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Artists' Ensemble Theatre 2025-26 Season Equity Principal Actors - Artists' Ensemble Theatre Auditions

Posted February 3, 2025
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Artists' Ensemble Theatre 2025-26 Season - Artists' Ensemble Theatre

ARTISTS' ENSEMBLE THEATRE 2025-26 SEASON - ROCKFORD, IL EPA

Artists' Ensemble Theater | Rockford, IL

AUDITION DATE

Saturday, February 22, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (C)
BREAK 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

APPOINTMENTS

To schedule appointment Email:
rraether@artistsensemble.org

CONTRACT

SPT

$379 weekly minimum (SPT 2)

SEEKING

Equity actors for roles in Artists' Ensemble Theater's 2025-26 Season (see breakdown).

PREPARATION

Please prepare two contrasting monologues. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.

LOCATION

Rockford College
5050 E State St
Rockford, IL 61108-2311

PERSONNEL

See breakdown for production-specific personnel.
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
AET Producing Artistic Director: Richard Raether

OTHER DATES

Guys on Ice
Book, Story, & Lyrics by Fred Alley,
Music & Story by James Kaplan
1st Reh Aug 5, 2025
Open Sept 4
Close Sept 21

Misery
by William Goldman adapted from Stephen King
1st Reh Oct 7
Open Nov. 6
Close Nov. 23

Conscience
by Joe DiPietro
1st Reh Feb 10, 2026
Open March 12
Close March 29

Agatha Christie's The Murder at the Vicarage
Adapted by Margaret Raether
1st Reh April 7
Open May 7
Close May 24

OTHER

An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA

BREAKDOWN

ARTISTS' ENSEMBLE THEATER 2025-26 SEASON

GUYS ON ICE

Book, Story, & Lyrics by Fred Alley,
Music & Story by James Kaplan
The ice fishing musical

SEEKING:

Marvin: Male - 30s-40s
Lloyd: Male - 30s-40s
Earnie: Non-gender specific - 30s-40s

MISERY

by William Goldman adapted from Stephen King
Suspense, thriller

SEEKING:

Paul Sheldon: Male - Successful romance novelist held captive by an obsessive fan
Annie Wilkes: Female - his “number one fan”
Sheriff Buster: Male 30s - 40s

CONSCIENCE

by Joe DiPietro
A story of a remarkable woman who stood up for what was right and refused to back down.

SEEKING:

Margaret Chase Smith: Female 50s - Senator from Maine
Joseph McCarthy: Male 40s - Senator from Wisconsin
William C. Lewis Jr: Male 30s - Margaret’s strategist & campaign manager.
Jean Kerr: Female 20s - a McCarthy staffer who would later become his wife.

AGATHA CHRISTIE'S MURDER AT THE VICARAGE

adapted by Margaret Raether
Colonel Protheroe is found shot dead in the vicar’s study, but as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village seems to have a motive to kill Colonel Protheroe.

SEEKING:

Miss Marple (a spinster, observant and knows human behaviour): Female 40s - 50s
Mrs. Martha Price Ridley (a widow and gossip) & Others: Female 40s
Griselda Clement (the vicar's young wife) & Others: Female 20s
Anne Protheroe (second wife of Colonel Protheroe): & Others: Female 20s - 30s

Leonard Clement (the vicar of St Mary Mead) & Others: Male 40s
Lawrence Redding (a painter) & Others: Male 30s
Colonel Lucius Protheroe (local magistrate): & others: Male 40s

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