Dorset Theatre Festival 2023 Season - Dorset, VT EPA Dorset Theatre Festival | Dorset, VT
Notice: Audition Call Type: EPA
Sunday, March 19, 2023
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (E)
Lunch 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
To set up an audition appointment contact Will Rucker, Interim Executive Producing Director, at casting@dorsettheatrefestival.org no later than 5:00 PM on Thursday, March 16, 2023.
SPT
$608 weekly minimum (SPT 7)
Equity actors for roles in Dorset Theatre Festival's 2023 Season (See breakdown).
Please prepare a 1-3 minute contemporary monologue of your choice. Also, bring your headshot and resume stapled together.
Dorset Playhouse
104 Cheney Rd
Dorset, VT 05251-0519
Expected to attend:
Will Rucker, Interim Executive Producing Director
See breakdown for production specific personnel.
See breakdown for specific production 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.
Equity encourages everyone participating in the auditions to wear a two-ply cloth face mask, surgical mask, singer’s mask or respirator (N95, KN95 or KF94). Single-ply face masks, gaiters and bandanas are not recommended. Singer’s masks can be found at www.broadwayreliefproject.com/singersmask.
Equity encourages members to prepare for their audition prior to arriving at the audition venue, to the extent that they can (e.g., get dressed, hair/make-up, etc.) to avoid crowding in bathrooms and dressing rooms.
Holding/Audition room information:
The maximum capacity in the holding room is: 20
The maximum capacity in the audition room is: 30
By William Goldman
Based on the novel by Stephen King
Directed by Jackson Gay
First Rehearsal: Friday, June 2, 2023
First Tech: Sunday, June 18, 2023
Preview: Friday, June 23, 2023
Opening: Saturday, June 24, 2023
Closing: Saturday, July 8, 2023
ANNIE WILKES - CAST
PAUL SHELDON - Male-identifying, 40s. Celebrity novelist with a vivid imagination, recovering from a major car crash. Swings between utter terror, hopelessness, and depression and inspiration, hope, and bravery.
BUSTER - CAST
By Lia Romeo
Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt
First Rehearsal: Friday, June 30, 2023
First Tech: Tuesday, July 18, 2023
Preview: Friday, July 21, 2023
Opening: Saturday, July 22, 2023
Closing: Saturday, August 5, 2023
MARK - 67, male-identifying, smart, flirtatious, independent, a little remote.
HELEN - 65, female-identifying, smart, warm, considerate, unaware of how lucky he's always been.
By Kate Hamill
Cheerfully desecrating the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Directed by TBA
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, July 25, 2023
First Tech: Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Preview: Friday, August 11, 2023
Opening: Saturday, August 12, 2023
Closing: Saturday, August 26, 2023
SHERLOCK HOLMES - 30s-40s, female-identifying. A once-in-a-generation genius. Eccentric. Focused, to a fault. Can be less-than-sensitive. Always playing psychological 3-D chess; operating on a totally different level than civilians. Like many geniuses, has a megalomaniac streak. Gets bored easily; likes applause; sometimes accused of being unfeeling. LOVES costumes and drama.
DR. JOAN WATSON - 30s-40s, female-identifying. American. Formerly type-A high-achiever. Recently divorced; struggling to find herself, feels broken. Reflexively defensive. Once had great bedside manner. Sometimes accused of being a loser; is not a loser. Wry. Smart.
IRENE ADLER / MRS. HUDSON / MRS. DREBBER - Late 20s-40s, female-identifying. Irene Adler – a whip-smart, super-charming sex worker finding success at the highest levels. Always playing psychological 3-D chess; operating on a totally different level than civilians. Has incredible charm, confidence, and wit, and she knows it - uses it without mercy. You may want to be Irene, or you want to be with Irene; but you can’t ignore her. Mrs. Hudson – Holmes & Watson’s long-suffering landlady. Mrs. Drebber – seemingly an ordinary housewife. Somebody you would be very wise not to underestimate.
MORIARTY / LESTRADE / ELLIOT MONK - 30s-50s, male-identifying. Moriarty – a criminal so great you’ve never heard of him. A master blackmailer; knows just when to play his cards. Always playing psychological 3-D chess; operating on a different level than civilians. Wears many masks. A professional. Amoral, but you’d like him. Lestrade – an inspector new to his position at Scotland Yard. Not very imaginative. Often says the wrong thing. Elliot Monk – an amoral, tech billionaire from Texas.
By Larissa FastHorse
Directed by Raz Golden
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, August 15, 2023
First Tech: Tuesday, August 29, 2023
Preview: Friday, September 1, 2023
Opening: Saturday, September 2, 2023
Closing: Sunday, September 10, 2023
LOGAN - Female-identifying, Caucasian-looking, the high school drama teacher who’s always pushing the envelope in potentially inappropriate ways. Earnest about theater and proving herself.
JAXTON - Male-identifying, Caucasian-looking, yoga practitioner/actor. Politically correct to a fault, a big one. He’s that confident guy everyone loves, but his logical PC-thinking takes weird turns.
ALICIA - Female-identifying, brunette, Caucasian-looking, but has looks that would have been cast as ethnic in 1950s movies. Without guile. Sexy and hot, but not bright.
CADEN - Male-identifying, Caucasian-looking, the academic. Awkward elementary school history teacher with dramatic aspirations but no experience.
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