Chester Theatre Company | Chester, MA
Thursday, March 13, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (E)
Lunch 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
To schedule an audition appointment please email:
heromhb@gmail.com with the subject line CHESTER EPA. Please indicate the date of the audition and any time request (before noon, 9-11, etc.).
SPT
$605 weekly minimum (SPT 6)
Equity actors for roles in Chester Theatre Company's 2025 Season (See breakdown). Except where specified, auditions by performers of all races and ethnicities are encouraged.
Please prepare a contemporary monologue, 2 minutes or less. Also, bring your picture and resume stapled together.
Chester Town Hall Theatre
15 Middlefield Rd
Chester, MA 01011-9805
Enter through main doors of Chester Town Hall. Parking lot across street.
Deb Clapp, Managing Director
Expected to attend (one or both):
Christopher Baker, Co-Artistic Director
Michelle Ong-Hendrick, Co-Artistic Director
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for production specific dates.
www.chestertheatre.org
Chester Theatre Company in Chester, Massachusetts (between the Berkshires and the Pioneer Valley)
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.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
By Mark St. Germain
Directed by Keira Naughton
Rehearsals begin: May 27
Performances: June 19-29
SYNOPSIS: Eighteen years after the death of Christ, Peter seeks out Mary Magdalene, whom he banished after the crucifixion. Peter needs an ally against a self-proclaimed Apostle angling for power in the growing church. In Magdalene, St. Germain offers a startling new look at two historical figures and the clash that impacts the course of Christianity.
Peter: male, Late 30s and up. Fisherman. Ordinary man struggling to fulfill extraordinary expectations.
Mary: female, Late 30s and up. She’s known great love and great tragedy. She grieves for the past and the future.
By Tatty Hennessy
Directed by Michelle Ong-Hendrick
Rehearsals begin: June 10
Performances: July 3 - 13
SYNOPSIS: After her father's unexpected death, 15-year-old Rory discovers that he was planning a trip for the two of them to the North Pole. So, she picks up his ashes, her passport, and her mother's credit card, and sets out to make good on his plans. Layered, complex and as beautiful as the snowfall, Hennessy’s play is an epic Arctic adventure about adolescence, grief, love, and being an explorer in a melting world.
Rory: 15-years old. Grieving, but ready for an epic journey.
By Samuel D. Hunter
Directed by Daniel Kramer
Rehearsals begin: July 1
Performances: July 24 - August 3
SYNOPSIS: Somewhere in the middle of America, Keith, a mortgage broker, and Ryan, a yogurt plant worker, unexpectedly let each other into their own fragile worlds. Negotiations of bank loans transform into talk of financial insecurity and the precariousness of parenthood, as the two realize they share a specific kind of sadness. With humor, honesty and time-bending theatricality, Hunter intertwines the lives of two ordinary men, both outsiders to the forces that govern their lives.
Keith: male, mid to late 30s. Black
Ryan: male, mid to late 30s, white
By Daniel Beaty
Rehearsals begin: July 15
Performances: August 7 – 17
SYNOPSIS: What happened to Mr. Joy? In this uplifting one-person play, a Harlem community takes stock when a Chinese immigrant’s shoe repair shop mysteriously doesn’t open one morning, causing an array of customers to realize what the shop owner has meant in their lives. Through the lens of Mr. Joy’s customers, from the bubbly eleven-year-old Clarissa to the sincere and savvy Bessie, leader of the “Gansta Grannies,” we learn about the profound impact the shop owner had on each of their lives, and the invisible ties that bind us all.
Mr. Joy: any gender, 20s to 50s, Black, multiple characters in the New York neighborhood, ranging in age, gender and ethnicity.
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