Dorset Theatre Festival | Dorset, VT
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM (E)
Lunch 1:00-2:00 pm
Contact Will Rucker, Executive Artistic Director, at
casting@dorsettheatrefestival.org no later than 9:00 AM ET on Monday, March 17, 2025.
SPT
$670 weekly minimum (SPT 7 - rate effective through June 1, 2025)
Dorset Theatre Festival, in Dorset, VT, seeks Equity actors for roles in its 2025 Main Stage summer season, including Salvage by Lena Kaminsky, The Book Club Play by Karen Zacarías, Satellites by Erin Breznitsky, and Other Desert Cities by Jon Robin Baitz.
Please bring a 1-3 minute contemporary monologue of your choice.
Dorset Playhouse
104 Cheney Rd
Dorset, VT 05251-0519
Enter through box office door.
See breakdown for production-specific personnel.
Expected to attend:
Will Rucker, Executive Artistic Director
See production-specific dates in breakdown.
These auditions will take place in Dorset, Vermont. Appointments in NYC will not be available. 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 Lena Kaminsky
Directed by TBA
First Rehearsal: Friday, May 30, 2025
First Tech: Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Preview: Friday, June 20, 2025
Opening: Saturday, June 21, 2025
Closing: Saturday, July 5, 2025
CARLA - [CAST] 50s. Obsessive-compulsive in the thinking kind of way. Is desperately trying to figure things out.
ELAINE - 60s, Works at the dump – or was she born at the dump? Salt of earth with the soul of a poet. Elaine drops knowledge but is figuring it out along the way for herself. Never teaching a lesson or precious.
KENNY - 40s, Works at the dump. He is the guy who maybe should have stopped partying in his 30s but didn’t.
By Karen Zacarías
Directed by Jackson Gay
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, June 24, 2025
First Tech: Tuesday, July 8, 2025
Preview: Friday, July 11, 2025
Opening: Saturday, July 12, 2025
Closing: Saturday, July 26, 2025
ANA SMITH - 30/40s, female-presenting, not Black. Pronounced “Ah-nuh.” Beautiful. Charming. Smart. Accomplished. Organized. A columnist for a daily paper. The “Mother Bee.” Her grace masks a need to control.
ROBERT NOVUM SMITH JR - 30/40s, male-presenting, not Black. ANA’s golden-boy handsome, charismatic, underachiever husband who is starting to search for meaning. Met in college. Upper-crust background. Also plays SAM, Wal-mart guy.
WILLIAM LEE NOTHNAGEL - 30/40s, male-presenting, not Black. ROB’s conservative, well-read, well-dressed, disciplined college roommate. ANA’s former boyfriend. History buff. Unmarried. Also plays FRANK, a Secret Service agent.
JENNIFER McCLINTOCK - 30/40s, female-presenting, not Black. ANA’s friend. Pretty. Shy. Smart. Tends to burst out with awkward truthful comments. Despite some lack of self-confidence, she is the grounding center of the group. Unorganized and oblivious to her own attractiveness. Unmarried. Also plays JEN, a jaded literary agent.
LILY LOUISE JACKSON - 20s, female-presenting, Black. A go-getter. Former debate captain who is on the cusp of all current trends and yet can still put her foot in her mouth in social occasions. Laughs at appropriate and inappropriate times. A great lover of books and ANA’s protégé at the paper. Also plays MRS. SIMPSON, sky diver.
ALEX - 30/40s, male-presenting, any race/ethnicity. The new guy. A very smart, well-read academic who has lost his moorings and is searching for real connection. Professor of comparative literature. Also plays CARL, inmate book dealer.
By Erin Breznitsky
Directed by Adrienne Campbell-Holt
First Rehearsal: Wednesday, July 16, 2025
First Tech: Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Preview: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
Opening: Thursday, August 7, 2025
Closing: Saturday, August 16, 2025
DR. KATHERINE SPARKS - [CAST] mid-20s to early 40s Smart, ambitious, cooly practical. Not driven by emotion, doesn't suffer fools.
CAPTAIN MARK TURNER - [CAST] mid-20s to early 40s (but really mid-30s) Determined, confident but not aggressively so. Adventurous: a dreamer.
By Jon Robin Baitz
Directed by Robert Egan
First Rehearsal: Tuesday, August 5, 2025
First Tech: Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Preview: Friday, August 22, 2025
Opening: Saturday, August 23, 2025
Closing: Saturday, September 6, 2025
POLLY WYETH - [CAST] 60s/70s. Brooke and Trip's mother. Elegant and forthright and whip smart.
LYMAN WYETH - [CAST] 70s. Oak-like. Sturdy in the way of old Californians of a particular type.
SILDA GRAUMAN - [CAST] 70s. Polly's sister. Creative, fragile, funny. The opposite of her sister.
BROOKE WYETH - Early 30s. Fierce intellect, sharp wit, soulful beauty. Bouts of depression. But a courageous survivor. A writer home from NYC to visit her parents in the desert. She has secretly written a book that exposes the deep family secrets of conservative personal and public politics. It all gets exposed!!!
TRIP WYETH - 20-something. Very smart and creative. Very bohemian in a stylish and cultured way. Full of humor, wit, anarchy and love. Brooke’s younger brother. Producer, creator of a hit TV show that is totally crass, hip, funny and profit motivated.
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