Berkshire Theatre Festival 2024 Season - Pittsfield, MA EPA Berkshire Theatre Festival | Stockbridge, MA
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Thursday, March 28, 2024
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (E)
BREAK: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
To schedule appointments for Local EPAs, contact 413-448-8084 ext. 20 or email casting@berkshiretheatre.org.
LORT Non-Rep
$972 weekly minimum LORT C (Colonial Theatre) (Rates increase July 1, 2024)
$776 weekly minimum LORT D (Playhouse / Unicorn Theatre) (Rates increase July 1, 2024)
Equity actors for Berkshire Theatre Festival's 2024 Season (see breakdown).
Some roles will be understudied.
Please prepare a contemporary monologue (no more than 2 minutes in length). For MEL BROOKS' YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN or ROGER AND HAMMERSTEIN'S PIPE DREAM please also prepare a traditional musical theatre song. Please bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Colonial Theatre - Berkshire Theatre Festival 111 South St
Pittsfield, MA 01201-6174
See breakdown for production-specific personnel.
EXPECTED TO ATTEND:
Artistic Director - Kate Maguire
Managing Director - Corey Cavenaugh
See breakdown for production-specific dates.
OTHER
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.
by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan
Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks
Directed by Stuart Ross
Choreographed by Gerry McIntyre
In association with Bay Street Theater and Geva Theatre Center
Contract Dates: June 04-July 21, 2024 (Berkshire Theater Group)
July 26-September 01, 2024 (Bay Street Theater)
September 19-October 27, 2024 (Geva Theatre Center)
CASTING NOTE: All actors will be required to double and triple roles in this new interpretation. This is an ensemble show. Everyone will be in the larger numbers.
Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: Age 25 to 35. Vocal range top: G4 / Vocal Range bottom: Bb2. Brilliant brain surgeon, professor, and grandson of mad scientist Dr. Victor Von Frankenstein.
The Monster: Any Age. Vocal range top: G4. Vocal Range bottom: Bb4. The misunderstood creation of Dr. Frankenstein.
Igor: Age: 25 to 35. Vocal range top: G4. Vocal range bottom: Bb2. Frederick’s faithful, bright-eyed, eager servant and friend.
Inga: Age: 20 to 30. Vocal range top: A5. Vocal range bottom: G3. Frederick’s young assistant. Attractive and a resident of Transylvania.
Elizabeth Benning: Age: 25 to 35. Vocal range top: F5. Vocal range bottom: F#3. Frederick's boisterous fiancé.
Frau Blücher: Age: 40 to 60. Vocal range top: C5. Vocal range bottom: E3. Stern housekeeper of the Frankenstein estate and former lover of Victor Frankenstein.
Inspector Hans Kemp: Age: 40 to 50. Vocal range top: F4. Vocal range bottom: A2 The head of police in Transylvania. Driven by justice, with a wooden arm and leg. Doubles with The Hermit.
The Hermit: Age: 30 to 60. Vocal range top: F4. Vocal range bottom: Ab2. A lonely, blind town hermit, hoping for a friend. This role doubles with Inspector Hans Kemp.
by Amy Herzog,
directed by Lizzie Gottlieb.
Contract Dates: April 22, 2024 - June 1, 2024
LEO JOSEPH-CONNELL – Twenty-one
VERA JOSEPH – CAST
BEC – Twenty-one
AMANDA – Nineteen, Chinese-American
music by Richard Rodgers
book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II,
Based on the novels Cannery Row and Sweet Thursday by John Steinbeck,
Directed by Kat Yen, Choreography by Isadora Wolfe
Contract Dates: July 1, 2024 - August 31, 2024
DOC: A well-liked marine biologist in Cannery Row, Doc always generously helps his neighbors when they pay him a visit. He is passionate about marine biodiversity and tide pools, but his life of solitary work has made him a bit too comfortable keeping others at a safe distance.
SUZY: Having fended for herself on the road for so long, Suzy arrives in Cannery Row desperate for food and a home. When she is almost forced out of town for stealing food, she falls in love with Doc, but has to take a job at a brothel without any other option. After struggling to overcome her own issues of self-worth, Suzy becomes independent and eventually finds happiness with the love of her life, Doc.
FAUNA: The madam and proprietress of Cannery Row’s Bear Flag Café, a brothel close to Doc’s lab. Like Doc, Fauna is respected around town and takes pride in her business.
HAZEL: A good friend of Doc's, He's noble and beloved by his friends.
MAC: Possibly the shrewdest resident of The Palace Flophouse, Mac is the first to realize that their unofficial home might be taken from them. Determined to maintain the less-than-legal housing arrangement, Mac strategizes to protect it and finds a way to help Doc while helping himself.
JOE: The new landlord of a store, Joe is a Mexican business owner on Cannery Row. He is generous, expects honesty and helps find jobs for his friends in need. He is unaware that the deed for his store includes the Palace Flophouse, a warehouse where Mac and seven other local men live illegally.
RAY: George’s brother-in-law Ray is a businessman who stuns the boys of the Palace Flophouse with tales from his life of working a steady job 52 weeks a year.
JIM: A police officer who looks after Suzy.
ENSEMBLE 1
ENSEMBLE 2
ENSEMBLE 3
by Conor McPherson,
Directed by Eric Hill
Contract Dates: September 3, 2024 - October 27, 2024
Jack – fifties
Finbar – late forties
Jim – forties
Valerie – thirties
Brendan – thirties
by Robert E. Sherwood, adapted by David Auburn
directed by David Auburn.
Contract Dates: May 21, 2024 - July 14, 2024
CASTING NOTE: All actors will be required to perform multiple roles in this new interpretation. This is an ensemble show.
TRACK 1 – Abe at 30 + other roles
TRACK 2 – Abe at 50 + other roles. Orator in charge of long speeches.
TRACK 3
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