Berkshire Theatre Festival
CONTRACT
LORT Non-Rep The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield MA: $926 weekly minimum + housing and transportation (LORT C) The Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge, MA $739 weekly minimum + housing and transportation (LORT D)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Berkshire Theatre Festival's 2022 Season (see breakdown).
INSTRUCTIONS
SEE PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS IN BREAKDOWN. Please submit your headshot/resume and your video submission.
Deadline: Mon, Mar 21, 2022
SUBMIT TO
PERSONNEL
See production specific personnel in breakdown.
Kate Maguire: Artistic Director
Alan Filderman: Casting Director (viewing auditions)
OTHER DATES
See production specific dates in breakdown.
OTHER
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
PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS:
For ONCE, please submit a song where you accompany yourself on any instrument.
For DRACULA and BROKEN CODE, please submit a two-minute monologue.
For SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD, please submit a Jason Robert Brown song or use the accompaniment at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10Ja2imK_mOCgw4wcSdiydZbjItI7Cprr or https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10Ja2imK_mOCgw4wcSdiydZbjItI7Cprr .
No roles are understudied.
The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield MA: LORT C
ONCE
music and lyrics by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová
book by Enda Walsh
directed by Gregg Edelman
music direction by Andy Taylor
movement direction by Isadora Wolfe
Rehearse: June 7
Previews: July 1
Opening: July 3
Closing: July 16
Note: Actors of all ethnicities encouraged to apply.
CAST:
Guy
Baruska
Bank Manager
SEEKING:
Girl
Billy
Da
Ex-girlfriend
Svec
Andrej
Reza
Ivanka
Emcee
DRACULA
Dramatized by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston
From the novel by Bram Stoker
Directed by David Auburn
Rehearse: July 19th, 2022
Preview: August 11th, 2022
Opening: August 13th, 2022
Closing: August 27th, 2022
Roles CAST.
Dracula
Van Helsing
Renfield
Seeking:
Dr. Seward
Lucy
Jonathan Harker
Miss Wells, the maid
Butterworth, the attendant
The Unicorn Theatre in Stockbridge, MA: LORT D
BROKEN CODE/BIRD SWITCHING
written by Tara L. Wilson Noth
directed by Kimille Howard
Rehearse: May 31
Preview: June 23
Opening: June 25
Closing: July 9
SEEKING:
OLIVIA BENNETT: African American, Female, age range 30-40 years old. A legal aid attorney tasked with representing a black teenager accused of murder. In her search for the truth, she is forced to face her own devastating truths about marriage, race and the woman she’s chosen to be.
OLEN PORTER: African American, Male, age range 30-45 years old A photographer from New Orleans who becomes entangled in a web of deceit and deception. A truth teller of sorts, wise, confident and arrogant with swagger and soul. NEW ORLEANS ACCENT.
DESHAWN PAYNE: African American, Male, 18+ to play a 15-year-old boy. A black youth accused of murdering a white man from the other side of town. Fiercely angry and fiercely intelligent.
MARK BENNETT: Caucasian, Male, age 30-40 years old. A successful corporate attorney. Wealthy, good-looking and charismatic. A man who sees the world through rose colored glasses is forced to confront the reality of race, injustice and loss as his perfect life and marriage slowly crumble to pieces around him.
EVELYN PAYNE: African American, Female, age 40-55 years. The tormented mother of a black teenager accused of murder, desperately trying to save her son from the injustices of a broken system.
KATHERINE MORGAN: Caucasian, Female, age 25-40 years old. A corporate attorney who joins the law firm with intentions of climbing the corporate later by any means necessary. Smart, manipulative, sexy and confident.
SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD
Written & composed by Jason Robert Brown
Directed & choreographed by Gerry McIntyre
First rehearsal: June 28th, 2022
First Preview: July 21st, 2022
Opening: July 23rd, 2022
Closing: August 20th, 2022
Company: Four great singers, 25-40 years old, a total mixture of ethnicities, genders and gender identities.
SEASCAPE
By Edward Albee
Directed by Eric Hill
First rehearsal: August 30th, 2022
First Preview: September 29th, 2022
Opening: October 1st, 2022
Closing: October 23rd, 2022
ALL ROLES ARE CAST.
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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