Dorset Theatre Festival 2024 Season Equity Principal Actors - Dorset Theatre Festival Auditions

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AUDITION DATE

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (E)

BREAK: 12:00PM - 1:00PM

APPOINTMENTS

Contact Will Rucker, Executive Artistic Director, at casting@dorsettheatrefestival.org no later than 5:00 PM on Thursday, March 24, 2024.

CONTRACT

SPT

$638 weekly minimum (SPT 7)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Dorset Theatre Festival's 2024 Season (see breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please bring a 1-3 minute contemporary monologue of your choice.

LOCATION

Dorset Playhouse

104 Cheney Rd

Dorset, VT 05251-0519

Enter through box office door.

PERSONNEL

See breakdown for production-specific personnel.

EXPECTED TO ATTEND:

Will Rucker, Executive Artistic Director

OTHER DATES

See breakdown for production-specific dates.

OTHER


dorsettheatrefestival.org

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

DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL 2024 SEASON

SEEKING:

THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE

By Martin McDonagh

Directed by Theresa Rebeck

First Rehearsal: Friday, May 31, 2024

First Tech: Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Preview: Friday, June 21, 2024

Opening: Saturday, June 22, 2024

Closing: Saturday, July 6, 2024

MAUREEN FOLAN - CAST. aged 40. Plain, slim.

MAG FOLAN - Maureen’s mother, 70s. Stout, frail.

PATO DOOLEY - a good-looking local man, aged about 40.

RAY DOOLEY - Pato’s brother, aged 20.

NATIVE GARDENS

By Karen Zacarías

Directed by TBA

First Rehearsal: Tuesday, June 25, 2024

First Tech: Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Preview: Friday, July 12, 2024

Opening: Saturday, July 13, 2024

Closing: Sunday, July 21, 2024

TANIA DEL VALLE - 30s, female presenting. A doctoral student in anthropology. Pregnant. US born. Doesn't suffer fools. Some facility with Spanish language.

PABLO DEL VALLE - 30s-40s, male presenting, Chilean immigrant. A new lawyer at an important firm. Tania’s husband. Speaks English with a slight accent.

VIRGINIA BUTLEY - 55-65, female presenting. A long-time defense engineer who has lived in her home even longer.

FRANK BUTLEY - 55-65, male presenting. A retired consultant who has discovered a love for gardening and an even greater love for winning gardening competitions.

SIDEKICKED

By Kim Powers

Directed by Jackson Gay

First Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 16, 2024

First Tech: Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Preview: Friday, August 2, 2024

Opening: Saturday, August 3, 2024

Closing: Saturday, August 17, 2024

VIVIAN VANCE - 51. The Ethel we all know and love from “I Love Lucy,” only surprising because we’ve never heard Ethel Mertz talk like this.

TRUE ART

By Jessica Provenz

Directed by Michelle Joyner

First Rehearsal: Friday, August 2, 2024

First Tech: Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Preview: Friday, August 23, 2024

Opening: Saturday, August 24, 2024

Closing: Saturday, September 7, 2024

LAUREN SANDERS - 22, female presenting, Midwestern, recent Northwestern art-history graduate. She is relatable, accessible, likable. Whip-smart, but wide-eyed and innocent.

J.J. MENDELSSOHN - mid-late 20s, male presenting, BIPOC. A floater, in title and in life. Filthy rich, adopted son of a billionaire, but you wouldn't know it from his just rolled out of bed vibe. Kind, earnest. Always seems slow on the uptake and stoned but isn't either.

JODI DEAN - CAST. 60s. The lead curator of Renaissance Art at a prestigious museum.

BUDDY SILVER - 60s, male presenting, an art dealer, chatty, outgoing, with a Santa-esque physique. Worldly, yet real down to earth. A mensch.

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