American Shakespeare Center
CONTRACT
LORT Rep $739 weekly minimum (LORT D)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in American Shakespeare Center 2022 season (see breakdown).
American Shakespeare Center is a fully vaccinated company.
INSTRUCTIONS
Please submit two one-minute monologues, one Shakespeare and one modern, along with headshot/resume. Please slate your name, pronouns (if you wish to share), the name of your audition pieces, and any specific roles in which you are interested. Please email a link to your audition (unlisted YouTube or Vimeo). Attached videos cannot be accepted. Once you have submitted your materials, we will not follow up with you unless we need anything further.
Deadline: Tue, Feb 1, 2022
SUBMIT TO
Artistic@AmericanShakespeareCenter.com
PERSONNEL
Viewing auditions:
Brandon Carter, Artistic Director
Jay McClure, Director of Creative Planning
OTHER DATES
Callbacks will be held via video in early March 2022
See breakdown for show specific dates.
OTHER
AmericanShakespeareCenter.com
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 submit.
BREAKDOWN
2022 BLACKFRIARS PLAYHOUSE SPRING SEASON
First Rehearsal: February 2, 2022
First Performance: February 25, 2022
Final Performance: May 15, 2022
Rotating Repertory:
ROMEO AND JULIET, José Zayas, director
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, Jenny Bennett, director
[ALL ROLES HAVE BEEN CAST]
2022 BLACKFRIARS PLAYHOUSE SUMMER SEASON
First Rehearsal: May 11, 2022
First Performance: May 27, 2022
Final Performance: August 28, 2022
Rotating Repertory:
TWELFTH NIGHT, Jenny Bennett, director
THRIVE, OR WHAT YOU WILL by L M Feldman, Larissa Lury, director
EVERY BRILLIANT THING by Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe, Stephanie Holliday Earl, director [ROLE HAS BEEN CAST]
TITLE TBA
Track 1: Viola; Jeanne 1 (an herbalist/botanist and explorer – first woman to sail around the world; cisgender woman or trans/nonbinary/genderqueer)
Track 2: Olivia/Aguecheek/Curio; Jeanne 2 (cisgender woman or trans/nonbinary/genderqueer)
Track 3: Feste/Fabian/Captain/Officer: Jeanne 3 (trans/nonbinary/genderqueer)
Track 4: Sebastian/Malvolio; Jeanne 4 (cisgender woman or trans/nonbinary/genderqueer)
Track 5: Maria/Antonio/Valentine; Jeanne 5 (cisgender woman or trans/nonbinary/genderqueer)
Track 6: Orsino/Toby; Commerson (a botanist and explorer; cisgender man)
2022 BLACKFRIARS PLAYHOUSE FALL SEASON
First Rehearsal: August 31, 2022
First Performance: September 23, 2022
Final Performance: December 30, 2022
Repertory:
THE TEMPEST, company directed
PERICLES, company directed
UNE TEMPÊTE by Aimé Césaire, Dawn Monique Williams, director
A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Stephanie Holliday Earl, director
Twelve-actor company will perform in rotating repertory. Doubling within and between plays will be determined by specific casting.
THE TEMPEST
Prospero
Miranda
Caliban
Ariel
Stephano
Trinculo
Ferdinand
Alonso
Antonio
Sebastian
Gonzalo
Boatswain/Adrian
Pericles
Thaisa
Marina
Gower
Thaliard/Cerimon
Dionyza
Cleon
Simonides
Lysimachus
Antiochus/Bolt
Bawd
Pander/Helicanus
UNE TEMPÊTE
Eshu - a devil-god
Prospero
Miranda
Caliban
Ariel
Stephano
Trinculo
Ferdinand
Alonso
Antonio
Sebastian
Gonzalo
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
Scrooge
Marley/Little Cratchit/Old Joe
Fred/Young Scrooge/Christmas Future
Cratchit
Mrs Cratchit
Belle/Belinda
Christmas Past/Little Cratchit
Christmas Present/Fezziwig
Fan/Tiny Tim
Fundraiser/Dick Wilkins/Peter
Fundraiser/Mrs. Fezziwig
Martha/Charwoman
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 submit.
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