments: guitar, banjo, mandolin.
KIM / DOCTOR (50s/60s) - Kim radiates tireless, salt-of-the-earth energy. A 1970s Middlebury alumnus, pioneer of the American CSA movement. A realist and dreamer at the same time. Instruments: violin and/or accordion.
GABRIELA / MO (30s)- ROLE CAST. A young mother spending her second winter in Vermont working at a large dairy operation. Combating her loneliness with creativity. DOUBLES AS MO (22) - A college student/farm employee… undecided in all ways. Instruments: guitar.
MATT / HUNTER (30s) - A millennial who recently moved to the Upper Valley with his young family. Beaten down by the sobering reality of running his own farm, but trying to keep his dreams (and relationship) alive. DOUBLES AS HUNTER (20) - a farm employee forced to work at the farm to stay out of trouble. Instruments: guitar, mandolin, banjo.
KENZA / TARA (30s) - Recently moved to the area with her husband and their young child. Reconciling a passion for sustainability and her own burnout. DOUBLES AS TARA (21) - an enthusiastic college student/ farm employee who is certain that her path in life is to become a career farmer (and yours should be as well). Instruments: violin or bass.
Music and Lyrics by Sara Bareilles, Book by Jessie Nelson.
Directed by Carol Dunne
First Rehearsal: April 1, 2025
First Preview: April 23, 2025
Closing: May 25, 2025
(LORT D, Favored Nations)
Jenna - 20s-30s, a waitress stuck in an unhappy marriage in a small town. She finds creative outlet and expresses her sense of humor through baking.
Dr. Pomatter - 30s-40s, endearing and slightly neurotic OBGYN. Develops a massive crush on Jenna, despite being married.
Becky - 40s-50s, the elder of the three waitresses, she has a dark sense of humor and has seen it all. Dawn - 20s, the youngest of the three waitresses, quirky and anxious about any risk taking. Ogie - 30s, strange but loveable, falls in love with Dawn after a 5-minute date and is persistent.
Earl - 20s-30s, peaked in high school, drinks too much. Narcissism mixed with an explosive temper. Joe - 50s-70s - the owner of the diner. A curmudgeon that has a soft spot for Jenna and her pies. Cal - 30s-40s - the cook at the diner. Blunt but lovable.
Lulu (child) - role is CAST.
Ensemble - patrons at the diner, doctors and nurses at the hospital, etc.
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