COLORADO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL 2025 SEASON - BOULDER, CO EPA
COLORADO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL | BOULDER, CO
AUDITION DATE
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (M)
Lunch 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
APPOINTMENTS
To schedule an audition appointment please fill out the following form:
Google Forms. The deadline to apply is Monday, November 6, 2024, by 5pm MDT.
CONTRACT
LOA
$788 weekly minimum (Ref. to LORT)
SEEKING
Equity actors for roles in Colorado Shakespeare Festival's 2025 Season (See breakdown). 3-show contracts are available and will span the corresponding length of the summer.
As a unit within the University of Colorado Boulder, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival is committed to building a culturally diverse community dedicated to contributing to an inclusive environment. We are an Equal Opportunity employer.
PREPARATION
Please prepare two (2) contrasting classical monologues, no more than two (2) minutes in length total (1 min each). We request that one (1) be comedic and one (1) be dramatic. Audition videos are accepted if a live audition causes significant hardship or in the event of illness (use the same link as in Appointments).
LOCATION
University of Colorado - Department of Theatre & Dance
1595 Pleasant Street
University Theatre Building
Boulder, CO 80309
University campus (be prepared for associated congestion)
PERSONNEL
Expected to attend:
Tim Orr, Producing Artistic Director
Wendy Franz, Managing Director
OTHER DATES
THE TEMPEST: First Rehearsal: 5/20/25
Opening: 6/08/25
Closing: 8/10/25
RICHARD II: First Rehearsal: 6/10/25
Opening: 7/06/25
Closing: 8/10/25
THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS: First Rehearsal: 7/22/25
Opening: 7/27/25
Closing: 7/27/25
OTHER
coloradoshakes.org
2025 Colorado Shakespeare Festival Auditions
Questions may be directed to the CSF Operations Manager, Kurt Mehlenbacher (kume 5547 exc@colorado.edu). An Equity Monitor will not be provided. The producer will run all aspects of this audition.
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
BREAKDOWN
COLORADO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL 2025 SEASON
Must be willing to engage in non-traditional settings.
All rehearsals held indoors on the University of Colorado Boulder campus.
All three productions will be performed in the Roe Green Theatre (indoors).
THE TEMPEST BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
SEEKING:
- Prospero, the former duke of Milan turned magician
- Miranda, Prospero’s daughter
- Ariel, a spirit
- Caliban, an inhabitant of the island
- Ferdinand, prince of Naples
- Alonso, king of Naples
- Antonio, duke of Milan and Prospero’s brother
- Sebastian, Alonso’s brother
- Gonzalo, councillor to Alonso and friend to Prospero
- Adrian, courtier in attendance on Alonso
- Francisco, courtier in attendance on Alonso
- Trinculo, servant to Alonso
- Stephano, Alonso’s butler
- Shipmaster
- Boatswain
- Mariners
- Players who take the roles of Iris, Ceres, Juno, Nymphs, and Reapers
RICHARD II BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
SEEKING:
- King Richard II
- Sir John Bushy, Richard’s friend
- Sir John Bagot, Richard’s friend
- Sir Henry Green, Richard’s friend
- Richard’s Queen
- Queen’s Ladies-in-Waiting
- John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster
- Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Hereford
- Duchess of Gloucester, widow to Thomas, Duke of Gloucester
- Edmund, Duke of York
- Duchess of York
- Duke of Aumerle, Earl of Rutland
- York’s Servingmen
- Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
- Lord Marshal, official in trial by combat
- First Herald, official in trial by combat
- Second Herald, official in trial by combat
- Earl of Salisbury, supporter of King Richard
- Bishop of Carlisle, supporter of King Richard
- Sir Stephen Scroop, supporter of King Richard
- Lord Berkeley, supporter of King Richard
- Abbot of Westminster, supporter of King Richard
- Welsh Captain, supporter of King Richard
- Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, supporter of Bolingbroke
- Lord Ross, supporter of Bolingbroke
- Lord Willoughby, supporter of Bolingbroke
- Harry Percy, son of Northumberland, supporter of Bolingbroke
- Lord Fitzwater
- Duke of Surrey
- Another Lord
- Gardener
- Gardener’s Servingmen
- Groom of Richard’s stable
- Keeper of prison at Pomfret Castle
- Sir Pierce of Exton
- Servingmen of Exton
- Lords, Attendants, Officers, Soldiers, Servingmen, Exton’s Men
THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF THE LIFE AND DEATH OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS BY CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
SEEKING:
- Faustus, the protagonist
- Mephistopheles, a devil
- The Chorus, narrator and commentator
- Old Man, enigmatic figure
- Good Angel, spirit of repent
- Bad Angel, spirit of sin
- Lucifer, prince of devils
- Wagner, Faustus’ servant
- Clown, a clown who becomes Wagner’s servant
- Robin, an ostler
- Rafe, an ostler
- Valdes, a friend of Faustus
- Cornelius, a friend of Faustus
- Horse-Courser, a horse trader
- The Scholars, Faustus’ colleagues
- The Pope, head of the Roman Catholic Church
- Emperor Charles V, monarch of Europe
- Knight, a German nobleman at the emperor’s court
- Bruno, a candidate for the papacy
- Duke of Vanholt, a German nobleman
